The End of a Blog, the Start of a New One

Hmmm...."No smarter than the average parrot"

(meaning parrots are smart, not grad students are dumb)

"The Neural Net"
"The Brainstem"
"The Conarium" (a nice nod to Descartes)
"The Ghost in the Machine"
"The Action Potential"
"Transduction"

or...
"Beauty and the Beast"

"Poetry in Motion"

some brainstorming ...

BrainsRUs

No Brain No Hope

The SEEDian Brain

Seeds With a Brain

NeuroTrash

AA Brain (so you can beat Bora's "A Blog..." in the Blog Index)

TOP THREE/ MOST ACTIVE (would probably get you a few extra visitors...)

"Retrobrain"

Too cheesy?

Brain Pan.

Since it's you and a co-neuro-blogger, why not Of Two Minds?

New name -- "Some Nerve!"

;-)

"'I Am Synaptic' - Wherein We Partake In The Thrilling Tale of One Neuron's Epic Struggle for Independence and Recognition As a Self in A World Gone Mad. Now With Extra Merchandise!"

Cranial Connections

Mens sana

Gotta have something spiral, what with your study of the cochlea and Steve circling down the drain....(sorry, could not help it).

RetrOmni
NeurOmni
MindFeed
MindSweeper
ThinkBlog
NeoBrain

Since someone has already suggested "Retrobrain", how about "Omni-spectacle" (i.e., multiple viewpoints)?

A nod to your research: "The Auracle". Actually, "The Oracle" would make a nice, if maybe pretentious, blog name too.

A nod to Steve: "The Cocklea". (No, I don't know why I suggested that. It just sounded funny in my head.)

Or, for just a touch of the absurd: "I'm Not Sandra".

How about "Oh, Synapse!"?

Following Bora's suggestion, how about "The Viral Spiral"? Or maybe just "Spirality"?

I submit: Shelley & Steve Do Science
The Parrot & Pirate Speak
OmniSpectacle

BUT, the name's not important, keeping you blogging, so I can keep reading about stuff I know nothing about, is the important thing!

How about Head Trips?

Maybe since it's the two of you joining forces, something with "pons" or some variation of "pons Varolii" ?

How do you say "two-headed monster" in Latin?

How about Once A Pons A Time?

Brodmann Area 42

An auditory processing part of the brain and it includes the answer to Life, the Universe and Everything

Plus it sounds like a rock band from the 80's

How about Newron or Homunculus?

May I suggest The Wetware Papers?

Isn't the obvious name "Bird Brains"?

what about "neuroblog"?

cheers

Good Vibrations.

I like speedwell's "Of Two Minds" -- just ambiguous enough to be intriguing.

Two blog titles I have thought of using:

Misfiring Synapses
Mental Riotings (c/o Charles Darwin)

You can have them. :D

Hmm.

Going Out of Our Heads - almost the same as a nifty Fatboy Slim song.
Up the Brainstem

I really like Speedwell's Of Two Minds as well, but of course, if you eventually invite a third it becomes a little irrelevant.

The Brain Bank? Picking my Brain? Two Hemispheres?
Or, inspired by Young Frankenstein, "After 5pm, leave Brain under door", or "Abbie Normal". If you've seen the film, you get the gag.

What about something like "Brainhacking", or perhaps only "Brain" or, even better "Cerebrus". It could also be "Nervous Brain", or "Over the Spine", you name it.

cogitoergoblog
synapticfantastic

Omniblog

Neurotoxic (for the goths!)
Hemispheres
Livin' la Vida Limbic (Paul MacLean meets Ricky Martin)
Praxis

It's a pity that "Corpus Callosum" is already taken, it'd be really appropriate here...

noospherical

I don't have a suggestion right now. I just wanted to wish you well on your new endeavor. I have enjoyed this one.

I think speedwell nailed it with Of Two Minds.

