SICB
grrlscientist | July 22, 2009tags: Onion News Network, ONN, Princess Diana, 120-car Pile-up, humor, funny, satire, fucking hilarious, streaming video
Yesterday's 259 car pile-up on the autobahn in Germany reminded me of this tragic news report that I'd always meant to share with my friends -- especially one of my British friends who is relocating to Germany [1:56]
grrlscientist | January 8, 2007I have been trying to update my blogroll for the past three days without success. Spercifically, I am trying to update my "drinking pals" section since I now have three new blog writers who are new drinking pals of mine; John, Brent and Jim, whose beautiful house I visited while I was in Phoenix -- all of which is due solely to SICB.
grrlscientist | January 7, 2007Today is the last day of SICB. The meeting ends at noon, and since I stayed up until three in the morning, writing up summaries of the bird posters, I slept in a little bit this morning, so I am missing the last few presentations today. Overall, the meeting was excellent, with lots of fascinating and well-done talks and interesting people to talk with. I also got to speak with many of my grad school colleagues while I was here, which was great fun.
The people living in Phoenix really went out of their way to make us "bloggers" feel welcomed, and my thanks especially go out to Jim and his…
grrlscientist | January 6, 2007
Following (below the fold) are a few of the bird posters that I saw yesterday at SICB.
Class. Substantial data exists on the behavioral endocrinology of temperate-zone birds, yet ornithologists are just beginning to examine and compare tropical birds to temperate zone birds. In a recent comparative study, tropical birds had lower mean peak testosterone levels on average than temperate birds. However, several tropical species in the study had comparable or higher peak testosterone levels than temperate species. In contrast, in a study of peak testosterone levels in three species of the…
grrlscientist | January 6, 2007
I also managed to see a lot of posters today -- some of which I will tell you about below the fold (I primarily focused on those posters that discussed birds or molecular evolution of certain characters);
Albers. The mosquito larvae of the genus Ochlerotatus actively regulate of the osmotic pressure of their body fluids so as to maintain homeostasis of the body's water content, a process known as osmoregulation. For this reason, some species are restricted to freshwater habitats while others can successfully osmoregulate in saline waters that greatly exceed the concentration of seawater.…
grrlscientist | January 6, 2007
The internet connection was down for nearly 24 hours at the hotel, so I was unable to update you all on the talks I attended yesterday afternoon, which caused me to express much crankiness. Hopefully, I will be able to get that done sometime within the next 24 hours (i.e.; before I return to NYC). Today is the third day of the conference and I am getting tired and overwhelmed by the intense flood of presentations and posters, so now I am attending only presentations that focus explicitly on evolutionary biology or ornithology. Below the fold are the bird presentations that I attended;
Beck…
grrlscientist | January 5, 2007
I spent my morning going to presentations in the Hormones, Brain and Behavior section, which is the area that I studied for my doctoral degree before I switched fields to evolution and phylogenetics. Some of the presentations I saw included;
Hau. Evidence from studies in temperate-zone male vertebrates has accumulated that the endocrine regulation of aggressive territorial behavior differs seasonally. During the breeding season a combination of androgenic and estrogenic mechanisms appear to regulate male aggressive behavior, while during the non-breeding season either only estrogenic or…
grrlscientist | January 4, 2007I have been running into people I know from graduate school all day long, and thus, haven't gotten to attend as many talks and posters as I'd like. Hopefully, I will be able to catch up with my grad school colleagues sometime during the next few days. I also have some talks and posters to tell you about, mostly about birds, but right now, I am somewhat nervous about the panel discussion, so will put that off until later tonight, when I can concentrate a little better.
For those of you who are attending SICB ("sick bee"), our panel presentation will be between 7-9pm tonight in the Curtis…
grrlscientist | January 3, 2007Well, folks, PZ has arrived and is in fine spirits, although not as fine as me, considering that I have had a beer and already met some people I know from graduate school. I was also told that my dissertation advisor is here, and according to rumor, he is out birding somewhere so he may not show up at the hotel for awhile. I am looking forward with great anticipation to seeing my advisor again since I want to introduce him to PZ and John. Oh, and speaking of John, well, that boy is a slacker, pure and simple, because he is still not here!
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tags: SICB, evolution, biology, zoology
grrlscientist | January 3, 2007Yes, my peeps, I have arrived in Phoenix, I have investigated the surroundings and am settled into my room on the 19th floor of the Hyatt Regency hotel. My room has a great view of the city, and of the Sierra Nevada Mountains in the distance, which are currently obscured by a layer of smog. My earlier trepidations about the meeting have somewhat abated, thanks to some anti-anxiety medications that were given to me by my doctors, and now I am drinking a chai, courtesy of Starbux, which is across the street.
Besides its humongous rooms (by NYC standards), perhaps the greatest feature of this…
grrlscientist | January 2, 2007So I've mentioned this before, but SICB is almost upon us. I am boarding my plane tomorrow at 630 in the morning (to avoid the NYC morning gridlock) to attend SICB. I should arrive in Phoenix before noon. There will be several get-togethers with our readers that you are invited to attend;
Friday January 5th at 6:00pm: A casual get-together at Seamus McCaffrey's Irish Pub, which is close to the Hyatt hotel, where we will be staying. This is open to the public.
Saturday January 6th at 5:30-800pm: Phoenix-area skeptic Jim Lippard has kindly offered to throw his house open to rabble like us.…
grrlscientist | December 29, 2006There will be a social event during the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology (SICB) conference where you can meet me, PZ and John. It will take place in the evening of 6 January, 2007, from 530pm-800pm. For more details and to RSVP, check out the link provided.
grrlscientist | December 23, 2006I have been invited to be a panelist at the Society of Integrative and Comparative Biology (SICB) meeting, which is one of the largest biology meetings in North America. It is being held from 3-7 January 2007 in Phoenix, Arizona. This panel will discuss blogs: how to set them up, how to decide what to write about, how to use them for education, public outreach and research purposes. The panel consists of PZ, John and myself -- even though I have been outed several times in the past, this means that my anonymity is officially over at this point, so I guess I'll be unemployed for the rest of my…