The Futile Cycle

Today is apparently Blogroll Amnesty Day, in which small blogs link to smaller blogs, and so on. Alas, my blog is one of the smaller ones around, but since I tend to read across genres pretty broadly, perhaps I can help some people find some new blogs that they’d not seen before.

New to the blogroll, which has been un-changed for a very long time:

Computational Biology News

This blog is mostly links to interesting articles rather than a bunch of articles themselves, but Animesh Sharma nicely curates and finds stories on the net that I wouldn’t find otherwise.

DrugMonkey

DrugMonkey, which was recently assimilated into the SciBorg collective, is a great blog on health regulation in America.

Ars Technica: Nobel Intent

I’ve read Ars Technica for almost as long as it’s been around, starting from way back in my days in which I was really into computer science. Basically, I thought of Ars Technica as the thinking man’s Slashdot: less frenetic, more in-depth, and not pandering to the masses. Lately, Ars has gotten more pop-news-ish, but for the most part, it still seems to retain its journalistic integrity. Nobel Intent is Ars’ science journal, and they’ve got some great writers there. Apparently, a lot of science blogs have never heard of Ars Technica, so check it out if you haven’t read it before.

UPDATE:Forgot to add Evolving Thoughts, which covers biology, the philosophy thereof, history, politics, creationism, and really a whole swath of things that I find interesting.

Some blogs which I’ve finally gotten around to adding to the blogroll: Mystery Rays from Outer Space, which is a great immunology blog by a professor from Michigan State; A Blog Around the Clock, a rather famous blog about pretty much anything, though Bora does have an expertise in chronobiology and a keen interest in Open Access science; The Evilutionary Biologist, who is evil evil evil, but also quite a nice blogger on evolutionary biology (I especially like his weekly citation classics; find the latest one here); and The Loom, by Carl Zimmer, who is quite awesome. I’ve been reading Carl ever since he migrated over from Corante’s blog universe, and his Parasite Rex book is quite fun.

Check them out, they’re all great!

The summer has made my posting schedule more lethargic, because I now have time to dedicate long, solid hours to teaching myself proper statistics, bioinformatics, reading review articles, and choosing professors to rotate with. In addition, planning for the event below has been keeping me very busy.

Anyway, even this trickle of content will be coming to a halt for about two weeks, as I will be off on vacation to the very middle of the Iberian peninsula: Madrid!

For some reason, comments were inadvertently disabled for the last few posts, but they’re open again.