The Open Laboratory is a book of the best science blogging published each year. Posts are nominated and judged by science bloggers everywhere. One of my posts was nominated this year. Even though it didn’t make the final cut, I was still flattered. I’ve never actually bought the book, but I love when the final selections are published – it’s always a great list, even if it does have a pretty big human/biomedical bias.  Here are my favorites from this year’s chosen posts:

• It’s more than genes, it’s networks and systems by PZ Myers
• When do you move from living to dying? by Pal MD
• The decade the clones came: Beware the mighty Marmokrebs! by Zen Faulkes
• Testing the flotation dynamics and swimming abilities of giraffes by way of computational analysis by Darren Naish
• But did you correct your results using a dead salmon? by Iddo Friedberg
• J.B.S. Haldane and the case of the revivified head by Jeremy Yoder