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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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Diabola in Musica Hoxful Monsters StevenBerlinJohnson An American Businesswoman's New Life in Serbia & Abroad RoBlog Speaking Serbia - Rob's Blog...

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Antimonite Palachinka Because I said so The Skeptical Adaptationist Dammit Jim!...

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The Echinoblog Observe The Banana Ben Off to Iraq Transient Reporter Being the Chronicles of B...

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Niyaz Ahmed's Blog Worst Result Ever Tomorrow's Table Stimulating Aliquot Little Grassroots A Baltimore Block Via Ginnastica...

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Astrogator's Logs Cranky Sophie's Blog News from the world of deep-sea whale-falls, polychaete worms and Antarctica The Masks We Wear MedGadget...

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Candidate Models Plausible Accuracy Dolores Labs Blog StupidFilter GraphJam: Pop culture for people in cubicles. PSD Blog...

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Juniorprof Biology Blogs JB Say What? andrew plemmons pratt Write To Done BIOLOGY & POLITICS Simon's Writing Room...

5000

Yes, this is the 5000th post on this blog. Obviously, I am nuts....

A Cool Million

I know it's an arbitrary number, but it still looks cool: (Apparently, the 1000000th and the 1000001st visitors arrived simultaneously). Back when I just started I never thought this was even possible. The millionth visitor came here from Oakland, California,...

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Undergrad Mind Neuroanthropology Halley VI Digitalna knjiznica Univerze v Ljubljani Blue Lab Coats Book of Answers...

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Faraday's Cage is where you put Schroedinger's Cat Monkey Fluids Sociological Images: Seeing Is Believing Playing Chess with Pigeons Punk Professor...

8000

Congratulations to Rev. BigDumbChimp for posting the 8000th comment on this blog!...

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Modern Mechanix Prelinger Library Blog Almost Diamonds When do you think you'll be done? The Happy Scientist A Mad Tea-Party Mother of All Scientists A Lady Scientist (Non) Scientific Observations from a female scientist...

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Trilobite Blog Evolucija Raw Dawg Buffalo Znanost Elle, phd Diary of a PhD student Education and Class The field negro See Jane in the Academy...

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Perusing Science Perusing Aardvarks Adaptive Complexity Exsisto Sane Chimpanzees are not Monkeys Mystery Rays from Outer Space PTET Exploring Our Matrix...

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The World We Don't Live In Michael Nielsen A & A's Excellent Adventure Ecosystems and Poverty Rat in the Lab The Biology Refugia Fresh Brainz...

Various updates

First, the interviews will continue....when I get some answers from one of the six people I sent questions to.... I will also be sending questionnaires to more people soon. Second, there are some responses now to the 1-2-3, the Goosed/Book...

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SECular Thoughts Free Range Academy Nimravid's Weblog Thesis - with Children Frontal Blogotomy...

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Psique Guadalupe Storm-Petrel Ectoplasmosis Gallicissa Sorting Out Science...

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Women's Bioethics Blog InnoBlogger Bench Marks Synthesis Urban Science Adventures! Diary of a phd student...

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SES: Science, Education & Society The Natural Patriot Patently silly Evolved and Rational A Fat Question Stuff White People Like Running the Numbers...

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Sex in Space Oceanographic Research Vessel Alguita Ship-2-Shore Education The Oyster's Garter Deus Ex Malcontent The Beauty Brains Science Fair Talk Like A Physicist...

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Burgermares and Coffeebots Sigma Xi Water blog Sigma Xi's Science Blog Talking pictures Stephen Bodio's Querencia Vocino.com...

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Dyre Portents A natural history of Runswick Bay Northstate Science Ancient World Bloggers Group Blog Interupted... Biology (Magrin 07) Extreme Biology...

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The Daily Mammal ShopTalk Open Students ScienceCrossroads The Tao of Change Pyrenaemata...

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The Digital Cuttlefish The Technium Space Exploration and Us! Sweet Jesus I Hate Chris Matthews ThePoliticalCat Moue Magazine Cafe Philos: an internet cafe Riverside Rambles...

Blogroll Amnesty Day

Jon Swift and Skippy are reminding us that this weekend is the time for the annual Blogroll Amnesty Day. The rule is to highlight, link to, and add to one's blogroll, some deserving blogs that have smaller traffic than...

Thanks...

