Unanswered Questions
129 questions with no upvoted or accepted answers
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2015 Community Moderator Election Results
Biology's 1st moderator election has come to a close, the votes have been tallied, and the 3 new moderators are:
They've replaced the pro tempore crew — please thank both teams for volunteering, ...
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Not all questions featuring something biological are biology questions
Something I think we need to clear up in terms of what is and is not on-topic, are questions where the user asks something that is not a biological question and then attempting to justify it being ...
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Wrong helix handedness for badges
Can we please fix the left-handed helices in the badge icons?
The site icon uses the “correct” right-handed helix (i.e. the one more commonly found in biology). Just mirroring the icons along the Y ...
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2017 Community Moderator Election Results
Biology's second moderator election has come to a close, the votes have been tallied, and the new moderator is:
They'll be joining the existing crew shortly — please thank them for volunteering, and ...
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Comment templates to provide to new users or users who need a reminder
This post inspired to start a comment template thread for Bio. Many SE sites make use of type of thread to added new and experienced users alike to provide clear, constructive comments to users who ...
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Reminder: questions about biological mechanisms behind medical conditions are explicitly on topic here
Every once in a while there are some close votes of human biology questions that are explicitly on topic here. It came up again today here. Not the best question, I'll admit, but it shouldn't be ...
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Election of a new moderator
I will be stepping down as a moderator soon and have requested the community team to initiate an election for the post. It was really a wonderful experience for me, but I guess I am not able to find ...
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2015 Community Moderator Election
The 2015 Community Moderator Election is now underway!
Community moderator elections have three phases:
Nomination phase
Primary phase
Election phase
Most elections take between two and three weeks,...
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Do site statistics still matter after graduation?- Revamp
I was am still wondering whether the much-pursued site statistics are still relevant now we are graduated?
For example, I have been answering quite a few oldies just now (2013, 2014 29 revival ...
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Earth Day 2021: thinking about our planet, biology, and sustainability
Earth Day is celebrated this week on April 22nd. The day was created to bring focus to learning about environmental issues and more broadly to discuss the issues faced by any life sharing this planet, ...
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Is it OK to ask if a recorded sound was emitted by a bat?
Note: the question is now posted on Biology.SE.
For fun, I tried to record sounds emitted by bats in an area where bats were flying all around.
By doing a few manipulations with the audio record (...
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Superscript / Subscript buttons
This is just technical and mainly for the site developers. $\TeX$ does take up some resource I believe, and its usage should be limited to only those places where it is really necessary. Most of the ...
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Does there exist a substantial guide for how to write questions on biology.SE?
We can find that people ask if a specific topic is "on topic", and how they can improve their question. There are of course the children sites of help center, and a small list of general rules have ...
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2019 Community Moderator Election
The 2019 Community Moderator Election is now underway!
Community moderator elections have three phases:
Nomination phase
Primary phase
Election phase
Most elections take between two and three weeks,...
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Proposal to split and retitle the community question on good and bad traits
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In 2016 a Meta post discussed the problem of questions “that ask for why evolution did not lead to situation-X”. It was suggested that a community wiki question be created, and provided ...
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