My scientific specialty is chronobiology (circadian rhythms and photoperiodism), with additional interests in comparative physiology, animal behavior and evolution. I am not an MD so I cannot diagnose and treat your sleep problems. As well as writing this blog, I am also the Online Discussion Expert for PLoS. This is a personal blog and opinions within it in no way reflect the policies of PLoS. You can contact me at: Coturnix@gmail.com
Continuing with the tradition from last two years, I will occasionally post interviews with some of the participants of the ScienceOnline2010 conference that was held in the Research Triangle Park, NC back in January. See all the interviews in this series here. You can check out previous years'…
Don Lafferty (@donlafferty) - Writer, Story Teller, and Social media Marketing Consultant
Imal Wagner (@imalwagner) - PR for 140 conf & Jeff Pulver
John Kremer (@JohnKremer) - Author, 1,001 Ways to Market Your Books
Michael Tasner (@tazsolutions) - Author, Marketing in the Moment 3.0 Marketing…
Every time you go out on the ice, there are slight flaws. You can always think of something you should have done better. These are the things you must work on.
- Dorothy Hamill
Four of seven PLoS journals published today. I think these, below, are the most interesting and bloggable. As always, you should rate the articles, post notes and comments and send trackbacks when you blog about the papers. You can now also easily place articles on various social services (…
This week, Dr.Bird answers questions about birds - the raptors, especially those living inside of big cities. Listen to the podcast and join the discussion in the forums:
Listen to an interview about city-dwelling raptors. Download MP3
David Bird is a wildlife biologist at McGill University in…
FakeJerry Paffendorf (@WELLO) - Artist, futurist, entrepreneur. joshua fouts (@josholalia) - Cultural relations futurist at the crossroads of emergent media, digital diplomacy, games, virtual worlds and storytelling.
Rita J. King (@RitaJKing) - Innovator-in-Residence, IBM Analytics Virtual Center…
Of course I don't always enjoy being a mother. At those times my husband and I hole up somewhere in the wine country, eat, drink, make mad love and pretend we were born sterile and raise poodles.
- Dorothy DeBolt
There are 22 new articles in PLoS ONE today. As always, you should rate the articles, post notes and comments and send trackbacks when you blog about the papers. You can now also easily place articles on various social services (CiteULike, Mendeley, Connotea, Stumbleupon, Facebook and Digg) with…
I first saw Hashtag Art (on Twitter) at #140conf last week. These guys start with a picture, as a canvass. Then, as people tweet using a particular hashtag, their avatars become pieces of the mosaic, gradually building the image as event is happening. It took about two days, the duration of the…
The Submission form is here so you can get started. Under the fold are entries so far, as well as buttons and the bookmarklet. The instructions for submitting are here.
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A Blog Around The Clock: What does it mean that a nation is 'Unscientific'?
A Blog Around The Clock:…
WWW2010 is starting tonight. Interested to know more about it? Sure, here's the brief history:
The World Wide Web was first conceived in 1989 by Tim Berners-Lee at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland. The first conference of the series, WWW1, was held at CERN in 1994 and organized by Robert Cailliau. The…
Maggie Koerth-Baker, who I finally met in person at AAAS meeting, just designed an amazing feature on BoingBoing - the Antarctica:
It's about the Antarctic Geospatial Information Center, a group of researchers based at the University of Minnesota who do the information processing and visualization…
Andy Carvin (@acarvin) - Senior strategist at NPR;
Eric Kuhn (@CNN) - Audience Interaction Producer, CNN;
Jennifer Preston (@NYT_JenPreston) - Social-Media Editor of The New York Times;
Ryan Osborn (@todayshow) - Producer, NBC's TODAY:
As you probably know, The Bride of Coturnix and I went to NYC last week to attend the 140conference organized by Jeff Pulver who I finally had a pleasure to meet in person.
The speaker line-up and the program schedule had to be slightly modified as a few people got stuck in Europe under the…
Rebooting Science Journalism in the Age of the Web - Ed Yong, Carl Zimmer, John Timmer, and David Dobbs
Saturday, January 16, 10:15 - 11:20am
Description: Our panel of journalist-blogger hybrids - Carl Zimmer, John Timmer, Ed Yimmer Yong, and David Dobbs- will discuss and debate the future of…
Friday - when four out of seven PLoS journals publish new articles. Check them out. And as always, you should rate the articles, post notes and comments and send trackbacks when you blog about the papers. You can now also easily place articles on various social services (CiteULike, Mendeley,…
This week in NYC, at #140 conf, I was most impressed by the talks and panels about education, and the use of online technologies, Web, and particularly social networks like Twitter in the classroom. You know I am interested in this - just search my blog for names like "David Warlick" and "Stacy…
Scientia Pro Publica #26 is up on Genomics Law Report
The latest edition of The Accretionary Wedge is up on Mountain Beltway
The 135th Skeptic's Circle is up on The Skeptical Teacher
Friday Ark #292 is up on Modulator
The 2010 Post with the Most blogging contest is ongoing - there are nine entries so far, but not many from science bloggers. The blog post should combine original text, audio, image and/or video into a coherent multi-media whole.
Check it out and submit something you have done or seen on other…
Under the fold are entries so far, as well as buttons and the bookmarklet. The instructions for submitting are here.
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A Blog Around The Clock: What does it mean that a nation is 'Unscientific'?
A Blog Around The Clock: My latest scientific paper: Extended Laying…