...to Melissa, Greg, Ed, Mustang Bobby and Rook for linking to my Mom's series of posts this week....

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Space Cadet Saving Species To catch a panda The Wisdom of Whores Animal Inventory Practical Ethics Blog Jacks of Science Science of the Invisible AJCs Virtual Frogroom...

The Blogistential Angst

Do you like ClockQuotes? Do you ever read them? Excitedly wait every night until 4am EST for them to post? How about YouTube videos of 1970s/80s Yugoslav music? Like them? Dance and sing along? What about My picks from ScienceDaily?...

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SciPhi 08 Data Not Shown The INFO Project Blog The Inverse Square Blog George Folkerts The Choctawhatchee Search...

Busy....

...but should have exciting news this afternoon....stay tuned.......

Junk Folder

If you post a comment here and it does NOT appear immediately, it is likely in the Junk Folder, which I tend to forget to check every day. Please e-mail me so I can fish it out and republish it...

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PhysioProf Cognition and Language Lab Writer's Daily Grind OA/UofA Star Stryder Grannyhelen's Kitchen...

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JoVE blog Science Based Medicine Talking Science Errol Morris - Zoom The Open Source Paleontologist...

Yes, I am alive...

...just busy with the Conference and Anthology. Judging of the entries for the anthology is over and Reed and I have determined the winners. The authors have been notified and, unless one of them wants to pull a post out,...

A Blog Around The Clock: Year In Review

The year in review meme is too random to really capture the highlights of a year on a blog. So, here is a collection of links that I think mark the most important moments of this blog in the last...

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Brontossauros em meu jardim Podblack Blog Second Sight Practice Space Med i Mentol Nebom hodam, pticu pratim.... My blah, blah, blah.... this and that... anything and everything...

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Cogitamus Wanderlustig I A C O V I B U S Overcoming Bias Science Sense McBlawg Sweet Waters Lisa Paitz Spindler...

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Idiosynchrony BedBugger Out of the Mountains Eclectic Glob of Tangential Verbosity The Dendritic Arbor...

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The Lord Geekington Genomeboy.com The Modest Proposal The Modest Proposal blog The Issue Peer To Patent blog...

A Blog Around The Clock Store

Now that the DonorsChoose drive is officially over, and the prizes have been distributed, I can now place a link to my CafePress store on my sidebar (see right under the PayPal and Amazon.com buttons). So, if you are thinking...

4000

This is the 4000th post on this blog. I wish they were all long, smart and thoughtful like this one.......

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WaterBlog: ask an aquatic biologist... I Love Science, Really What an untenured college professor shouldn't be doing... Marcus' World Before Health Care Renewal GoozNews...

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Sceadugenga Common Sense Photo of Nature by Kopernik Star Stryder Jayne's Breast Cancer Blog Quackometer Daisy's Dead Air Mary Evelyn Mestarr Mechanically Separated Meat TechRivet The Indigestible Jasiri...

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The Banana Peel Project MOMocrats BioBlog (NZ) The Divinely Guided Boot of Upward Inspiration ChemSpider Blog...

Photos needed for Scienceblogs Channels pages

The new channel landing pages are up and running. The photos on the landing pages will rotate on a weekly basis. The Sb overlords are always on the lookout for new images to appear there and our readers are a...

Scienceblogs.com - new homepage and channels!

If you come here from the front page of Scienceblogs, you have probably noticed some changes. Instead of ten, there are now eight channels, and the latest 4 (instead of 3) posts in each category are highlighted. If you check...

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The Oyster's Garter SLA's Biomedical and Life Sciences Division blog Interactive Publishing New@Norris Library T. rex eats fish......

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All but one species DNApes Stephen Fry Correlations Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week SWOP East Sex Workers Outreach Project...

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The Stem Cell Geek truCubed.com McBlawg Ruhlman 365 Cheeses VarmintBites Blackwood Eats...

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Advances in the History of Psychology SES: Science, Education & Society Urban Science Adventures! Feminist undergrad CarrieBlogKelly...

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Lali's Laboratory Frog Blog d(PhD)/dt The Badge (SF Chronicle Police Beat Blog) Alexipharmacopeia Ed Boyden The Conscience of a Liberal (Paul Krugman) GMO Africa...

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Learning, Playing, Cooking... tHE tiDE cHAsER Pulau Hantu - A celebration of marine life Manta Blog Sea Slug Forum The bird ecology study group (Singapore) Nature Spies...

