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Today is a day for fresh starts in the United States. A personally exciting one is that, for the first time, the science adviser to the President will be a life scientist: geneticist and mathematician Eric Lander. So it seems like a good day to announce some new directions for my blogging here at Emerging Scholars Network. I’d like to work in a couple of new strands more focused on biology. We’ll still check in on the science news, just not every week. We’ll still chat about sci-fi books and films from time to time. I just think we could stand to mix things up a bit and to address what I think are some growing needs.
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