Chris Sloan, a senior editor at National Geographic Magazine, points me to a cluster of new blogs he and others at NG have just launched. Sloan’s own blog includes a refreshingly frank discussion of the forged-fossil controversy NG was involved in a few years ago.

Science Blogs meanwhile continued to absorb blogs in Borg-like fashion. Among the new additions is one I’ve followed for a while, Laelaps, which covers stuff like fossil horses, human evolution, and such. Long live the organisms.

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In January I’ll be running a workshop for science graduate students at Yale about how to write about science for non-scientists. It’s going to be the second time around for me; last year’s trial run was a wonderful experience, which confirmed to me that scientists-in-training these days want very much to be engaged in the public discussion of the stuff they do. Information about the workshop and how to register has just been posted on the Yale Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology web site (poster pdf) I’m told the slots are filling up fast, so if any readers at Yale are interested, check it out.

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“Just wanted to jump on the bandwagon with my own tribute to my scientific style. This is a tattoo of the word for Body, Spirit, Person, People, and Life in Owens Valley Paiute, written in International Phonetic Alphabet. I am a Linguist that specializes in Endangered languages and thought I needed this tagged on me.”–Russ

Will tattoos be all that remains of some languages? Something to ponder as you peruse the science tattoos I’ve posted on Flickr–76 and rising. 

Originally published October 5, 2007. Copyright 2007 Carl Zimmer.

I just installed a new banner from Carl Buell up top. Sort of 2001 meets parasitoid wasps. It’s making the rest of the blog act funny for reasons I cannot divine, so the tech gods have been appealed to. 

Originally published October 3, 2007. Copyright 2007 Carl Zimmer.

Last week I groused about having trouble with MySpace, which led others to leave some nasty comments of their own. In the interest of full disclosure, I should now report that I figured out the problem: I was not entering my password correctly. I apologize to the folks at MySpace for blaming them for my own blundering.

Of course, you wouldn’t know that I’m back on MySpace by looking at my page, which is as dull as ever, but that’s just because I haven’t had the time to figure out how to embellish it. (Suggestions welcome!)

Originally published October 3, 2007. Copyright 2007 Carl Zimmer.