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My scientific specialty is chronobiology (circadian rhythms and photoperiodism), with additional interests in comparative physiology, animal behavior and evolution. I am not an MD so I cannot diagnose and treat your sleep problems. As well as writing this blog, I am also the Online Discussion Expert for PLoS. This is a personal blog and opinions within it in no way reflect the policies of PLoS. You can contact me at: Coturnix@gmail.com
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Category: Science Practice
Two recent events put in stark relief the differences between the old way of doing things and the new way of doing things. What am I talking about? The changing world of science publishing, of course. Let me introduce the...
Posted by Coturnix at 2:02 AM • 13 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Academia
A run-down of good recent stuff, highly recommended for your weekend reading and bookmarking: PLoS One: Interview with Peter Binfield: ...In my view PLoS ONE is the most dynamic, innovative and exciting journal in the world, and I am...
Posted by Coturnix at 8:07 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: History of Science
Scientific facts are fun. But probably to a limited number of people. It's more fun to know how scientists got those facts - their thoughts, motivations and methods. How they did it. Why they did it. Where did they get...
Posted by Coturnix at 11:06 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Academia
As the boundaries between formal and informal scientific communication is blurring - think of pre-print sites, Open Notebook Science and blogs, for starters - the issue of what is citable and how it should be cited is becoming more and...
Posted by Coturnix at 12:06 AM • 19 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Animal Rights
The UCLA Pro-Test is tomorrow. If you live there - go. If not, prepare yourself for inevitable discussions - online and offline - by getting informed. And my fellow science bloggers have certainly provided plenty of food for thought on...
Posted by Coturnix at 10:00 PM • 3 Comments •
Category: Academia
I know it's been a couple of months now since the ScienceOnline'09 and I have reviewed only a couple of sessions I myself attended and did not do the others. I don't know if I will ever make it...
Posted by Coturnix at 5:34 PM • 6 Comments •
Category: Academia
About a week ago, my brother sent me a couple of interesting papers about funding in science, one in Canada, the other in the UK. I barely had time to skim the abstracts at the time, but thought I would...
Posted by Coturnix at 6:38 PM • 11 Comments •
Category: Academia
This is very interesting, referring to Canadian system: Cost of the NSERC Science Grant Peer Review System Exceeds the Cost of Giving Every Qualified Researcher a Baseline Grant: Using Natural Science and Engineering Research Council Canada (NSERC) statistics, we show...
Posted by Coturnix at 10:51 PM • 14 Comments •
Category: Academia
Daniel Lemire asks this question when observing a fallacy voiced in an editorial: .....only a small fraction of the top 100 papers ranked by the number of citations (17 of 100) were published by single authors.....a published paper resulting from...
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Category: Academia
The unmovable movers! Or so says Bill Hooker: For instance: I use Open Office in preference to Word because I'm willing to put up with a short learning curve and a few inconveniences, having (as they say here in the...
Posted by Coturnix at 9:04 AM • 9 Comments •
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