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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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October 31, 2007
Announcing the new PLoS Journal: Neglected Tropical Diseases!
Category: PLoS
These last couple of days were very exciting here at PLoS. After months of preparation and hard work, PLoS presents the latest addition to its collection of top-notch scientific journals. PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases went live yesterday at 6:42pm EDT....
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Blogrolling for Today
Category: Housekeeping
WaterBlog: ask an aquatic biologist... I Love Science, Really What an untenured college professor shouldn't be doing... Marcus' World Before Health Care Renewal GoozNews...
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Science Blogging Conference - who is coming? (Bloggers are coming from all over the place!)
Category: SBC-NC'08
There are 80 days until the Science Blogging Conference. The wiki is looking good, the Program is shaping up nicely, and there is more and more blog and media coverage already. There are already 112 registered participants and if you...
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ClockQuotes
Category: Clock Quotes
Science is a lot like sex. Sometimes something useful comes of it, but that's not the reason we're doing it. - Richard Feynman...
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October 30, 2007
My picks from ScienceDaily
Category: Science News
Fossilized Spider, 50 Million Years Old, Clear As Life: A 50-million-year-old fossilised spider has been brought back to life in stunning 3D by a scientist at The University of Manchester. Fossilized Body Imprints Of Amphibians Found In 330 Million-year-old Rocks:...
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Today's carnivals
Category: Carnivals
The Boneyard #8 is up on Hairy Museum of Natural History Carnival of the Green #101 is up on Money and Values Grand Rounds Volume 4, Number 6 are up on Running a hospital Radiology Grand Rounds XVII are up...
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New and Exciting in PLoS ONE
Category: Science News
Clocks, magnetoreception, jellyfish fossils, frog diversity, African Buffalo, emotions + memory, overfishing, infectious cancers, solar disinfection, salamanders, Drosophila evolution, Phineas Gage...
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Where does a fruitfly go when it goes out for a walk?
Category: Animal Behavior
Last week's PLoS ONE paper, Analysis of the Trajectory of Drosophila melanogaster in a Circular Open Field Arena, is the subject of the newest Journal Club. It is an interesting methods paper, showing the way a camera and some math...
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DonorsChoose last call (this time for real)!
Category: Education
There is just a couple of more days left and my challenge is still at 50% (just 6 donors!) so I am panicking. There are several projects that are completely funded and several others that are still far away from...
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Run for Cover - a Four-Headed Penis!
Category: Friday Weird Sex Blogging
If it was Friday and if I still had the time, energy and inspiration for Friday Weird Sex Blogging, I would definitely write something snarky about this latest study - of a four-headed penis of the Echidna. But the topic...
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How to talk about Health Care
Category: Cognition
Rockridge Institute published a set of articles (and a video ad) that I found quite interesting about the way to frame health care. See for yourself: Introduction to Rockridge's Health Care Campaign: Framing for Rockridge is about the honest expression...
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Science Blogging Conference - who is coming? (Local scientists)
Category: SBC-NC'08
There are 81 days until the Science Blogging Conference. The wiki is looking good, the Program is shaping up nicely, and there is more and more blog and media coverage already. There are already 112 registered participants and if you...
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ClockQuotes
Category: Clock Quotes
You must remember this, A kiss is still a kiss, A sigh is just a sigh; The fundamental things apply, As time goes by. - Herman Hupfeld...
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Are you a naked mole-rattist?
Category: Animal Behavior
Do you agree that Naked Mole Rats are beautiful? Does it irk you to no end when you hear someone state that they are ugly? Does it make you mad when the MSM, oblivious, ignorant and insensitive, repeats that standard...
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October 29, 2007
Intellectual Blogger Award
Category: Blogging
Mo the Neurophilosopher awarded me with a coveted prize - the Intellectual Blogger Award, bestowed to.... ...those bloggers who demonstrate an inclination to think on their own. This is what I think is needed in today's blogosphere. The term 'Intellectual'...
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My picks from ScienceDaily
Category: Science News
Big Fossil 'Raptor' Tracks Show Group Behavior: Everyone knows that "raptor" dinosaurs walked with their deadly sickle-shaped foot claws held off the ground and that they moved in packs ... right? After all, it was in "Jurassic Park." But until...
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Blogging on Peer Reviewed Research Icons Inauguration Day!
Category: Blogging
If you are a regular reader of this blog, you may have seen this, this and this, i.e., an effort to design an icon that a blogger can place on the top of a post that discusses peer-reviewed research. The...
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Science Blogging Conference - who is coming? (The Guest Star)
Category: SBC-NC'08
There are 82 days until the Science Blogging Conference. The wiki is looking good, the Program is shaping up nicely, and there is more and more blog and media coverage already. There are already 109 registered participants and if you...
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ClockQuotes
Category: Clock Quotes
I don't have time to distinguish between the unfortunate and the incompetent. - Charles de Gaulle...
