Berry Go Round #7

Right now it should be up at A Blog Around The Clock. But since I’m not here, I can’t provide you with the actual link right now. Please go there and scroll down to find out about the latest edition of your favorite plant carnival (and please, fellow bloggers, advertise it!)… I’ll provide you with [...]

Will assisting species colonization help conserve biodiversity against climate change aleas

I’m away South looking for Berry. While I can’t write substance, there’s some interesting summary as to what the future of conservation biology might be. Translocating species to help them colonize suitable habitat before they go extinct. Hum, I hope it will work, but it is best to be seriously plannified before the work begins.

Night of the Day of the Dawn of the Son of the Bride of the Return of the Revenge of the Terror of the Attack of the Evil, Mutant, Alien, Flesh Eating, Hellbound, Zombified Living Dead

Sometimes real world doesn’t look like anything but that scary. Really. Not here, here.

Book Meme

Greg was wondering what such a list would look like if from a non-American perspective… So I did the trick quickly, and don’t comment… Fortunately, there are a lot of French authors so that it helped me a little bit, but I have to confess I’ve never really read the classics, even French ones.

is there a tradeoff between blogging and doing science?

Hopefully, not always. But blogging, just like popularizing sciences, seems hurting appreciation by peers. Why? Dunno, but I really would like to understand… Comments welcome…

Beetles bits

A few coleopteran trivia concerning Cetonia aurata, or more precisely its foraging behaviour on Viburnum opulus in Sweden: R. Englund (1993). Movement patterns of Cetonia beetles (Scarabaeidae) among flowering Viburnum opulus (Caprifoliaceae). Option for long-distance pollen dispersal in a temperate shrub. Oecologia 94:295-302. This paper is also interesting per se, because as you may have noticed, [...]

New Carnival!

The first edition of The Giant’s Shoulder, a new carnival devoted to history of sciences and historical landmark papers is published at A Blog Around The Clock. Please go read, there’s a lot of posts featured…   The next edition of Berry Go Round (#7) will also be posted at A Blog Around The Clock, [...]

Achiote, roucou, Bixa!

Did you ever heard of Bixaceae before? Some probably do. Bixaceae is a rather small family, with a still difficult taxonomic delineation, being closely related to Cochlospermaceae, maybe part of it, maybe a true group on its own. Systematicists may come up with an answer, or maybe not, whenever new sequences are added, but morphological [...]

What’s up there?

Hopefully coming back soon, though probably on an even less frequent basis. Real life business matters, after all… But before that, a commemoration. Sky is lightning hard everywhere here, it’s noisy like there’s a storm front moving, waving around, well not exactly like that but close.  

Four Stone Hearth Blog Carnival

The Four Stone Hearth Blog Carnival, dealing with anthropology and other things human, can be read (44th edition) at Greg Laden’s blog. A wide range of topics, from adaptiveness of morning sickness in pregnant woman to Hip Hop linguistics, taking even a turn into the messes of conservapedia. Seems like there’s nothing as diverse as the [...]