Blog Carnivals
tsmith | March 16, 2006...is up over at Paige's Page. Lots of good stuff there-- and who knew there'd be two posts on epidemiology? The other (in addition to mine on Edenomics) is over at Salto Sobrius on what he calls "Divine epidemiology"--aka, punishment from a disgruntled deity.
evolgen | March 15, 2006Tangled Bank #49 has been posted at Living the Scientific Life. Go get your science on.
tsmith | March 9, 2006Welcome to the third edition of Animalcules, complete with a top-secret birthday message for everyone's favorite thorn in the side of creationists, PZ Myers. (Or Meyers, or Meijers, or several other more creative mispellings, I'm sure).
There have been several posts around the blogosphere commenting on the recent paper describing MRSA in amoebae. Paul extends this a bit, discussing microbial survival in the environment more generally--complete with test question at the end.
Paul also makes a comment about microbial phylogeny--another topic we have multiple posts on this round. RPM at…
tsmith | March 8, 2006Forgot to mention this earlier, so maybe I'll hold off on posting it until tomorrow afternoon to give people a chance to send entries. The third edition of Animalcules is supposed to go live tomorrow, so send me your links ASAP.
tsmith | March 7, 2006This week's Grand Rounds, a collection of medical-themed blogging, is up over at Emergiblog.
tsmith | March 6, 2006Just a reminder that there will be another edition of Animalcules this week; the last one here at Aetiology for awhile before it hits the road. Send me your submissions by Wednesday evening. Grand Rounds will also go live tomorrow at Emergiblog; check the link for submission info.
Teaching this morning then giving the departmental seminar at noon, but I'l have a new post up later today.
tsmith | March 3, 2006Somehow I missed this post from 10,000 Birds on alcids--"penguinis of the Northern Hemisphere"--when compiling this week's Tangled Bank. So go belatedly check it out, and I'll add it to the TB post for posterity.
tsmith | February 28, 2006This week's Grand Rounds is up over at A Chance to Cut is a Chance to Cure. Ones that caught my eye: Dr. Andy's discussion of mandatory vaccination; Flea on gambling with meningitis; Orac's tales of surgery (warning: not quite what you think); a depressing STD tale over at The blog that ate Manhattan; Interested Participant on MRSA, and the always-funny Science Creative Quarterly on Asparagus and stinky pee.
One final reminder for Tangled Bank as well--get those entries to me ASAP. TB goes live tomorrow.
evolgen | February 28, 2006
The sixth edition of the Circus of the Spineless is up at Science and Politics. Get your fix of inverts now...
tsmith | February 23, 2006Good morning! Welcome to your semimonthly dose of wholesome microbial goodness.
Lots on your plate this morning.
To whet your appetite, check out a study described over at Biology News examining the genomics of bacteria that cause ehrlichiosis. While you're there, you might want to do some jaw exercises by repeating the names of the bacteria examined: Anaplasma phagocytophilum, Ehrlichia chaffeensis, and Neorickettsia sennetsu. Talk about a mouthful.
Speaking of mouthful, PharmaBawd's all about the herpes viruses, including chicken pox (varicella) and HHV-8: the cause of Kaposi's…
tsmith | February 22, 2006Submit entries for Animalcules (due tonight at midnight CST) and Tangled Bank (in by next Monday night). Also, drop me a line if you'd like to host future versions of Animalcules--I've had a few offers, and I'll be setting up a schedule next week.
Oh, and I see Chris was out eagle watching over the weekend. We had another in our backyard on Monday. My parents rode back to Iowa with me and the kids (picking up an old car of mine to give to my sister) and they got to see it as well:
tsmith | February 16, 2006I know, I'm way late, but I still wanted to plug today's edition of The Skeptics' Circle over at Used and probably unusable.
tsmith | February 15, 2006D'oh, I forgot about Tangled Bank again (has it been two weeks already?) Time flies, as the theme to TB this week emphasizes. Check out some of the best science writing in the blogosphere, and note that I'm hosting it here in two weesk. Submissions can be sent to aetiology AT gmail DOT com--please put "Tangled bank" in the subject line so I don't overlook it.
While I'm on the subject of carnival submissions, let me also remind you about the second edition of Animalcules, going live on February 23rd. Send submissions to me at the address above.
Over at Science and Politics, you'll also…
evolgen | February 9, 2006The first ever edition of the Animalcules blog carnival has been posted at Aetiology. Go read about those wee little things that you can't see with you naked eye.
tsmith | February 9, 2006Welcome to the introductory edition of Animalcules!
Our first, and most pressing, issue is the name. As was pointed out in the comments here, there's already a monthly column in Microbe (formerly ASM News) called "Animalcules." But I still like the name, so I was thinking of incorporating something else with it. "Carnival of the Animalcules?" Eh, lots of those "carnival of"s out there. Try to be a bit more pretentious--"Festivus microbius" or something where it sounds like I almost know some Latin? Nah--too many people around these parts who actually *do* know Latin. So, after much…
tsmith | February 7, 2006Just what the world needs, right?
There are already carnivals for medical-type follk, general science folk, the godless, philosophers. There are already carnivals about birds, cats, dogs, general multicellular animals, invertebrates. But something is missing. Oh, yes. Those poor little creatures that are ruthlessly killed every day of our lives--the underappreciated, the underloved, the oft-maligned--the animalcules. This grave injustice will now be corrected.
Submission guidelines
One, the post must focus on a microbe--bacteria, parasite, virus, fungus, etc. Prokaryotic or eukaryotic,…
tsmith | February 7, 2006This week's Grand Rounds--a carnival of medical-themed blogging--is up over at Science and Politics.