Inaugural Scientia Pro Publica

Inaugural edition of Scientia Pro Publica, The Science Blog Carnival, is up at GrrlScientist. This effectively takes over from The Tangled Bank, which PZ Myers inexplicably have left to rot.

Today's topic headings are

• Brain and Behavior
• Environment
• Life Science
• Medicine and Health
• Physical and Earth Sciences
• Scientists and Society

GrrlScientist herself wrote the entry that I like best, Human Eyes Speak Volumes to Birds:

Those of you who go birding will know what I am talking about when I say that birds are so capable of reading human body language that they know when we are looking at them, which frequently causes them to hide from our gaze. However, this capacity has never before been scientifically studied in birds, until now, that is.