Editor’s note: we’re pleased to welcome Morgan Giddings to Naturally Selected. Morgan will be guest-blogging for us on scientific careers and related topics. by Morgan Giddings A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows…

It probably says something about my schooling, let alone my age, that when you say to me “Flight of Icarus” my first thought is Iron Maiden.

In all the excitement, you might have missed another paradigm being overthrown. Faculty Member (and Open Access advocate) Etienne Joly of the CNRS writes about the myth of paternity. It’s generally believed that a considerable proportion of children are not the biological offspring of their legal fathers. Estimates range from 10% in the UK to…

University of Wisconsin at Madison biologist Gary Splitter won’t be doing much pipetting or centrifuging for the next few years. UW-Madison just pulled Splitter’s laboratory privileges for violating strict rules governing research on “select agents,” or microbes that pose serious dangers to human health and could be used as bioweapons.

One of our most popular stories last week revealed that some scientists applying for foundation funding are getting caught up in legal snags that are delaying — or perhaps even preventing them from accepting — the award. We profiled William Ja, a Scripps molecular biologist who received an award from the Found Animals Foundation to…

Once a mere means of mobile communication, cell phones have taken on a suite of other social tasks, including music playing, web surfing, and now data management. Exco InTouch, a UK-based provider of interactive patient communication solutions, suggests that cell phones may be a new way to capture real-time patient data from clinical trials. The…

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Sir Paul Nurse got into a bit of bother recently with what appeared to be some ill-considered remarks about science funding. That was, of course, an interview in a newspaper and some context and subtlety was lost. Mark Henderson of the Times blogged Nurse’s comments in fuller form last week, and things have sort of…

Just a quick update. You may have seen Kent Anderson’s broadside aimed squarely at PLoS, specifically PLoS ONE. This engendered a huge comment thread, and a robust defence by Cameron Neylon (you should also check out the FriendFeed thread that was spawned by his article, too.). Now, our friends Pete Binfield and Mark Patterson of…

Crystal ball I’m a sucker for pretty things, and structural biology is all about pretty things. And the structure of the entire damn apoptosome at 3.55