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Category: Housekeeping
The World We Don't Live In Michael Nielsen A & A's Excellent Adventure Ecosystems and Poverty Rat in the Lab The Biology Refugia Fresh Brainz...
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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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February 29, 2008
Category: Housekeeping
The World We Don't Live In Michael Nielsen A & A's Excellent Adventure Ecosystems and Poverty Rat in the Lab The Biology Refugia Fresh Brainz...
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Category: Science News
Two of the papers published today in PLoS Genetics (now on the TOPAZ platform) got my attention: Redundant Function of REV-ERBα and β and Non-Essential Role for Bmal1 Cycling in Transcriptional Regulation of Intracellular Circadian Rhythms: Circadian clocks in plants,...
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Category: Animal Behavior
See the moment when the lion recognizes the guys who raised him as a cub: Hat-tip: Melissa...
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Category: Blogging
Just try this link: http://scienceborg.com...
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Category: Politics
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Category: Earth
Though, at some times and places in history, February 24th was considered to be the Leap Day. For the more science-oriented folks, Phil Plait explains why we have leap days....
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Category: Technology
Watch to the end to see how just huge this thing is! From Frischer Wind, via Page 3.14...
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Category: Rhythmic Human
Book excerpt in today's Wall Street Journal: Chapter 6: Wired: It is likely that insomnia will increase with the expansion of the 24-hour economy into more and more lives, and more of each life, because wakefulness and the wired world...
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Category: Clock Quotes
Here we see how potent has been the effect of the introduction of a single tree, nothing whatever else having been done, with the exception that the land had been enclosed so that cattle could not enter. But how important...
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February 28, 2008
Category: History of Science
Darwin & Wallace; Watson & Crick
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Category: Housekeeping
First, the interviews will continue....when I get some answers from one of the six people I sent questions to.... I will also be sending questionnaires to more people soon. Second, there are some responses now to the 1-2-3, the Goosed/Book...
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Category: Science News
This Is Your Brain On Jazz: Researchers Use MRI To Study Spontaneity, Creativity: A pair of Johns Hopkins and government scientists have discovered that when jazz musicians improvise, their brains turn off areas linked to self-censoring and inhibition, and turn...
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Category: Carnivals
The 30th edition of Circus of the Spineless is up on A DC Birding Blog Berry Go Round #2 is up on Further thoughts Skeptics' Circle #81 is up on Conspiracy Factory...
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Category: Clock Quotes
A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth. - Charles R. Darwin Support The Beagle Project Read the Beagle Project Blog Buy the Beagle Project swag Prepare ahead for the Darwin Bicentennial Read Darwin for yourself....
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Category: Housekeeping
SECular Thoughts Free Range Academy Nimravid's Weblog Thesis - with Children Frontal Blogotomy...
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February 27, 2008
Category: Blogging
A blog is software. Importantly: a blog is free software. Everyone can use it in any way they want. If there are 100 million blogs out there, there are 100 million blogging styles and 100 million ideas what blogging "is"....
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Category: Carnivals
Carnival of Education #160 is up on the Sam Jackson College Experience Carnival of the Liberals #59 is up on The Largest Minority...
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Category: Politics
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Category: Science News
Bats Use Magnetic Substance As Internal Compass To Help Them Navigate: They may not be on most people's list of most attractive species, but bats definitely have animal magnetism. Researchers from the Universities of Leeds and Princeton have discovered...
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Category: SBC'08 Interviews
Karl Bates is the Manager of Research Communications at Duke University where he is involved in a number of very cool new online projects. He is also a "repeat offender" - his experience at the first Science Blogging Conference did...
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Category: Blogging
As John quips, who is crazy to try to blog around a clock like Coturnix? Not me, for sure. But Arunn is, at least for one day! In the past 24 hours Arunn has posted 15 (fifteen!) posts on his...
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Category: PLoS
It was a heroic (and sometimes nerve-wrecking) couple of months for the IT/Web team at PLoS, but the fruits of their labor will shortly be visible to all. PLoS Computational Biology, PLoS Genetics and PLoS Pathogens will soon migrate onto...
