One Thing Every Oceanographer Should Know
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How to make beer at sea in a coffee pot! Southern Fried Scientist may just have become my new best friend. I guess what I pack in my field kit will be changing very soon.

The Great Darwin Beard Challenge: Week 8
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Is over at Southern Fried Science. I must say, the beard makes the men. Serioulsy though, have your eyes been witness to such awesome beauty such as men with full beards?? I think not.

The Great Darwin Beard Challenge: Week 5
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Is over at Southern Fried Science. I thought I was pretty hairy, but man look at the russian bear with the shark! We are moving to biweekly updates now. See you in 2 weeks! (Although we might lose whysharksmatters underneath a mountain of hair…)

Happy Birthday to Southern Fried Scientist!
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One of only 2 people in the world that actually give a damn about deep sea fungi. Here’s to your 25th, Cheers! Andrew (squid hat) and I (crab hat) toasting to sea shanties with blog peeps at Science Online 09. Photo by Danica. . . . → Read More: Happy Birthday to Southern Fried Scientist!

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Is Sea Sheppard Good or Bad for Sharks?
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David from Southern Fried Science has a good post continuing the discussion started by Dr. M here on Deep Sea News. While Dr. M focused on their tactic of ramming ships, David (a shark biologist) asks whether the work of Sea Sheppard has been effective at all for shark conservation.

The Great Darwin Beard Challenge: Week 2
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The Great Darwin Beard Challenge Week 2 is hosted at Southern Fried Science! Click over to Southern Fried Science to find out the results of Week 2!

The Great Darwin Beard Challenge: Week 1
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We marked the end of the first week of our Great Darwin Beard Challenge. Below are the contestants (minus whysharksmatters from Southern Fried Science who hasn’t submitted his photo yet) at T=1. If you are participating leave a link in the comments below. Top Right – sexiest deep sea biologist, Kevin Z; Top Left – . . . → Read More: The Great Darwin Beard Challenge: Week 1

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From Birth to The Origin: The Great Darwin Beard Challenge
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In honor of our main man today, Charlie D, the Southern Fried Scientist and I are having a Darwin beard challenge. To have an even playing field, we shaved it down this morning. We start today as Darwin started his life, naked and smooth like a monkey baby’s bum. This is something I have . . . → Read More: From Birth to The Origin: The Great Darwin Beard Challenge

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Science Book Lovers Meme
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David, aka whysharksmatter, at Southern Fried Science tagged me in the latest internet meme to go around: Science Book Lover’s meme. Unfortunately, I’m still living in temporarily limbo as I’m waiting to close on my house so most of what I own, including my beloved books, has been in storage since last September. So you . . . → Read More: Science Book Lovers Meme

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Crazy ‘Bout Those Dwarf Males Profizzah
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The Southern Fried Scientist is TA’ing Invertebrate Zoology with Cindy Van Dover at the Marine Lab here. They are having their students create a 2-3 minute podcast of a published article on invertebrate biology, called Topic in Marine Invertebrate Zoology (TiMIZ), and he is posting them to his blog and the course YouTube Channel. I . . . → Read More: Crazy ‘Bout Those Dwarf Males Profizzah

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