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Bye Bye . . . for now

Everything is ephemeral – including bioephemera. As of today, May 31, I’m going on hiatus for at least this summer – and probably longer. While I’ve met many wonderful fellow bloggers and faithful...

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Endangered species?

Poor, outnumbered moderates. . . I decided to wait until the election mayhem abated before reviewing Carl Schoonover’s EXTREMELY outstanding new book Portraits of the Mind: Visualizing the Brain from...

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ScienceBlogGRRRRL Power!

I’m honored to get a brief shout-out today from the awesome Ed Yong in his post on female bloggers. I mention this not to toot my own horn, but to call attention to the amazing number of women...

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Why the grass is always greener once you hit grad school

Let’s be honest: the past two weeks have been horrible. On Thursday and Friday, for example, I worked for over 24 hours straight (who needs sleep) on a single project. You may have noticed BioE’s...

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Hellz yeah!

This is the biologist googly-eyed dazzled-with-biological-complexity effect that my friends and I used to describe as “because little fishes have eyes!” Be warned: once infected with the appreciation...

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A BioE million-stone!

Yesterday, bioephemera got its one millionth visit.* Thanks so much to everyone who reads, shares, and enjoys my posts – you’re why I keep blogging, in whatever spare time I can find. There’s just too...

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Surrender, don’t cull

From Linda Holmes, a poignant post about how the deluge of information makes it impossible to scratch the surface in a single lifetime: there are really only two responses if you want to feel like...

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The Meowmorphosis: blatant meme abuse?

Ok, what are the people at Quirk Books on? I have to say, I love the cover of the book, and the typographical trailer is cute – but isn’t this just blatant meme abuse? Quirk explains The Meowmorphosis...

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Why I no longer trust Yelp

One of the much-hyped benefits of social networking is that it provides a way to get personalized recommendations about businesses from a wider network. If I want to tell the world that the coffee...

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Goodbye to Scienceblogs

A few weeks ago, I was notified that if I wished to continue blogging at Scienceblogs/National Geographic, I’d have to agree to new terms. After considering these terms, as well as the decision to ban...

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