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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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May 31, 2007
More than just Resistance to Science
Category: Ideology
In the May 18th issue of Science there is a revew paper by Paul Bloom and Deena Skolnick Weisberg. An expanded version of it also appeared recently in Edge and many science bloggers are discussing it these days. Enrique has...
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For European LifeScience Bloggers
Category: Blogging
It is high time a blogger wins this prize, don't you think? If you are in Europe or Israel, and you have a life-science blog, apply for this award: EMBO Award for Communication in the Life Sciences Call for entries...
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My Picks From ScienceDaily
Category: Science News
Evolution Of Animal Personalities: Animals differ strikingly in character and temperament. Yet only recently has it become evident that personalities are a widespread phenomenon in the animal kingdom. Animals as diverse as spiders, mice and squids appear to have...
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Nursing Blogging of the week
Category: Carnivals
Change of Shift: Volume 1, No. 25 is up on Emergiblog...
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ClockQuotes
Category: Clock Quotes
What a cunning mixture of sentiment, pity, tenderness, irony surrounds adolescence, what knowing watchfulness! Young birds on their first flight are hardly so hovered around. - Georges Bernanos (1888-1948)...
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I And The Bird #50
Category: Birds
Welcome to the Fiftieth edition of I And The Bird. It's been a while since I last hosted an edition of this carnival (#19) and it has obviously grown a lot since then. With such diversity of posts, I decided...
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May 30, 2007
Don't forget...
Category: Blogging
...to Blog For Sex Education on June 4th and to blog about the sea (oceanography, marine biology and conservation, cool cephalopod pictures...) by the June 8th inaugural Carnival of the Blue....
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Why Are There No Unicorns?
Category: Evolution
Is natural selection omnipotent or are there developmental constraints to what is possible and it is only from a limited range of possibilities that natural selection has to choose? The tension betwen two schools of thought (sometimes thought of in...
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Framing science video
Category: Science Reporting
The Nisbet/Mooney Speaking Science 2.0 talk is now up on YouTube, as well as here under the fold:...
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Stop the Pinon Canyon expansion!
Category: Politics
These two articles in Colorado Springs Independent and Denver Post are just the latest in an ongoing saga about the move by the U.S.Army to expand its Fort Carson base to include an additional million acres of land full of...
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EduBlogging of the week
Category: Carnivals
The Carnival Of Education: Week #121 is up on The Education Wonks Carnival of Homeschooling, the Alaska edition, is up on About:Homeschooling...
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My Picks From ScienceDaily
Category: Science News
Moths Mimic Sounds To Survive: In response to the sonar that bats use to locate prey, the tiger moths make ultrasonic clicks of their own. They broadcast the clicks from a paired set of structures called "tymbals." Many species of...
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Science Blogging Conference update
Category: SBC-NC'08
Anton has done some work on the website for the second NC Science Blogging Conference. The homepage/portal is now here (which makes it easy for linking by everyone) and the wiki has moved here. You can sponsor the conference, or...
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ClockQuotes
Category: Clock Quotes
The practical success of an idea, irrespective of its inherent merit, is dependent on the attitude of the contemporaries. If timely it is quickly adopted; if not, it is apt to fare like a sprout lured out of the ground...
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Seed Writing Contest
Category: Science Education
Seed Magazine and Honeywell are having a writing contest. Unfortunately, for legal reasons, the contest is restricted to US residents over 18. The deadline is July 1st, the length limit is 1200 words and the topic is: What does it...
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May 29, 2007
An exciting new carnival!
Category: Carnivals
Carnival of the Blue: World Ocean Day is June 8, and blogfish will host an ocean blog event. Please send links to some of your best recent work, and I'll post a list of links together with a brief comment....
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Thank you!
Category: Books
Another wonderful reader dipped into my amazon wish list and picked Hidden Camera by Zoran Zivkovic (no relation). Zoran was the first person in former Yugoslavia to get a PhD with science-fiction as a topic of his Dissertation. Soon after...
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Lab Action!
Category: Science Reporting
Remember back in November, when everyone got excited about JoVe (the Journal of Visulized Experiments)? Well, it is not alone in its niche any more. There is now another site similar to that: Lab Action. Of course I homed in...
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Blog Plagiarism Alert
Category: Blogging
It happens to many bloggers sooner or later, and now it happened to Danica - someone is completely stealing and mirroring her blog (and of course earning money from adSense while doing it). Unfortunately for the guy, he (I am...
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Carnivalia
Category: Carnivals
I And The Bird is not the only carnival coming soon. You should also send your submissions to Panta Rei, Mendel's Garden, Encephalon, Circus of the Spineless, Festival of the Trees, Oekologie and Gene Genie very soon......
