Welcome our newest Scientopian: Dr. Becca!

We have a new Scientopian! (Scientopian always makes me think of aliens. source) Head over and say hello to Dr. Becca, who will be joining us with her blog “Fumbling Toward the Tenure Track”!

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Friday Weird Science: Feeling the Vaginal Pressure, the idea of “insuck”

You know you’ve blogged too much when you have to search yourself to check whether you’ve written something up before. I cannot BELIEVE I haven’t done this one yet! I always wonder about laboratories that study orgasm and human sexual behavior. Do people stand around looking all official at lab meetings and talk with very […]

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Thursday Blogrollin’: The Neuroskeptic

Sci wanted to highlight Neuroskeptic’s blog today. I realized that I’m ALWAYS retweeting their stuff, but never seem to link to them on the BLOG. And that has to change. Cause Neuroskeptic is teh greatest. They always have an interesting and skeptical look at the latest research. For example, check out this great post on […]

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We really do believe we’ve got more free will than the other guy.

I tweeted this link all over the internets the other day, and not surprisingly, it got picked up a lot. And why not? Free will is one of those subjects that is particularly interesting to, well, just about everyone. It’s one the deep philosophical questions pondered by philosophers, and high people everywhere: DO we really […]

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The Science of Blogging: On Pseudonymity

Head on over to Science of Blogging! Sci has a new post up there as of yesterday on some of the pros and cons of pseudonymity in science blogging. The short story: Pros: No death threats No harm to your research A cute name Cons: No trust Need to build up a reputation from scratch […]

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BDNF and Depression

I’ve written a bunch of posts in the past on serotonin, the serotonin theory of depression (and why it’s probably wrong), and some stuff on current antidepressant treatments. And I even talked before a little bit about the serotonin theory vs the BDNF theory. But I’ve never really COVERED what the BDNF theory IS and […]

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To the Dude who sat down in front of me in seminar Friday…

To the Dude who sat down in front of me in seminar Friday having previously bathed in Axe, I hate you. Believe me, if the choice for you is between a shower and bathing in Axe, take the shower, I assure you that everyone around you would prefer it. You reek to high heaven. And […]

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OMG! New Network!

A new Science Blogging network has surged into existence! Go and check out Occam’s Typewriter (cute name!), a blog host of many people formerly of Nature Network, including Cath Ennis, the ever awesome Jenny Rohn, Stephen Curry, Richard Grant, and more great bloggers! Congrats on their successful lauch! Go check it out!

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Friday Weird Science: Stimulating the Brain…and the Rectum

I think @vaughanbell described it best with this Tweet: @scicurious @edyong209 One of the few studies where you don’t want to hear the words “We’ve made a breakthrough” And with that…I HAD to blog it. Garvin et al. “Cortical and spinal evoked potential response to electrical stimulation in human rectum.” World Journal of Gastroenterology, 2010. […]

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Buried…

…under an avalanche of Pubmed citations. I will emerge when my browser window no longer has 75 tabs open. In the meantime, have a LOLcat. (From where else?)

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