Are 20-30% of children really not the biological offspring of their legal fathers? In this final installment, Etienne Joly talks about his interest in speciation and inbreeding, and how this led him to discover the truth behind the myth of misattributed paternity. I basically closed my door and started downloading loads and loads and loads…
Etienne Joly talks about his career, from being a postdoc at Scripps, through to working at the Babraham Institute near Cambridge, to landing a position at INSERM in Toulouse. He discusses the problems he had getting tenure in Britain, how difficult it is to get money to do the research you want, and just what…
Etienne Joly is one of our Faculty Members, based in Toulouse, France. He created a stir with his evaluation of a paper published back in 2005, debunking the urban myth of high rates of misattributed paternity. Here’s Etienne, talking to me over Skype, about the paper and how he came to find it. I’m always…
Congratulations to Sean Carroll, Section Head of Developmental Evolution for Faculty of 1000 Biology who has been awarded the 2010 Stephen Jay Gould Prize from the Society for the Study of Evolution (SSE). SSE President H. Allen Orr and Gould Prize Committee Chair Sam Scheiner presented the award to Carroll at the 2010 Evolution meeting…
Tom Solomon, a Faculty Member in Neurological Disorders, ran the London Marathon last month and
A quick roundup of good news from F1000. We’re pleased to announce that the following Faculty Members have been elected Fellows of the Royal Society:
Garry Peterson is an ecologist at the intriguingly-named Stockholm Resilience Centre, looking at how we a might effectively manage the environment; not simply for the state of the ecosystem itself but also for our continued well-being as inhabitants of that ecosystem. He also writes for Faculty of 1000, having been a Faculty Member since January…
The media faces constant criticism from medical specialists and advocacy groups whenever it trumpets the latest new wonder drug to cure any form of cancer. Many spurious claims have over the years been splashed across the UK Daily Mail’s front page, prompting backlash from organisations such as the National Health Service, Cancer Research UK and…
Sometimes there’s a real life-changing thrust to blog posts, that drives at the heart of a pivotal issue in modern society and make people question their motives, passions, opinions or even educational goals. But seeing as we’re all coming down off a post-Oscars high, let me preempt your own judgement by rating this one as…
We have previously discussed the honorable activities of the Americans for Medical Progress (AMP) and its members, including Dario Ringach whose recent paper on animal activism was highly rated by our reviewers. AMP send regular email updates to scientists and this item looked at an extremely important issue, so I am reproducing it here in…
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