So down at the bottom right of the ScienceBlogs mainpage (not that any of you EVER go there, no, you click straight through to Neurotopia first thing every morning with eyes shining in anticipation! Of course you do!), there’s a little thing that says “Ask a Scienceblogger”. The question most recently is “Why do you […]
Papers read this week: 14! 21/20 that I wanted to read. Words written: 3,871 (first 1/3 of paper #1) You know you’ve got a lot on your plate when you take time off from a conference to WRITE. There’s so much at these conferences (particularly at SFN) that I’m amazed I’m not slack-jawed and drooling […]
I actually had another piece in mind for this Friday’s Weird Science, but a friend of mine sent me a link to this paper, and I HAD to do it. It’s not just weird, it’s awesome! Long, Fee. “Using temperature to analytze temporal dynamics in the songbird motor pathway.” Nature, 2008. I will start this […]
I WAS going to blog on the history of action potentials tonight, but it’s late, I’m really tired (14 hour days in the lab add up), and action potential history is hard. Luckily for all of us, a new and cool article is out in PLoS ONE! Do not fear, I’ll get to that history […]
Two things while I attempt to wake up (I’ve technically been “awake” for 2.5 hours already, but we all know that’s just a word). 1) Not Exactly Rocket Science has a BOOK! I’m so jealous. Ed is a master of science blogging and gives me someone to look up to. I have no idea how […]
Action potentials are special to me. They are special to me because action potentials are what got me into science in the first place. Well, ok, they didn’t really get me in to science. Little Sci had been a Biology major for about two years before she first really studied the action potential in depth, […]
Whoops. Apparently I was supposed to give this update on Saturday, but I was busy! Busy working!! In InaDWriMo! Thus far: papers read: 7 (out of 20). I should clarify that, when Sci reads a paper, she doesn’t just read the abstract and glance at the figures. She reads, takes notes, and puts the relevant […]
Dr. Isis has a very interesting post up over at her new place on how and if one should relate personally to one’s students. In reply, Stephanie has posted a beautiful story of her own. And JLK posted some quite excellent comments. Both of these posts made me think a lot, which is probably the […]
Or perhaps I should call this “Friday Weird Science…NOT!” Seriously, I’m pissed. Because when Scicurious sees a headline like this: The Stink in Farts Controls Blood Pressure she thinks “SWEET! This will be awesome!” and starts hunting around for the paper. The original article itself was less promising than hoped, but wishful thinking was going […]
Dr. Isis has arrived! I’m so thrilled to see Dr. Isis join the Borg! She advises poor fashion-idiot Scicurious on how to look less like she’s still in college. And color-blind. And her science is top notch. And she’s one heck of a runner. Check her out!! Well, except she didn’t say in her blog […]