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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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Not-so-self-correcting science: the hard way, the easy way, and the easiest way

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...

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Praxis

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...

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The exciting history of history of science. And mammoths!

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...

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Why or why not cite blog posts in scientific papers?

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...

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Support the UCLA Pro-Test tomorrow and get educated about the use of animals in research

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...

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ScienceOnline'09 - Saturday 4:30pm and beyond: the Question of Power

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...

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Why eliminate the peer-review of baseline grants?

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...

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Eliminate peer-review of baseline grants entirely?

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...

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Are solo authors less cited?

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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Why are scientists so HARD to move!?

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...

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