What's up? Seems to me the number of submissions to Carnival of Evolution is not. This summer we had one edition with 60+ submissions,...

It's *almost* hard to tell whether this republican science adviser is for real or not. The giveaway is of course that republicans don...

For Christie, who writes so eloquently about the pain of loss of loved ones . I lie flattened, like the weight of his words has literally cr...

Francisco Ayala is donating $10 million to the School of Biological Sciences at UC Irvine - money earned from his vineyard. The Templeton P...

Without questions, this is the most horrific video I've watched in my entire life. You might not want to see it, but everyone should kno...

Lately I have been reading a bunch of papers. I'm teaching a seminar course on evolutionary dynamics, taking a seminar course on multidi...

Artificial Life 13 The Thirteenth International Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems “Evolution in Action” July 19–2...

The anti-Wall Street protests going on in the states and elsewhere(!) have a website . There you can find your local Occupy Together group -...

The 40th Carnival of Evolution is up today at Kevin Zelnio's blog, EvoEcoLab at Scientific American. Next month it will be over at Eco...

As a first for me, I have been accepted as a member of the editorial board of the new journal Frontiers in Genetics . I'm very excited a...

Clearly, I'd say, love has some evolutionary significance. Why do we love each other? Evolutionary adaptive reasons seem quite convincin...

When I was a child, I once watched an animated kid's program about a family where the youngest of two children turned out to be retarded...

Margaret Morgan just alerted me to this old xkcd comic. Old, but unfortunately more pertinent than ever. So many people have told me that ...

Retraction Watch . Tracking retractions as a window into the scientific process. Collecting cases of retracted scientific papers, this blog...

It's been quite a while since I last heard from the American Family Association. I was signed up on their mailing list, but then one da...

September 1st edition of Carnival of Evolution has been up for a couple of days already at The End of the Pier Show - biology editor of Nat...

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...