25 September 2008

Why I am not blogging today...

I am trying to finalise an article on use of scientific computing methods in ecology. From the cheerfully hippie days of the 1970s, when both ecology and I emerged as distinct entities, we have progressed by leaps and bound to the point where it is necessary to employ with heavyweight tools like GenStat and make reference to papers with titles such as Identifying the fundamental units of bacterial diversity: A paradigm shift to incorporate ecology into bacterial systematics.

At the same time I am also minding a ten year old, off school with a bad cough. He is sitting at another computer in the same room, playing Bloons – an on line game which involves bursting large numbers of balloons with darts to the accompaniment of sundry snap, crackle, pop, thud, boing, twang, rattle, fizz, jingle sound effects.

Identifying (cough bang cough) the (bang bang bang bang) fundamental (cough) units (snap bang boing) of (cough crackle bang bang bang) bacterial (bang bang bang bang cough pop) diversity (cough bang bang cough bang cough bang): A (bang boing bang) paradigm (cough) shift (bang cough rattle) to (jingle bang cough jangle) incorporate (bang) ecology (bang) into (cough) bacterial (cough cough bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang cough) systematics.

It's a rich and full life...


  • A Koeppel, et al, Identifying the fundamental units of bacterial diversity: A paradigm shift to incorporate ecology into bacterial systematics. PNAS, 2008. 105(7): p. 2504-2509.

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