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
I'd like to start today with Big Congratulations to the amazing PLoS IT/Web team for finishing the complex and long task of migrating all seven PLoS Journals onto the TOPAZ/Ambra platform. This week, the last of the seven journals, PLoS Biology, was successfully moved. This means that you can now…
One by one, brave people are opening up science, serving as examples of how things can and should be done openly with no ill consequences.
Today - examples of two such pioneers.
First, Bryan Perkins published his research on his blog. Go and read it and post comments, ask questions, help him…
Only two ways left to submit!
Next edition of The Giant's Shoulders will be on May 15th on Curving Normality. History of science, 'classical' papers? If you have blogged about those over the past 30 days, please send in your entry.
I understand that the next edition of Praxis will also be on May…
You may have heard about a recent Wikipedia hoax:
A WIKIPEDIA hoax by a 22-year-old Dublin student resulted in a fake quote being published in newspaper obituaries around the world.
The quote was attributed to French composer Maurice Jarre who died at the end of March.
It was posted on the online…
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, Connotea, Stumbleupon, Facebook and Digg) with just one…
Teenagers Are Becoming Increasingly Logical, Swedish Study Finds:
A research project at the University of Gothenburg has been testing large groups of 13-year-olds in Sweden since the early 1960s using the same intelligence test. The tests have taken place at approximately five year intervals and…
Encephalon #70 is up on SharpBrains
Carnival of Space #102 is up on TheSpacewriter's Ramblings
Grand Rounds Vol. 5 No. 34 is up at Health Blogs Observatory
The Carnival of the Green #179 is up on OrganicMania
Friday Ark #242 is up on Modulator
Carel P. Brest van Kempen (yes, the artist who did the banner of this blog) submitted this video for a contest. I am not sure how the voting goes, but perhaps lots of visits to this YouTube video are the thing they are looking for:
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 articles on various social services (CiteULike, Connotea, Stumbleupon, Facebook and Digg) with just one…
Are you up to date on the hot debate in biology regarding how genes influence evolution? Some scientists contend genes are in the driver's seat. Others assign more pull to regulatory factors controlling genetic expression. At noon, Wednesday, May 27, come hear Duke biologist Greg Wray explore the…
Petnica Science Center has been doing science summer camps for high school graduates and undergrads for 25 years and many of its alumni went on to have good careers in science both in Serbia and abroad:
Petnica Science Center is the biggest and, probably, the oldest independent nonprofit…
My Birthday! what a different sound
That word had in my youthful ears;
And how each time the day comes round,
Less and less white its mark appears.
- Thomas Moore
Most people are aware that social insects, like honeybees, have three "sexes": queens, drones and workers.
Drones are males. Their only job is to fly out and mate with the queen after which they drop dead.
Female larvae fed 'royal jelly' emerge as queens. After mating, the young queen takes a bunch…
Massage After Exercise Myth Busted:
A Queen's University research team has blown open the myth that massage after exercise improves circulation to the muscle and assists in the removal of lactic acid and other waste products.
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Kinesiology MSc candidate Vicky Wiltshire and Dr.…
There are 11 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, Connotea, Stumbleupon, Facebook and Digg) with just one…
Unprecedented Data On Circadian Rhythms Revealed:
Fluctuations in light intensity allow restoring the regularity of circadian rhythms. This is the main conclusion of the work carried out by Javier Buceta, group leader of The.Si.M.Bio.Sys. Group(Theoretical and In Silico Modelling of Biological…
Here are the submissions for OpenLab 2009 to date and, as someone who has been through this three times already, I have to say I am impressed both by the number and the quality of submissions to date. And it's only early May!
As we have surpassed 130 entries, all of them, as well as the "submit"…
There are 23 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, Connotea, Stumbleupon, Facebook and Digg) with just one…
