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The trials, tribulations, and joys of a Neuroscience gradute student writing her thesis in the postmodern, post-Y2K world.
Shelley Batts is a Neuroscience PhD candidate at the University of Michigan. She studies hair cell regeneration in the cochlea, and is just embarking on that quixotic quest called 'thesis.' She lies awake at night pondering how science intersects with politics, culture, policy, money, medicine, and religion in an attempt to be more than just a niche scientist sitting in the oh-so-lovely ivory tower. Follow me and my parrot on the quest to get funded, get a PhD, and stay sane.
Those who dwell, as scientists or laymen, among the beauties and mysteries of the earth, are never alone or weary of life. ~Rachel Carson
Cochlear Hair Cell Regeneration
Interview With Dr. Irene Pepperberg
On Religion and Taking the 'Red Pill'
Neuroscience of Cocaine Addiction
Parrots Have Object Permanance
Retrospectacle is now Of Two Minds!
October 31, 2006
Category: Announcements
Vote for Pedro, oops I mean ME! Yes, for some odd reason I've been selected as a finalist in the College Blogging Scholarship, but now I need some votes. Please, I'm a poor broke college student and could really use...
Posted by Shelley Batts at 12:09 PM • 14 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Holiday Specials
Halloween has been branded satanic by some, but those of us who have all our marbles know that its just spooky fun revolving around old legends and trappings of fall. As a kid I loved watching "The Great Pumpkin" episode...
Posted by Shelley Batts at 9:34 AM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
October 30, 2006
Category: Announcements
More shameless self-promoting! Go check out some of my poetry, based on the Fibonacci sequence, now published in the Science Creative Quarterly (SCQ)! SCQ is an amalgam of science, creativity, spontaneity, beauty, and absurdity reflected in the written word, operated...
Posted by Shelley Batts at 2:43 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Red Herrings
First it was the World Series, now this? Adding insult to injury, Detroit must follow St. Loius yet again in the rankings, this time for most disgustingly crime-ridden city. I would have thought that "the D" as we fondly call...
Posted by Shelley Batts at 1:11 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Tastes Like Neuroscience
The "split-brain studies," done by Gazzaniga, Sperry, and others, long ago confirmed the lateralization of language and handedness. New research at the University of Michigan suggests that certain senses may be tied to handedness as well. In right-handed people, the...
Posted by Shelley Batts at 9:43 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
October 28, 2006
Category: Health Care
I was stunned as I scrolled through this short Powerpoint presentation composed by the CDC, published in JAMA over the years. Its a compliation of obesity rates beginning in 1985, going up until 2005. What might be the cause for...
Posted by Shelley Batts at 9:58 AM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
October 27, 2006
Category: Pepper
Just thought I'd post this picture of me and Pepper as a sort-of Friday Grey Matters. And was afraid he might have felt a little left out lately. Sup fool!...
Posted by Shelley Batts at 10:29 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Global Politics
The father of the Malawi orphan that Madonna wishes to adopt now says that he is entirely in favor of Madonna taking full permanent custody. This is in contrast to a statement he issued only a few days ago, where...
Posted by Shelley Batts at 9:47 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Global Politics
In addition to cruelty, the replacement of whale products, meat toxicity issues, and conservation, fellow SciBling the Island of Doubt brings up another great point against whaling: For more than a decade now, genetic analysis of whale meat on Japanese...
Posted by Shelley Batts at 8:33 AM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
October 26, 2006
Category: Announcements
In a shameless act of self promotion, I direct you all to this week's ScienceBlogger interview on Page 3.14, which features meeeeeee!...
Posted by Shelley Batts at 6:08 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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