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Thanks for your votes, everyone!
One of the three posts of mine initially nominated for the 3 Quarks Daily Science Blogging Prize made it to the semi-finals! Somewhat unsurprisingly, it was the post on oral sex in fruitbats.
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Check out the other semi-finalists, here.
And also congratulations to my sciblings (and former sciblings) who also made the semi-finals: Ed Yong, Scicurious, Eric Johnson, and Christie Wilcox!