Yeah - I can’t seem to find the internet lately. I just managed to snatch this little glimpse of it in the pale moonlight in between wake/work cycles, so here I am. I won’t bother giving you more excuses. Besides, Miriam has already used up all the best ones.
However, I need to take this time [...]

Well, as some of you have no doubt noticed, I have been rather absent from the internets as of late. On top of a heavy load of scientific experiments on my plate, I’m also spending almost every waking minute trying to get my house ready to sell for my impending move to Pittsburgh (which includes [...]

As some of you have no doubt noticed, I’ve been a bit absent from this digital home of mine for the past couple of weeks. What can I say? I’ve been incredibly busy with actually doing science.
Hopefully I’ll get back to regular blogging soon (including my review of the press screener for the upcoming National [...]

I couldn’t imagine how Miriam Goldstein of The Oyster’s Garter could top her previous hosting of the Carnival of the Blue #21 in which she waxed lyrical and poetic.
However, as I have come to expect from Miriam, she completely knocked the socks off of my expectations with her shiny new edition of the Carnival of [...]

The above image arrived in my email inbox last night from the preeminent coral reef expert and blogger extraordinaire Rick MacPherson of Malaria, Bedbugs, Sea Lice & Sunsets.
The subject line simply read “I’m just sayin…”
The pun came from his recent Carnival of the Blue #22 in which he wrote of my post on Flatfish Eyes [...]

In an ambitious new day for Marine Science blogging and general marine information dissemination, Rick MacPherson (of Malaria, Bedbugs, Sea Lice & Sunsets) and Jason Robertshaw (of Cephalopodcast) have announced not only of the publication of Carnival of the Blue #22, but also the shiny new Podcast of the Blue, which will from hence forth [...]

The next edition of the Carnival of Evolution is now live over at Moneduloides!
It’s clear that moneduloides put alot of work into this edition, which contains a great amount of commentary on each submission.
So waste no more time here - go check it out now!

For the first time ever, I have been included in the blog carnival for the birds: I and the Bird #94!  And wow are there alot of people who are into birding! Each edition is jam packed with stories of birds, pictures of birds, and recipes of birds (not really).
So set aside some time over [...]

Though we are nearing the end of the “official” Darwin Day celebration, considering Charles Darwin’s 200th birthday and the 150th anniversary of the publication of The Origin of Species, 2009 is sure to be the Year of Darwin. In fact, a slew of events will be filling the entire month of February and there are [...]

Welcome back to the Carnival of Evolution - the place where the sideshow freaks of nature, the genetic mutants of the Tree of Life, run the show. Yes - we are all mutants, each of us with our own mutant powers, whether that be gripping plastic electronic mice with opposable thumbs or using specialized spiny [...]

Do you love invertebrates as much as I?
If so, make your way now over to the resurrected Circus of the Spineless, a blog carnival devoted to the world of invertebrates, hosted this 35th edition by Kevin Zelnio of The Other 95% and Deep Sea News.
And to my old ecology/zoology professor, Dr. Matt Moran - thank [...]

UPDATE* if you do not see your post mentioned, see note at the bottom of the post.
IT…HAS…ARRIVED!
The long awaited, much delayed eighth edition of the Carnival of Evolution is here.
I won’t go into the excuses, other than to say that one of them was the death of my grandfather - a man whose love of [...]

One thing natural selection is powerless against is selecting for or against anything in an organism post-reproduction. Hence, our bodies are fairly impotent when it comes to fighting cancer (with many exceptions, of course). The mechanisms of evolution are simply blind to most cancers.
It is for this reason that I must delay today’s edition of [...]

I will be hosting the next biweekly installment of the Carnival of Evolution #8 (a blog carnival devoted to…well…you can figure it out) here at biochemicalsoul.
You can submit your own articles that either directly or indirectly deal with Evolution by using this handy form.
If you would also like to host, check out the CoE mothership [...]

As some of you might have noticed, this site has been pretty inactive as of late.  Blame that on the combination of a full-time research post-doc and a college teaching gig on top of it.
Well, now the stack of final exams are graded and it’s time once again for you to indulge your selective pressure [...]

Kevin Zelnio over at The Other 95% (and the Discovery Channel’s Deep Sea News) has put together another excellent edition of the Carnival of Evolution. This edition contains much deep delving into the science, both current and past, within the field of evolutionary biology, and it makes for a truly edifying read.
Next up for [...]

This has probably been around a while. I’ve had this sitting on my hard drive for ages.  But given my earlier post on Sarah Palin’s utter ignorance of Science and this quote about Sarah Palin from Philip Munger on Salon.com…
“I pushed her on the earth’s creation, whether it was really less than 7,000 years old [...]

Mike Haubrich’s latest addition of the CoE, Carnival of Evolution #4 is now live over at Clashing Culture.
I have yet to dig deep into the Darwinian goodness, but it already seems that Mike has put alot of effort into editorializing and highlighting the best entries, in perhaps the best edition yet.
Next up in two weeks, [...]

It’s here!
The next edition of the Carnival of Evolution is now live over at the eminent ScienceBlog, Greg Laden’s Blog. Dig in and enjoy.
Within this digital mini-tome is my own recent post Are Human-Caused Ecological Invasions Good for Evolution and Diversity?
CoE#4 will be up in a fortnight, hosted by Mike (Tangled up in Blue Guy) [...]

The latest edition of the Carnival of Evolution, CoE #2, is now posted over at Jason Rosenhouse’s EvolutionBlog. So go wrap your brains around the tidbits he has served up. Also, though he didn’t link it within the CoE, he posted his own excellent article on the Anglican Church’s apology to Darwin.
Next up is Greg [...]

Miguel over at No Answers in Genesis Discussion Board recently posted a link to the new Carnival of Evolution blog carnival (which I much appreciate).
One of the commentators, however, had some fairly scathing remarks on the existence of this blog carnival and the subtitle and description. I respond to them here, because he paints an [...]

Jason Rosenhouse, the eloquent ScienceBlogs writer over at EvolutionBlog has graciously offered to host the 2nd edition of Carnival of Evolution.
So get those intelligent fingers a tappin’ and send your posts to him (deadline for this edition is September 14th). There’s a world of evolutionary change out there to discover, and I for one want [...]

Well, I’ve done it. I’ve created a new Blog Carnival.
It’s called “Carnival of Evolution” and you can find the first edition HERE, which includes my own post on Building a Better Human.
Despite the presence of several really good blog carnivals dealing with science, skepticism, or atheism, which all touch on evolution now and again, there [...]