I started Omni Brain over two years ago on Blogger and eventually gained a number of co-bloggers that have come and gone, most notably Sandra. About a year ago we were invited to blog at ScienceBlogs which is really the ideal place to be for a science blogger. I've had a great run here on Omni Brain but I believe it is time to move on to bigger and better things. So a couple weeks from now a new blog is going to appear - a super blog ;)
Shelley Batts from Retrospectacle is going to join me in this wonderful new adventure in blogging. We'll still be here at ScienceBlogs but just under a new name. But that's actually the catch - We need a new name! Which is where you come in...
In the words of Shelley:
We're holding a contest to Name That Blog, with the winner receiving a slew of recent science books, a subscription to SEED, and a host of other sciency prizes. Plus my eternal love and adoration! The blog will be general wonderful science stuff with a neuroscience slant, so feel free to be creative as hell with the naming. Leave ideas in the comments here, or email them to me. Since there is a prize please be sure to let me know how to contact you in case you win. Multiple entries are fine! Thanks and good luck!
Any good ideas?
Brain & Behavior
Humanities & Social Science
Comments
perhaps the Beauty and the Beast?
Posted by: Alvaro | January 28, 2008 12:42 AM
NeuraSera, NuraSera, NeuraCerra, NeuroCere
Posted by: monty | January 28, 2008 1:53 AM
Looking forward to seeing what you guys come up with. Consolidation is definitely the way to go - who has the time to run a blog singlehandedly?
Posted by: Johan | January 28, 2008 6:11 AM
What about something like "Brainhacking", or perhaps only "Brain" or, even better "Cerebrus". It could also be "Nervous Brain", or "Over the Spine", "Above the spine", "A bunch of neurons", you name it.
Posted by: Italo M. R. Guedes | January 28, 2008 6:30 AM
Best of all, "A couple of neurons".
Posted by: Italo M. R. Guedes | January 28, 2008 6:32 AM
Neurotoxic (for the goths!)
Hemispheres
Livin' la Vida Limbic (Paul MacLean meets Ricky Martin)
Praxis
It's a pity that "Corpus Callosum" is already taken, it'd be really appropriate here...
Posted by: Sam Wise | January 28, 2008 8:17 AM
I like Beauty and the Beast... maybe "Shelly and Smelly"?
Posted by: Brian | January 28, 2008 10:00 AM
With the whole Frankenstein/Shelley thing and the rebirth theme, I like the name "Re-Animated."
Posted by: Mike Haubrich, FCD | January 28, 2008 11:37 AM
Posted by: Tegumai Bopsulai, FCD | January 28, 2008 11:47 AM
"You talkin' to me, Willis?"
Posted by: Linkmeister | January 28, 2008 1:27 PM
Some ideas:
* Grey Matters
* Brainiac
* Top of the Spine
I can be contacted at the email address provided above, or (preferably) at lauren friedman, with a dot in the middle and a gmail at the end.
good luck!
Posted by: Lauren F | January 28, 2008 2:25 PM
Ooh, call it Gray Matters
Posted by: Hellome | January 28, 2008 2:26 PM
blast!
Posted by: Hellome | January 28, 2008 2:27 PM
1. neurface
Say it aloud -- it sounds better than it looks. Maybe a leading apostrophe would fix that: 'neurface (tho I personally dislike the rap / boy-band flavor).
2. cognitpicking
or the variation cognitpickers
3. Kind of Grey
for jazz fans
Posted by: Neil Schipper | January 28, 2008 3:22 PM
Hmm, general science with a neuroscience slant. These may be a little too neuroscience slanted but judge for yourself:
PARNNRAP (Palindromic Acronym Referencing Neuroscience, Neurobiology, Research And Psychology)
Frontal Matter
Neural Connections
Neuromoderators (perfect if you are noting and summarizing new research)
Mind the Hap
New Roads (say it out loud) (in that vein you might consider:
New Roses
New Rally
New Roles
New Robotics
New Rosicrucian (which could be really confusing))
I should probably worry that I think any of this is mildly humorous. Maybe I should get out more.