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Category: Clock Quotes
...it is always advisable to perceive clearly our ignorance. - Charles R. Darwin Support The Beagle Project Read the Beagle Project Blog Buy the Beagle Project swag Prepare ahead for the Darwin Bicentennial Read Darwin for yourself....
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February 26, 2008
Category: Politics
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Category: Science News
Excitement on science blogs! Karen James of the Beagle Project Blog has just today published a paper in PLoS ONE: Diversity Arrays Technology (DArT) for Pan-Genomic Evolutionary Studies of Non-Model Organisms: Background High-throughput tools for pan-genomic study, especially the DNA...
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Category: Science News
There are 48 new articles published this week in PLoS ONE. It's hard to choose just a couple to highlight, so look around for what interests you (avian flu, the Plague?). How about these titles that piqued my interest: Neural...
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Category: Education
There are three interesting, thought-provoking articles on Open Education today: The Digital Commons - Left Unregulated, Are We Destined for Tragedy? An Interview with Ahrash Bissell of the Creative Commons The Open Digital Commons - A Truly Endless Array of...
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Category: Open Science
Journal of Visualized Experiments signed a deal with Wiley-Blackwell to provide videos for Current Protocols: Wiley-Blackwell and JoVE Unveil Groundbreaking Online Video Publications Online methods videos go mainstream Visual journal partners with Wiley Related......
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Category: Carnivals
Grand Rounds 4.22: The Future of Medicine - are up on ScienceRoll. The 113th Carnival of Homeschooling is up on The Daily Planet...
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Category: Science News
Religion Colors Americans' Views Of Nanotechnology: Is nanotechnology morally acceptable? For a significant percentage of Americans, the answer is no, according to a recent survey of Americans' attitudes about the science of the very small. Male Fertility May Be Harmed...
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Category: SBC'08 Interviews
Dr.Tara C. Smith is one of the original Gang Of Four(teen) here at Scienceblogs.com. She blogs on her Aetiology as well as contributes to Panda's Thumb and Correlations group blogs. At the 2nd Science Blogging Conference last month Tara moderated...
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Category: Clock Quotes
Doing what little one can to increase the general stock of knowledge is as respectable an object of life, as one can in any likelihood pursue. - Charles R. Darwin Support The Beagle Project Read the Beagle Project Blog Buy...
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Category: Books
Oh-oh, it seems it's a meme season again! I'll dutifully do them, one at a time. Today - the good old 123 book meme, which memeticized over time into being called "Goosed meme". I was tagged by Lance Mannion who...
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February 25, 2008
Category: Politics
Diebold Accidentally Leaks Results Of 2008 Election Early...
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Category: Science News
Snakes Locate Prey Through Vibration Waves: It is often believed that snakes cannot hear. This presumption is fed by the fact that snakes lack an outer ear and that scientific evidence of snakes responding to sound is scarce. Snakes do,...
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Category: Housekeeping
Psique Guadalupe Storm-Petrel Ectoplasmosis Gallicissa Sorting Out Science...
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Category: PLoS
This is an exciting day at PLoS and, after having to keep my mouth shut for a couple of months about it, I am really happy to be free to announce to the world that my friend and excellent science...
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Category: Science News
There are a bunch of new papers in PLoS Biology and PLoS Medicine and, somewhat out of usual schedule, in PLoS ONE. So, check out these and then look around for more: Does Mutation Rate Depend on Itself: Many a...
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Category: Politics
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Category: Blogging
Go say Hello to Ed Yong at Not Exactly Rocket Science...
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Category: SBC'08 Interviews
Shelley Batts and I are of the same "generation", meaning that we became SciBlings on the same day. You need to hurry up and check out her blog Retrospectacle before she moves to a new blog in a few days....
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Category: Clock News
'Fiona' Gene Controls Flower's Physiologic Clock: Scientists have found a new gene that regulates the daily and yearly physiological cycles of flowering and seeding. POSTECH researchers, led by Nam Hong-gil and Kim Jeong-sik, said that they named the gene FIONA1...
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Category: Blogging
If you attended the Science Blogging Conference or read what people blogged about it, or said about it in subsequent interviews, you know how much fun it is to meet your favourite bloggers in real life. You gain a new...