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MedBlogging of the Week
Category: Carnivals
Grand Rounds Vol. 3, No. 36 are up on From MedSkool...
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My Picks From ScienceDaily
Category: Science News
Young Meerkats Learn The Emotion Before The Message In Threat Calls: It is well known that human speech can provide listeners with simultaneous information about a person's emotions and objects in the environment. Past research has shown that animal...
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ClockQuotes
Category: Clock Quotes
Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana. - Julius Henry "Groucho" Marx...
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Blogrolling for Today
Category: Housekeeping
Duas Quartuncias Peanut Butter Cabal Incoherently Scattered Ponderings Twisted Bacteria ChiliConDarwin A Tiny Revolution...
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May 28, 2007
EnviroBlogging of the week
Category: Carnivals
Carnival of the Green #79 is up on Sustainablog....
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U.S. Army to bomb fossils?!
Category: Paleontology
Are they completely insane?...
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I And The Bird - last call for submissions
Category: Carnivals
You have only about a day and half to send me your entries for the 50th edition of the wonderful carnival I And The Bird. The deadline is tomorrow night, May 29th at 11:59pm EDT. E-mail: coturnix AT gmail DOT...
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Believe it or not....
Category: Science Education
...but I am teaching tonight! No rest on Memorial Day for speed classes. Furthermore, I am giving the first exam (the hardest of the three). Ah, how the students are going to love me.......
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Medical Imaging of the Month
Category: Carnivals
Radiology Grand Rounds #11 are up on Sumer's Radiology Site....
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My Picks From ScienceDaily
Category: Science News
Sex In The Morning Or In The Evening?: Hens solicit sex in the morning to avoid sexual harassment in male-dominated groups of chickens, shown in a new study by Hanne Løvlie of Stockholm University, Sweden, and Dr Tommaso Pizzari of...
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ClockQuotes
Category: Clock Quotes
When you're following your energy and doing what you want all the time, the distinction between work and play dissolves. - Shakti Gawain...
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Godless Blogging of the Fortnight
Category: Atheism
Carnival of the Godless #67 is up on Letters from a broad......
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May 27, 2007
January 31, 2001!?
Category: Politics
Where's the outrage? Obligatory Reading of the Day....
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The Neural Gourmet up close and personal
Category: Blogging
Go and read this excellent interview with Leo Lincourt on Pollyticks.com. Great stuff about blogging, politics and the Carnival of the Liberals....
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Obligatory Readings of the Day - the Ken Hamm and Beyond edition
Category: Balkans
First, as I reported earlier, Archy persuaded PZ Myers to host a one-time carnival about the opening of the Creation Museum - and here is the carnival - a lot of good stuff to read. I especially liked the only...
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My Picks From ScienceDaily (Psych edition)
Category: Science News
These are always more controversial than articles about "hard sciences" so have a go at them:...
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ClockQuotes
Category: Clock Quotes
Ah, Faustus, now hast thou but one bare hour to live And then thou must be damn'd perpetually! Stand still, you ever moving spheres of heaven. That time may cease, and midnight never come; Fair nature's eye, rise, rise again...
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May 26, 2007
Complexity
Category: Evolution
Larry just won the Triple Crown (or a trifecta, betting on the Triple Crown) with the third post in a trio of posts on a very important topic: Facts and Myths Concerning the Historical Estimates of the Number of Genes...
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Proper behavior in a coffee-shop
Category: Humor
Before I start telecommuting, I need to learn some basic rules of behavior......
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Do Serbs really want to join the EU?
Category: Balkans
An interesting poll came out of Gallup yesterday: Despite Kosovo Intervention, Serbians Favor EU Membership On May 15, the Serbian parliament approved a new coalition government led by Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica and President Boris Tadic, both moderates who would...
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Sleep Genes are not the same as 'Genes for sleep'
Category: Chronobiology
Back in the late 1990s, when people first started using various differential screens, etc. looking for elusive "genes for sleep", I wrote in my written prelims (and reprinted it on my blog several years later): Now the sleep researchers are...
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My Picks From ScienceDaily
Category: Science News
Rare Footprints Of Infant Dinosaur Discovered: Researchers at the Morrison Natural History Museum have discovered two rare hatchling dinosaur footprints in the foothills west of Denver, near the town of Morrison. Bacteria Show Promise In Fending Off Global Amphibian...
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ClockQuotes
Category: Clock Quotes
In a world where the time it takes to travel (supersonic) or to bake a potato (microwave) or to process a million calculations (microchip) shrinks inexorably, only three things have remained constant and unrushed: the nine months it takes to...