Posted by: Dan Philpott | January 28, 2008 3:30 PM
Bloggin About the Noggin!
Posted by: Alec T | January 28, 2008 3:32 PM
nice
Posted by: kelp | January 28, 2008 3:56 PM
you know you shouldn't be sooo damn nasty when all your information is soo easily available on the web. Just a suggestion : )
Posted by: kelly | January 28, 2008 3:59 PM
Brothers and Cisterns
or
The Circle of (whatchu talkin' bout) Willis
Posted by: Alec T | January 28, 2008 4:31 PM
Super-Charismatic Suprachiasmatics! (ok, that's stupid)
Queen Amygdala and Darth Vagus Nerve! (ok i'm done)
Posted by: Alec T | January 28, 2008 4:41 PM
perhaps Land of the Pansy Ph.d.
Posted by: kelp | January 28, 2008 5:29 PM
'Chimera' is my proposal for the new name.
Wuffencuckoo
Posted by: Max ben-Aaron | January 28, 2008 5:36 PM
The Tegmental Twosome?
Posted by: Alec T | January 28, 2008 6:28 PM
Sorry to see Omni Brain ride off into the sunset, but I think you two will make a great team. :)
How about SuperBrains?
Posted by: Sandra | January 28, 2008 8:21 PM
Skull F#$%kers?
Posted by: Brian | January 28, 2008 10:20 PM
The Diencephalon Duo?
or something simpler: The Nerve Net
Posted by: Alec T | January 29, 2008 2:05 AM
1. Cast Off This Temporal Lobe
2. Department of Redundancy Department
3. Preaching to the Chorea
4. Bregmania
5. The Antiagnosiant
6. The Glia Club
7. Ambisinister
8. Intron
9. Rhinencephalon (hey, Eschaton already got used, okay?)
10. Bifurcation
11. Bilateral Innervation
Posted by: D Squared | January 29, 2008 1:06 PM
The Dendrite
The Dendritic Tree
Synapse
Neurotrasmitter
Its a thought
Posted by: Greg | January 29, 2008 4:17 PM
I looked through the whole list. I don't think I got it from there. How about, " The Brain Matters!"
Dave Briggs :~)
Posted by: Dave Briggs | January 29, 2008 4:34 PM
Brain Strain
Postings from the Amygdala.
Funny I just found this page a couple of days ago.
Posted by: Smorjan | January 29, 2008 6:17 PM
Psychopticochleantics
Posted by: s1mplex | January 29, 2008 7:35 PM
did anyone suggest "Dirty Minds"?
Posted by: Brian | January 29, 2008 11:35 PM
On the Brain and Science.
Posted by: lugong | January 30, 2008 2:38 AM
The Nueroimage.
Posted by: lugong | January 30, 2008 4:33 AM
HEY STEVE IT'S ONLY JUST BEGUN : )
Posted by: kelp | January 30, 2008 9:48 AM
when are you guys picking a winner?
Posted by: me | January 30, 2008 10:22 AM
NeuroPath
as in neural pathway & the path to understanding through neuroscience
Posted by: Mikhail | January 30, 2008 10:55 AM
Some suggestions:
Brain Hack
Thunk
Brain Salad
Posted by: emily | January 30, 2008 12:06 PM
I still think the obvious name is "Bird Brains"?
Posted by: John McKay | January 31, 2008 4:02 PM
Abbey Normal!
Posted by: John | January 31, 2008 11:24 PM
The Glia Club? The Very Nerve?
I got nothing.
Posted by: Walter | February 2, 2008 1:21 AM
axon hillock
Posted by: mk | February 2, 2008 5:11 PM
Posted by: Andy Leppard | February 6, 2008 9:31 PM