Larry Moran directs us to have a look at Species-Scape at the Cornell website. It's great. But... 1. It has one group of "prokaryotes", Kingdom Monera, which is pretty old school. (Same goes for "Protists"). You don't like dividing the Archaea and Bacteria? Ok, but how about a note that many people now consider this one of the deepest divisions of life?

I already posted one of these figures in an earlier version of What's wrong with these figures?, but the other one of them I hadn't noticed.

The move from Blogger to Scientific Blogging has been good overall, and I am certainly enjoying more hits and a broader readership from outside the normal blogosphere. However, I have also noticed that bloggers and blog readers have more or less dropped off. I think it would be useful for Genomicron to reach both audiences, but it seems that one Genomicron can't serve that function yet. Perhaps when the new format of SB is operational it will. Meanwhile, I am opting to resurrect the pseudoGenomicron and have it persist as a functionally redundant parablog. That is to say I will be cross posting everything on both sites, and blog readers who like this one better can read it and people who want links to lots of other interesting stuff can visit the other one.

Scientific Blogging is a work in progress and lots of neat features (some of which are visible, some are not) are being incorporated continually.  As things move forward, it is helpful to bug the powers that be to fix things that we don't like and to include things that we do.  So, in this comment thread, please NICELY point out things that you would like to see updated or changed. 

I'll get it started:

• Better banner!
• Longer summaries of articles in the RSS feeds. (Heck, I would prefer whole posts, but I know that probably is not within the model for the site)
• Custom side bar so I can restore my blogroll, widgets, and links.
• Customizable colour scheme etc. (though I will wait for the new look in version 2)

 

As many of you are aware, a new journal entitled Evolution: Education and Outreach was launched in late 2007, with three issues now available.  What you may not know is that the journal also has a blog (of a sort), a MySpace page, and a Facebook group. So if you're one of those interweb people, check them out.

 

Or something.  See the paper about blogs by John Wilkins, in press in TREE.

[HT: Laelaps, who in my professional opinion has every right to blog about science and does a dandy job too :-)]