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My picks from ScienceDaily
Category: Science News
World's Hottest Chile Pepper Discovered: Researchers at New Mexico State University recently discovered the world's hottest chile pepper. Bhut Jolokia, a variety of chile pepper originating in Assam, India, has earned Guiness World Records' recognition as the world's hottest chile...
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October 28, 2007
Good short video interviews with local Web pioneers
Category: Blogging
Back at ConvergeSouth, Leonard Witt did several short video interviews with cool participants. Among others, you should definitely see brief interviews with Anton Zuiker, Kirk Ross and Ruby Sinreich....
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Go Greene!
Category: North Carolina
Local elections are next week. This is my official endorsement for Sally Greene for Chapel Hill Town Council. And not just because she is a blogger. Or because she was endorsed by The Independent. But because of what Brian said....
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Obligatory Reading of the Day (heck no - obligatory reading of the Week)
Category: Medicine
No Girrafes On Unicycles Beyond This Point...
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Triangle Malaria Symposium
Category: Medicine
The Triangle Malaria Symposium will be on Thursday, November 15, 2007, at 1-7 pm at the Duke University Searle Center. At first I thought it was this week, but now I see it is the week after, so perhaps...
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For my European Readers
Category: Fun
Not that it's a good thing.......
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Science Blogging Conference - who is coming? (The Serbs are coming!)
Category: SBC-NC'08
There are 83 days until the Science Blogging Conference. The wiki is looking good, the Program is shaping up nicely, and there is more and more blog and media coverage already. There are already 109 registered participants and if you...
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ClockQuotes
Category: Clock Quotes
Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time. - Benjamin Disraeli...
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October 27, 2007
Bob Young - The connection between Ibiblio, Open Source, Lulu, and the number 42
Category: Technology
Paul announced it and I will try my best to be there on Tuesday: Who: Bob Young, founder of Lulu.com, Lulu.tv and Red Hat Date: Tuesday, October 30, 2007 Time: 3:30pm - 5:00pm Location: Sonja Haynes Stone Center, Room 103...
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How to build a better peer-review system
Category: Academia
Mark Patterson writes in Bringing Peer Review Out of the Shadows: ----------------------- Hauser and Fehr propose a system for holding late reviewers to account by penalizing them when it's their turn to be an author. A slow reviewer's paper would...
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Facebook News
Category: Blogging
As usual, some get it, some don't: Facebook-ing Philanthropy: Social networks like Facebook that closely resemble users' off-line social life could shake up philanthropy. Even if large organizations don't immediately launch a cause on their own, any Facebook member can...
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Blogrolling for Today
Category: Housekeeping
Sceadugenga Common Sense Photo of Nature by Kopernik Star Stryder Jayne's Breast Cancer Blog Quackometer Daisy's Dead Air Mary Evelyn Mestarr Mechanically Separated Meat TechRivet The Indigestible Jasiri...
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Open Access Taking Over The World!
Category: Open Science
Liz Allen posted this on the Wall of the PLoS Facebook group yesterday: Here's a fun Friday activity for all of you who like to track the stats of the inevitable rise and world domination of OA! Heather from SPARC...
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Beagle Project has Swag!
Category: History of Science
You have seen the button for the Beagle Project on my sidebar - it will stay there forever! But now, I see, they have opened a CafePress store where you can get yourself t-shirts, coffee-mugs and buttons and the proceeds...
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Which Single Intervention Would Do the Most to Improve the Health of Those Living on Less Than $1 Per Day?
Category: Medicine
Since I was gone to two meetings and nobody else can walk the dog as regularly as I can, the dog spent the week at Grandma's in Raleigh. Today I went to pick her up (the dog, that is) which...
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Science Blogging Conference - who is coming? (Environmental Protection Agency)
Category: SBC-NC'08
There are 84 days until the Science Blogging Conference. The wiki is looking good, the Program is shaping up nicely, and there is more and more blog and media coverage already. There are already 108 registered participants and if you...
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My picks from ScienceDaily
Category: Science News
Same-sex Attraction Is Genetically Wired In Nematode's Brain: University of Utah biologists genetically manipulated nematode worms so the animals were attracted to worms of the same sex -- part of a study that shows sexual orientation is wired in...
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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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October 26, 2007
Happy HalloMeme!
Category: Fun
Oh-oh! I got tagged by another meme - the Happy HalloMeme! - by Rick. The idea is to highlight a scary marine or SF film! I was very young, probably around 7 or 8, when TV Belgrade decided to air...
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New and Exciting in PLoS Community Journals
Category: Science News
As always on Fridays, there are new papers published in PLoS Genetics, PLoS Pathogens and PLoS Computational Biology. A few picks - but you go and check them all out: Surveillance of Arthropod Vector-Borne Infectious Diseases Using Remote Sensing...
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Today's carnivals
Category: Carnivals
The latest edition of the Space Carnival is up on Star Stryder Friday Ark #162 is up on The Modulator...
