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
It is getting really close! You can see everyone who's registered for the conference, and I need to do only a couple of more of these posts to introduce everyone.
David Shiffman is a graduate student at the College of Charleston in South Carolina studying shark conservation. He blogs on Southern…
There are 20 new articles in PLoS ONE today (and there were 14 yesterday). 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,…
We are in the final stretch - it is getting really exciting!
I'll introduce a few more registrants tomorrow (lucky waitlisters - there were a couple of cancellations this week), but today I'd like to remind you, if you are registered for the conference, to add your name (by editing the appropriate…
True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island ... to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing.
- Baltasar Gracian
The conference is only a week away!!!!!
I have introduced the participants, and the Program over the past couple of months (there's a little bit more to come). Today, we'll go into the night....the dark side! There are three evenings during the meeting, thus three evening events for participants.…
There are 27 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…
If you are coming to ScienceOnline2010 and you have checked the amazing Program there, you have noticed that there will be a set of hands-on workshops on Friday morning.
If you will be attending (and even if you are not registered for the rest of the conference but will be in town on that day),…
Berry Go Round #23: The Janus Edition is up on Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog
Grand Rounds Volume 6, Number 15 (the 327th edition) is up on Blogborygmi
Picks from PLoS Biology, PLoS Medicine, PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases and PLoS ONE:
Preserving a Space for Science in an Age of Democracy:
How should scientific advice be incorporated into the political decisionmaking process? Even experts can't keep up with the torrent of studies published in…
I won it, at least five million times. Men who were stronger, bigger and faster than I was could have done it, but they never picked up a pole, and never made the feeble effort to pick their legs off the ground and get over the bar.
- Bob Richards
If you have been following sciency blogosphere, or my blog, or tweets about #scio10, or checked out the Program of the conference, you may have noticed that I have predicted that the "overarching theme" of the meeting will shift from last-year's focus on Power to this year's, hopefully, emphasis…
Relationships are hard. It's like a full-time job, and we should treat it like one. If your boyfriend or girlfriend wants to leave you, they should give you two weeks notice. There should be severance pay, and before they leave you, they should find you a temp.
- Bob Ettinger
The year that just ended, 2009, was a year that saw huge changes in the world of media and the world of journalism. Science journalism has also been greatly affected, with many media outlets firing their science journalists first, then firing all the others afterwards. Much virtual ink has been…
Carnival of Evolution #19 is up on Observations of a Nerd
Four Stone Hearth #83 - The Avatar Edition - is up on Primate Diaries
Festival of the Trees #43 is up on Xenogere
The 127th Meeting of the Skeptics' Circle is up at Life, The Universe, and One Brow
Circus of the Spineless #46 is up on…
That is, among 20 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)…
If you are planning for a year, sow rice; if you are planning for a decade, plant trees; if you are planning for a lifetime, educate people.
- Chinese proverb
In December I posted only 118 times, which is a historical low for this blog. Ah, well. At least you got to see a lot of cool videos!
The best (and certainly the longest and most provocative) post of the month was What does it mean that a nation is 'Unscientific'?
Web - how it will change the Book…
Live for something. Do good, and leave behind you a monument of virtue that the storms of time can never destroy. Write your name in kindness, love, and mercy on the hearts of thousands you come in contact with year by year, and you will never be forgotten. Your name and your good deeds will shine…
Not much to say myself, I just find the diversity of opinions in posts and comments fascinating:
Dr.Isis: Careful, Girls! That's Too Much Power!
Arikia: Gendered Color Dichotomies-R-Us
PZ: The powerlessness of pink
Cori Kesler: My Droid is Pink
Mareserinitatis: Pink
Chad: Does Pinkification Fool…
In a recent post, my SciBling Jason Rosenhouse with whom I usually agree on these matters, voices a strong disagreement with this quote (from Thomas Dixon's book Science and Religion: A Very Short Introduction, published by Oxford University Press in 2008):
Historians have shown that the Galileo…
