Repost: The Lab your Lab could BE LIKE.

Sci has been running the protocol from hell for the last two days. I only just got home from the lab, and I’ve got no cool new science for you today. And so Sci will be a terrible person and present you with this repost. Because I’m lame. And because soon, I will be asleep. […]

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Now on the Guest Blog, Alma Dzib!

The next two weeks, the Scientopia Guest Blog will be featuring Alma Dzib Goodin, who normally blogs at “talking about neurocognition”. Alma has three posts up already, on Brain and Life (a good introduction!), Science and Social Impact, and The brain and its understanding of the world. Head over and check it out!

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At BlogHer, 4 ways to tell if your study is CRAP

Or baloney. Horrible even. Sci is at BlogHer today taking my delicate little claws to a “study” done by AshleyMadison on which men are most likely to cheat. Yes, THAT AshleyMadison. 4 ways to tell when a study probably isn’t good science. 🙂

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Now on the Guest Blog: Rumblings of the Grumpy and Untenured

It’s been a while since I kept my lovely readers (all two of you! Hi Dad!) up to date on what’s happening on our guest blog (blogge?). But if you haven’t been reading along, please do! We just finished up an really interesting run with 27 and a PhD, who had some really interesting and […]

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Post-Valentine's EXTRAVAGANZAAAA!

Sci doesn’t celebrate Valentine’s Day much. Rather, I celebrate the day POST-Valentine’s when all the candy becomes a delicious 50-75{9f43b4361d9a125bc126dd2a2d1949be02545ec69880430bc4fed2272fd72da3} off. But this has become harder since I moved to a large city. In the suburbs, buying cheap candy was a breeze. Huge grocery stores were overstocked with the stuff and desperate to move merchandise. […]

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Hebephilia, the “measurable penile response”, and psychological damage in children

Since I first saw a post by Jesse Bering, responding to a question by a “Deep Thinking Hebephile”, I have wished to write a response of my own, covering more of the literature on the subject, and clarifying some points. It’s taken a while to gather my sources. For starters, I do not think that […]

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What's your Geek Quest?

I know, it’s already 2012 and the time for memes is past. But I’ve never been one for doing things in the normal course of things. 🙂 I saw this post over at Neurodojo, by the intelligent and handsome Dr. Zen. In it, Dr. Zen went during the recent SfN 2011 meeting to fulfill his […]

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At SciAm today: Cocaine and the risky sexual habits of…Quail?

Sci is at SciAm today, talking about the latest “wastebook” a book released to point out “ridiculous” public spending, and which singled out many STEM projects this year, including one on cocaine…and risky sex habits in quail. At SciAm, I’ll talk about why we need these research projects, and why pointing it out in a […]

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Guest Bloggers Old and New!

Ok, I’ve been out of town and then STUFF. And MOAR STUFF. The net result of this is that I totally neglected to tell everyone about the major awesome people we’ve been having at the guest blog!!! *clutches pearls* Anyway, for those of you who do not gaze with rapt attention at the guest blog […]

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