Sep 18 2012
This is a post by guest blogger Ellen Bulger. In this installment, Ellen reveals the answer to last week’s Pareidolia Play Along. It’s a bee, a blue bee! The genus is Osmia, the species probably pumila. The disk-like thing in the center of the shot is called a tegula and is positioned just above where the …
Jun 12 2012
Over at The Wandering Post Doc, Ralph has been musing over this stuff for whole minutes: Know what it is? To learn more about the photo above you can visit Ralph at The Wandering Post Doc: An Archaeologist’s Life After Grad School.
Mar 07 2012
Entering ”Biology Songs” as a search term in YouTube can suck a solid hour from a Biodork’s life. This video gets points for actually having decent sound quality and getting the information across. If you watch it to the end, they wrap the story up with meiosis, death and reproduction. Also a picture of a guy giving …
Feb 12 2012
I was a biology major in college. During that time I was a student employee and I got stuck with the mind-numbingly boring and frustrating task had the opportunity and challenge of gluing hundreds of friable, sometimes paper-thin plant specimens into specimen books. I also took a botany course, but it was only one semester long and I believe …
Oct 17 2011
This morning I saw one of my Facebook Friends showing off a t-shirt that really annoyed me: Image shows a cartoon frog with the words “cut class, not frogs!” and “Don’t dissect.” “peta2″ Of course it’s a PETA shirt, which is one mark against it, but it’s the joyous anti-intellectualism of the message that first …
Dec 12 2010
Look – there’s another biodork! Only she’s BioDork, so you don’t get us confused. I found this BioDork blog on tumblr because I have a Google Alert set for “biodork”. One day, there she was – thanks Google Alerts! She’s a biology student and her blog is brand new, but already she’s got some really …
Oct 07 2010
Forget Mary in the grilled cheese sandwich Jesus in an MRI scan; my officemate and I saw a seriously spooky image today. We both saw something, but we can’t agree on what exactly we saw. What do you think: Does this sunlight reflected off of a glossy-covered industry journal onto the ceiling looks more like …
May 30 2010
It’s such an icky disease. Can somebody just make it go away, please? A cure for a disease that can up to 90% of infected individuals? A cure for a disease that makes people bleed out of every orifice in their body and can kill them 2-21 days after the onset of symptoms? I mean …
May 27 2010
I don’t know why I love this video so much. But I really, really love this video. Maybe it’s that the guy is so excited about the fish (= excited about nature = excited by biology —> I’m a biodork), or maybe it’s that he swears like a sailor (biodork —> tendency to swear like …
Apr 01 2010
Biology nerdiness and political humor beautifully melded to produce witty sarcasm – well played, sir! (Seen in the Minneapolis Star Tribune by Sack) Also, I have a new God Pamphlet! It’s been a while since I’ve seen one, so this was kind of exciting. This one wasn’t found at the bookstore, but was given to …
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