Gene Expression status update
Since people keep asking, I will post here (it will post to my total feed). Gene Expression the website kept maxing the shared hosting plan’s CPU a few weeks ago. I took it down because I didn’t want our host to blacklist it. When I have some time to spare that’s continuous I will get …
Where readers come from
I looked at traffic from Jan 1 of 2018. Here are the top 30 cities, standardized by the # of users from the 30th, Indore: City User # Bengaluru 6.6 London 5.7 Mumbai 5.7 New Delhi 4.3 San Jose 4.3 New York 4.1 Lahore 3.9 Pune 2.9 Karachi 2.8 Chennai 2.7 Mountain View 2.4 Islamabad … Continue reading “Where readers come from”
A quick note on BP housekeeping
As per the request of Kabir I’ve closed comments on the post below. I’ll delete it soon. His new blog is here: https://kabiraltaf.wordpress.com/. A few quick notes to be clear: Three people have admin privileges here. Omar, Zach and myself. In various ways, we’ve been associated with this blog eight years now. Myself, honestly I have … Continue reading “A quick note on BP housekeeping”
Who the hell are you?
I have no idea who reads this blog anymore. Who are you?
Natural selection in the comments
I’ve been busy with things besides blogging (in any case, this is not my primary blog; I have one I actually get paid to write for another one). But when I read the comments I’m a little surprised at how … Continue reading →
My posts are no B.S. zone
In my private offline life I have taken to demanding people bet me $10 when they make an assertion that I suspect is wrong. I’ve won enough money now because I tend to do this only when I’m confident about … Continue reading →
A survey on genes, behavior, etc.
First, a minor note. People have repeatedly mentioned my Pinboard in the comments. This surprised me, as the kind of things I bookmark for later are very diverse and…interesting I suppose. Out of curiosity I checked to see how many people had use…
Reflections on 10 years in science blogging
I’ve been thinking that I should post about what it’s been like being a blogger for 10 years. 1/3 of my recollected life! (I recall fragments of being 3, but continuity of self starts somewhere at the end of my 4th year) Actually, I always …
Minor note
Old comments have been showing up in new threads. I’ve removed old comments for now. I have archives of them, so they will be back for Google. But right now it is more convenient to yank them. Sorry for the … Continue reading →
The end of blog & comments
Chad Orzel may be giving up blogging. And no, it’s not an April Fool’s Day joke. He’s been at it for 10 years, so no big surprise. I may be where he is at some point in the near future. For me, I always have something to say (or at le…
10 years of Gene Expression
Just thought I would mention that a few days ago the weblog Gene Expression has been around for 10 years. I won’t say much more at this point because of time constraints. But I wanted to enter it into the record, as well as admitting two minor points. I often used to say in the […]
Notes on comments
I dislike cluttering this site with administrative notes, but I want to put this post up as a reference for the future. It’s not really aimed at regular readers/commenters, who know the explicit and implicit norms. 1) If you use quotation marks, make sure that you’re actually quoting something your interlocutor said, rather than adding […]
Notes on comments
I dislike cluttering this site with administrative notes, but I want to put this post up as a reference for the future. It’s not really aimed at regular readers/commenters, who know the explicit and implicit norms. 1) If you use quotation marks, make sure that you’re actually quoting something your interlocutor said, rather than adding […]
Comments getting caught in spam
This occurs every now and then…legit comments without copious numbers of links get caught in the spam filter. Regular commenter Michelle has had her comments tagged as spam twice since she’s changed her back-link URL to Scientific American….
Friday Fluff – June 17th, 2011
1) Post from the past: The biological bases of behavioral variation.
2) Weird search query of the week: “clothedpornstars.” OK, so now I know what this is. But are there stars in this kink-genre?
3) Comment of the week, in response to …
Editors!
Mr. Eurasian Sensation pointed out to me that I keep misspelling his handle. Fair enough. But out of curiosity, and I double checked. Everyone who can post on this weblog is an “editor.” So if you see something that needs scrubbing, get to it! If you wish that is. (a few of you were “authors,” […]
Comments in the republic of Khan
So today I received an email from regular commenter German Dziebel:
Razib, what’s your relationship with the Discover Magazine? Up until now I thought of your blog as more or less a public forum, rather than a private franchise. Please clarify, s…
Notes on the future
If you’re a regular reader, you may have noticed some changes. Since I moved to Discover blogs I’ve been posting less and less here. Additionally, I’ve been putting some of my shorter less science oriented stuff at Brown Pundits and Secular Right. And I suspect twitter has cannibalized some of the link aggregation function of […]
Please change your links
If you have a blog, and you link to http://scienceblogs.com/gnxp/, I would appreciate it if you switched to http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/. I know most people don’t use blogrolls much, but it matters for PageRank, and the archives have b…
Comments
Because of registration spam being a persistent problem on this weblog I have moved comments to a Disqus system. In the future I will allow WordPress comments to be displayed for archives, though they are gone for now….
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