About the author

Nick Oswald

Nick is a molecular biologist-turned-publisher. After a PhD in Developmental Biology and an eclectic seven years in biotech he is now Editorial Manager of Neuroendocrinology and the founder and Editor-In-Chief of Bitesize Bio. You are welcome to connect with Nick on LinkedIn

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Time for our weekly look around the best of the blogs…

More on Google Reader. This article on the Bootstrapper blog, along with Bala’s article on Google Reader for Academics, will help you on your way to Google Reader mastery.

All our ideas in one basket. Mr Gunn at Synthesis commented on a very interesting project, that everyone can take part in, by the Institute of the Future. X2 is a hypothesis aggregator… users can enter any hypothesis they have about how things will pan out in the future, and other users rate the hypotheses. The result is a surprisingly interesting and convincing collection of ideas.

Phosphorylation is over-rated. Attila voices an interesting opinion on the importance of protein phosphorylation at PIMM.

How to succeed in science. This concise guide published in Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology by Jonathan Yewdell was highlighted at Medical Writing, Editing and Grantsmanship.

Dawkins on Evolutionary Biology. Razib at Gene Expression picked up this interview with Richard Dawkins by the people at 3Quarks.

Moving on from RNA. John Timmer at Arstechnica discusses two views on how life made the transition from membrane encased RNA catalysts to the three forms of life we know now.

…and finally…

Add one word – “Relatively”. Take a look at this crazy piece of creationism propaganda if you can stand it. Frank Sherwin MA (what does this mean, Master of Arts!?) argues that although we call bacteria “simple” organisms, they are in fact pretty complicated beasts, therefore they cannot be at the lower end of the evolutionary tree.