> “I’m always arguing with bird people on the internet,” said Kory Evans, a fish biologist at Rice University who wasn’t involved in the study. “I say, ‘I bet these deep-sea fish are as dark as your birds of paradise.’ And then boom, they checked, and that was exactly the case.”
I'm sick of reading internet arguments about polymorphism and browser monoculture and borrow checking and static linking. Someone please tell me where I can go on the internet to read biologists arguing about their favorite animals.
If you can ever pick up the book Fly Pushing in some library (or if you're rich just buy), it's a great read about drosophila handling and genetics that is fascinating even if you don't intend to work with them. And they constantly bash worm people. The two are at odds with each other and it's an age-old battle. I'm constantly torn between the two organisms though. Some of the most "pleasurable" science I have done I did with these creatures.
Huh. I worked in fly the last 5 years and I’ve not noticed this (we work next to a worm lab). Fly are pretty low on the model species list (human, rat, mouse, fish), and with cell lines experimenting on human cells is becoming more prevalent. Fly researchers know they aren’t at the top and seem quite pleasant to work with. Still with orthologous gene mapping working with fly genetics still has lots of uses.
I'm sick of reading internet arguments about polymorphism and browser monoculture and borrow checking and static linking. Someone please tell me where I can go on the internet to read biologists arguing about their favorite animals.