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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June 30, 2007
Category: Food
While in San Francisco, I'd like to eat at Incanto (look around the site for their menu and progressive food and water policies, and they also have a blog). It is at 1550 Church Street, on the southwest corner of...
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Category: Housekeeping
The Flying Trilobite Ljubisa Bojic 1420Mhz Weird Science Good Tithings Curious Expeditions Dandelion Diva Cabinet of Wonders Simplistic Art Mixotrophy Offal Good...
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Category: Politics
Edwards aside, this is an excellent look at the current political landscape in the USA: John Edwards and Dominant Media's Selective Skewering of Populist Hypocrisy by Paul Street:...
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Category: Society
Early reviews of the movie are coming out. Definitely read Ezra Klein's take on it. And Amanda Marcotte's. Also Mark Hoofnagle. And why Rob does not want to see it. Perhaps it is my upbringing, but the fact that one...
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Category: Pseudoscience
It's been a while since I last blogged about the Bosnian Pyramid (I did follow the story superficially, though, but was sick of trolls attracted to the topic), but I have to break the silence for this piece of good...
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Category: Science News
Lots of new papers just got published in PLoS-Genetics and PLoS-Computational Biology. Here are a couple of papers that caught my eye: From Morphology to Neural Information: The Electric Sense of the Skate: The electric sense appears in a...
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Category: Science News
First Bacterial Genome Transplantation Changes One Species To Another: Researchers at the J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI) have announced the results of work on genome transplantation methods allowing them to transform one type of bacteria into another type dictated by...
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Category: Clock Quotes
Time as he grows old teaches many lessons. - Aeschylus...
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June 29, 2007
Category: Science News
Modern Brains Have An Ancient Core: Hormones control growth, metabolism, reproduction and many other important biological processes. In humans, and all other vertebrates, the chemical signals are produced by specialised brain centres such as the hypothalamus and secreted into the...
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Category: Fun
Im in ur savanas takin pictrs of poopin elfants....
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Category: Open Science
Not that it costs anything to have one... Yet, the Konsortium of science libraries in Serbia is seriously contemplating shutting down their KOBSON blog, an invaluable tool in science communication in the region. Danica, who the regular readers of this...
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Category: Books
The Shadow of the Wind Thank you...
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Category: Open Science
It's always intriguing to know what the peer-reviewers have thought and written about a particular manuscript. Now, you can find out, at least in some cases, on PLoS-ONE papers. Chris Surridge explains....
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Category: Carnivals
I And The Bird #52 is up on The Wandering Tattler Friday Ark #145 is up on the Modulator...
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Category: Blogging
July 1st through July 4th. Here are the detailed instructions how to participate....
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Category: Science News
The Newest Artificial Intelligence Computing Tool: People: A USC Information Sciences Institute researcher thinks she has found a new source of artificial intelligence computing power to solve difficult IT problems of information classification, reliability, and meaning. That tool, according to...
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Category: Clock Quotes
Nothing valuable can be lost by taking time. - Abraham Lincoln...
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I have got to see this movie! Is it coming to the USA any time soon? Or Netflix? Thanks Peggy...I won't be able to sleep tonight, scared of the bleating woolly terror!...
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Category: Blogging
You can now join the PLoS cause and the PLoS group if you want. If you are my friend, you can see all sorts of other groups and causes I have joined as well.......
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June 28, 2007
Category: Housekeeping
Sleep Apnea ED Average Earthman Deep Thoughts and Silliness Three-Toed Sloth Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science The Vanity Website The Indigestibele...
Posted by Coturnix at 10:12 PM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Science Practice
Stem-Cell research is easier in some places than others. Help us locate exactly where. When is the North Carolina/Triangle community going to try to push hard for state funding of stem-cell research? Or have I missed something?...
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Category: Books
My copy of the book just arrived in the mail. This answers my question of what to read in SF (at least until Harry Potter VII comes out...)....
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Category: Carnivals
Philosophia Naturalis #11 - Powers of 11 - is up on Highly Allochthonous. The first anniversary edition of The Change Of Shift is up on NursingLink. Carnival of Space #9 is up on The Planetary Society Weblog...
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Category: Science News
A whole bunch of papers got published on PLoS-ONE yesterday. I did not have time to check them out very closely yet, but a few titles immediatelly caught my attention: High Costs of Female Choice in a Lekking Lizard by...
Posted by Coturnix at 9:54 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Science News
Mathematicians Discover A Simple Way To Formulate Complex Scientific Results: A new analysis of behaviour in a structured population illuminates Darwin's theories of co-operation and competition between kin, and provides an abstract model that could simplify scientists' quest to map...
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Category: Clock Quotes
Blow the dust off the clock. Your watches are behind the times. Throw open the heavy curtains which are so dear to you: You do not even suspect that the day has already dawned outside. - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn...
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Category: Housekeeping
I'll be leaving in one week and staying in San Francisco for one month. I'll be busy, to say the least. What should I do with the blog in the meantime? After all, it is the middle of the summer...
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Category: Ideology
What Archy says... Related......
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June 27, 2007
Category: Humor
Everyone always blogs about Bush... After all, Bush is such an easy target - there is not a day that he or some of his buddies do not do something outrageously bad. And with the Media covering it as if...
Posted by Coturnix at 11:51 PM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Framing Science
These three links have recently become freely available: Chris Mooney's interview with Treehugger. Chris Mooney's article in Harper's Magazine/ And a report from the NYAS meeting....
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Category: Politics
Finally someone is standing up to the lunatics! First shot was firm but polite. The second was uncompromising - yes, they really are "crazies" and that is how we should call them. And it is high time someone stood up...
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Category: Personal
My friend (and the driving force behind all bloggy events in the Triangle area) Anton Zuiker has a new job! And not just any job - but a perfect job: In August, I will take a new job at Duke...
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Category: Personal
My friend, neighbor, blogger, frequent commenter on this blog, and fellow Edwards supporter, Robert Peterson just became a father again! Congratulations!...
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Category: Personal
I find it very difficult to say something nice, deep, profound or meaningful at the time of sorrow. But I am deeply saddened by the news that Lindsay Beyerstein's father has died. Lindsay is a dear friend, a philosopher and...
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Category: Science Practice
Nature News just had an article announcing a new social networking site for physicians and biomedical scientists called Prometeo Network. Another one to check out and add to the ever-growing list of such new sites....
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Category: Environment
Here is some chemistry of bisphenol A, but what is really interesting is this article about Fred vom Saal. It is quite revealing about the way industry produces bad science in order to protect its financial interests: "The moment we...
Posted by Coturnix at 1:25 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Science News
Foreign Herbivores May Be Key To Curbing Invasive Weeds: Joint research with scientists in Argentina, Australia and China could lead to discovery of new biological control agents for several exotic weeds plaguing Florida and other U.S. states. Some of...
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Category: Clock Quotes
Throw out an alarming alarm clock. If the ring is loud and strident, you're waking up to instant stress. You shouldn't be bullied out of bed, just reminded that it's time to start your day. - Sharon Gold...
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Category: Carnivals
Grand Rounds Vol. 3, No. 40 are up on Wandering Visitor Carnival of the Green # 83 is up on Dianovo. Carnival of Education, The RoadTrip Edition is up on Education in Texas Radiology Grand Rounds XIII are up on...
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Category: Blogging
It's Time for a Literary Medblogging Project.... : Literary medblogging projects seem to occur on a semiannual basis: There was the "Dark and Stormy Night" series in December 2005, the "Literary Cheese Wheel" in July 2006, and the "Showcase" in...
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June 26, 2007
Category: Science Education
As more and more people are slowly coming out of the woodwork and revealing they are going to Science Foo Camp, I am getting more and more excited about it! Yes, I have registered and reserved my hotel room already....
Posted by Coturnix at 10:56 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Housekeeping
Yves Roumazeilles Jacks of Science Science of the Invisible I, Platform (by Eric Rice) CorpBlawg Notes From Ukraine Howard Hughes Precollege Program Summer 2007 Student Research at Duke William Kamkwamba's Malawi Windmill Blog...
