30 Essays to Make You Love Biology. Day 27. "Research Papers Used to Have Style. What Happened?" by Roger's Bacon (and other essays). Biology is the study of life, and life is beautiful. Finding scientific papers that convey this beauty, with a minimum of jargon, will hopefully

New essay/manifesto "REJECTED: an O'Shaughnessy Fellowship Application (The Orbis Tertius Society)" link below Jim O'Shaughnessy Dylan O'Sullivan Ed William

Raging against the “self-imposed tyranny of metrics”

I love all of the studies that keep coming out validating the historical uses of plants for particular medical treatments. All the things datura has been used for in the past keep getting shown to be effective: epilepsy, asthma, arthritis, inflammation, wound healing, etc.

I don’t think people are talking about the Hurculaneum Papyri enough. We have a legitimate chance of *DOUBLING* the amount of classic Hellenic literature the modern world has access to! It may be the most valuable piece of historiography in a millennium

Amazing and thank you for the share Seeds of Science! Big fan of the Seeds of Science initiative to cultivate digital space for independent researchers tackling more non-traditional and interdisciplinary work look forward to the engagement + finding others exploring similar

New Best of Science Blogging post! "GLP-1 for Addiction: the Medical Evidence for Opioid, Nicotine, and Alcohol Use Disorder" by Zarinah Agnew and Nicholas Reville of CASPR substack-proxy.glitch.me/articles/www-t…

New essay - "human=two" featuring art by mendezmendez and others Link: substack-proxy.glitch.me/articles/www-s…

Sweet Child O' Mine (BOP#1) - Roger's Bacon open.substack.com/pub/rogersbaco…

This is your periodic reminder that you should write a blog. It doesn't have to be fancy, it doesn't have to be well-edited. It just has to be something you can cumulatively add to over time. It's easiest to write about stuff you like, and ignore your non-existent audience.

Reasons to write a blog are: - It improves your reasoning. - It increases your luck. - It creates a durable record of thoughtfulness. - You can refer to it. - It becomes a gathering point for people who like the things you do. - It provides a temporal bridge between old hobbies.

Fall is life

RIP to an amazing guy who used his basketball fortune to build an entire freaking hospital in Kinshasa.

Life on the Grid (part 2), by Seeds of Science theseedsofscience.pub/p/life-on-the-…

New Best of Science Blogging post! "Life on the Grid (part 2)" by SoS co-founder Roger's Bacon link below!

i wanna be a filthy little slut and bake bread all day

New spooky season-themed Best of Science Blogging post! "Fictional parasites very different from our own" by owl (in sf 10/18 to 10/23) link: substack-proxy.glitch.me/articles/www-t…