The Vaccine Song (video)
Category: Medicine
Posted by Coturnix at 12:44 PM • • 0 TrackBacks
Now on ScienceBlogs: The Galaxy's Biggest Valentine
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
Buy the 2009 Science Blogging Anthology:
Buy the 2008 Science Blogging Anthology:
Buy the 2007 Science Blogging Anthology:
Buy the 2006 Science Blogging Anthology:
Add Scienceblogs to your Technorati Favorites!

Category: Books
If you picked up The Poisoner's Handbook (amazon.com) looking for a fool-proof recipe, I hope you have read the book through and realized at the end that such a thing does not exist: you'll get busted. If they could figure...
Posted by Coturnix at 9:19 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Genetics
New podcast and forums at World Science: The Benefits and Burdens of Genetic Testing: Listen to a story by reporter Marina Giovannelli, followed by our interview with Mayana Zatz. Download MP3 Our guest in the Science Forum is geneticist...
Posted by Coturnix at 3:37 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Medicine
Last week I went to Philadelphia to a very interesting meeting - a Social Media Summit on Immunization. Sponsored by Immunization Action Coalition, this was a second annual meeting for health-care non-profits, organized (amazingly well, with great attention to detail)...
Posted by Coturnix at 7:06 AM • 17 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Medicine
New podcast and forum at PRI World Science: Listen to a story by reporter Laura Starecheski, followed by our interview with Ethan Watters. Our guest in the Science Forum is journalist Ethan Watters. His latest book is Crazy Like...
Posted by Coturnix at 5:13 PM • • 0 TrackBacks
Category: WWW2010
It is somewhat hard to grok how much a Big Deal the WWW2010 conference is when it's happening in one's own backyard. After all, all I had to do was drop the kids at school a little earlier each morning...
Posted by Coturnix at 10:45 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Blogging
Introducing Beaker, inspired by our panel at AAAS a couple of months ago. Go take a look....
Posted by Coturnix at 10:25 PM • • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Chronobiology
Whenever I read a paper from Karl-Arne Stokkan's lab, and I have read every one of them, no matter how dense the scientese language I always start imagining them running around the cold, dark Arctic, wielding enormous butterfly nets, looking...
Posted by Coturnix at 1:52 AM • 10 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Science Education
Next American Scientist Pizza Lunch: It's not often that we get to dive a little deeper into a topic encountered at a recent pizza lunch talk. But we will this month. In March, Geoff Ginsburg from Duke briefed us well...
Posted by Coturnix at 9:34 PM • • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Blogging
Long-time observers of the progressive blogopshere are likely aware of Barbara O' Brien and her blogging at The Mahablog, Crooks and Liars, AlterNet, and elsewhere. She was a panelist at the Yearly Kos Convention and a featured guest blogger at...
Posted by Coturnix at 9:00 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks