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
A bunch of Sciblings meeting at the Seed offices in New York City on Friday Afternoon....updated with a couple of more pictures and links....(several more people came late, after my batteries died...)
Chris Rowan
Jennifer Jacquet
Katherine Sharpe
Katherine Sharpe
Katherine Sharpe, Virginia…
To me.
My very first post was on August 18, 2004 - seems like a century ago.
Anyway, the wifi at the hotel is very week so I will have to wait until Monday to post a couple of hundred pictures from the Seed scienceblogs meetup. In the meantime, I have placed a few of the pics on Facebook, and…
Come and meet the Sciblings
About 30 or so of us Seed sciencebloggers are in New York City this weekend (many, many pictures to come), but if you want to see for yourself that we actually exist and our blogs are not written by robots, meet us at BBar and Grill at the corner of Bowery and 3rd…
Male Elephants Get 'Photo IDs' From Scientists:
Asian elephants don't carry photo identification, so scientists from the Wildlife Conservation Society and India's Nature Conservation Foundation are providing the service free of charge by creating a photographic archive of individual elephants,…
Time takes it all, whether you want it to or not. Time takes it all, time bears it away, and in the end there is only darkness. Sometimes we find others in that darkness, and sometimes we lose them there again.
- Stephen King
As could have been expected, I am now officially the blogmeister of the PLoS blog. I have just posted my first introductory post there. It is a Drupal blog. The above and below the fold parts are separate (you see one or the other, not both at the same time) so this will take some getting used…
Sunday Night Dinner
The Yorkshire Ranter
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Globally Connected
Mindswap Weblog
The Blue Marble Blog
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Philosophy of information
Broader Perspective
Pinhead's Progress
Science Library Pad
Citizen Science Projects
Oekologie #8 is up on Direction not Destination
Four Stone Hearth: volume 21 is up on Archaeolog
The 13th installment of Philosophia Naturalis is up on Cocktail Party Physics.
Skeptics' Circle #67: Giant Robot Edition is up on The Bronze Blog
Carnival of Space #16 is up on Advanced Nanotechnology
There are 29 new papers on PLoS ONE this week, and it is difficult to narrow down to just a few of my own 'choices':
An Inhibitory Sex Pheromone Tastes Bitter for Drosophila Males:
For animals to breed successfully they must avoid trying to mate with individuals of the same sex. Lacaille and…
John Wilkins just published a paper (..."a review of the centenary festschrift for Mayr...") and got a book accepted for publication (the book grew out of series of excellent blog posts about species definitions - who says that blogging is bad for your health?)
Congratulations!
Tangled Bank #86 is up on Fish Feet
132nd Carnival of Education is up on EducationMatters.US!
Carnival of the Liberals #45 is up on The Greenbelt
Carnival of Homeschooling #85 is up on Dewey's Treehouse
The Science Blogging Anthology is meant to showcase the quality and diversity of writing on science blogs. 'Diversity' does not mean only the range of scientific disciplines, but also the diversity of topics, styles and, yes, forms. We have included one poem last year and we'd like to receive…
Key findings of a new study by the National School Boards Association and Grunwald Associates LLC exploring the online behaviors of U.S. teens and 'tweens show:
* 96 percent of students with online access use social networking technologies, such as chatting, text messaging, blogging, and…
Just had coffee with Emile Petrone, the developer of Knowble, a social networking site for scientists (and yes, this includes social scientists as well). The site is already open if you want to join and look around (find me and ping me), but watch this space for future information - there will be…
Interaction Of Just Two Genes Governs Coloration Patterns In Mice:
Biologists at Harvard University and the University of California, San Diego, have found that a simple interaction between just two genes determines the patterns of fur coloration that camouflage mice against their background,…
There was a time when the reader of an unexciting newspaper would remark, 'How dull is the world today!' Nowadays he says, 'What a dull newspaper!'
- Daniel Joseph Boorstin
Paul, Danica and Daveawayfromhome recently tagged me with the Eight Random Facts Meme, although I have already done it before, so let me try to come up with Random Facts Nine Through Sixteen.
9. I used to sing karaoke every Tuesday while in grad school (well, everyone goes crazy in grad school),…
So, you look around to see if there is anything edible!
Of course, it's easy if you work with tasty animals....(just ask the guys in the next door lab who work on lobsters, crayfish and oysters...or wait until you get some brains out of quails and notice the plump breastmeat....just joking).
A nice integration over several levels of analysis:
Adaptive Variation in Beach Mice Produced by Two Interacting Pigmentation Genes by Cynthia C. Steiner, Jesse N. Weber, and Hopi E. Hoekstra:
The tremendous amount of variation in color patterns among organisms helps individuals survive and…
After meeting Anton Zuiker a few days ago, I also managed to catch up with Brian Russell and Paul Jones, catching up on everything, but most importantly, shifting the organization of the 2nd Science Blogging Conference into a faster gear.
The wiki needs only a few more tweaks (some of the links are…
Corie Lok notes an article which claims that Boston is the most bloggerific per capita city in the USA. They must have only looked at the biggest cities. Because nobody beats Blogsboro Greensboro NC. Is there anyone in Greensboro who does not have a blog?
That must be this one:
Rove quitting to spend more time with his iPhone:
Rove is considered one of the nation's foremost experts on e-mail deletion, although he - like the rest of us -- is relatively new to making things disappear from the iPhone. Rove has long been an innovator in leveraging the…
Navigation: Using Geometry To Navigate Is Innate, At Least For Fish:
Many animals, including humans, frequently face the task of getting from one place to another. Although many navigational strategies exist, all vertebrate species readily use geometric cues; things such as walls and corners to…
I don't know why this post is one of the most popular of all times here, but I just discovered a relevant illustration to go with it: Bosco wrote a post in which he links to a whole bunch of pictures of a popular mascot (almost as popular as Professor Steve Steve).
A serious one, for advanced courses. I held it in my hands the other day (Jonathan Eisen brought a copy to Scifoo to show). I hope to get one soon. Check it out at its homepage and order yourself a copy. It looks great!
