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 Fridays I usually take a look at new papers in all seven PLoS journals. 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,…
Here are the submissions for OpenLab 2009 to date. As we have surpassed 230 entries, all of them, as well as the "submit" buttons and codes and the bookmarklet, are under the fold. You can buy the 2006, 2007 and 2008 editions at Lulu.com. Please use the submission form to add more of your and…
Studies indicate that the one quality all successful people have is persistence. They're willing to spend more time accomplishing a task and to persevere in the face of many difficult odds. There's a very positive relationship between people's ability to accomplish any task and the time they're…
Just came back from Raleigh, where Sheril gave a reading of her book Unscientific America in front of a nice-size crowd at Quail Ridge Books:
Sheril did a great job and ably fielded the questions afterwards:
Before the trip I did a little experiment and posted my first podcast, but as a WAV file which some people could not hear. Now, with a little help from my friends, I translated the file into the MP3 format so everyone can listen:
ClockCast1 - Bora ZivKovic
The new Change Of Shift is up on Nurse in Australia
I and the Bird #105 is up on Picus Blog
July's Edition of Skeptical Parents Crossing is up on On Becoming a Domestic and Laboratory Goddess
Each wrong act brings with it its own anesthetic, dulling the conscience and blinding it against further light, and sometimes for years.
- Rose Macaulay
Everyone and their grandmother knows that Impact Factor is a crude, unreliable and just wrong metric to use in evaluating individuals for career-making (or career-breaking) purposes. Yet, so many institutions (or rather, their bureaucrats - scientists would abandon it if their bosses would) cling…
It was hectic during the travels, but I managed to interview Peter Sommer, PLoS ONE Section Editor for Virology anyway - in the age of the Internet, one can be connected everywhere. We posted the interview on everyONE blog yesterday.
There are 9 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 series of interviews with some of the participants of the 2008 Science Blogging Conference was quite popular, so I decided to do the same thing again this year, posting interviews with some of the people who attended ScienceOnline'09 back in January.
Today, I asked Henry Gee, the senior editor…
Our system was down fpr the past 17.5 hours so I could not post this last night, so here it is now. 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…
Meditation is not for him who eats too much, nor for him who eats not at all; not for him who is over much addicted to sleep, nor for him who is always awake.
- Bhagavad Gita (c. BC 400)
The backside of Scienceblogs.com is gettin' some tunin' tonight, starting in about 30 minutes or so. That's what she said. So, we cannot post anything and you cannot post comments (though it may seem like you can) until, hopefully, tomorrow morning.
Afterwards, we all hope, posting (by us) and…
The series of interviews with some of the participants of the 2008 Science Blogging Conference was quite popular, so I decided to do the same thing again this year, posting interviews with some of the people who attended ScienceOnline'09 back in January.
Today, I asked Elissa Hoffman, a blogging…
Poverty is very terrible, and sometimes kills the very soul within us; but it is the north wind that lashes men into Vikings; it is the soft luscious south wind which lulls them to lotus dreams.
- Ouida
Still getting all my Legos together after the trip, here are some of the highlight from various PLoS journals from last Friday and 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…
Here are the submissions for OpenLab 2009 to date. As we have surpassed 220 entries, all of them, as well as the "submit" buttons and codes and the bookmarklet, are under the fold. You can buy the 2006, 2007 and 2008 editions at Lulu.com. Please use the submission form to add more of your and…
The series of interviews with some of the participants of the 2008 Science Blogging Conference was quite popular, so I decided to do the same thing again this year, posting interviews with some of the people who attended ScienceOnline'09 back in January.
Today, I asked Erica Tsai, the co-organizer…
Walter Jessen of Next Generation Science interviewed me recently, mainly about the Open Laboratory, but also a little bit more about science blogging and Science 2.0. The interview is now live - you can read it here.
It is the height of absurdity to sow little but weeds in the first half of one's lifetime and expect to harvest a valuable crop in the second half.
- Percy Johnston
This post, from January 25, 2006, describes part of the Doctoral work of my lab-buddy Chris.
Mammals have only one circadian pacemaker - the suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN). Apparently all the other cells in the body contain circadian clocks, too, but only the SCN drives all the overt rhythms.…
A few months ago, I posted about a very innovative way of using Twitter in science - monitoring fish catch by commercial fishermen.
The first phase of the study is now complete and the results are published in the journal Marine and Coastal Fisheries: Dynamics, Management, and Ecosystem Science…
This is a summary of my 1999 paper, following in the footsteps of the work I described here two days ago. The work described in that earlier post was done surprisingly quickly - in about a year - so I decided to do some more for my Masters Thesis.
The obvious next thing to do was to expose the…
Playing seems to be both disinterested and passionate at the same time; disinterested in that it is not for real, and passionate in the absorption it requires.
- Oliver Bevan
One of the important questions in the study of circadian organization is the way multiple clocks in the body communicate with each other in order to produce unified rhythmic output.
In the case of mammals, the two pacemakers are the left and the right suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN). The tow nuclei…
