Crowding more proteins per cytoplasm unit volume would hamper processes such as diffusion, which is already about ten fold slower inside the cell than in pure water.

Source: book.bionumbers.org/what-is-the-...

4) “the complexity of biological phenomena is an argument for the use of mathematical methods rather than against it. In the case of a simple phenomenon we may hope to understand it without the use of mathematics, by simple inspection. But in a complex case we are left hopeless without mathematics.”

When we hear about a lone scientist who made groundbreaking discoveries on their own, it’s usually erasing the truth that science is a team sport, and field research builds on the local knowledge and expertise of the people that live there (8/10)

I signed up but haven't heard anything yet. I'll do a Bioblitz with my environmental high school students next month and report it on the form and see what happens.

I drove myself crazy picking citations for this sentence. After spending a whole night hunting for which Greek philosopher might have said it first, I realized I didn’t want to spend another night figuring out how to format an Aristotle citation to comply with Nature’s guidelines.

I love the idea of brainstorming which papers to cite for the sentence: "Living organisms are assumed to produce same-species offspring." (they went with Darwin and Mayr)