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Senate votes for the Public Access to NIH-Funded Research
Category: Open Science
On Monday, the U.S. Senate voted to pass the FY2008 Labor, HHS, and Education Appropriations Bill (S.1710), including a provision that directs the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to strengthen its Public Access Policy by requiring rather than requesting participation...
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Science Blogging Conference - who is coming? (Student Bloggers)
Category: SBC-NC'08
There are 85 days until the Science Blogging Conference. The wiki is looking good, the Program is shaping up nicely, and there is more and more blog and media coverage already. There are already 106 registered participants and if you...
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ClockQuotes
Category: Clock Quotes
If the scissors are not used daily on the beard, it will not be long before the beard is, by its luxuriant growth, pretending to be the head. - Hakim Jami (1414-92)...
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October 25, 2007
Skeptic's Circle
Category: Carnivals
Skeptics' Circle #72 is up on The Quackometer and is very funny!...
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The Generation Clash on Facebook
Category: Blogging
Jim Buie asks: I received a query from CBS News technology correspondent Daniel Sieberg about "the older generation" on Facebook. Do you have a story to share about your experiences on Facebook, particularly in relation to teens, many of whom...
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San Diego Zoo survives the Wildfires (so far)
Category: Science News
Via Russlings (here, here and here so far), information about the effects of San Diego wildfires on the San Diego Zoo: San Diego zoo ordered closed, Wild Animal park in immediate danger Fire Update from the Panda Station from a...
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New and Exciting on PLoS ONE
Category: Science News
Travelling delayed me a little bit, but as you already learned to expect by now, new articles get published on PLoS ONE on Tuesday afternoons. Before I showcase the papers I personally find interesting, first let me remind you to...
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Science Blogging Conference - who is coming? (Social Sciences and Humanities)
Category: SBC-NC'08
There are 86 days until the Science Blogging Conference. The wiki is looking good, the Program is shaping up nicely, and there is more and more blog and media coverage already. There are already 105 registered participants and if you...
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This must be Bad Math
Category: Blogging
Apparently some computer geeks at Carnegie Mellon came up with a complicated mathematical formula to decide which blogs should one read to be most up to date, i.e., to quickly know about important stories that propagate over the blogosphere? Bloggersblog...
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ClockQuotes
Category: Clock Quotes
Always have some project under way . . . an ongoing project that goes over from day to day and thus makes each day a smaller unit of time. - Dr. Lillian Troll...
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Nesting
Category: A Picture Is Worth A Thousand Words
Biscuit and Marbles:...
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DonorsChoose update
Category: Education
There is less than one week left and my challenge is still at 45% (just 5 donors!). All the relevant information is here. The other day, Janet and I participated in a silent auction at the ASIS&T meeting. You go...
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My picks from ScienceDaily
Category: Science News
St. Bernard Study Shows Human-directed Evolution At Work: The St Bernard dog - named after the 11th century priest Bernard of Menthon - is living proof that evolution does occur, say scientists. Biologists at The University of Manchester say...
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October 24, 2007
Sleeping with the New York Times
Category: Sleep
Being out of town and all, I missed it, but NYTimes published a whole lot of articles about sleep yesterday. Of course, as I enjoy poking around bird brains, the article by Carl Zimmer - In Study of Human Patterns,...
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Daylight Savings Time worse than previously thought
Category: Chronobiology
I am sure I have ranted about the negative effects of DST here and back on Circadiana, but the latest study - The Human Circadian Clock's Seasonal Adjustment Is Disrupted by Daylight Saving Time (pdf) (press releases: ScienceDaily, EurekAlert) by...
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Converting your e-mail address to ASCII
Category: Blogging
If you go here: http://getyourwebsitehere.com/jswb/text_to_ascii.html and type in your email address, it will convert it to ASCII, thus making it harder for bots to pick up the address, while making it easier for readers to copy and paste without having...
Posted by Coturnix at 9:27 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Blogrolling for today
Category: Housekeeping
The Banana Peel Project MOMocrats BioBlog (NZ) The Divinely Guided Boot of Upward Inspiration ChemSpider Blog...
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Global Theme Issue on Poverty and Human Development
Category: Medicine
Global Theme Issue on Poverty and Human Development (which I mentioned a few days ago here) was a great success. You can see all the articles associated with it here. PLoS has collected all the poverty-related articles from its Journals...
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Uber-geekery: Computer History of SciBlings
Category: Fun
All revealed, on Page 3.14...
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6.02 x 10^23
Category: Fun
I wish everyone a Happy Mole Day....
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Next: Harvard
Category: Open Science
This is where I will be next: "Publishing in the New Millennium: A Forum on Publishing in the Biosciences" Friday, November 9, 1:00 - 6:00 pm TMEC Walter Amphitheater, Harvard Medical School 260 Longwood Ave, Boston, MA 02115 www.harvardpublishingforum.com This...
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