American Institute of Biological Sciences (AIBS)
Announcements
- 10/08 Vote Online now for AIBS Board of Directors. The general election is underway. Polls close 10 October 2008.
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- 09/08 2009 AIBS Media Award brochure and entry form is now online. Deadline 15 January 2009
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- 09/08 "Illuminating Biology: An Evolutionary Perspective" - evolution symposium and educator workshop taking place at NABT on October 16-17, 2008
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- 09/08 University of California Press to provide Publishing Services to AIBS for BioScience »read
- 09/08 2009 AIBS Annual Meeting: "Sustainable Agriculture: Greening the Global Food Supply." A Year of Science 2009 event. 18 - 19 May, Arlington, Virginia. Registration opens this fall.
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- 07/08 Videos Online: AIBS 2008 Annual Meeting Lectures, "Climate, Environment, and Infectious Diseases" »view
- 07/08 Join Us! Coalition on the Public Understanding of Science & Year of Science 2009
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- 06/08 Scientific Societies Ask Louisiana Governor to Oppose Bad Science Bill »read
- 06/08 AIBS Comments on American Academy of Arts and Sciences White Paper »read
- 05/08 AIBS and AAAS co-host NSF Conversation in Undergraduate Biology / AIBS Biology Education Summit in Washington, DC
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- 02/08 New AIBS book primes scientists for successful media interviews »read
- 01/06 Add a URL link from your website to the AIBS and ActionBioscience websites. Here's how.
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AIBS Executive Director's Weekly Blog
Latest Entry: Biologists: Help Us Help You Become More Effective Advocates for Biology
BioScience, October 2008
Editorial:
Glimpses of a Hidden Realm
Cover: Evidence and the Cambrian Explosion
A scanning electron micrograph reveals fine details of an exceptionally well-preserved “Orsten-type” fossil of larval developmental stage 1 of Yicaris dienensis, a newly discovered crustacean from the upper Lower Cambrian of Yunnan, China (about 520 million years ago).
BioScience Press Releases
AIBS News, October 2008
AIBS Public Policy Report for 29 September 2008
Washington Watch
AIBS Education Report for 29 September 2008
Eye on Education
AIBS Position Statements