Biodiversity makes a strong showing at faculty teaching, research and service awards

We are proud to announce that the NUS biodiversity group was very respectably represented at this year’s Faculty Teaching, Research and Service Awards 2009.
From Biodiversity, the list of winners include: Prof. Chou Loke Meng and Mr N. Sivasothi, for the Faculty Teaching Excellence award (both absent from this picture), Assoc. Prof. Rudolf Meier for the [...]

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Sea wall “construction site” outside Frog lab

Yes, the ruckus this past week is caused by Marine Lab's Lynette Loke's seawall project. Construction materials have been appearing outside the Frog Lab and over time, a mini-seawall factory appeared. Lynette told me another 180 tiles would arrive this evening.
But she has found help – the handy kungfu hands of a botanist no [...]

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Nalini, evolab publishes in JEB, not worksafe for flies (with videos)

N. Puniamoorthy, M. R. B. Ismail, D. S. H. Tan & R. Meier 2009, “From kissing to belly stridulation: comparative analysis reveals surprising diversity, rapid evolution, and much homoplasy in the mating behaviour of 27 species of sepsid flies (Diptera: Sepsidae).” Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22, 2146-2156.

(Careful of impressionable minds looking [...]

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Frogs are friends, not food.

An article about the frog meat regulation paper in COnservation Biology:
Photo credit: http://www.bukisa.com
“Appetite for frogs’ legs harming wild populations,” by Catherine Brahic. New Scientist, 19 Jan 2009.
“Are frogs being eaten to extinction? We’re used to hearing about how disease, climate change, and habitat degradation are endangering amphibians, but conservationists are warning that frogs [...]

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Rudolf Meier now editor of Invertebrate Systematics

This international journal publishes research on invertebrate systematics and phylogeny.
Congratulations to Prof Meier! He joins an international team of editors including:
Andy Austin The University of Adelaide, Adelaide
Shane Ahyong National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research, Wellington
Bob Anderson Museum of Nature, Ottawa
Lyn Cook University of Queensland, Brisbane
Greg Edgecombe The Natural History Museum, London
Gonzalo Giribet Museum of [...]

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Email subscription via Feedburner

Feedburner provides an email subscription feed derived from the RSS of this site – its a day late but excellent for an infrequently updated site like this one. Especially since many of the “crew” are not RSS-users. The blog is so quiet that even I forget it exists sometimes, But when a post does appear, [...]

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Announcing David Bickford’s new webpage!

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