I am the Online Community Manager at PLoS-ONE (Public Library of Science). My job is to try to motivate you to comment on the papers there. My scientific specialty is chronobiology (circadian rhythms and photoperiodism), with additional interests in comparative physiology, animal behavior and evolution. You can contact me at: Coturnix@gmail.com
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January 31, 2007
Category: Blogging
How many such pieces of news can one survive in one day! Now that Amanda has been welcomed by concern-troll-mysoginists who followed her from her blog to the Edwards campaign blog (where, frankly, nobody lets them stir the pot) there...
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Category: Blogging
...I'll see you here tonight at 8pm. Which is right now!...
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Category: Chronobiology
In light of my post earlier today about the discrepanices between 'real time' and 'clock time' (or 'social time'), it is heartening that the Parliament in the U.K. wisely decided not to switch their clocks to the time the rest...
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Category: Chronobiology
While study of Time-Perception is, according to many, a sub-discipline of chronobiology, I personally know very little about it. Time perception is defined as interval timing, i.e., measuring duration of events (as opposed to counting, figuring which one of the...
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Category: Carnivals
Circus of the Spineless #17: The Symbology of Invertebrates is up on The Voltage Gate Carnival of the Green #62 is up on Jetson Green...
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Category: Carnivals
Carnival of the Liberals #31 is up on Pollyticks.com...
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Category: Politics
Perhaps it is Joe Biden who needs to take a shower...
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Category: Chronobiology
Time Zones as experimental tools - if you live in a Big City you are just like one of my experimental subjects!
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Category: Balkans
(August 10, 2005)...
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Category: Carnivals
Tangled Bank 72: What's in a name? Read the best of last two weeks' science blogging on Ouroboros....
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Category: Academia
Graduate school is expensive, even with grants and loans. Perhaps if a lot of A-listers linked to this, it could be possible to collect enough. (via Chickpea Science)...
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Category: Science News
Student's Research With Disney Giraffes May Help Conserve Several Species: University of Central Florida doctoral student Jennifer Fewster is studying giraffe excrement at Disney's Animal Kingdom Lodge in Lake Buena Vista in an effort to figure out what the animals...
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Category: Clock Quotes
Regret for wasted time is more wasted time. Mason Cooley, O Magazine, April 2004...
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Category: Blogging
I am so glad to see that conversations started face-to-face at the Science Blogging Conference are now continuing online (see the bottom of the ever-growing linkfests here and here). While some are between science bloggers, as expected, others are between...
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Category: Carnivals
Teaching Carnival #19 is up on Scribblingwoman The 104th Carnival of Education is up on The Median Sib 57th Carnival of Homeschooling is up on PalmTree Pundit...
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January 30, 2007
Category: Blogging
...handle the Truth?...
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Category: Blogging
Ha! We broke the ice and now others are following our example. The Best of Technology Writing 2007 is being planned (hat-tip: Pimm). I think this is great! Biotech articles are welcome as well, so send in your faves for...
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Category: Blogging
Scientia Natura: Evolution And Rationality Blogfish Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog 1Third Live-awake Weblog Eco-Chick A History of Histrionics Scaryduck The Beagle Project Blog Slow Down Now Blackprof Eyeteeth The Southern Fried Skeptic Spewing Truth in the face of lies Insufficiently advanced...
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Category: Blogging
Amanda Marcotte of Pandagon, the quickest draw of the Internets, the master of witty blog titles, and the scourge of mysoginists worldwide (like my regulars could avoid my almost-daily links to Pandagon and don't know who she is...), has just...
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Category: Carnivals
Grand Rounds: 3.19 are now up on Envisioning 2.0...
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Category: Religion
[Pushed to the top of the page due to interesting updates...] Ah, the perils of growing traffic! I get e-mail. Usually those are nice questions about sleep disorders, or requests for link exchanges. But today I got a christianist. Oy...
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Category: Personal
Parenting is hard. Are you ready (re-posted from October 20, 2005)...
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Category: Science News
As always, see how well the press release matches the actual paper:...
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Category: Clock Quotes
If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the loss of sleep. Dale Carnegie...
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January 29, 2007
Category: Blogging
The 'Basic Concepts in Science" list is getting longer and longer every couple of hours or so, it seems. Try to keep up with it. You may even want to Google-bomb (by linking using the same words as Wilkins does)...
Posted by Coturnix at 11:19 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Blogging
All the new information is here - four meetings over the next month: one in cyberspace, two in the Real World (sitting and sipping coffee) and one in the Real World (moving about and doing fun stuff)....
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Category: Politics
Kate Michelman, lifelong feminist and former head of NARAL, talks about why she's signed up to work for John Edwards (click through the ad to read the entire thing): ....I think that says a lot about his seriousness and commitment...
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Category: Food
I love seafood, but I eat it quite rarely. About a third of my old Department did fisheries and aquaculture science so I've seen many seminars and Thesis defenses on the topic and am quite aware of the problems with...
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Category: Carnivals
Encephalon #15: Neuroscience Blog Carnival is up on SharpBrains....
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Category: Chronobiology
If you discover a brain chemical which, when missing or malfunctioning (due to a mutation in its receptor) abruptly puts people and animals to sleep when they don't want to - a condition called narcolepsy - then you can work...
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Category: Food
Lots of food blogging around here lately, so why not re-post this one (from October 27, 2005):...
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Category: Animal Rights
As a follow-up on the whole PETA brouhaha, my astute commenter oneproudaardvark notices that the SOTU-farce ad campaign by PETA is strangely coinciding with the beginning of the trial against PETA for butchering dogs in the back of the truck...
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Category: Personal
You may remember last week I gave a radio interview. It is airing in Asheville area tonight but you can already listen to it on the Brainshrub blog....
