Glamour magazine, where the HELL are female scientists in your annual “women of the year” awards? Year after year, you honor female actresses, fashion designers,…
View More Changing the Culture of Ocean Science: a DSN core valueAuthor: Holly Bik
I am a computational biologist at the University of California, Riverside. My research uses DNA sequencing and genomics to study microbial eukaryotes (yeah, nematodes!) in marine ecosystems, with an emphasis on evolution and biodiversity in the deep-sea. I can neither confirm nor deny that I like Unix more than I like going to sea.
TGIF – Overfishing Rap
Al might be keeping it classy on TGIF with some wonderful underwater footage, but here in New Hampshire, I’m stuck in an empty office revising…
View More TGIF – Overfishing RapHoly Link Fest, Batman! My cup runneth over with oil spill literature
An e-mail just made me shout a barrage of expletives. In a good way. Some poor intern at Marine Science Review is probably wailing in…
View More Holy Link Fest, Batman! My cup runneth over with oil spill literatureDivvying up BP’s fine for restoration in the Gulf
BP still has to pay the government for that little slip-up that happened last year. The Clean Water Act imposes punitive damages for any act…
View More Divvying up BP’s fine for restoration in the GulfUnder the Sea at Paris Fashion Week S/S 2012
I am drooling so much, I am going to have to cover my keyboard in plastic. Winter wardrobes always depress me (too many layers, so…
View More Under the Sea at Paris Fashion Week S/S 2012Hot dayum, Craig Venter
There’s a new paper today describing the use of very short sequences (100 base pairs long) and sophisticated computational algorithms to map out an entire…
View More Hot dayum, Craig VenterBOEMRE Final Report on Deepwater Horizon
I can’t say its the most captivating document ever produced (unless you’ve got a thing for regulatory practices and safety recommendations), but it is an…
View More BOEMRE Final Report on Deepwater HorizonBig text files can tell you how the ocean works
…because “High-throughput sequencing confers a deep view of seasonal community dynamics in pelagic marine environments”, however appropriate a title, seems far too dry and technical…
View More Big text files can tell you how the ocean worksNSF Ideas Lab on Advancing and Visualizing the Tree of Life
I finally made it to Lake Placid. Yes, after a 6 hour drive drinking iced coffee and belting out some Gaga, I’m super excited to…
View More NSF Ideas Lab on Advancing and Visualizing the Tree of LifeA great day for a little Traumatic Insemination
Sometimes I think that those of us studying ‘minor phyla’ do so in order to prevent from developing some secret (potentially peverse) obsessions. Example: I…
View More A great day for a little Traumatic Insemination