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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: Academia
Last week, my SciBling Jason Goldman interviewed me for his blog. The questions were not so much about blogging, journalism, Open Access and PLoS (except a little bit at the end) but more about science - how I got into...
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Posted by Coturnix at 11:09 AM • • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Animal Rights
I hope you got educated before the UCLA Pro-Test yesterday. It went great - see the coverage by DrugMonkey, Nick Anthis, DrugMonkey again and Scicurious. Show Your Support for Medical Progress by signing the Petition for responsible animal research. Then...
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Posted by Coturnix at 12:19 PM • 1 Comments •
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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Posted by Coturnix at 10:00 PM • 3 Comments •
Category: Animal Behavior
This is your weekend reading - lots of it, some fascinating, some enraging, but perhaps if enough people are aware and scream loudly enough, something can be done: Assistance Monkeys, Ducks, Parrots, Pigs and Ducks ... Should the law protect...
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Category: Animal Rights
Originally written on September 1, 2006, re-posted today to raise more dust ;-)...
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Posted by Coturnix at 1:21 AM • 10 Comments •
Category: Animal Rights
From a reasonable concern for Animal Welfare by Lewis Carroll to the mean and stupid Animal Rightists of today....
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Posted by Coturnix at 9:29 PM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Ideology
What Archy says... Related......
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Posted by Coturnix at 12:32 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Balkans
Long time ago, I mentioned here something about the Belgrade Zoo. The power of Google brought a Belgrader, Sonja, to my blog, who alerted me to the dire conditions in which the Zoo is right now and the existence of...
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Posted by Coturnix at 2:59 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Animal Rights
As a follow-up on the whole PETA brouhaha, my astute commenter oneproudaardvark notices that the SOTU-farce ad campaign by PETA is strangely coinciding with the beginning of the trial against PETA for butchering dogs in the back of the truck...
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Posted by Coturnix at 11:31 AM • • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Animal Rights
.. when someone rips PETA a new one... Added later: Jill and Chris have more (and watch all those disccussions in the comment threads on all three posts!). Added even later: Archy has a great analysis of this....
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Posted by Coturnix at 9:57 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks