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Shelley Batts is a Neuroscience PhD candidate at the University of Michigan. She studies hair cell regeneration in the cochlea, and is trying to finish 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, Pepper, on our quest to finish my PhD, land a post-doc, and stay sane.
Steve Higgins is a psychology graduate student at an online university. He hopes that the three weeks and $29.95 that he is spending on his Ph.D. will get him a job at a Tier 1 research university. Do online universities have postdocs? Ok...just kidding, Steve is really a Ph.D. Candidate in Psychology at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign studying high level vision. You know... stuff like scene & object perception.
While not an official contributer to 'Of Two Minds,' Shelley's sidekick is an African Grey parrot named Pepper. His heros are Irene Pepperberg, Alex, and Rachel Carson. He spends his time learning Mandarin and writing the Great American novel.
"Those who dwell, as scientists or laymen, among the beauties and mysteries of the earth, are never alone or weary of life." ~Rachel Carson
Recent Posts
- Orgasms Everywhere!
- What happens at Vision Science Society stays at VSS (except in the blogging world)
- Huuuuuge sale of science books from Columbia Press
- Announcing the 34th annual meeting of the Society for Philosophy and Psychology
- Superstition at the Exploratorium
- Popping in and out of existence... what I'm doing right now in Florida
- Interesting Police Blotter Tidbits: Paranormal Rape
- Gruesome Japanese Anatomical Illustrations
- Videos of African Grey Parrots in Cameroon and Congo
- Dalai Lama Speaks in Ann Arbor
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- Steve Higgins on Popping in and out of existence... what I'm doing right now in Florida
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About
March 3rd 2008 was a momentous occasion in the Blogosphere. Two ridiculously good blogs (Retrospectacle and Omni Brain) came together to make a super ridiculously great blog called Of Two Minds.
Shelley Batts, a Neuroscience Ph.D. candidate at the University of Michigan, and Steve Higgins, a Psychology Ph.D. candidate at the University of Illinois attempt to make brain-based blogging accessible, relevent, and fun. We highlight important discoveries in Neuroscience, Psychology (and science in general), describe the process of obtaining a PhD, all while being being upbeat savvy scientists interested in world domination one paper at a time.
Our previous blogs have been featured in such places as Slate, Newsweek, ComputerWorld, the Science Creative Quarterly, USATODAY.com, PCWorld, BlogHer, Pharyngula, MixEye, DailyKos, The Scientist, DigitalTrends, Reuters, the Volokh Conspiracy, BoingBoing, SlashDot, the Baltimore Sun, the Guardian, the blogs of Scientific American and Nature, The Issue, Fark, Medicine at Michigan, Wired, and many, many more. Shelley was the recipient of a Student Blogging Scholarship from the Daniel Kovach Foundation in 2006 (3rd place) and 2007 (2nd place). We have both been featured in the Open Lab book series highlighting the best science blogging of each year.
