Hey all you bio-babes (and bio-boys) out there, wanna give us some feedback? A good friend of mine is a biologist and science writer, and is starting a new blog. No, you can’t read it yet, it hasn’t begun, but she’s searching for the “killer app” of a name. She’s got some ideas, below, and I thought perhaps some readers here might have some feedback or ideas!
She says:
I want my blog to mostly be a humorous look at unusual/interesting/beautiful living organisms, but also to include biology and science in general, with a sprinkling of psychology, archaeology, linguistics and popular culture. “A blog about the weird wonderfulness of life” is my working tag line (or should it be the wonderful weirdness of life?).
Here are some title ideas. Love ‘em? Hate ‘em? Of course, we can’t dare to compete with the lovely simplicity of Bioephemera, but we can aspire to some lower level on the nomenclature food chain.
- The Artful Amoeba (reference to “The Artful Dodger”, cleverness of amoeboid slime molds, and how beautiful they, and by extension, a lot of other organisms, are)
- Angry Amoeba (.com taken, inexplicably, by a web development company)
- Neon Centipede
- Neon Crawling Slime
- Bashful Brittlestar
- The Inquiring Tentacle
- Goodly Creatures (Reference to The Tempest: Miranda:”O Wonder! How many goodly creatures are there here!”)
- Wild Kingdoms (.com taken — reference to Mutual of Omaha and Linean taxonomy)
- Kingdoms Gone Wild
- Witty Water Strider
- The Well Cultured Amoeba
- The Well Cultured Bacterium
- Linean Explosion (from Carolus Lineaus, one of my science heroes and inventor of binomial nomenclature, and Cambrian Explosion)
Thanks in advance for any suggestions or feedback on favorites!
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I’m not a biologist, so couldn’t come up with a witty suggestion, but my favorite from the list is “The Artful Amoeba”. It just stood out from the others by being simple but ‘sexy’ too!
Of the options listed, the “well cultured” ones stand out the most to me, though I’m not sure about the endings of either. Given the range of topics, the first thing that came to mind, was The Well Cultured Psyarchling, or Pop Psyarchling, Bio-Psyarcling, etc. Taking the name of course from Psychology, Archeology & Linguistics. On the other hand, the logo potential for Neon Centipede could be interesting
I’m a fan of “The Inquiring Tentacle” (or “An Inquiring Tentacle”) if only because I imagine it being written from the perspective of an octopus. Squid/cuttlefish get all the attention these days, I could use a bitter octopus in my daily blog reading.
Bio, eh? Some Linnean classification with the genus Blogophila
My forst thought was Blogophila melanogaster but I think that translates as the dark-bellied blogger. Which is fine, but may some other species of blogger would be a better pick.
Wow, you guys are awesome! I like the dark-bellied blogger… And my friend Jen is getting a lot out of everyone’s ideas!
Yes. . . many thanks to everyone who has weighed in. I’m going to compile everyone’s votes and suggestions (including any yet to come), carefully weigh the pros and cons, agonize for a bit, sleep on it, hike on it, and then probably go with my gut. : ) I’ll let you know what I decide.
Artful Amoeba wins!!!