At SciAm Blogs today, I am pleased to welcome Dr. Becca of Fumbling Toward Tenure as a guest blogger! She’s doing an excellent takedown of a recent article in the NY Times, which gave some rather incorrect impressions of a recent study involving cocaine and mice. Head over and check it out!
Please welcome our newest tenure on the guest blog, Unlikely Grad! She brings a really new and interesting perspective to academia, and I think she’s going to bring something cool to our guest blog, too! Head over and say hello!
Only one week left to write and submit posts for the Diversity in Science Carnival on the theme of Imposter Syndrome! I’m really interested to hear what you all have to say on how it affects your life choices, how you fight it, and how you think other people and academia can help stop it […]
Think of a political candidate you like. Maybe you agree with their politics. Maybe they have a very open and honest demeanor. Maybe they have lots of qualities that you think would make them a good leader. You would follow them if they led…but would you follow them if they looked? (Source) Liuzza et al. […]
…the more you eat the more you toot! Everyone knows that beans make you fart. It’s something that’s basically assumed to be a fact of life. Beans have high fiber, high fiber does things to your intestinal tract, and the net result is a chorus of flatulence and stink that makes you unfit company. I […]
Sci is at SciAm Blogs today, talking about an interesting new study which uses manipulations in social rank in monkeys to study the effects on the immune system. We’ve known that social stress is bad for your health for a while, and this study aims to get at what kind of changes take place which […]
Don’t forget that Sci is hosting the Diversity in Science Carnival this month on the theme of Imposter Syndrome! I want to hear how you fight it personally and what you think people and institutions can do to reduce it. A blog carnival is a collection of links along the same subject or theme, put […]
Over at SciAm Blogs today, I’m covering a recent study that made it kind of big in the news: the finding that fast food consumption correlates with depressive diagnoses. And while the correlation is real…I wonder if there are other correlations rolled into there. Do you agree? Head over and check it out!
Or, as Stephanie noted “Penguins shooting the s**t”. Today’s weird science comes to you courtesy of Anne Jefferson of Highly Allocthonous, who pointed Sci to this paper purely for the amazingness that is Figure 1. And it IS amazing. After all, what do you get when you combine penguins and poo? SCIENCE of course! Meyer-Rochow […]
For the next two weeks on the Scientopia guest blog, we’ll be hosting the fun and fabulous Joe to the Izzo of the blog “It’s ok to be Smart”. While he usually does a tumblr, he’s hoping to experiment with the long form posts on the Guest blog, and we’re excited to have him! Please […]