Category Primary Literature

Austen & Darwin, Love Doctors? A Valentine’s Day/ Darwin Day Tribute

Originally posted on Metathesis:
A few months ago my Google Scholar alert for mate choice turned up a paper not about insect courtship behavior or sexual selection, but Jane Austen.[1] The only time previously I had ever thought about Austen and evolution together was while I wrote lab reports and wished I could watch Pride and…

A Genital by Any Other Name …

Originally posted on Molecular Love (and other facts of life):
People are talking about insect genitalia more than ever before, because a paper was published with the title: “Female Penis, Male Vagina”. It was even mentioned on the Colbert Report: Tip of the Hat, Wag of the Finger 2:48 – 4:28 The Colbert Report 5/7/2014 This sensational…

Whewell's Ghost

History and Philosophy of Science

Diversity Journal Club

The premise of this journal club is to discuss articles and blog posts about Diversity in STEM and academia. We post the paper/topic the 2nd week of the month, and discuss the third Friday of every month at 2pm EST, under #DiversityJC on Twitter. Hope to see you there!

Molecular Love (and other facts of life)

the nitty gritty science of sex and reproduction

The Marginalian

Marginalia on our search for meaning.

Explorations Scientific

"whoa" inducing science

#HOPEJAHRENSURECANWRITE

books and things.

Gap Junction Science

Storage of ideas on science and etc.

Sociobiology

So you want to be a biology professor

Dynamic Ecology

Multa novit vulpes