Sunday, 15 April 2012

Name the Biologist - Week 5

This may be the trickiest one yet...


Update: Here's a clue for those of you who may be lagging behind...

Update 2: Maybe some of you are following the wrong strand?


Friday, 13 April 2012

Heterozygoats

This has to be one of my favourite science puns!


Well done to the creator who I guess is the name at the bottom of the picture. I tip my hat, to you.

Monday, 9 April 2012

Name the Biologist - week 4

I think this one will be tricky although it really depends on what type of model organism you work with.


Below are the answers to the previous editions.

Captain America - The first Avenger

I'm a big fan of superhero comics. The X-men and Spider-man comics/cartoons probably had a bigger influence on my decision to become a geneticist than I'd care to admit. For that reason I've been enjoying all the Marvel films that have been building up to next month's "The Avengers" film. The film is good fun and it's definitely in the Indiana Jones/The rocketeer mould (the latter of which was also directed by Joe Johnson) although I'd say it was the weakest of the Marvel "universe" films (even the often ignored recent Hulk film).

But why am I mentioning it in the blog?

Saturday, 7 April 2012

Even scientists have birthdays...

The lack of activity is largely due to lack of internet access but I've been busy moving too. It's also my birthday so i'm having an indulgent easter.

Normal schedule should resume in a week.

Sunday, 1 April 2012

Name the biologist special edition

Today is a special day, as you may have gathered from the "endgangered species" post so here is a special edition "name the biologist". Enjoy!




Bonus imaginary points if you can name all 3.

Endangered species

The IUCN (Internatinal Union for Conservation of Nature) red (ironic) list has added "gingers" as a "sub species" that is potentially endangered. To be fair it's in the lowest category of "least concern".
I think that's a first for people as it's not like gingers are a separate species. It's shocking news for me reading this information on a sunny early april morning. What exactly does being added to this list mean for me? Why are gingers dying out and what can be done to save us?