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
That is, if you are a shrew and do not want to be just a dead data-point for some ingenious young ecologists....who at least clean up the tricky trash left by drunk drivers.
There are 54 days until the Science Blogging Conference. The wiki is looking good, the Program is shaping up nicely, and there is more and more blog and media coverage already. The anthology should be published in time for the event. There are already 145 registered participants and if you do…
I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.
- Agatha Christie
Alan Kellogg has a cool contest for you:
Bora still has some 55 days to go before the conference, and still he posts about the folks coming. Will he have groups and/or individuals to write about by the time the conference gets here? Not to worry, Bora will find conference goers to write about, the…
There are 55 days until the Science Blogging Conference. The wiki is looking good, the Program is shaping up nicely, and there is more and more blog and media coverage already. The anthology should be published in time for the event. There are already 144 registered participants and if you do…
Bioclocks Work By Controlling Chromosome Coiling:
There is a new twist on the question of how biological clocks work. In recent years, scientists have discovered that biological clocks help organize a dizzying array of biochemical processes in the body. Despite a number of hypotheses, exactly how…
Or, Happy Evolution Day! It's time for a party!
It is easy to look up blog coverage - if you search for "Origin of Species" you mostly get good stuff, if you search for "Origin of the Species" you get creationist clap-trap as they cannot even copy and paste correctly (hence they are better known…
Call me traditional, but I love books. I have about 5000 of them. If I see a long blog post or a scientific paper or an article that is longer than a page or two, I print it out and read it in hardcopy. I see why an e-Book is a good idea, though, and one day I am sure to have one for particular…
There are 56 days until the Science Blogging Conference.
Before I return to highlighting some of the people who will be there, let me finish with this Thanksgiving series of posts about the Friday pre-conference events - leaving the best for last, perhaps. If you look at the Program, you will…
...the computers and the Web:
If you are not clear about the difference between the Net (aka Internet), the Web (aka World Wide Web) and the Graph (aka Social Graph), then this post is a must read (via Ed). He explains much more clearly what I had in mind before, e.g., here.
In order to use the…
There are 57 days until the Science Blogging Conference. Continuing with the Thanksgiving break in highlighting some of the people who will be at the Conference in January (and the list is growing - already at 144 registered participants), here is some more about what will be happening on the…
Well, I certainly like it very much when a reader checks out my Amazon wish list and picks out a present for me. I like presents!
But this morning I got a LARGE package, full of books from the Wish List, a variety and quantity sufficient to keep me excitedly reading for quite a while:
Quantico by…
I always find that statistics are hard to follow and impossible to digest. The only one I can ever remember is that if all the people who go to sleep in church were laid end to end they would be a lot more comfortable.
- Mrs. Robert A. Taft (nee Martha Wheaton Bowers)
I tend to give annual thanks on New Years' (I may have skipped a couple of years, but this year I have a lot to be thankful for, so come back here on December 31st for the extensive list).
Enjoy the holidays, be good to each other and, if you are so idle you decide to come here and see there is no…
There are 58 days until the Science Blogging Conference. Since it is a holiday, I decided to take a little break in introducing people who have registered so far and instead showcase some parts of the program - especially stuff that is happening on Friday, January 18th (as everyone's focus is on…
Group eating - how to carve a turkey.
Group eating - pros and cons of pack-hunting.
Group eating: not just vertebrates.
Group eating: calculate your inclusive fitness.
The Four Stone Hearth #28 is up on Hot Cup Of Joe
Tangled Bank #93 is up on From Archaea to Zeaxanthol
Skeptics' Circle #74: The Evolution of Thanksgiving is up on Med Journal Watch
Carnival of The Liberals #52 is up on Yikes!
Carnival of Education #146 is up on NYC Educator
It's been a while since I came back from Boston, but the big dinosaur story kept me busy all last week so I never managed to find time and energy to write my own recap of the Harvard Conference.
Anna Kushnir, Corie Lok, Evie Brown, Kaitlin Thaney (Part 2 and Part 3) and
Alex Palazzo have written…
There are 59 days until the Science Blogging Conference. The wiki is looking good, the Program is shaping up nicely, and there is more and more blog and media coverage already. The anthology should be published in time for the event. There are already 140 registered participants and if you do…
Gene Genie #20 is up on Bitesize Bio
Grand Rounds 4:09 are up on Mexico Medical Student
The 104th Carnival of the Green is up on Savvy Vegetarian
Carnival of Homeschooling: Thanksgiving Week 2007 is up on HomeschoolBuzz
There are 34 articles published in PLoS ONE this week. As always, look around, read, rate, comment, annotate.... Here are my picks for the week (no need to repeat the dinosaur paper here, of course):
A Viscoelastic Deadly Fluid in Carnivorous Pitcher Plants:
Carnivorous pitcher plants supplement…
'Noah's Flood' Kick-started European Farming?:
The flood believed to be behind the Noah's Ark myth kick-started European agriculture, according to new research by the Universities of Exeter, UK and Wollongong, Australia. New research assesses the impact of the collapse of the North American (…
An article in Wired Campus (which I guess is a blog of the Chronicle of Higher Education) quotes something I wrote in this post about the Carnegie Mellon analysis of Top 100 most useful blogs. Thanks ae and Sandy for the heads-up.
There are 60 days until the Science Blogging Conference. The wiki is looking good, the Program is shaping up nicely, and there is more and more blog and media coverage already. The anthology should be published in time for the event. There are already 139 registered participants and if you do…
Never play cards with a man called Doc. Never eat in a place called Mom's. Never sleep with a woman whose troubles are worse than your own.
- Nelson Algren
Evolution Is Deterministic, Not Random, Biologists Conclude From Multi-species Study:
A multi-national team of biologists has concluded that developmental evolution is deterministic and orderly, rather than random, based on a study of different species of roundworms.
Greg Laden explains.…
