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
On Friday, I was on Skeptically Speaking radio show together with Reed Esau (who organized the Skepticamp) talking about ScienceOnline2010, what it takes to organize it, the Unconference format and why it is good, etc.
You can now listen to the recording of the show here.
Science and Entertainment: Beyond Blogging
Saturday, January 16 at 2 - 3:05pm
D. Science and Entertainment: Beyond Blogging - Tamara Krinsky and Jennifer Ouellette
Description: Over the past several years, the Internet has tangibly changed the way that movies and TV shows are produced and…
I posted 126 times in February.
The Biggest Event of the month, of course, was the release of The Open Laboratory 2009, the fourth annual anthology of best writing on science blogs. And the first book review came out shortly after.
The Second Biggest Event of the month? It involves Science! I…
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…
The fourth anthology barely managed to hit the virtual shelves when the very first book review was published. Of course, considering the speed, this was done by a blogger - Grant Jacobs from the 'Code for Life' blog on New Zealand sciblogs. Read his review here.
You liked what you just read? Buy…
Science and Entertainment: Beyond Blogging
Saturday, January 16 at 2 - 3:05pm
D. Science and Entertainment: Beyond Blogging - Tamara Krinsky and Jennifer Ouellette
Description: Over the past several years, the Internet has tangibly changed the way that movies and TV shows are produced and…
Something of vengeance I had tasted for the first time; as aromatic wine it seemed, on swallowing warm and racy; its afterflavor, metallic and corroding, gave me a sensation as it I had been poisoned.
- Charlotte Bronte
A couple of weeks ago, there was a flurry of tweets, tagged with #sci140 hashtag on Twitter. What was that about? People were trying to summarize scientific papers in 140 characters or less. Actually, they had to use less as the hashtag itself took some space.
Almost 200 tweets were made, and they…
Four Sciblings (and three ex-Sciblings - Sheril Kirshenbaum, Chris Mooney and Carl Zimmer - but once a Scibling always a Scibling rule applies, so we hung together some...) went to the AAAS meeting last week in San Diego. There is a lot of coverage in the MSM (and a little bit on blogs - it's hard…
Chris Brodie is teaching the 'Explaining Science to the Public' class at NC State University. His students come from English, science and engineering departments and he is teaching them how to write well and how to utilize all of the modern technologies for science communication.
The students are…
Listen to the podcast, post comments, ask questions - the new forum is now live and will go on for the next week:
How the Hidden Brain Controls Our Lives
We like to think of ourselves as conscious, rational beings.
But human behavior is largely driven by unconscious attitudes.
These attitudes…
How does a journalist figure out 'which scientists to trust'?
Saturday, January 16 at 3:15 - 4:20pm
D. How does a journalist figure out "which scientists to trust"? - Christine Ottery and Connie St Louis
Description: We will talk about how science journalists can know which scientists to trust…
Friday is the day when four of our journals publish new articles. Let's take a look at those I find 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…
A stellar line-up of judges has finished their work and announced the finalists of the 2010 Research Blogging Awards. This was a huge job - just look at the entire list of nominees!!! What a fantastic list of the best of the best of science blogs and their best posts, in several languages.
You can…
Links in this post are those that pertain to me or the session I was in - I will link to some others later (and I already did on Twitter):
Columbia Journalism Review: Online and Overseas: Less hand-wringing over state of science journalism
Physicsworld.com: Researchers! Join the Twitterati! Or…
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'…
How does a journalist figure out 'which scientists to trust'?
Saturday, January 16 at 3:15 - 4:20pm
D. How does a journalist figure out "which scientists to trust"? - Christine Ottery and Connie St Louis
Description: We will talk about how science journalists can know which scientists to trust…
There are 21 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 am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play; bring a friend... if you have one."
- George Bernard Shaw to Winston Churchill
"Cannot possibly attend first night, will attend second... if there is one."
- Winston Churchill, in response.
If you are interested in the topic of science journalism, how it's changing, what's new, and who's who in it, you are probably already reading Knight Science Journalism Tracker. If not, you should start now.
They have recently been digging around and finding projects with which I am involved in one…
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'…
How does a journalist figure out 'which scientists to trust'?
Saturday, January 16 at 3:15 - 4:20pm
D. How does a journalist figure out "which scientists to trust"? - Christine Ottery and Connie St Louis
Description: We will talk about how science journalists can know which scientists to trust…
There are 31 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…
Yes, the day has finally arrived! The anthology is now up for sale!
Just go ahead right now and click on this link right here, then click on the "Add To Cart" button and one copy (or more!) of this amazing book will be yours!
SciCurious did a fantastic job as this year's editor - and it shows. You'…
