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Why I Blog

17 Nov 2008 at 9:00 am

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 blog, and how does blogging help with your research?" Many of the other SBers

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InaDWriMo Update

16 Nov 2008 at 2:38 pm

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 yet. Give it another few hours.

But! There is partying too! Tonight, Drugmonkey will be

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Friday Weird Science: Cool Tunes

14 Nov 2008 at 12:09 am

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 post with an observation. My brother and I observed, around about the time the movie "Titanic"

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GOD: Do I have your attention?

12 Nov 2008 at 11:59 pm

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 of action potentials soon enough.

Colzato et al. "Losing the big picture: how religion may control visual attention" PLoS

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The Little things in Life

12 Nov 2008 at 8:54 am

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 he puts up solid stuff like that day after day. I need about 2.5-3 hours for a good post, and I don't have that ever

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General Stuff I like to Blog about: The Action Potential

10 Nov 2008 at 11:33 pm

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, and she was doing research (in watershed ecology, of all things. How we do change.) But I

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Warm fuzzies and getting to know your profs

8 Nov 2008 at 9:21 pm

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 only reason you will catch me blogging on a weekend. Being a grad student, weekends are the time when

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And it seemed so promising...

7 Nov 2008 at 3:11 pm

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 strong here. And imagine her surprise and di

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Like a goddess descending...

7 Nov 2008 at 12:24 pm

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 how much she loves me. I am sad. Sacrifices to the goddess have not worked. :( Check her out a

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Hot Apple Cider...mmm...MY, you're such a nice person!

5 Nov 2008 at 6:00 pm

First of all, I just want to say that I am in a wonderful mood today. This day would have to totally kick puppies to ruin my mood. The only dark spot is Prop 8 in California.

But there is something else to make me happy! Check this out! I absolutely wanted one of these when I was a kid. Heck, I still want one.

ANYWAY. Welcome to option number 2 for Things I could Present at Journal Club!

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Do you love to eat? Or do you not love your food enough?

3 Nov 2008 at 10:19 pm

OMG, teh blags aspoloded! And it's all revolving around Dr. Isis. I urge everyone to check out Bora's post, it generated some great discussion and it appears that people are friendly again. And Bora said nice things about me, which I always urge people to read. :)

It's that time again! What time is it? It's time for Sci to give Journal Club. I know, it just happened. But I'm a relatively

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Notes of importance

3 Nov 2008 at 11:08 am

Happy Monday! Well, for Sci, it is unhappy Monday. She had a super-crazy weekend, is not remotely caught up with work, and is feeling the pain of sleep deprivation. You know, when you're really tired, piles of papers look kind of like pillows... If anyone wants to rub her little cyber-feet and make her a hot cup of cyber-hot chocolate with some liquor in it, she would be SO happy...

Some not

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Friday Weird Science: My jugs and my joe.

31 Oct 2008 at 1:19 am

*stands up bravely* Hi, my name is Scicurious, and I'm a...caffeine addict.

Well, currently I'm a recovering caffeine addict. I used to drink about 6 cups of coffee a day. The big travel mug size. I was even in a caffeine study where they needed high users, and they were shocked by my intake. It started out as just a latte every once in a while, and then...it became my life. Caffeine was my

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Thursday Night Show and Tell

30 Oct 2008 at 11:11 pm

Generally, I'm not a political-type blogger. I'm not good at making good statements, even though my opinions are very strong. So I leave political stuff to Evil Monkey. But he's muttering to himself in the third person again (that sidebar is really starting to get to him), so it is my job to let you know that Seed Media has endorsed Obama. I'm sure you all know this by now. You can read the e

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