by Dan on November 4, 2008

All fields in Science thrive on fresh ideas that contest accepted theory. Yet, researchers seeking funded face ever greater competition for limited funds - funds that are overly wedded to safe, unadventurous research. This, in (read on...)

by Dan on October 27, 2008

With a provocative suggestion, Mike the Mad Biologist proposed the idea of Top-down NIH leadership to determine where research funding should be allocated. The point is that, as DrugMonkey noted, it's too difficult for reviewers (read on...)

by Dan on October 23, 2008

With the new design for Bitesize Bio, I thought it appropriate for a re-assessment of what blogging here means to me. Nick started this site as a blog for molecular biology, with a bit of a dream to turn it into a community for (read on...)

by Nick on October 21, 2008

Finally, after a lot of blood, sweat and tears, the new Bitesize Bio has arrived. And, as you can see, there have been a few changes around here! Of course, the site looks much better and is easier to navigate. So, we hope (read on...)

by Nick on October 6, 2008

Small Worlds is a new initiative organised by Alan Cann at the University of Leicester (and of the excellent Microbiology Bytes) that aims to encourage scientists to use the immense power of web 2.0 in their professional (read on...)

by Dan on September 8, 2008

As I noted in last Friday's Around the Blogs post (and for a day put up the wrong link), Pamela Ronald has an article up for anyone interested in the pro's and con's of genetically engineered or genetically modified crops. In 10 (read on...)

by Dan on September 3, 2008

Late last year, a handful of individuals spawned an idea, calling for a presidential debate on science in the United States. They started a website and called it Science Debate 2008, and received a vocal response. For much of (read on...)

by Dan on August 20, 2008

Last Thursday's post on the animal rights firebombing in Santa Cruz earned me a couple outraged comments, so I suppose I did something right. I'm sure they don't realize it, but they're comments reflect what I was saying. That (read on...)

by Dan on August 14, 2008

It would seem that animal rights' terrorists are at it again, this time with a spate of firebombings in SouthernNorthern California. One might be sympathetic to the child-like adoration of animals, without a doubt. You might (read on...)

by Dan on July 31, 2008

A bit of a rant today: Nobel laureate Paul Nurse has an article in last week's issue of Nature that strikes me as having a bunch of buzzwords but a misguided message. In Life, Logic, and Information, Nurse becomes the latest in (read on...)