Laelaps is in OpenLab '09!

For the third consecutive year I was surprised to find that one of my posts made it into the annual science blogging anthology The Open Laboratory. Not only was the number of submissions very high (760!), but my essays were up against some stiff competition (and I should know since I sifted through quite a few as a judge).* There was a good chance that none of my entries would make the cut, but I am proud to say that my essay on the early whale Maiacetus will be included in the 2009 anthology. Many thanks to those who nominated my posts on "Ida" and "Ardi", the judges, Bora, and Scicurious for making this possible, and congratulations to all the other writers!

You can see a full listing of the final selections at A Blog Around the Clock and Neurotopia.

*(Needless to say I did not judge my own entries.)

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As the person entrusted with the skeptical bloggy goodness that arrives every other week in the form of the Skeptics' Circle, how could I refuse to hawk something like this e-mail:
This is exciting! From Young Australian Skeptics: Skeptical Blog Anthology 2009:
I have yet to meet anyone who has read this book, myself included. But apparently some sciency blogger picked up a copy the other day and noticed a near absence of female scientists represented in the anthology. Why? Y, apparently.

I'll put it on an autogyro to Siam at 1700 hours. (Sorry, whenever I hear "post haste" I immediately think of Mr. Burns)