I know that the revitalised blog has been heavy on the politics and light on the science and pretty pictures that characterised its previous incarnation. I'm still writing about science, it's just that it's being published on my department's blog, EcoEvo@TCD . It's one of the reasons this blog has lain dormant for so long as my desire to write had been largely satiated by posting there. I'll try and remember to link to my posts there when they come up, but in the meantime here's links to the posts from this year. I'll post older ones at a later date when I'm feeling self-indulgent. Hopefully one or two will be of interest. Killing in the Name of Science (Part 1): The Science of Scientific Whaling The one where I dissect (pardon the pun) a paper on scientific whaling and [spoiler alert] show it to have nothing of scientific merit. Killing in the Name of Science (Part 2): What About the Bunnies? The one where I look at the legislation covering...