Awesome blog friend JLK just sent me this link. I can’t be more amused. The life of a bee on cocaine. Does it get any better? And Ed (yes, you, ED) has beaten me to the Friday Weird Science! He’s got an awesome article on the traumatic insemination practices of spiders. Ya’ll probably read him […]
Why should I try? Why should I bother with all this red tape and knowing the right people and being nice to them in the right way and making sure you phrase things JUST SO? Why shouldn’t I do something else?
Now let us all pause for a moment and be glad that there is no species that uses Oasis songs as its mating calls.
I think I hit the wrong thing when trying to install a rotating blogroll, so Neurotopia may look like base model Movable Type template for a while. My apologies…
Sci’s been away for a few days. Life has been stressful, and Sci has been more than usually unmotivated. It ain’t pretty. Sci is still in the lab. She is very hungry. But she will pick herself up. Nose to the grindstone, and all that. Sci is BACK on the INTERNETS! And she brought you […]
You may have heard by now that there was a rally yesterday at UCLA for Pro-Test, where scientists and the public in support of responsible animal research gathered to protest the violence and threats that have plagued the UCLA scientific community. The rally featured Dr. David Jentsch, a scientist who’s car recently was firebombed by […]
Oh hai. In teh beginnin Ceiling Cat maded teh skiez An da Urfs, but he did not eated dem. Anyway, today is Earth Day. Sci is spending it in grad student fashion: in the lab. But she has some resolutions to make. not that I was TAGGED, Mike. *sniff* MIKE DOESN”T CARE ABOUT SCI!!!! meanie […]
This paper. It’s elegant, it’s beautiful, and I love it. It’s a piece, if it takes off and is replicated, that is going to change the way we think about things, and give us new targets to combat dopamine disorders such as Parkinson’s. In other words, it’s HOT.
A few weeks ago, Sci and Mr. SiT met up with some friends we don’t see often enough. One of these friends has what I personally think is the BEST JOB EVER. He works for a microbrewery. This means that, not only does he get a wicked discount on some amazingly tasty microbrews, he also […]
Some of you may be aware that this week is World Laboratory Animal Liberation week. For those of us working with animal models, it’s tense, surrounded with heightened security, and a time in which we probably don’t feel like talking. But Dr. Free-Ride has stepped, once more, into the breach, which a series of awesome […]