For your consideration

I am not too proud to beg.

The nomination deadline for The Open Laboratory anthology, the annual compilation of the best science writing on blogs, is in two weeks. If there’s a post from this blog that you liked, please consider nominating it for the anthology. Posts from 1 December 2008 to 30 November 2009 are eligible.

Here are some suggestions, in roughly chronological order. If there are other posts you like, by all means, submit those.

• Muscle innervation is not a connectome
• Do male crickets shorten the lives of female crickets?
• Vestigial icons
• I’m trying here
• Explanation and evangelism
• Science publishers are agents
• Is the mimic octopus misnamed?
• Island girls: Why Hawaiian female crickets aren’t very choosy
• Jellyfish nervous system myth busted
• Truth for the hard of thinking
• The small brain of the biggest fish in the world
• Fence lizards versus fire ants: Evolutionary fail?
• Evolution back and forth, from snakes to molecules
• Face it: Being a scientist can really suck
• The birth of dragons
• The princess and the perfume, a hermit crab fairy tale
• I want to be Carl Sagan, but can’t

Click here to submit an entry. A Blog Around the Clock regularly updates the list of entries; here’s a recent one (probably out of date by the time you read this).

In case you’re wondering why I don’t just nominate myself, I think it’s better for readers to decide what’s good than writers. And because it feels gauche to nominate a bunch of your own stuff.