Help us make sense!

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Are you a working biologist, biology student, or other person with a first-hand connection to the living world? Do you like reading science blogs—including maybe this one—and wonder what it’d be like to get into this online-popular-science-writing thing? Or do you have your own science blog already, and want to expand your audience? Then you should consider writing a guest post for Nothing in Biology Makes Sense!

We’ll prioritize contributions from folks who work in biology in a broad sense—anything from medicine to basic research, at career stages from students to professors. And, true to our headline, we’ll be especially interested in pieces that show how something in biology makes sense, if you think about it in light of evolution.

Wondering what a good guest post looks like? Check out previous ones by Tom Houslay, Colin Beale, and James Winters.

So what are you waiting for? E-mail Jeremy to propose a post and discuss scheduling.

Help us make sense!

Image via.

Are you a working biologist, biology student, or other person with a first-hand connection to the living world? Do you like reading science blogs, including this one, and wonder what it’d be like to get into this online-popular-science-writing thing? Or do you have your own science blog already, and you’d like to expand your audience? Then you should consider writing a guest post for Nothing in Biology Makes Sense!

E-mail Jeremy to propose a post and discuss scheduling. We’ll prioritize contributions from folks who work in biology in a broad sense—anything from medicine to basic research, at career stages from students to professors. And, true to our headline, we’ll be especially interested in pieces that show how something in biology makes sense, if you think about it in light of evolution.

‘Tis the season

wreath

For taking a break, that is. Those of us on the academic calendar (which is all of us, actually) are wrapping up a fall semester, and this seems like a good time to take it easy for awhile. There may be some intermittent, maybe even relevant, activity over the Saturnalia hiatus, but we’re not committing to anything while there’s eggnog to be had and carolers to be heckled. Look for regular science posts to resume in the new year!

We’re on Twitter!

Am I in there?

Obligatory avian imagery to illustrate post about Twitter

From the list of things I really ought to have done before launching this week: Nothing in Biology now has a Twitter account, @NothingInBio. Follow for the latest updates from the site.

Variation under domestication

When we look to the individuals of the same variety or sub-variety of our older cultivated plants and animals, one of the first points which strikes us, is, that they generally differ much more from each other, than do the individuals of any one species or variety in a state of nature.

Domestic pigeons of the "nun" variety

Domestic pigeons of the variety called "nuns."