Blog Profile / The Oyster's Garter
| URL : | http://theoystersgarter.com/ | |
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| Filed Under: | Biology / Marine Biology | |
| Posts on Regator: | 464 | |
| Posts / Week: | 1.7 | |
| Archived Since: | March 12, 2008 | |
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I have moved to Deep Sea News
As of January 2010, I am now blogging with Dr. M and Kevin Z at Deep Sea News. February’s Carnival of the Blue will be hosted over there.
The Oyster’s Garter is officially on indefinite hiatus, though the archives will remain up. Thanks for reading!
Filed under: O frabjous day!
Thoughts on the “Talking Trash” section at Science Online
Welcome to the zombie Oyster’s Garter, resurrected from the blogular grave to eat your braaains. Or at least to pick your brains (which in the context of zombies sounds most distressing.). At the upcoming Science Online conference, I will be co-moderating a panel called “Talking Trash: Online Outreach from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.” The [...]
Seeking the Science of the Garbage Patch
It’s finally time to announce why I’ve been neglecting the poor Oyster’s Garter all summer. This Sunday, August 2nd, the first dedicated scientific expedition to study plastic accumulation in the North Pacific Gyre will depart San Diego. Show More Summary
Summer science hiatus
As anyone still reading might have guessed, I’m having trouble keeping up with both Ye Olde Oyster’s Garter, the Double X outpost, and my actual science. So, with much sadness, the Oyster’s Garter is going on hiatus until September. I’ll be back and raring to go by September 1. In science news, I have a very [...]
Double X: A Novel Approach to the Climate Change Report
The noir (and romance and haiku) of the latest government report on climate change: Last week, the United States Global Research program released a report on the potential impacts of climate change in the United States. Based on a year and a half of work and a consensus from 13 federal agencies, the 198-page report makes [...]
Double X: Oil Rigs in the Penguin Habitat
Shiny new science art, with a hint of vintage humanities: I live in San Diego, so I visit our famous zoo a couple times a year. My favorite part is a lush, leafy canyon lined with tigers and tropical birds and tapirs. It’s a little piece of the Asian forests on which it’s based, an idyll [...]
Double X: The Scariest Animal in Pastel Hotel Art
In which I fall back on an oldy but goody: It roams the ocean floor, always ravenous, always ready to kill. When it finds its prey, it pulls it apart with hideous strength and then eats it while the prey is still alive. What is this fearsome beast? Is it a shark? A kraken? The Loch [...]
Double X: Wile E. Coyote & Roadrunner are Total BFFs
Latest at Double X: On Sunday, NPR reported that more than 2,000 coyotes were living in Chicago, many inside the city’s highly developed downtown Loop. That’s not unusual. Since the elimination of wolves and the advent of suburbs teeming with tasty prey, coyotes have made their homes in cities from Los Angeles to Boston. According to [...]
Submit to the LGBT Diversity in Science Carnival!
In honor of Pride Month, I’ll be hosting the LGBT edition of the Diversity in Science Carnival on Tuesday, June 30. (I’m pushing back the deadline due to travel the week before.) Send me anything you like about LGBT issues in science – for example, profiles of historic or modern scientists or issues particular to [...]
More on scientists in GQ
In my last Double X blog post, I wrote about the Rock Stars of Science campaign. Dr. Isis has a different take: The point of the campaign is to show people that science is hip, and cool, and sexy, and [insert other adjective here], but in each shot the scientists are fawning over the musicians. The [...]
Double X: Sexing Up Scientists
Latest Double X post: Scientists are not famed for their looks or fashion sense. Personally, I love this about science. I work that “get out of performing femininity free!” card for all it’s worth, slouching about in science-themed t-shirts and ratty sneakers as often as I can. But if I want to get in on this [...]
Behold the mighty sky-squid
Is it coincidence that this upper-atmosphere lightening (called a “sprite“) resembles a mighty sky-squid? Or is fearsome Cthulhu sending us a sign? YOU DECIDE.
Thanks, Christi!
Posted in Doom, Geek, Silliness, Space Fish...
Double X: Fowl Play
Latest Double X post: Last month, Pat Robertson fretted that hate-crime legislation would lead to the protection of people who “like to have sex with ducks.” His remark resulted in a delightful Robertson-mocking pro-duck-sex song released last week by musical group Garfunkel and Oates. Robertson doesn’t have to worry too much about human-on-duck sex – it’s [...]
Happy World Oceans Day!
It’s the very first World Oceans Day! Celebrate with the 25th edition of Carnival of the Blue, hosted by the fish-loving Mark Powell. Then sing to to the tune of “Fish Heads”: Fish blogs, fish blogs, smart & fun fish blogs, fish blogs, fish blogs, READ THEM NOW! YUM!
Posted in Carnivals [...]
Sunday Links: Zombie Jello Edition
Name a new species of jellyfish! The Bonaire Box Jellyfish’s genus name is Tamoya, but it doesn’t have a species name yet. Dust off your Latin, check out the contest guidelines in Year of Science 2009, and submit your entry by June 14.
Science Magazine is offering a prize for the best online education resource. The [...]
Friday Sci-Fi: Lostronaut
Since marine science and space seem pretty tight these days, check out Jonathan Lethem’s lovely and very bleak short story “Lostronaut.” It’s written as letters home from an astronaut stranded on a disintegrating space station with failing plant-based life support, and shouldn’t be read if you’ve got a space-faring loved one.
If reading the story makes [...]
Double X: They Eat Wilderness Scounts, Don’t They?
Latest Double X post on the science of Pixar’s new movie Up: Seeking scientific accuracy in Hollywood is a fool’s game. I’ve frothed at the terrible biology of Bee Movie and gnashed at the poor oceanography of Transformers and muttered at the unfortunate physics of Star Wars. So I wasn’t expecting much from Pixar’s latest offering, [...]
Double X: Subtracting the Math Gender Gap
The latest Double X post: Poor women. While normal intelligence can co-exist with ovaries, our delicate lady-brains can’t contain genius-level intelligence. Men and women might have the same average intelligence, but men have more variation, and thus more idiots AND genuises. At least that’s what former Harvard President and current Obama advisor Larry Summers implied in [...]
Round of virtual applause
I’m back, and can continue to neglect the Oyster’s Garter in person! Unfortunately the forecast is for “Overwhelmed, with a chance of running off gibbering into the night,” so things around here will continue to be slow. But you can always check me out twice a week at Double X. (Why am I not an [...]
If I blog one more post…
…I’m-a end up stuck in school. (That’s not what I wanna do, Jeremy.)
Good news, dear readers: your fearless blog-star Miriam has been spotted on the surfside Scripps campus. I imagine she’s currently drafting her “never again on my watch” speech to assure the traumatized in the audience that I’ll not be allowed to make dumb [...]