François Michonneau

I like the colors chosen by Ubuntu and I tend to use them for my presentations and posters. So, I created a palette that can be imported in OpenOffice. How to use it?

1. Download the palette
2. In OpenOffice, go in Format > Area for instance
3. Click on the “Colors” tab
4. Click on the folder icon (“Load Color list”)
5. Browse for the file you downloaded
6. Enjoy, Ubuntu colors within OpenOffice

I just found this podcast about sea cucumbers on the Encyclopedia of Life (EOL) website. It provides a nice, short and fun introduction to these wonderful animals: http://education.eol.org/podcast/sea-cucumber.

While I am not in the field, I’ll write weekly on our lab’s blog (Adventures in Spineless Science) about invertebrates that got featured in the news. I aim to focus mainly on studies published in peer-reviewed journals and make them accessible to non-scientists.

I posted today the 3rd post. It’s about the new arthropod phylogeny published last week in Nature. To be notified about these entries you can subscribe to the RSS feed of our blog, or follow me on twitter or on identi.ca.

Here are the links for the last posts:

• Invertebrates in the News #1: the absence of sex life in bdelloid rotifers and a video of Corynactis viridis
• Invertebrates in the news #2: what can you find in a foot cube of a coral reef, a tropical cloud forest, etc.
• Invertebrates in the news #3: a new arthropod tree of life.

Don’t hesitate to send me your comments and feedback.