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Category: Carnivals
Pediatric Grand Rounds Volume 1 Edition 21: What Dreams May Come.....now up on Unintelligent Design...
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Category: Books
Now that the Anthology is arriving at people's homes, getting read and even reviewed on blogs, I hope that more people will take a minute to post reviews or ratings on the actual book webpage. In one week, it has...
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Category: Science News
Fruit Flies And Global Warming: Some Like It Hot: Researchers working in Australia have discovered ways in which fruit flies might react to extreme fluctuations in temperature. Short-term exposure to high heat stress ("heat hardening") has been known to have...
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Category: Clock Quotes
Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours. Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)...
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Category: Blogging
Yes, I know, I've been guilty on occasion of this nasty navel-gazing practice myself, but I was never this funny or this funny. Links discovered by Bitch PhD who also indulges herself in some meta-blogging about 18th century blogging. So,...
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Category: Basic Biology
In the series of "Basic Concept And Terms" (yup, I know, John is well known for misspelling people's last names, including mine), several people have already chimed in with their own definitions of the "gene", demonstrating how unclear this concept...
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January 28, 2007
Category: Fun
...by Matt. No celebrity is very much look-alike with me (and I included only male faces to eliminate Lindsay Lohan's childhood picture): http://www.myheritage.com...
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Category: Fun
Since I think that Fiddler on the Roof is the best musical ever, of course I totally loved this: (Found here by Joolya) I blogged somewhere before (I cannot find it now - darned Google and Technorati are imperfect!) that...
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Category: Blogging
Since Katrina... Women in Science She's Such A Geek Street Anatomy Tangled Up In Blue Guy Common Ills Sasa Radojcic KoBSON...
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Category: Politics
...because I was not one of them. But now, thanks to Ed Cone, I know what the State of the Union address was all about....
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Category: Food
Perhaps it's time for me to get serious about eating doughnuts! (Hat tip: Greg)...
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Category: Books
What Kind of Reader Are You? Your Result: Obsessive-Compulsive Bookworm You're probably in the final stages of a Ph.D. or otherwise finding a way to make your living out of reading. You are one of the literati. Other people's grammatical...
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Category: Carnivals
Radiology Grand Rounds-VIII are up on Sumer's Radiology Site...
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Category: Clock Quotes
Life is something that happens when you can't get to sleep. Fran Lebowitz (1950 - )...
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Category: Chronobiology
Considering I've been writing textbook-like tutorials on chronobiology for quite a while now, trying always to write as simply and clearly as possible, and even wrote a Basic Concepts And Terms post, I am surprised that I never actually defined...
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January 27, 2007
Category: Sleep
Nicole Eugene recently defended her Masters Thesis called Potent Sleep: The Cultural Politics of Sleep (PDF) on a topic that I find fascinating: Why is sleep, a moment that is physiologically full and mentally boundless, thought to be a moment...
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Category: Animal Rights
.. when someone rips PETA a new one... Added later: Jill and Chris have more (and watch all those disccussions in the comment threads on all three posts!). Added even later: Archy has a great analysis of this....
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Category: Fun
I am:Robert A. HeinleinBeginning with technological action stories and progressing to epics with religious overtones, this take-no-prisoners writer racked up some huge sales numbers. Which science fiction writer are you?...
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Category: Academia
There are also more responses to the U of California lawsuit described by Sara Robinson the other day. See what Amanda and PZ Myers have to say about it. Edit: and Mike...
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Category: Science Practice
More and more science bloggers are chiming in on the story about a nasty PR campaign against open-source publishing. See Revere, Alex, Steve, Tim and Corie for a taste and several more are linked from here. Also, read David Biello...
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Category: Chronobiology
The Merriam-Webster Word of the Day for January 27, 2007 is: quotidian • \kwoh-TID-ee-un\ • adjective 1 : occurring every day *2 : belonging to each day : everyday 3 : commonplace, ordinary Example Sentence: As an employee, Fiona is...
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Category: Science News
Fish Can Determine Their Social Rank By Observation Alone, Study Finds: A male fish can size up potential rivals, and even rank them from strongest to weakest, simply by watching how they perform in territorial fights with other males, according...
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Category: Clock Quotes
There is never enough time, unless you're serving it. Malcolm Forbes (1919 - 1990)...
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Category: Politics
After a very pleasant dinner on Saturday where we discovered we agree on pretty much everything (e.g., religion, evolution, etc.), I am pleased that Larry Moran and I also agree on yet another thing....
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I am not surprised at all. Read more on Splintered Mind and Cognitive Daily (check the comments on both)...
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January 26, 2007
Category: Rhythmic Human
I was too busy with the conference so I missed the NPR Morning Edition story on one of my favourite subjects: Adolescent Sleep, which was followed by two more stories on the same subject! I am glad to see this...
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Category: Food
In this Sunday's NY Times Magazine (not available online yet), Michael Pollan will have the cover story: "The Age of Nutritionism: How Scientists have Ruined the Way We Eat." Looking forward to reading (and perhaps blogging) it. Update: You can...
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Category: Carnivals
Write about science and get exposure - send your stuff to carnivals. Calls for submissions have been announced for Tangled Bank, Grand Rounds, Skeptic's Circle, Mendel's Garden, Bio::Blogs, Encephalon, Circus of the Spineless, I And The Bird, Philosophia Naturalis, Change...
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Category: Basic Biology
This is what I will be doing tomorrow morning again. I have so much fun!...
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Category: Science Practice
SCIndex is a new online project that provides a searchable database of scientific publications in Serbia. Some papers are in Serbian language, others in English (and they all tend to have at least the Abstract in English) and all papers...
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Category: Ideology
This is two years old (February 16, 2005) but still as provocative....(also my belated contirbution to the Blog For Choice Day) and I'll repost the second part of it next Friday....
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