An open access/free paper from Current Biology:
Social cognition
Klaus Zuberbuhler and Richard W. Byrne
Current Biology, Vol 16, R786-R790, 19 September 2006
The question of why humans possess superior cognitive skills has a long history in science. One important idea is that human intelligence has evolved in the social realm. The rationale is that individuals who cooperate and […]

Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Molecular Biology / Biochemistry, Virginia Commonwealth University, USA
A postdoctoral fellow position (starting in January 2009) is available in the Department of Physiology & Biophysics, Virginia Commonwealth University. Our lab utilizes computational and experimental approaches to understand the underlying mechanism of ligand/protein-protein interactions and membrane protein dimerizations. Candidates should have a Ph.D. […]

Book Review from the American Journal of Psychiatry: “The Origin of Mind: Evolution of Brain, Cognition, and General Intelligence“
David Geary’s The Origin of Mind is a remarkable book. As suggested by its subtitle, it ambitiously addresses many of the oldest questions of science (and society): How does one define intelligence? Is intelligence a biologically meaningful […]

From PloS Biology:
Balancing Robustness and Evolvability
Richard E. Lenski et al.
One of the most important features of biology is the ability of organisms to persist in the face of changing conditions. Consider the remarkable fact that every organism alive today is the product of billions of generations in which its progenitors, without fail, managed to produce […]

I hardly see “Lisp, xxxx is highly desirable” in a Pharma job opening!

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Ph.D. or equivalent training in the Natural Sciences. 20 or more years ofexperience in relevant areas of science and or pharmaceutical research anddevelopment. The successful candidate will have in depth experience and skillsin the areas of nuclear magnetic resonance […]

Chris Patil of Ouroboros is a postdoctoral fellow, currently working with Judith Campisi in the Life Sciences division of the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. Here is Chris’s response to the question I recently sent to a number of biogerontologists:
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The main purpose of ageing research at present is NOT to make people young and immortal as […]

[ALASKA’S SECRET]
Hi my name is Tonya Ryan. In October of 2000, I made plans to leave Alaska for good — along with my six-year-old daughter who is now 11. One of the main reasons for leaving was to get away from my possessive ex-husband, Javier O. Robinson, whom I mistakenly tried to continue a friendship […]

The British Antarctic Survey (BAS), part of the Natural Environment Research Council, aims to undertake a world-class programme of scientific research, and to sustain for the UK an active and influential regional presence and a leadership role in Antarctic affairs.
The Biological Sciences Division requires a Research Assistant to assist with a range of […]

The National Science Foundation has awarded a University of Arizona–led team $50 million dollars to create a global center and computer cyberinfrastructure within which to answer plant biology’s grand challenge questions, which no single research entity in the world currently has the capacity to address. The project will unite plant scientists, computer scientists and information […]

I just got out of a seminar in my department by a visiting scholar, James Brown from the University of New Mexico. Bear with me for a couple of paragraphs, when we pass the basic biology it does get interesting for human beings. Brown talked about a well-known relationship that ecologists have established between the […]