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By Michael White | January 7th 2009 10:16 AM | 6 comments | Print | E-mail | Track Comments
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About Michael White

Welcome to Adaptive Complexity, where I write about genomics, systems biology, evolution, and the connection between science and literature, government, and society.

I'm a biochemist


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I just ran across a great population genetics blog, Selective Sweep, written by derele, a PhD student in Edinburgh. He writes in both German and English about genomics, population genetics, and Science 2.0. Recently he's started a interesting primer on population genetics - it's in German, for those of you who can read it (and you can always try Google's translation if you don't speak German).

If you go to a scientific conference, it's immediately clear that science consists of big international communities, but unfortunately major science blogging communities (dominated by writers from the US, the UK, and Australia) don't always reflect that international aspect.

So go check out Selective Sweep, and Derele, du kannst auch hier bei uns schreiben wenn du willst.

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Hank's picture
Scienceblogs started a German version so they recognize that some people write more comfortably (and better) in their native language.   Derele has a pic of a Scottish beer in his sidebar so you know he must be a good biologist!

I'd start an SB in Japan but it's a lot more difficult than starting a European one.

adaptivecomplexity's picture
I haven't seen the German version of scienceblogs. It is true that  people are more comfortable blogging in their native language - blogging is supposed to be informal, and expressive of your personal style.

Derele writes about science very clearly in Geman - if you read German, it's a nice blog to follow.

Becky Jungbauer's picture

That is nice of you to invite him to write with us; I see he has two SciBlogging sites already marked. And he has great pictures. My German is limited to a variety of swear words, thanks to Grandma. 



Nicholas Horton's picture
I did pick up Ich bin ein Frankfurter from Eddie Izzard, but I'm not sure that'll help me.

Wow...
My Popgen-Series seems to attract more attention, than I imagined. Originally I wanted to blog both in English and German but can't manage to find the time to do so.

In general it is astonishing how sparse texts on quantitative evolutionary biology are in German (not a single book on Popgen translated into or written in German, very few good wikipedia articles, etc...) a fact that keeps me writing some basic-concepts-posts in German.

Some of my later Posts (for a blog I am talking about rather geological time-scales here) might be in English...

Oh, and...
Danke für die Einladung! Ich werde darüber nachdenken.

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