I felt very inspired looking at the recent post from Jeremy Yoder, ‘Knowing what I know now‘. Well, first it reminded me of this: Though of course this is the BEST song of that title: But then it made me think of all the things that I WISH I’d known in grad school, the things […]
Sci came across a post by Jeremy Yoder at the Molecular Ecologist the other day. It was “Knowing what I know now” and was a set of reflections grad school. It’s full of great gems of advice. And it made me think of some advice of my own! There are LOADS of things that I […]
Today’s Friday Weird Science is a synchro-blogging with the ever fabulous Kate Clancy at Context and Variation. Because when you see a paper this…special…well sometimes it takes two of us. Make sure you head over and check out her awesome coverage! I don’t know about you all, but when I do anything, I do it […]
Hello from the Society for Neuroscience meeting! Sci is headed home shortly. It’s been a fabulous time, meeting new people, seeing old friends, and seeing the hottest new science! It’s an overwhelming experience, but I always come away with a head full of new ideas, a liver crying for mercy, and renewed enthusiasm for the […]
Unlike previous years, Sci will NOT be Neuroblogging this year’s SfN. I did like doing it, it was loads of fun, but I’m afraid there’s just too much on my plate this year. I will definitely be looking up this year’s neurobloggers, though! I think I recognize some names! 🙂 But I would like to […]
Sings: *but that’s why birds do it, bees do it, little fishies in the seeeeeas do it, let’s do it…* Let’s come together. Into groups, schools, herds, flocks. Prey animals all over the world do it. We know why prey animals tend to clump together. More animals means more eyes to spot predators. More animals […]
NOTE: Sci is usually at SciAm Blogs on Monday, but they’re doing some updates to the site, and I thought I would stay over here for today, just in case. I have an officemate (and I know they’re reading, everyone say hi to my awesome officemate!) who likes to listen to pop music in the […]
Today’s Friday Weird Science comes to you courtesy of Bug Girl, who never fails to send me all the completely crazy entomology stuff she comes across. And she sees…a lot. And insects have some truly amazing mating systems. Including this one. (Source) Yup, that’s a walking stick. And boy can those sticks go at it! […]
…but they mean much more than most people think they mean. People on blogs talk about work-life balance a lot. We talk about working “only” 60 hours a week. We talk about having a hobby. We talk about having kids. We talk a lot of balance. But there’s one big aspect of academic life that […]
Sci has blogged before on why asparagus makes your pee smell. It turns out there are sulfurous compounds in asparagus that come out during digestion, making your pee smell significantly musty and weird for many hours after. Unless, of course, you can’t smell it at all. I have to admit, I thought EVERYONE could smell […]