SEEN 4.1

3^rd year Biologist Jake Bailey found this story about the evolution of cartilaginous fish http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2013/09/26/3856025.htm

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nature12617.html Thank you Jake!

PhD student Pete Boyd sent in this link from Jerry Coyne’s “Why evolution is true” blog, posted by Matthew Cobb http://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2013/09/12/crane-fly-mimicry/ . Thank you Pete!

PhD student Rob Gandola sent information about a student research and writing project “Encyclopedia of Life: Student Research and Writing Project

The Encyclopedia of Life (EOL, www.eol.org) is a global collaboration among scientists and the general public to make authoritative information and literature about all 1.9 million named species freely accessible online. We are reaching out to faculty that teach higher level courses, about the opportunity of having undergraduate and graduate students research and synthesize information about species on EOL’s high priority taxa list (pages in need of content) and then summarize this information in an overview suitable for the general public. Other options include researching and writing about individual topics such as ecology,habitat, morphology, etc.
Instructors are responsible for reviewing student work. The EOL Learning + Education team will provide guidance, supporting materials and can help facilitate the upload of reviewed information to the Encyclopedia of Life.

The benefits of this activity for students include an opportunity to research and synthesize information to communicate science to the general public. Students, instructors and institutions receive attribution and recognition on the Encyclopedia of Life.
See an examples of past student work here:
http://eol.org/collections/46171
For a full description of this project, please see:
http://www.edulifedesks.org/files/edulifedesks/student_contributions_to_eol.pdf

Rob also spotted this story in the Echo http://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/10711754.It___s_cyclists_vs_newts_/?ref=twtrec, Thank you Rob!

Why are there still so few women in science? http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/06/magazine/why-are-there-still-so-few-women-in-science.html?_r=2&pagewanted=all&

Tiger cub birth caught on camera at London zoo http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-24355271

Nobel prize in Physiology or Medicine awarded to cell transport researchers http://www.nature.com/news/cell-transport-carries-off-nobel-1.13900

The moonfish jellyfish is the ocean’s most efficient swimmer http://www.nature.com/news/why-a-jellyfish-is-the-ocean-s-most-efficient-swimmer-1.13895

http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2013/10/02/1306983110