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May 25, 2007
Blog for Sex Education on June 4th
Category: Sex
It's simple. Just write a post on June 4th that has something to do with sex education. Add this logo on top of your post and leave your permalink in the comments of the logo post. Spread the word.......
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Dawkins On Time
Category: Time
Hey, is he intruding on my territory? ;-) An excellent article about many aspects of time, how we perceive it and what it means to us....
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Today's carnivals
Category: Carnivals
Philosophia Naturalis #10 is up on Daily Irreverence. Friday Ark #140 is up on Modulator....
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My Picks From ScienceDaily
Category: Science News
Definitive Evidence Found Of A Swimming Dinosaur: An extraordinary underwater trackway with 12 consecutive prints provides the most compelling evidence to-date that some dinosaurs were swimmers. The 15-meter-long trackway, located in La Virgen del Campo track site in Spain's...
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ClockQuotes
Category: Clock Quotes
I wasted time, and now doth time waste me; For now hath time made me his numbering clock; My thoughts are minutes. - William Shakespeare...
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Blogrolling for Today
Category: Housekeeping
The Atavism Biology, life, and...what else is there? Secret Sex Lives of Animals Everest 2007 Providentia Alexandra van der Geer The Argo Scientoskop Feminist Philosophers...
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May 24, 2007
Science grants for two local schools
Category: Science Education
Good news for two local schools: Two Chapel Hill-Carrboro schools have received grants to fund school projects. Carrboro High School received a $5,950 grant from the North Carolina Biotechnology Center. Science teacher Robin Bulleri applied for the grant to fund...
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Bill Clinton meets an untimely end after a week on the run
Category: Birds
Fortunately, Janet Reno is still OK. The police brought Bill Clinton to the Orange County Animal Shelter, where he later died. With perfect quote-mining, I made you look, didn't I?...
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Today's carnivals
Category: Carnivals
Skeptic's Circle #61 is up on Skepchick. Carnival of Space #4 is up on Universe Today. Carnivalesque #27 is up on Aardvarchaeology....
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It's Official!
Category: Personal
Yes. I said I wanted this job. And, in a very new and interesting way, after a fun interview, I got it. Signed and faxed the contract yesterday. Will be in San Francisco for a little while in July, then...
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My Picks From ScienceDaily
Category: Science News
New Genetic Data Overturn Long-held Theory Of Limb Development: Long before animals with limbs (tetrapods) came onto the scene about 365 million years ago, fish already possessed the genes associated with helping to grow hands and feet (autopods) report...
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ClockQuotes
Category: Clock Quotes
Let others praise the ancient times; I am glad I was born in these. - Ovid...
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May 23, 2007
Blogging the climb to the peak of Mt. Everest
Category: Blogging
Eighteen year old Samantha Larson did it. Here is the story. Here is her blog. (hat-tip: Ruchira Paul)...
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Today's carnivals, vol.2
Category: Carnivals
The latest Four Stone Hearth is up on Greg Laden's blog. 4th Postdoc Carnival is up on Minor Revisions. Carnival of Depression, Bipolar Disorder, and Mental Health Journeys is up on Mental Health Source Page....
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Carolus Linnaeus' Floral Clocks
Category: History of Science
When it's someone's birthday it is nice to give presents, or a flower. Perhaps a whole boquet of roses. But if the birthday is a really big round number, like 300, and the birthday boy is the one who actually...
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How to find freely-available bio-medical papers?
Category: Open Science
In three easy steps, hopefully made obsolete by a completely Open Science a few years down the road....but surely useful for now....
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Let's try to talk about framing again...carefully...
Category: Science Reporting
In small, easily-digestible chunks: Re-Framing Science While Chris Mooney's Away.. Framing II: Weapons in the Form of Words Framing III: Happy Feet Framing IV: The Lorax Phenomenon Please go, read and try to comment (politely if you can)......
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Today's carnivals
Category: Carnivals
Tangled Bank #80 is up on Geek Counterpoint Carnival of Education #120 is up on I Thought a Think. Carnival of Homeschooling #73 is up on The Lilting House. Scroll down this page to see the latest Carnival of the...
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Linnaeus Birthday Celebration
Category: History of Science
As promised, I will gather here (and update a couple of times during the day) some of the most interesting posts from around the blogosphere about the celebrations of the 300th birthday of Carl von Linne aka Carolus Linnaeus, the...
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Brotherhood and Unity
Category: Balkans
Stronger together. Should have thought of that back in 1991. But, perhaps it's not too late......
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