Biology friending meme?

[sciatrix]

It occurs to me that I have an awful lot of subscribers and friends who have varying interests and expertises in biology, psychology, and all sorts of related topics and ideas. 'Related' being read broadly here--if it touches on natural or social sciences and you want to share, please do.

Therefore, I thought I'd spin up a biology friending meme. What kind of background in the subject do you have? What things do you find interesting?

Comments

[sciatrix]

Aw maaan, epidemiology is my other great love--it was either behavior for me or infectious disease, and EEB has better work/life balance. Epidemiology has some great, great stories, though.

Did you know how infectious prions manage to perpetuate themselves in nature? I thought it was weird that all the non-human infectious prion diseases I could think of was ungulates one day, not carnivores--but then the answer turned out to make total sense, especially since most carnivores don't do a ton of scavenging conspecifics.

[sasha_feather]

I don't think I know that! I know with deer in Wisconsin, they've theorized that it spreads through saliva. But I'm not at all up to date on my info.