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
The 2006 Thomson Scientific Journal Citation Reports were released today. Mark Patterson reports on the PLoS journals, three of which have made it to the list for the first time, as they are too new, so their ratings are based on just a portion of the time:
The 2006 impact factors have just been…
After 10 years of fighting for open source, net neutrality, free information and open education, Lawrence Lessig has decided to change his career and to seriously attack the problem of corruption in the U.S. politics. It's not going to be easy, but having Lessig on our side in this battle is a…
Catalogue of Organisms
Morbid Anatomy
Street Anatomy
Scientific curiosity
The Bird's Brain
YOKOFAKUN
Banapana
Shadow of the Hegemon (check out the archives - this blog is oooold!)
Four Stone Hearth #16 is up on Hominin Dental Anthropology.
Education Carnival #124 (Back to the Beach) is up on What It's Like on the Inside.
Carnival of Homeschooling #77 is up on Consent Of The Governed.
Are Rattlesnakes Entering Suburbia?:
A researcher for Washington University in St. Louis, along with colleagues at the Saint Louis Zoo and Saint Louis University are tracking timber rattlesnakes in west St. Louis County and neighboring Jefferson County. They are investigating how developing…
It is all right for the lion and the lamb to lie down together if they are both asleep, but if one of them begins to get active it is dangerous.
- Crystal Eastman
On the heels of this post, I was informed of another Web2.0 site for scientists that just launched - SciTalks collects talks and lectures by scientists on a variety of topics. There are already many clips available on the site, which you can rate, or add some from your own collection. You can…
What's in a name? It's just a word, a tag we use to talk about people so everyone knows wo we are talking about, isn't it? Or at least that is how it should be, don't you think?
But it is not, as anthropologists (and now psychologists as well) have been telling us for a long time. There is a…
"Is sunshine good for you?" is the latest Ask a ScienceBlogger question and Nick Anthis did a great job answering it - focusing on the circadian aspects of the need for sunlight - in his response here. Excellent and quite correct, if I may say so, (and I had trouble commenting on his blog, so I'll…
Carnival of the Green #82 is up on Enviroblog.
Gene Genie #9 is up on DNA Direct Talk.
Grand Rounds 3:39 are up on Code Blog.
Encephalon #25 is up on PsyBlog.
I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of "work", because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do.... The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.
- Andy Warhol
I know Bay Area is a big blogging center - almost as dense with bloggers as Greensboro, NC - but I am not exactly sure which of the bloggers I know actually live there. Since I'll be in San Francisco in July, I'd like to meet some of the local bloggers. Is there a MeetUp? An aggregator? Do…
On this day in 1991 I hopped on a train and left Belgrade for good.
On this same day, a little bit earlier in history, a baby was born.
Somehow, those two events got connected.
Happy birthday to my wife!
Here is an example of perfect science blogging. It starts seemingly innocuously, with a quiz: Monday's Molecule #30, where you are supposed to figure out what the compound is.
Then, after a couple of days, there is a post that you may not even realize at first is related to the first one: Bacteria…
Matt at Behavioral Ecology Blog is asking what strange searches bring readers to my blog. I was too lazy to go to Google Analytis (changing passwords and stuff), so I just checked the last 100 referees on Sitemeter and I found these:
"japanese quail" newspaper fascist radio
what a fetus of a…
I think I have a profile on Friendster - I don't know, I haven't checked since 2003. I have bare-bones profiles on MySpace, LinkedIn and Change.Org and I will get an e-mail if you "friend" me (and will friend you back), but I do not have time to spend on there. I refuse to even look at all the…
When the tea is brought at five o'clock
And all the neat curtains are drawn with care,
The little black cat with bright green eyes
Is suddenly purring there.
- Harold Monro
Science Student Gender Gap: A Continuing Challenge:
Interactive classes don't necessarily solve the performance imbalance between the genders in physics classes, according to a new study that stands in stark contrast to previous physics education research. In fact, while students as a rule benefit…
What is it?:
Blip is a forum for artists, scientists and members of the public interested in new forms of art that explore generative and procedural processes, interaction, emergence and artificial life. We are based in Brighton, UK, and in the last 4 years we have organized presentations,…
Fruit Bats Are Not 'Blind As A Bat':
The retinas of most mammals contain two types of photoreceptor cells, the cones for daylight vision and colour vision, and the more sensitive rods for night vision. Nocturnal bats were traditionally believed to possess only rods. Now scientists at the Max Planck…
Explanation
Actually, the picture (author is Antun Zuljevic, a birder extraordinnaire) is from the village of Svilojevo in northern Serbia (Vojvodina, near the town of Apatin on the Danube) where the Locust Trees have been cut, and nobody is building large haystacks any more, so the storks are…
