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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!
May 31, 2007
Category: Risky Business
By this time most people have heard about the "Monster Pig" shot by an 11-year old. Except, experts at StinkyJournalism have debunked the colossal pig as a hoax. Turns out the pig is big, but the photos were intentionally manipulated...
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Category: Demagogues
Like most scientists and nerds, the innovative and often science-fictiony work of Stanley Kubrick holds a spot of honor in my heart. However, the man himself was an sometimes seen as an enigma, a very private person. Jamie Stuart, cyber-friend...
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May 30, 2007
Category: Science Vault
One elephant, 3 scientists, and 300 mg of LSD.
Posted by Shelley Batts at 8:37 AM • 28 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
May 29, 2007
Category: Repost
A common question I am asked, on my blog and in real life, is what is the "trick" to getting into a good graduate program (for the sciences). The trick is that there is no trick, but there are...
Posted by Shelley Batts at 9:50 AM • 16 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Announcements
If you are in the vicinity of Illinois, I've got a cool event to pass on: a fundraising dinner to help benefit Dr. Irene Pepperberg's work on intelligence and communication in Grey parrots. Go see Dr. Pepperberg talk about...
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May 26, 2007
Category: Things I Wish I Could Afford
Deck furniture that glows.
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May 25, 2007
Category: YouTube Obsessions
Perhaps the best thing I've ever seen. Remember when I blogged a bit about the effects of psychoactive drugs on the web-building activities of spiders? Well little did I know that the experiment was actually filmed....
Posted by Shelley Batts at 6:45 PM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Birds
Mallards are invading the medical campus of U Michigan. Give them nerdy names.
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Category: Health Care
"We say that killing monsters is fun, but curing cancer is more important," Andrei Turinsky, a mathematician and computer scientist, said as he moved the model around using a joystick.
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May 23, 2007
Category: Weird Science
Virgin birth in a hammerhead shark explained by asexual reproduction.
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