This article in the Washington Post is very tough in creationism, which I can only agree with. For example: Evolution could not have produc...

Ruse on the left, Charlesworth on the right . A few days ago I told the story of an exchange between Michael Ruse and some member of th...

I'm at ESEB 2011 in Tübingen ( website , Twitter ), and saw Michael Ruse give a talk today titled What, if anything, does a historian an...

The answer is without a doubt that, yes she can. And I can't wait for the next bigger blooper. While wishing Elvis happy birthday on the...

No matter that this study proposes that people of the north have bigger brains than those at the equator merely to cope with lower levels o...

Right now the BEACON congress is going on at Michigan State University ( Twitter #beacon11 ). Participants from all five member institutions...

Brigham Young University is looking for a professor in plant biology (aka botany). I honestly wonder if this is legal: Plant Biology - Brigh...

CoE #38 is now live on Sandwalk , and there's plenty of interesting stuff there. In fact there are so many posts that it would be overwh...

#SciDoom New Statesman posed the question "Are we doomed?" to a bunch of prominent scientists, but we are all game. Yes, of cour...

If you follow Pleiotropy via RSS, then you may not have noticed that the blog has moved. By invitation I've joined the science blog netw...

Someone really wants me to go to this conference in India on holistic medicine . I have just received the third email inviting me to registe...

As the keeper of Carnival of Evolution , I also inherited a Twitter account, @CarnyEvolution . I use this irregularly to highlight blog post...

In a post from a few days ago about a paper I just got published, John Wilkins asked how my work ties in with Gavrilets' stuff on high ...

I have a mental time-machine that I like to use to reflect on my own life. I am 90 years old, and I am thinking about the things I wish I ha...

It is fitting that an article I just got published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B [1] has been blogged about on the ID lover's Un...

Gotta love Victor Stenger. As a biologist, I have frequently been irritated to no end with creationists who say that what I believe (yes*) a...

I've arrived in Norman, Oklahoma for the 2011 Evolution conference. You can follow tweets here: #evolution2011 . Tomorrow, Saturday, I...

We would like to know how soil bacteria evolve. They are important for humans and other living things, as they are involved in chemical proc...

Unfortunately I can't access the full length article of this one: Is homophobia associated with homosexual arousal? But it is obviously ...

At Greg Laden's blog . This month there are several posts by researchers at BEACON, which is the place that I work at myself at Michigan...