Sci picked this paper today partially because it was handed to her on a platter by the fantastic Dr. Pal, and partially because today she is SO HUNGRY. She’s had a TON of food already today, and is still entirely ravenous. Maybe it was looking at this paper too long. (Cereal break) Anyway. As I’m […]
Sci admits she’s kind of had her head in the sand the past few weeks for a variety of reasons. And so it was to her great surprise when she was scrolling through Scienceblogs that she saw that OBSERVATIONS OF A NERD IS HERE! Sci highly recommends her weekly dose of cute, as well as […]
Last week during Weird Science, Sci got to hear a lot more about people’s urine odors than she probably ever REALLY wanted to know. But hey, why be shy? And so you may imagine that urine and fluids have been on Sci’s mind a little bit lately. Another thing has also been on Sci’s mind: […]
A few days ago (ok, maybe it was more than that, the days kind of blur together), Sci got an email in her inbox, and the instant she got it…she knew she had to address the crowd. For it went like this: O neuroscientist-who-have-come-before-me, I am a neurobiology undergrad. I am looking at graduate programs. […]
So as Sci found out when she returned from the interminable meeting of doom and destruction, WE HAS AWARDS! Neurotopia is the winner of the best blog award in Neuroscience! Sci is very pleased. We would like to thank the Academy…and Research Blogging, and everyone else! w00t! Also, Sci would like to say that she […]
Early spring is a good time of year. Sci starts feeling a little more motivated, it’s finally warm enough to feel comfortable running outside again (not that Sci ran inside, she was just very uncomfortable outside), and it’s asparagus season! When Sci was wee and her mother would try to feed her asparagus, Sci turned […]
What you all were waiting for has finally come! Yeah. Sperm maturation and ejaculation OK!! So the last time I was over here at Neurotopia we were talking about sperm in their infancy. We discussed spermatogenesis — how we got from a diploid spermatogonial stem cell to a haploid spermatid — and then spermiogenesis — […]
Boing Boing has reviewed Open Lab 2009, Edited by yours truly, Scicurious! And they LIKED IT!! Is it a treasure trove of awesome science geekery that will prompt dozens of cool conversations on a wide variety of topics? A handy “Follow that Blogger” guide that should get its first spine-breaks while you use it to […]
Worry not, Sci is alive at this time. She is merely far more busy than usual. This, too, shall pass. However, in this time in which there is no crazy neuroscience going on up in here (though I’ve got some stuff in mind), check this out. It’s post over at Isis’ place on languages other […]
Well well well. Here we are. It’s Friday. And we’ve been talking about SPERM ALL WEEK. What to do…what to do… Nel-Themaat et al. “Quality and freezing qualities of first and second ejaculates collected from endangered Gulf Coast Native rams” Animal Reproduction Science, 2006. Heh. So it turns out that the people who wrote the […]