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Category: Blogging
Libraryman just gave a Presentation about it, and Danica likes it. Anyone using it yet?...
Posted by Coturnix at 9:59 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Evolution
You probably know by now, but you can access for free (at least for a couple of days) a whole slew of articles about evolution on the Science page of New York Times. Most are excellent, as usual (hey, it's...
Posted by Coturnix at 9:53 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Blogging
Apophenia, danah boyd's blog is one of the first blogs I ever read and have been reading more-or-less continuously over the past 3-4 years (since she took a class on framing with George Lakoff and blogged about it). She is...
Posted by Coturnix at 8:50 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Politics
The Union of Concerned Scientists has picked the 12 finalists in their cartoon contest and it is now your turn to vote for the best one. While I personally prefer the TomTomorrowesque #9, I think that the simpler cartoons, e.g.,...
Posted by Coturnix at 8:01 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Science News
Why Starling Females Cheat: While women may cheat on men for personal reasons, superb starling females appear to stray from their mates for the sake of their chicks, according to recent research. The study found that superb starling females...
Posted by Coturnix at 8:58 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Clock Quotes
We can neither put back the clock nor slow down our forward speed, as we are already flying pilotless, on instrument controls, it is even too late to ask where we are going. - Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky...
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Category: Blogging
...to Katherine Sharpe, Rob Knop and Rev. BigDumbChimp, science bloggers extra-ordinaire....
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June 25, 2007
Category: Open Science
A few days ago, Nature launched its newest Web 2.0 baby, the Nature Precedings. It is very interesting to see the initial responses, questions and possible misunderstandings of the new site, so browse through these posts and attached comments by...
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Category: Blogging
Karen is looking for a nice new banner for her blog. Biochemistry, science, medicine and journalism are the themes. Go wild with your creativity!...
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Category: Housekeeping
Dum Luk's The Glass is Too Big Bugs 'n' Gas Gal's Lair Angry Toxicologist My Dinner with Andre the Giant Future Majority Barbarian Blog...
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Category: Environment
For information, check my older posts here and here. The most recent e-mail is copied+pasted under the fold....
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Category: Humor
I got this comic strip from Chris, through the Facebook, of course: Related...
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Category: Politics
The second blogswarm will be held July 1-4th....
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Category: Science News
Bees Seem To Benefit From Having Favorite Colors: A bee's favourite colour can help it to find more food from the flowers in their environment, according to new research from Queen Mary, University of London. Dr Nigel Raine and Professor...
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Category: Clock Quotes
Even a stopped clock is right twice a day. - Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach...
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Category: Society
Online and Offline. Obligatory Readings of the Day....
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Category: Housekeeping
I've been a little behind (as in 'few weeks') in adding the blogs I tagged in my Blogrolling for Today posts into the actual Blogroll but I caught up with that a few minutes ago. That Blogroll is a Monster!...
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June 24, 2007
Category: Carnivals
The new edition of What's up postdoc? is up on Being a Scientist and a Woman Carnival of the Godless #69 is up on The Uncredible Hallq....
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Category: Creationism
Professor Steve Steve, Wesley Elsberry, Tara Smith and Jason Rosenhouse [edit: Part 3 is now available] went to that funny new "museum" in Kentucky and report about it so you don't ever have to go yourself!...
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Category: Politics
By Kidoakland: Abel Guillen: the Rise of the Millennials: In my recent and direct experience, millennials are engaged, groundedly idealistic and willing to make careers that will change their nation and world over the long haul. I see this every...
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Category: Science News
Individual Differences In Sleep Structure Are Biologically Determined: Sleeping pattern variability has long been attributed to differences in several non-biological factors. Now a study from the Sleep and Performance Research Center at Washington State University Spokane, Wash., has shown...
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Category: Clock Quotes
Wear your learning, like your watch, in a private pocket, and do not pull it out and strike it merely to show you have one. If you are asked what o'clock it is, tell it, but do not proclaim it...
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