In the animal kingdom, we often don’t tend to think too much about male mate choice, the choice that the males have over the females they mate with. This is mostly because…well we basically think that males will hump anything that looks vaguely like a female. Or even that DOESN’T look vaguely like a female. […]
So this will hopefully be one of the last of Sci’s Experimental Biology Blogging posts. It’s been a great experience, but OH MAN has it been tiring. But this will be the last, I think. Sci got into blogging Experimental Biology through the interest and very kind advocacy of the communications officer of the American […]
Sci is guest posting over at Science of Blogging today, where I will be talking about my recent blogging of the Experimental Biology 2011 Conference and offer my perspective (and some tips, though you by no means need to take them) on blogging a conference as a scientist. If you’re interested in blogging a conference […]
There’s no question that the opinions of society play a very large role in how we perceive ourselves, particularly in terms of physical attractiveness. For example, in our society (Western/USian), women are judged heavily on their body weight. Men get flak for not being muscular enough (though not half as much as women). We all […]
Scientists are skeptics. At least, most of us are. But we’re also, for better or worse, only human. And this means that we are…superstitious. At least, I am. Perhaps Sci is moreso than most. After all, Sci was raised something of a theater brat, and there is no group on earth more superstitious than a […]
You know, I tried SO hard to come up with a good rhyme…”When your legs give a yank, turn to your spank bank?” “Are your legs restless? Masturbate to redress!” “If your legs still shake, yank or your trouser snake?” I got nothin’. Rhyming has failed me here. But the weird science, it NEVER fails […]
Today, Sci would like to welcome back to the blog Ambivalent Academic!!! Everyone give her a big hand. 🙂 We were chatting recently about a cool new paper that came out in Nature on corneal formation in a dish, and she said she’d give it a go on my blog!!! So please welcome Ambivalent Academic […]
Head over and welcome the latest blog to Scientopia, the Research Initiative for Science Enhancement (RISE) blog from North Carolina Central University! We are so proud to be able to interact with aspiring young scientists via their new blog, and to be able to give them a place to put their bloggy home. The blog […]
Sci has, of course, returned from #EB2011 (that’s Experimental Biology 2011 for those not on Twitter). She is still in the later stages of recovery. I don’t know about you guys, but conferences always end up with me being ill from something or other. Be that as it may, Experimental Biology Blogging CONTINUES. Though I’ve […]
To blog, or not to blog: that is the question: Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous commenters, Or to take arms against a sea of trolls, And by opposing end them? To blog: to sleep; No more; and by a sleep to say we end The heart-ache […]