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Every Friday at Nothing in Biology Makes Sense! our contributors pass around links to new scientific results, or science-y news, or videos of adorable wildlife, that they’re most likely to bring up while waiting in line for a latte.
With the official start of Spring this week, at least depending on where you are. For me, I’m currently sitting in Ithaca, NY where the high for the day is still only squeaking into the above freezing range which only makes me miss Richmond, VA right now all the more. So without further adieu, which is apparently my new catch phrase, your links for the week.
To start things off on a light and happy note. Sarah has some wonderful news that she passed her dissertation defense!! She is so excited, as she should be, that her link this week is a ton of dancing GIFs. Of note, she things either Carlton or Ace Ventura match her mood best. Congrats Sarah!
This week CJ wonders about the possibility of a gender gap in pain perception as discussed in the NYTimes article. She also thought this article gave a good break down of the process of becoming tenured and is indeed quite helpful (and makes me glad to be in the field that I am in). And finally, an opinion piece on why De-extinction would not work.
From Jeremy, a piece from the blog Why Evolution is True on why science writing is tedious and often boring and what it takes to write good science.
From Amy, a depressing story on the passage of an amendment limiting the funding for NSF research regarding political science and the letter from Senator Tom Coburn justifying this measure.
Finally, I’d like to end things with a video. I’m a big fan of TED talks and also of U2, so when I saw that Bono gave a TED talk about his passion of helping to fight to end poverty I thought it was worth a look. I loved his analogy of how poverty could end in as short a time period as about 3 more Rolling Stones farewell tours.
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