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
There are 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) with…
Here are the submissions for OpenLab 2009 to date. As we have surpassed 160 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…
Yup, I know this comes from our 'competition', the Science magazine, but it is a worthy cause:
The Science Prize for Online Resources in Education (SPORE) has been established to encourage innovation and excellence in education, as well as to encourage the use of high-quality on-line resources by…
The Giant's Shoulders #12 is up on thoughts from gut bacteria
Scientia Pro Publica 6 is up on Mauka to Makai
The latest Grand Rounds are up on ACP Internist
Poor Sleep Is Associated With Lower Relationship Satisfaction In Both Women And Men:
A bidirectional association exists between couples' sleep quality and the quality of their relationship, according to a research abstract that will be presented on Wednesday, June 10, at SLEEP 2009, the 23rd…
There are 18 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 June edition of Accretionary Wedge: Let's Do a Time Warp! is up on Outside the Interzone
Boneyard returns at When Pigs Fly Returns
CARNIVAL OF THE GREEN #184! is up on The Conservation Report
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#CNNFail: Twitterverse slams…
Hmm, I usually do this on Fridays, but I was busy. So here is a Saturday sampler of papers from all seven PLoS journals published last week. 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…
He is the BBC's latest star - the cab driver who a leading presenter believed was a world expert on the internet music business.
The man stepped unwittingly into the national spotlight when he was interviewed by mistake on the corporation's News 24 channel.
With the seconds ticking down to a studio…
Female Water Striders Expose Their Genitalia Only After Males 'Sing':
Chang Seok Han and Piotr Jablonski at Seoul National University, Korea have found that by evolving a morphological shield to protect their genitalia from males' forceful copulatory attempts, females of an Asian species of water…
There is nothing good about blindly abiding to certain paradigms, simply because you were instructed by authoritative figures from the stages of infancy to do so ...
- Vanesh Naidoo
There are 15 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…
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Make sure you never, never argue at night. You just lose a good night's sleep, and you can't settle anything until morning anyway.
- Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy
There are 16 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 And The Bird #102 is up on Birder's Lounge
June edition of Change of Shift is up on Florence dot com
Grand Rounds, Volume 5, Number 38 are up on The Jobbing Doctor
And there are only a couple of days left until the next Giant's Shoulders, so try to write and send in something appropriate on…
Circadian Rhythm: How Cells Tell Time:
The fuzzy pale mold that lines the glass tubes in Dr. Yi Liu's lab doesn't look much like a clock. But this fungus has an internal, cell-based timekeeper nearly as sophisticated as a human's, allowing UT Southwestern Medical Center physiologists to study…
If I thought there was some reason to be concerned about them, I wouldn't be sleeping in this house tonight. (When asked about continued presence of Soviet nuclear submarines along US coastlines)
- Ronald Wilson Reagan
As the boundaries between formal and informal scientific communication is blurring - think of pre-print sites, Open Notebook Science and blogs, for starters - the issue of what is citable and how it should be cited is becoming more and more prominent.
There is a very interesting discussion on this…
There are 17 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…
From SCONC:
Science Cafe
July 14, 2009 | 7:00 P.M.
Uncovering the Mysteries of Human Fertility: On Sex, Fertile Days, and Why the Rabbit Dies
Speaker: Allen Wilcox, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
Everyone knows where babies come from, but few people appreciate the extraordinary…
