Welcome back. As is usually the case on Mondays, we have a new Image of the Week – enjoy!

And if you are in this city, join us for a variety of scienc-ey community events: Science events in New York City this week.

- Psi Wavefunction – Musings on size: do bacteria want to be bigger? and MolBiol Carnival #18!

- DNLee – Black History Month: Celebrating Blacks in Science, Promoting Diversity in STEM and A Hip Hop Maven Mourns – Whitney Houston dead at age 48 and Charles Henry Turner, Animal Behavior Scientist

- S.E. Gould – How the TB bacteria bursts your cells

- David Bressan – Darwin the Geologist

- Christie Wilcox – Darwin’s Degenerates – Evolution’s Finest

- Jason G. Goldman – Chimpanzees Help, But Only When Asked and Sunday Photoblogging: Vertical Panorama

- Scicurious – Minding your Interactions to Mind your Inflammation

- Darren Naish – Williams and Lang’s Australian Big Cats: do pumas, giant feral cats and mystery marsupials stalk the Australian outback?

- Kate Clancy – There Will Be Blood: Follow Up to Skeptically Speaking Podcast

- Caleb A. Scharf – Walk Tall, but Please Tread Softly, SpaceX

- John Horgan – Education Isn’t Helping Americans Overcome Deepening Inequality

- Kalliopi Monoyios – Science-Art Interviews: Heather Knight

- Melissa C. Lott – U.S. Natural Gas – Spot Price Low, Inventory High

- Amy Maxmen – The Illegal Teeny Turtle Trade

- Bora Zivkovic – Weekly Highlights #15 – UC-Santa Cruz students

- John Matson – Obama Administration Proposes Big Cuts to NASA’s Mars Programs

- Sarah Fecht – After Throat Surgery, British Singer Adele Makes A Comeback at the Grammys

=======================

Conversations on our articles and blog posts often continue on our Facebook page – “Like” it and join in the discussion. You can also put our official Google Plus page in your circles.

You should follow the Blog Network on Twitter – the official account is @sciamblogs and the List of all the bloggers is @sciamblogs/sciambloggers.