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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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Mis-clock-ceptions:

Circadian Quackery

Believe me, I love the word "circadian". It is a really cool word, invented by Franz Halberg in the late 1950s, out of 'circa' (Latin - "about") and diem ("a day"), to denote daily rhythms in biochemistry, physiology and behavior...

For my European Readers

Not that it's a good thing.......

Reverend William Paley's Circadian Clock

An oldie but goodie (June 12, 2005) debunking one of the rare Creationist claims that encroaches onto my territory....

Sleep Genes are not the same as 'Genes for sleep'

Back in the late 1990s, when people first started using various differential screens, etc. looking for elusive "genes for sleep", I wrote in my written prelims (and reprinted it on my blog several years later): Now the sleep researchers are...

Circadian Meditation?!

How does one fisk a medical quackery when there is no attempt whatsoever to explain what it is all about - not even a string of New-Age mumbo-jumbo, nonsensical, vaguely English-sounding words. All it says is: Buy The Book. Yeah,...

Lesson of the Day: Circadian Clocks are HARD to shift!

This is a story about two mindsets - one scientific, one not - both concerned with the same idea but doing something very different with it. Interestingly, both arrived in my e-mail inbox on the same day, but this post...

Circadian Rhythm Degeneration Syndrome?

OK, it is a premise of a new SF novel. The book description does not look too promising, though I guess I should read it for professional reasons (I put it on my amazon wish-list for now): Last call from...

The Cultural Politics of Sleep

Nicole Eugene recently defended her Masters Thesis called Potent Sleep: The Cultural Politics of Sleep (PDF) on a topic that I find fascinating: Why is sleep, a moment that is physiologically full and mentally boundless, thought to be a moment...

No, light behind the knee does NOT shift the clock!

For science bloggers, a study older than a week is often too old to blog about. For scientists, last five years of literature are the most relevant (and many grad students, unfortunately, never read the older stuff). I thought that...

New York Times Gets It Right, Just To Screw Up At The End In Blind Adherence To The He Said/She Said Journalism

Now behind the Wall, but plenty of excerpts available in this March 26, 2005 post......

Does Tryptophan from turkey meat make you sleepy?

Does eating turkey meat make you sleepy? Some people say Yes, some people say No, and the debate can escalate into a big fight.

Reverend William Paley's Circadian Clock

An oldie but goodie (June 12, 2005) debunking one of the rare Creationist claims that encroaches onto my territory....

Eight Hours a Circadian Rhythm Do Not Make

This post is a relatively recent (May 24, 2006) critique of a PLoS paper....

It's not the quantity, but timing

Study says no video games on school nights: According to Dr. Iman Sharif, the results were clear-cut. "On weekdays, the more they watched, the worse they did," said Dr. Sharif. Weekends were another matter, with gaming and TV watching habits...

Alternative sleep therapies

Over 1.6 Million Americans Use Alternative Medicine For Insomnia Or Trouble Sleeping: A recent analysis of national survey data reveals that over 1.6 million American adults use some form of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) to treat insomnia or trouble...

When Should Schools Start in the morning?

The fourth part of a four-part series on the topic.

More on sleep in adolescents

This is the third part of the series on the topic.

ClockNews - Adolescent Sleep

The second post on the topic. A couple of links are broken due to medieval understanding of permalinks by newspapers, but you will not miss too much, I hope....

Sleep Schedules in Adolescents

The first in a series of posts about the changes in sleep schedules in adolescents.

Adolescent Sleep Schedule

This kind of ignorant bleating makes me froth at the mouth every time - I guess it is because this is my own blogging "turf". One of the recurring themes of my blog is the disdain I have for people...

Deceptive Metaphor of the Biological Clock

Sometimes a metaphor used in science is useful for research but not so useful when it comes to popular perceptions. And sometimes even scientists come under the spell of the metaphor. One of those unfortunate two-faced metaphors is the metaphor...

Circadian Quackery

Debunking two misuses of the term and concept of "circadian clocks" in medical quack field.

All Politics Is Local

This week, it took me quite a while to figure out how to answer the Ask a ScienceBlogger question: "What are some unsung successes that have occurred as a result of using science to guide policy?" As a relative newcomer...

Take a Merlot pill?

Interesting: Melatonin may be found in grapes MILAN, Italy, June 16 (UPI) -- Scientists in Italy say they have discovered that the grapes used in popular red wines may contain high levels of the sleep hormone melatonin. Melatonin is naturally...

Brain Region Linked To Fly Slumber

When a news release states that a brain region is crucial for something, one is led to believe that this is the MAIN center controlling that function. If it is crucial for thermoregulation than it is the center for thermoregulation...

SAD is a different kind of depression

So, Wellbutrin is now officially a drug for treating Seasonal Affective Disorder. And chocolate is so unofficially. But, those may only take the edge off of the symptoms - they cannot affect the underlying causes....

Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Sleep (But Were Too Afraid To Ask)

This post is perhaps not my best post, but is, by far, my most popular ever. Sick and tired of politics after the 2004 election I decided to start a science-only blog - Circadiana. After a couple of days...

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