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
If you check out the Program, you'll see that I have started making pages for individual sessions - just click on "Go here to discuss" next to each session. Over the next few days I will do this for all the sessions and the session leaders will use those pages in whichever ways they want. For…
Four Stone Hearth #51 is up at Clashing Culture
192nd Carnival of Education is up on Detention Slip
The new edition of the Carnival of the Liberals is up on Clashing Culture
My DonorsChoose board includes challenges like this one, for example: Animal Life Cycles Up-Close:
Change you can believe in! That seems to be the motto these days. I want to teach my 2nd grade students about real change... animal life cycles.
My goal is to provide students with hands-on…
Time is a fixed income and, as with any income, the real problem facing most of us is how to live successfully within our daily allotment.
- Margaret B. Johnstone
This insect has been sitting on my window, completely motionless, all day. It is about 2in long in the body, probably around 5-6in if one includes the stretched legs. What is this? Does it sting or can I handle it safely, put it on a sheet of white paper to take a better picture?
There are 9 new articles in PLoS ONE today (as well as another 3 articles published last night). As always, you should rate the articles, post notes and comments and send trackbacks when you blog about the papers. Here are my own picks for the week - you go and look for your own favourites:…
Again, let me introduce a bunch of people who have registered to attend and participate in ScienceOnline09 in January. Today - folks associated with Duke University.
Anton Zuiker, one of the organizers of this conference, is a long-time blogger, the founder of BlogTogether.org, and manager of…
Key To Rapid Evolution In Plants: Reproduce Early And Often:
Yale researchers have harnessed the power of 21st century computing to confirm an idea first proposed in 1916 -- that plants with rapid reproductive cycles evolve faster.
Nerve Cell Actions Made Optically Visible In Mice:
Thought…
We are busy preparing for The Open Laboratory 2008. The submissions have been trickling in all year, and a little bit more frequently recently, but it is time now to dig through your Archives for your best posts since December 20th 2007 and submit them. Submit one, or two, or several - no problem…
Open access publisher BioMed Central sold to Springer:
Those in the open access movement had watched BioMed Central with keen interest. Founded in 2000, it was the first for-profit open access publisher and advocates feared that when the company was sold, its approach might change. But Cockerill…
My DonorsChoose board includes challenges like this one, for example: Smile....We love science!:
I teach special need students in an Inclusion Kindergarten setting in North Carolina. Our school is a Title One campus and we serve many low income families.
I would like to increase and enhance my…
From SCONC:
Tuesday, Oct. 14
6:30-8:30 pm
Science Cafe Raleigh: The Behavior and Misbehavior of Dogs
Barbara Sherman, of NC State's College of Veterinary Medicine and president of the American College of Veterinary Behaviorists (pet whisperers) discusses dog behavior, and misbehavior. Tir Na Nog,…
A man's penmanship is an unfailing index of his character, moral and mental, and a criterion by which to judge his peculiarities of taste and sentiments.
- Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
Published today in PLoS Medicine:
This essay makes the underlying assumption that scientific information is an economic commodity, and that scientific journals are a medium for its dissemination and exchange. While this exchange system differs from a conventional market in many senses, including…
See here. Found on GearCrave:
GearCrave says:
If you are anything like me, you do not find anything as annoying as being jolted awake by a high-pitch electronic sound in the morning. Today, we bring you a soothing alternative. "Silence" is a conceptual alarm clock that will wake you up without…
Jennifer Ouelette and Julianne Dalcanton chat about space, physics and science education:
Science Saturday: Our Humongous Sky:
Julianne lays claim to a comet (14:18)
The scientific sensibility infiltrates television (05:03)
Woes and wonders of the Hubble Space Telescope (08:38)
How astronauts…
Gene Expression In Alligators Suggests Birds Have 'Thumbs':
The latest breakthrough in a 120 year-old debate on the evolution of the bird wing was published in the open-access journal PLoS ONE, October 3, by Alexander Vargas and colleagues at Yale University, the University of Wisconsin-Madison and…
Today, instead of introducing people, I will introduce a session, or two or three.
Feedback from participants of the last two conferences indicated a lot of interest in sessions relevant to science educators at all levels. At both the 1st and the 2nd conference, we had one session on using blogs…
According to this article: Fascinating birds migration at EuroBirdwatch 2008:
Over the past weekend, 50.000 adults and children from over 30 European countries took up EuroBirdwatch 2008, BirdLife's invitation to observe the fascinating migration, as birds move south across Europe for the winter.…
The 2008 Nobel prize in Physiology or Medicine was announced this morning.
The winners are HPV and HIV (OK, OK, the people who discovered them) - the year of the virus!
I don't pay much attention to these, as biology I care about has not received the prize since 1973, but I was happy to hear…
My DonorsChoose board includes challenges like this one, for example: Science Trip For Our Amazing Urban Students:
The he students deserve this. I teach 5th grade at an urban, diverse, 86% free & reduced lunch school. Our school is 55% latino population, many who do not speak English and many…
From SCONC:
Tuesday, Oct. 14
6 to 8 p.m.
SCONC monthly meeting - Whither (wither?) Science Journalism
Durham science journalist Cathy Clabby, formerly of the N&O now of American Scientist, discusses the sorry state of her craft in U.S. newspapers and magazines and shares some of the new venues…