Nervous Breakdown

Nucleus Solitarius

An ex-Parrot (a little MP never hurt anyone)

Frontal Cortex and Corpus Callossum are already taken. How aboutHippo CampusNervous TicThe Unbearable Being of LightnessOrgan of Corti

Theme Song for Nervous Breakdown

Variant:Neural Breakdown

Thy Name is Lesion?

blooming cheek of life

I found out about your contest from PZ at Pharyngula. He had a paragraph from Frankenstein, which included the above phrase, which his steel trap of a mind seems to have missed.

hmmm.... how about some variation of biped and brain? Old definition of human as featherless biped and all...or other cochlear and cerebral combinations

Hairy Biped
Bipeds 'n Brains
Bipeds with Brains
Hairy Brains
Hearing Brains
Hidden Organs
The Auditory Mind
Listening and Learning
A Bird In the Mind
Brains 'n Your Ears

be sure to spam your new blog url

Nerve-ish Breakdown

"Gray's Neurotic Brain"

You bring in your African Gray parrot (gray, neurotic) and Omnibrain (brain). Or you could pretend your bird isn't neurotic (ha!) and just go with:

"Gray's Brain"

"The Origin Of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Blog"

And don't bitch about the length, it worked for Jaynes.

OmniGray

Oh. And on the extremely unlikely chance I win, follow the link and post anywhere.

A Hair Brained Scheme

How about:
"The Ghost is the Machine."

Better than One

OK, here's another one: Good Thinking

Nucleus Ambloguus
Emblogiform Nucleus
Viva Las Vagus
Lateral Lemdiscuss
Pyramidal Discussation
Binaural
Modiolus
Scala Media
Articulate Fasciculus

Sorry, some of those are terrible neuropuns. ;-)

Neuralis Circulus

Jell-O Don't Think
ProNeuroSpectacle
Corpus Colusom (spelling?)

In the spirit that you will collaborate yet retain individuality:

Syncytium
or
Syncytial Potential

Grey Matter Matters?

Hybrid Vigor

If Life has taught me anything, it is that when one is feeling a bit at sea, a little perplexed, the best course of action is to ask oneself the question "Ah, but would it make a good band name?"

So, I immediately went to my ancient list of proposed band names and came up with some possibilities for you which are not nearly as juvenile as most on the list ( I happen to believe that the very best name for a cover band is "Tune Pang"... Sigh. ) and which might be appropriate:

1) The Nervous Accomplice ( an old Perry Mason episode)

2) Pavlov's Cat

3) Fan Mail from a Flounder (from the Rocky and Bullwinkle show)

4) Rinse Thoroughly

5) Dubious Nucleus

The list goes downhill from here. Pretty rapidly, I'm afraid. :)

Bird's Eye View!

It's a tad corny, but it does incorporate aspects from both of your respective sets of interests and/or study. It also has a high-level connotation, vaguely along the same lines as the names of your individual blogs.

With the whole Frankenstein/Shelley thing and the rebirth theme, I like the name "Re-Animated."

Of all the nerveMAJUSCULE

Nervous Chord

How about a nod to Douglas Adams?

Maybe call it pan-galactic gargle blaster
or simply fourtytwo
or Plural zone
or even Magrathea

Dura Matters
Shelly and Steve's Excellent Adventure

To Kill A Mocking Bird

A Blog Too Far
Blog on the River Kwai

They're Slinky and the Brain (Brain, Brain, Brain, Brain, Brain, Brain, Brain, Brain!)
You can decide on who is who :)

I really like Luciferase Dreams

Corpus Callosum

(PS, Shelley, I'm finally posting regularly on my blog, linked at URL.)

Brainstuff

Lead Astray

("The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray," Wilde.)

Cooking for Zombies

How about an anagram or neuroscience

"Our Nice Scene"

Kuru-a-Gogo
Another Word for Horse (deriv.: "Babydoll," Laurie Anderson)

Didn't look through the other comments, but "Gray Matters" and "Neuronapalooza" immediately come to mind.

How about Neurwegian Blue? It's a combination of Norwegian Blue (the dead parrot from Monty Python's "Parrot Sketch") with Neuro-
Get it? Eh?
*crickets chirping*

Sorry dont have the time to read through and make sure no one else said it, but how about

Semiconscious
or
Semi-Conscious
or for that matter
semiconscience

'Of Two Minds' is great.
What about:

Chimeric Mind?
Gemini Mind?
Siamese Dreams?

Best of luck with the new blog, Shelley. I'll be there!

You mentioned science communication, and one name came into mind immediately. How about a tip-of-the-hat to him?

