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 […]
Hello and welcome to Guest Post TWO! And Sci is so glad that Ambivalent Academic is covering meiosis, because I sure as heck didn’t want to do it. 🙂 Male Reproduction Part II – Spermatogenesis Last we left off we took a basic tour through the male reproductive tract in the way in which a […]
So in all the fuss of…everything, I forgot to notify people about some awesome new blogz! Today’s post brought to you by the letter O. O yeah. First up, we have the recently joined Scienceblogs Oscillator, who I was first introduced to when she and her friends did this: (*sings* “I’ll wear a gloooooove, glove […]
Sci may have hinted that there were guest posts coming up in the near future. After that long series on female reproductive anatomy, Sci thought it would only be fair to let the dudes have some information as well. Unfortunately, Sci’s knowledge of the male reproductive system is related almost entirely to hilarious things like […]
ResearchBlogging Awards 2010 Neurotopia has been nominated for best neuroscience blog! And the voting’s now open! So head on over and VOTE (I think you have to register first)! There are some great blogs up there in a lot of really great categories!! So let the voting commence, and may the best science blogs win […]
Sci came across this abstract via NCBI ROFL, the aggregation site with some truly hilarious studies on it, many of them worthy Friday Weird Science materials. And of course this one is EXTRA worthy. It’s from the Journal of Medical Hypotheses. Wither Weird Science, Medical Hypotheses, but for thee? So, coming up into this next […]