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Category: Carnivals
Boneyard XIV is up on Self-designed Student Accretionary Wedge #6 is up on the Lounge of the Lab Lemming Carnival of the Green #116 is up on The EcoLibertarian...
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Category: Clock Quotes
As for a future life, every man must judge for himself between conflicting vague probabilities. - Charles R. Darwin Support The Beagle Project Read the Beagle Project Blog Buy the Beagle Project swag Prepare ahead for the Darwin Bicentennial Read...
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Category: Science News
Early Experience Affects Where Birds Breed For Life: What Happens If Habitat Changes?: How young migratory birds choose the nesting location of their first breeding season has been something of a mystery in the bird world. But a new University...
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February 24, 2008
Category: Science Reporting
You may remember a few days ago I posted a link to the list of Obsolete skills (the links were to this post, this wiki and this wiki). The growing list is certainly fun to read and check off your...
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Category: Politics
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Category: SBC'08 Interviews
Janet Stemwedel a.k.a. Dr.Free-Ride is the blogmistress of Adventures in Ethics and Science and the Science Blogging Conference last month was her second appearance here - last year she was the Keynote Blogger-Speaker and this year she led a session...
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Category: Clock Quotes
...doing what little one can to increase the general stock of knowledge is as respectable an object of life, as one can in any likelihood pursue. - Charles R. Darwin Support The Beagle Project Read the Beagle Project Blog Buy...
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February 23, 2008
Category: OpenLab08
Reed and I met this morning and shipped off the authors' copies of the OpenLab 2007 to the international addresses, then packaged and addressed the US ones which I will send out on Monday. We already got our first submission...
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Category: Blogging
Mico Tatalovic of Blue Sci, the Cambridge's popular science magazine, interviewed me back in April 2007 and wrote an article on science blogging based on that interview. It came out in the Issue #9 as a PDF in October, and...
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Category: Personal
Last night we went to Raleigh Memorial Auditorium and saw the opening ("student") night of "Annie Get Your Gun", starring Larry Gatlin, who is apparently some big name in country music, and Raleigh-born Lauren Kennedy who we last saw as...
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Category: SBC'08 Interviews
Ryan Somma is a software developer from coastal North Carolina who blogs on Ideonexus. It's all a blur now, but I think the Science Blogging Conference last month was his second. Welcome to A Blog Around The Clock. Would you,...
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Category: Clock Quotes
The fact of evolution is the backbone of biology, and biology is thus in the peculiar position of being a science founded on an improved theory, is it then a science or faith? - Charles R. Darwin Support The Beagle...
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February 22, 2008
Category: Media
Chez describes how and why CNN fired him for blogging and then piles on! Spread the word. The old media needs to learn to respect the people formerly known as audience....
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Category: Blogging
This blog has just been notified that a bank in Sierra Leone has...nope, no millions of dollars in spam-money. Something much better - Maryannaville gave us the Excellent Blogger Award! Thank you! Recepients of this award can proudly place this...
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Category: SBC'08 Interviews
John Dupuis has been writing Confessions of a Science Librarian since the time blogging software was really physically soft, being made of clay and shaped like a tablet. We finally got to meet face-to-face at the Science Blogging Conference last...
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Category: Carnivals
I and the Bird #69 is up on Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted) Change of Shift Volume Two, Number Seventeen, Murphy's Law is up on Crzegrl.net Friday Ark #179 is up on Modulator...
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Category: Evolution
I was lucky to be in the car at the right time this morning to catch a story about Mastodons in Manhattan: A Botanical Puzzle, i.e., why honey locust trees in NYCity have long thorns - an interesting story (click...
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Category: Clock Quotes
The very essence of instinct is that it's followed independently of reason. - Charles R. Darwin Support The Beagle Project Read the Beagle Project Blog Buy the Beagle Project swag Prepare ahead for the Darwin Bicentennial Read Darwin for yourself....
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February 21, 2008
Category: Politics
Lawrence Lessig is running for Congress and blogging about it. It would be sooooo nice to have him elected. Join the Facebook group and donate....
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Category: Academia
Next Generation Discovery: New Tools, Aging Standards March 27-28, 2008 Chapel Hill, NC Discovering scholarly information and data is essential for research and use of the content that the information community is producing and making available. The development of knowledge...