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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

The Most Fantastic Blogospheric News of the Day (or longer) - Part Deux!

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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If you are a Triangle area blogger...

Category: Blogging

...I'll see you here tonight at 8pm. Which is right now!...

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Greenwich time to remain Greenwich time

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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New Model for Interval Timing

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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Green Invertebrates

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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Liberal Blogging of the week

Category: Carnivals

Carnival of the Liberals #31 is up on Pollyticks.com...

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Ugh!

Category: Politics

Perhaps it is Joe Biden who needs to take a shower...

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Sun Time is the Real Time

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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'Pulp Fiction' does not need to pay copyright, just be honest

Category: Balkans

(August 10, 2005)...

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Science Blogging of the Fortnight

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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Is it possible to collect enough this way?

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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My picks from ScienceDaily

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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Clock Quotes

Category: Clock Quotes

Regret for wasted time is more wasted time. Mason Cooley, O Magazine, April 2004...

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Network-like Mode of Thinking

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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EduBlogging of the week

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

But can you...

Category: Blogging

...handle the Truth?...

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Copycats!

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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Blogrolling - added today

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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The Most Fantastic Blogospheric News of the Day (or longer)!

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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MedBlogging of the Week

Category: Carnivals

Grand Rounds: 3.19 are now up on Envisioning 2.0...

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We Get Mail...

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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Teen Parenthood for the X-box generation

Category: Personal

Parenting is hard. Are you ready (re-posted from October 20, 2005)...

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My picks from ScienceDaily

Category: Science News

As always, see how well the press release matches the actual paper:...

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Clock Quotes

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

Around The Science Blogs....

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)...

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Chapel Hill-Carrboro Blogger Meetups - new time and place!

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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She Has Good Instincts!

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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Responsible consumption of shrimp

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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NeuroBlogging of the fortnight

Category: Carnivals

Encephalon #15: Neuroscience Blog Carnival is up on SharpBrains....

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New potential sleeping pill

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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Fish Eyes

Category: Food

Lots of food blogging around here lately, so why not re-post this one (from October 27, 2005):...

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Is it really counter-propaganda?

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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Listen to my radio interview

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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Children's Medicine Blogging of the Week

Category: Carnivals

Pediatric Grand Rounds Volume 1 Edition 21: What Dreams May Come.....now up on Unintelligent Design...

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Anthology update

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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My picks from ScienceDaily

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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Clock Quotes

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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Meta-meta-blogging

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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Gene?

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

I was tagged...

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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Everyone's a Little Bit Jewish

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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Blogrolling - added today

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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I did not know more people tuned in than to American Idol...

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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I hope they come in chocolate glazed version

Category: Food

Perhaps it's time for me to get serious about eating doughnuts! (Hat tip: Greg)...

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Of course...

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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Medical Imaging of the Week

Category: Carnivals

Radiology Grand Rounds-VIII are up on Sumer's Radiology Site...

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Clock Quotes

Category: Clock Quotes

Life is something that happens when you can't get to sleep. Fran Lebowitz (1950 - )...

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Basics: Biological Clock

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

The Cultural Politics of Sleep

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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I always like it...

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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All the cool folks are doing it....

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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Science Under Attack II - blogospheric response

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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Science Under Attack - blogospheric response

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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Quotidian

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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My picks from ScienceDaily

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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Clock Quotes

Category: Clock Quotes

There is never enough time, unless you're serving it. Malcolm Forbes (1919 - 1990)...

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We agree again

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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What Is It Like to Be a Bat?

Category:

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

This aired too early in the day for my adolescent brain...

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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Pollan Alert

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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Carnivals

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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Back to the Classroom

Category: Basic Biology

This is what I will be doing tomorrow morning again. I have so much fun!...

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Serbian Citation Index

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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Hooked on Hooking Up, Or What's Wrong With Conservative View Of Marriage

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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I Dream Of Jeannie

Category: