Buds and ends

In plants, buds differ in size and that matters.
If you want a way to illustrate how buds length varies between plants using pictures, than you’ll have to use anything worth calibrating. For example, insects would.
So is this what one would call scale bugs?

Scale Bug (Poss) (Pulvinaria regalis)
Originally uploaded by Eco Heathen

When will Seeds Aside go extinct?

Link drift caused me yesterday to read a blog post (unfortunately, not a blog I knew, and I can’t remember anything allowing to get the link back now) investigating the publication rate for that blog over time.
I did the same for Seeds Aside (# of post / months spent since creation), and got this:

Stapelia glanduliflora flower

Stapelia glanduliflora flower. Originally uploaded by Martin_Heigan

Plant of the week! What do you think of a weekly share of plant diversity?

Ch(r)ewing words to their spine

In defense of Sarah Palin (isn’t that a good keyword huh!). So much for the irony… But what else? Yes, there’s more, and if you’re like me unfortunately illiterate, you’d be on this list:
The simple truth is that not everyone knows about the shrew thing. (…) So, surely, there are people who don’t know the [...]

Back soon!

Seeds Aside should resume a more or less regular activity soon (as soon as I get connected again). I’m left wondering how one does manage blogging back after so many weeks of silence, any tip is welcome. Maybe I’ll start up slowly so as to get immerged without getting swamped. We’ll see…
Also, beware Seeds Aside [...]

By Alpha Blondy.

Out, break!

Oops… Sorry. Interviews, paper writing, baby teething, family events, student exams, maybe fieldwork if I ever can. Don’t expect much in here for some time. Maybe I resume mid June, maybe later.

Interview ‘instant killer’

Before I share with you what’s probably my most unpleasant experience this year, let’s have some background setting info. This was during a (yearly) national application campaign to fill up full-time research positions. Basically you come up with your own research plan and a lab willing to defend your application. You have 10 minutes to [...]

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Not enough time lately.
Grand dad may not make it through, this time.
So maybe in his honour, and to commemorate a sad anniversary, let’s have this today:

Open thread