"Saganomics"

May I suggest "But Not For Love", a quote from As You Like It. If you remember, the full quote is: "Men have died and worms have eaten them, but not for love."

Seems apt, somehow.

How about Bad Bad Brain? Then you'd have a blog theme song.

Since there's two of you, the plural might be OK as well -- Bad, Bad Brains.

How about: "The Plexus"?

Synapses for two.
Mind-Body Duality
Parroting Science

or just "Braaaiiinns. Nom. Nom. Nom."

Headonism Two?

Ni!
(if you need an explanation it's not the one ;)

Bloggin About the Noggin

Just thought of another one: "Medulla oBlogata"

I think you ought to go with the old comedy duo sound!

"Batts and Higgens! 2 Brains are better than 1!" And I do a caricature of both of you in parrot feathers for the header.

Oh Carl, would you?! :D I love that!

How about "Gray Matters", (which I think you used as a sub-header for parrot-related posts)?

Pavlov's Parrot? Brains of a Feather?

Actually, my vote, if I had one, would go to Viva Las Vagus. That's so bad it's good.

The comments from Pharyngula are running with Frankenstein versions. I just have to put mine in here too.

Abby Normal.

Never Mind

How about "Anastomosing". But if I win give all the free stuff to the current site manager for Pharyngula because that person thought of it!! (Whoever the current site manager person is who is running their blog at the moment. I forget.)

Here's what I think:

Contemporal
Dura Matters
Frontospectacle/Frontospecs (as opposed to Retro-)
Omnithoughts
Neurospectacle
P-theory
Perceptacle
PSY
Retromnispectacle Brain (just kidding)
Scicology

Which one is least likely?

Well, I guess I just can't resist. My initial entry is

Batts Brain

Glial Club

*cue Elvis Presley*

Bright internetz gonna set my brain
Gonna set my brain on fire
Got a whole lot of bloggin' that's ready to post
So get those comments up higher
There's a thousand nociceptors firin' somewhere
And I'm just the nerve to get the message up there
Viva Las Vagus
Viva Las Vagus

If you want some bad ideas, look no further.

In reference to the famous anti-drug commercial, "The Frying Pan" (huge non sequitir, I know).

Also "Eggheads" or "Eggiweggs" (with an irreverent Clockwork Orange reference to boot with that last one).

Give me time. I'll have more.

I kinda like Kurt's suggestion of "I'm Not Sandra" but hey, you can rename yourself Sandra if you want to. Although, in my experience I had to point out to plenty of readers who skimmed past the bylines that I'm Not Steve. :)

SuperBrains!

how about "fox and owl" - The fox is always looking for new ideas and the owl is always processing them.

"BWAAAAAAINS!" (with proper zombie intonation.

On second thought, "Grey Matters", grey with an "e". I do like that spelling of grey better.

"Sport of Nature"...it will send a few people to the thesaurus but thats not a bad thing.

Corpora callosa - (plural of corpus callosum) the nerve fibers joining the two hemispheres of the brain.

Tar and Feathers.
Names suck.
Ecneicsoruen.

'Retrospectacle' being the name of Thomas Dolby's greatest hits album, you could go with the title of a song, or another album:

Hyperactive!
Aliens Ate My Buick!
The Flat Earth
I Scare Myself

You get the idea (and no, I'm not going to post that other title, you know which one).

Intellivores
intellivores united
intellivore nation
intellivore universe
the intellivore tribe

There are so many clever ones! Here's my suggestion: Brainiacs.

"The Macrobionic Bird"

"Neurothology"

"The Gelatinous Parrot"

The anagram generator, when fed the string "retrospectacleomnibrain", comes up with this great one:

Parrot Sentience Micro Lab

I suppose that if you added additional bloggers, by the way, you could change Of Two Minds to The Mind Set.

"A Tale of Two Brains"

"Isn't it neuronic (don't you think)?"

"Brain Overlords"
"Brains in Space"

"Joined at the Head"

Just A Neuron Away
Vagal Connection
After reading all the above suggestions, Viva Las Vegas sounds the best to me. Have fun finding your new name!

It's similar to what's already been said, but "The Blog With Two Brains!" (starring Steve Martin?)