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Sniffing the beaker Bonobo Handshake All of My Faults Are Stress Related Inorganics Ripples in Sand Brilliant Mediocrity Apparent Dip Becky's Guide To Blogging...

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BPR3: Bloggers for Peer-Reviewed Research Reporting Environmental Progress and Epiphanies The Official Sacramento Zoo Blog Clastic Detritus Sabine's Garden A Splash Quite Unnoticed Issues in Scholarly Communication (Georgia) Information Research Weblog The Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics Gus diZerega Mumbo...

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What You're Doing Is Rather Desperate Traction Lobe It Has Come To My Attention Jennomics Inalienable Rights Prehistoric Pulp...

Housekeeping Note

Little to no blogging for the weekend, unless I hit gold with some free wifi somewhere. Out of town. Will be back.......

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Sunday Night Dinner The Yorkshire Ranter Rota Fortuna Globally Connected Mindswap Weblog The Blue Marble Blog Science Commons blog Philosophy of information Broader Perspective Pinhead's Progress Science Library Pad Citizen Science Projects...

Yikes!

Tonight is the last pre-scheduled ClockQuote and there are no more re-posts in the pipeline! Does this mean I have to start blogging again? But when? I am working now!...

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ICTlogy BibliOdyssey Journalology Slightly diktytaxitic The X Vials Philosophy of Memory...

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The Primate Diaries Brettleighdicks - Biology Blog Fnord Psych Matters Manifest Destiny Wild Roses...

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J's blog The Other 95% The Ethical Paleontologist Molecular B(io)LOG(y) Science With Me Media Realism Midwest Teen Sex Show (sex education podcasts)...

Half a Mil!

This crept up on me - I was unaware it was so close yet. I just saw it and had to capture this historical moment: The 500,000th visitor came from Reading, UK. After all this time, I still wonder why...

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Paralepsis Fresno, Evolving DSHR's Blog Open Left Issues in Scholarly Communication Tessa's Braces Professor Olsen @ Large Occam's Trowel Enro, scientifique et citoyen...

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Blooking Central Clear Thinking History Hunters International Crappy Graphs RRRGroup Average Earthman Brad Buchsbaum's Blog...

All Set

OK, I have scheduled to repost automatically some of the best clock-related posts. They will appear every day at 9am and 5pm from July 5th till August 12th. I hope you like them again.... Tomorrow, I'll schedule a bunch of...

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The Flying Trilobite Ljubisa Bojic 1420Mhz Weird Science Good Tithings Curious Expeditions Dandelion Diva Cabinet of Wonders Simplistic Art Mixotrophy Offal Good...

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Sleep Apnea ED Average Earthman Deep Thoughts and Silliness Three-Toed Sloth Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science The Vanity Website The Indigestibele...

Summer Plans

I'll be leaving in one week and staying in San Francisco for one month. I'll be busy, to say the least. What should I do with the blog in the meantime? After all, it is the middle of the summer...

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Yves Roumazeilles Jacks of Science Science of the Invisible I, Platform (by Eric Rice) CorpBlawg Notes From Ukraine Howard Hughes Precollege Program Summer 2007 Student Research at Duke William Kamkwamba's Malawi Windmill Blog...

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Dum Luk's The Glass is Too Big Bugs 'n' Gas Gal's Lair Angry Toxicologist My Dinner with Andre the Giant Future Majority Barbarian Blog...

My Blogroll, and the Newsfeed Question

I've been a little behind (as in 'few weeks') in adding the blogs I tagged in my Blogrolling for Today posts into the actual Blogroll but I caught up with that a few minutes ago. That Blogroll is a Monster!...

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World Wide Webbers VWXYNot? Darwin's Army Relatively Science Let's Talk Sleep Sparrowblog Limbic Nutrition...

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Catalogue of Organisms Morbid Anatomy Street Anatomy Scientific curiosity The Bird's Brain YOKOFAKUN Banapana Shadow of the Hegemon (check out the archives - this blog is oooold!)...

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Haliaeetus Finito ...Or Something Science Hacker k/o All of My Faults Are Stress Related The Evil Petting Zoo Open Access Archivangelism...

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Just Noticeable Differences Miss ELISA's world Eureka Science Forums Britannica Blog STS Wiki Purse Lip Square Jaw Muttering in a corner...