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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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Friday Weird Sex Blogging:

Friday Weird Sex Blogging - Corkscrewing

You really think I am going to put this above the fold? No way - you have to click (First posted on July 7, 2006):...

The Dangers of Blogging, or, the Quest for Male Contraception

"Why isn't there a birth control pill for men?" is the latest "Ask A ScienceBlogger" question. I am sure my SciBlings will rise to the occasion and explain both the biological and social barriers to the development, production and marketing...

Run for Cover - a Four-Headed Penis!

If it was Friday and if I still had the time, energy and inspiration for Friday Weird Sex Blogging, I would definitely write something snarky about this latest study - of a four-headed penis of the Echidna. But the topic...

Friday Weird Sex Blogging!?

On some Fridays, I write about strange reproductive strategies and mating habits of various organisms, sometimes in excrutiating detail, though I have not done it very regularly lately (see the Friday Weird Sex Blogging archives). But some people just collect...

Monday Weird Sex Blogging....

...because weird sex does not only happen on Fridays.... Remember this? Many have asked themselves (I did) where does it go, i.e., what kind of female genital tract can accomodate such a large penis. But one person actually did not...

Friday Weird Sex Blogging - a cop-out again, and 15 minutes late...

I was in the middle of writing a serious review of a paper meant for Friday Weird Sex Blogging, when reading this paralized me (hopefully only transiently and I will finish it by next week). So, when in trouble, I...

I Dream Of Jeannie

Comparative analysis of sexual dreams of male and female students (PDF) The subject of research is analysis of connection between sexuality as instinctive function and dreams with sexual content as cognitive function. The sample consisted of 656 students, 245 males...

Sleep Number Bed?

Adjust your sleep number for the best performance! Or, what does your sleep number say about your performance?...

Friday Weird Sex Blogging - Sensory Neuroscience

In a time-crunch like this, one can always count on Buzz Skyline to save the day........

Friday Weird Sex Blogging - more on fluid mechanics and Viagra

I've been lazy over the holidays with my blogging, so I'll defer, once again, to Physics Of Sex blog: Part 2 of Pumped Up and Ready for Love: Sex and Fluid Physics And once the flow gets going, you may...

Friday Weird Sex Blogging

Teaching circulatory physiology is pretty much the same as teaching fluid physics. It can get a bit tough and boring. But, if it is taught like this, I bet ther would be no students sleeping in the back row and...

Physics of Oscillations and the Choice of the Just-Right Bed Mattress

This does not have much to do with circadian oscillations, or even the daily rhythms of human mating, but a much faster rhythm of human mating - you know what I'm talking about... The fascinating new blog, The Physics of...

Looking for a present for a budding entomologist?

I mean, er, an entomologist with a keen interest in insect sex? If so, you can buy this cool poster (pdf). More info on the poster is here. Shopping info is here....

Friday Weird Sex Blogging

As seen on Facebook (I could not find the originals anywhere online - if you do, please let me know so I can attribute it correctly):...

"Boy, this is going to be hard..."

...and it will stay hard for another 4 hours. [That is Friday Weird Sex Blogging for this week....]...

Friday Weird Sex Blogging - Ladybugs

Since I already posted, earlier in the week, the weirdest and most disgusting animal sex post ever, instead of writing a new one, I'll just send you to see some cute ladybug sex (scroll down to the middle of the...

Friday Weird Sex Blogging - Cooling The Balls

It takes balls to write about balls.

Friday Weird Sex Blogging - I've Been Defeated

I had several ideas for today's edition that I thought were really great, until I saw this. There is nothing I can write today that can get any better. I know when I am outcompeted and I bow to His...

Friday Weird Sex Blogging - The Giant Stinkin' Phallus!

Well, this Friday Weird Sex Blogging is not going to be so unique. After all, Janet and Zuzu have already blogged about it, but who can resist a phallic-looking, rotten-meat smelling, fly-attracting flower! And it is not a B-grade movie...

Postscript to Pittendrigh's Pet Project - Phototaxis, Photoperiodism and Precise Projectile Parabolas of Pilobolus on Pasture Poop

Friday Weird Sex Blogging: A cute example of a wonderfully evolved reproductive strategy, and not just a way to couple together my two passions - clocks and sex.

Friday Weird Sex Blogging - Losing Your Head For Love

As always, animal porn is under the fold:...

Friday Weird Sex Blogging - Deepest Lovin'

According to the referrers pages of my Sitemeter, a lot of you are excited by strange penises, strange penises, strange penises and strange penises (or something like it). So, today we have to move to a different topic, traffic-be-damned, for...

Friday Weird Sex Blogging - The Birds Do It....

Last week you saw an example of a corkscrew penis. But that is not the only one of the kind.

Friday Weird Sex Blogging - Corkscrewing

You really think I am going to put this above the fold? No way - you have to click:...

Friday Weird Sex Blogging - Penis Fencing

Some flatworms, for instance these pretty Pseudobiceros hancockanus, engage in penis fencing. Both individuals are hermaphrodites, i.e., have both male and female organs. The penis is white, pointed and two-headed. Both individuals are trying to inseminate the other. The one...

Friday Weird Sex Blogging

There is a tradition in the blogosphere of posting something light on Fridays. Some people do the Friday Random Ten, but I do not have an iPod, and keep my computer on Mute, so I do not listen to music...

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