Competition

How would you define ‘evolution’ in just a few words? In the competition inspired by the genegeek blog, about fifty of you had a go at this on twitter, with another 30 or so entries in the comments here on Naturally Selected. Whittling that down to a short list you could vote on wasn’t easy,…

It’s been a while since I gave away anything. And a tweet by Catherine Anderson (@GeneGeek) yesterday gave me an idea for a competition. So, if you’re on Twitter, give us your best shot at explaining evolution in that medium. Use the hashtag #evo140 (and yes, I know that only leaves 133 characters. Extreme). If…

It was such an interesting week at F1000 that I didn’t have space on Wednesday to mention a couple of tidbits of Faculty news. So here we go. First, this poster on the DNA damage response from a group in Spain has a somewhat quirky design. I think the link to Star Wars comes from…

It all started with a little tweet, asking you to tell me your favourite science joke. Dozens of comments later, I’m going to have to ask you to stop… please. There were a lot of jokes, some funnier than others, some apparently from a site on the internet (yes, I recognize them) and a few…

You’ve heard the one about the two atoms walking down the street? No? How about when Professor Heisenberg gets stopped for speeding? What’s your favourite science joke? I’m giving away an F1000 sweatshirt to the funniest and/or one that makes me groan the most, and a copy of My life in Science to the runner-up.…

By the tingling in my toes I note it’s the first of a brand new month. Which means it’s time to announce this month’s lucky Naturally Selected sweatshirt winner! I said I’d award a sweatshirt to the best comment this month. I also ran a picture competition, which nobody was able to get right! However,…

It’s been a while, I realize, since I last gave you a chance to win anything. So, here we go. For a chance of a Naturally Selected sweatshirt (here modelled by Neuroscience Section Head Andrew Lumsden),

What do you get if you mix 108 bottles of Coke Zero and 648 Mentos mints?

Last week I ran a competition on Twitter to try to reduce this pile of ‘My Life in Science’ books. And… the winner is Andrew Thaler, aka SFriedScientist. A copy of the good book will be winging its way to Andrew very shortly.

I’m still giving away copies of My Life in Science by Sydney Brenner. The latest ruse is an online raffle. All you have to do to enter is follow @F1000 on Twitter (so that I can DM you if you win!), and retweet the line: Virtual raffle: chance to win a copy of “My Life…