Animalcules Carnival

By evolgen on February 9, 2006.

The first ever edition of the Animalcules blog carnival has been posted at Aetiology. Go read about those wee little things that you can't see with you naked eye.

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with visions of Animalcules dancing in their heads

In case you missed it, the December edition of Animalcules is posted at Aetiology. Look for lots of enjoyable reading about our invisible friends.

Call for December Animalcules

It's that time again. The December edition of Animalcules will go live this coming Thursday, here at Aetiology. Send your entires to me: aetiology at gmail.com by Wednesday evening. Also be sure to check out today's Grand Rounds over at Anxiety, Addiction, and Depression Treatments.

Grand Rounds 2.50

This week's edition of Grand Rounds, the weekly compendium of medical blogging, is up over at Clinical Cases and Images. Other carnival news: The next edition of Pediatric Grand Rounds is scheduled for September 10th,and hosted by Shinga of Breath Spa for Kids. Because of the time difference to…

Inaugural edition of Animalcules--the carnival of the wee beasties

Welcome to the introductory edition of Animalcules! Our first, and most pressing, issue is the name. As was pointed out in the comments here, there's already a monthly column in Microbe (formerly ASM News) called "Animalcules." But I still like the name, so I was thinking of incorporating…

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