Or maybe "Jive Mind", with a little funky, dancing brain for a mascot? Too Silly? Ok.

How about "This American Lobe?" NPR might pick it up.

Maybe "Of Minds and Men?" Maybe not.

"Neuro Imagining"

"Fired Neurons"

Well, that's all I could think of. Hope they aren't TOO terrible, if nothing else.

I've been saving band names for a reason like this. (My favorite is Hookers in Burkhas) but my next fave could work for your blogs: FMBOI-fetal monkey brains on ice- a project I worked on long ago.

"The Brains that Wouldn't Die"

"Yorick's Skull" or "Yorick's Brain"

"A Stroke of Genius"

...Okay, that one's probably wrong in many ways (though not the "genius" part)...

Batts & Balls

Action Pluripotential

Inspired by Rebecca Watson: "Thinky Meats"

Wulst Neuroblog Evah!

Going for a cartoon reference: "Pinky and The Brain," or some variation thereof, perhaps "Thinky and The Brain"

BrainFusion

I've got it: "Brainspawn." As it is, ScienceBlogs is direly lacking Futurama references.

I'd just like to voice my support for Mercurious' sugestion, Abby Normal. Alternatively, Abby Normal Brain. Of course I may be biased.

Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: Igor, would you mind telling me whose brain I did put in?
Igor: And you won't be angry?
Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: I will NOT be angry.
Igor: Abby someone.
Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: Abby someone. Abby who?
Igor: Abby Normal.
Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: Abby Normal?
Igor: I'm almost sure that was the name.
Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: Are you saying that I put an abnormal brain into a seven and a half foot long, fifty-four inch wide GORILLA?
[shakes and grabs him]
Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: IS THAT WHAT YOU'RE TELLING ME?

Classic!

Sci Matters.

Damn, just came up with these before checking previous posts... thought I was so clever and original! Ah well, guess these get my vote for what its worth - here's what I had written:

1. Corpus callosum
...as it will be a link between two halves of the newly formed whole, co-ordinating information

another alternative:

2. Hybrid vigour
...reflecting that you're combining the strengths of two lineages

Hemispheres

...or some variation of the sort. From an evolutionary perspective, the development of the hemispheres was very significant. The distinction of the two allowed for many important functions. (Or something like that, I'm no expert but I hope you get the gist of what I'm saying...)

bwain blahg
bwain has flavah
i r in ur bwain

icanhasneuroscience
or any icanhas* combo thereof

Thought-München (with spelling variations possible)

In honor of our botfly friend. :)

Apart from that, perhaps:

Neuroscope

(...or Neuroskeptic, to give a slightly negative twist)

neural news
fasciculata non grata
electroencephaloblogger
telencephalic tales
neural groove
mind and other matters
three pounds of thought
frontal lobotomy
megalencephalic minds
synaptic cleft
retrocognition
reflex arc

Hey Shelley,

good luck with the new blog! I have a suggestion - I left it under your newest post about the contest, but I am re-posting it here as I see most people left their comments on this post.
My suggestion is:

Cerebrathon

This is a cross between cerebration and marathon - as both of you guys are PhD students, I think I do not need to explain anything about why I chose "marathon"!

Or how about-
fragrant mind- ala BNL
altered consciousness
lucid lemniscus
receptive aphasia-not sayin' you can't comuunicate. it
could be an inside joke.
dendritic critics- ouch thats bad
myelinated madness
hypnogogic hallucinations
synaptic storm
I better just quit while I'm ahead. :-D

Ready for a bad one? This is going to hurt.

Inspired by your latest post: "Brain Brain Brain"

Or - I might kick myself for suggesting this - "McBrainersons"

Thread peaked at:

Batts and Higgens!
as illustrated by Carl Buell

You can't not.

Heck, you could title it * with a Carl Buell banner.

Or Higgins!
Whatever.
Just the banner!

Neuromance

Quivering Gray
Burning Feathers
The Blog with Two Brains
Doublethink
Brainity and Combs
The Braininators
Trepanation Monthly
and... I'll stop now.

btw, Thanks for the excellent postings so far. I look forward to the new double double blog blog.

Neural Transmissions
Neural Nerds
Little Gray Cells
Swarm Intelligence
Recombination

you could name it OmniBrian, I'd be so honored.