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It's a Micro World after all - The rumors of my death ...

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 14:52:21 -0600

... have only been slightly exaggerated. Life certainly has been busy lately, but I have been keeping note of some items that I definitely wanted to blog on. In particular, my efforts to go fully-electronic in my lab/office dwelling. So, I'll be back soon to blog on those efforts as well as review some of the software/apps as well as hardware that have helped me progress my lab forward.; (read more)

Source: Thomas Joseph - Discipline: Misc

Featured - A peril of "Open" science: Premature reporting on the death of #ArsenicLife

Thu, 02 Feb 2012 09:42:54 -0600

GFAJ-1 Bacteria Open science is a wonderful concept, but what happens when reporters start writing stories on data that has not been properly reviewed and vetted by the scientific establishment?  Before this week, I had never really considered this question.  Open science at its core is a wonderful utopian idea where scientists do their work in the open and publish their noteboo; (read more)

Source: Brian Krueger, PhD - Discipline: Science Politics

Featured - Grolars Symbolize Canada's Changing Concerns: From Conservation to Climate

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 09:13:31 -0600

A provocative aspect of the climate change debate is the impact that temperature changes have on species. In particular, people have used the beloved and majestic polar bear, Ursus maritimus, as a mascot for the negative impact of climate change. A few years ago, it wasn't known that global warming could affect the fundamental definition of the polar bears species. Polar bears are closely re; (read more)

Source: Dangerous Experiments - Discipline: Ecology

Featured - Is Sunshine Enough?

Sat, 28 Jan 2012 18:50:56 -0600

Note: This post has been written as a submission for a creative-type project found at http://www.worldtheatrefestival.com/program/scratchworks/disappearing-acts People were asked to address the question 'Is Sunshine Enough?' and at the urging of a friend I have decided to contribute. Given that it was not strictly an 'essay' competition the narrative in this post is; (read more)

Source: Psycasm - Discipline: Psychology

Featured - Hemispatial neglect: a one-sided world

Thu, 26 Jan 2012 23:26:02 -0600

Check out the dog, Barley, in this video. Notice how he doesn't seem interested in the food on the left side of his bowl. Perhaps he's blind in his left eye? But that can't be the case. Close your left eye. You can still see much of your left visual field, and you'd certainly smell any food placed under your nose. And what dog is one to walk away without finishing their food?I; (read more)

Source: Jordan Gaines - Discipline: Neuroscience

Featured - Fur-iends with benefits

Thu, 19 Jan 2012 23:16:33 -0600

Apologies for the cheesy blog title. My brain for the past two weeks has been a whirlwind of—well, brains. I'm in a fairly intense five-week neuroanatomy class and my neurons have been abuzz with images of brain slice after brain slice—so much that transverse sections of the brainstem were beginning to resemble a pug's face. The wrinkly cerebellum was the forehead; (read more)

Source: Jordan Gaines - Discipline: Neuroscience

Featured - Blindsight and Consciousness, what can we learn from the blindsighted?

Sun, 15 Jan 2012 13:54:33 -0600

If there were ever a perfect example of an oxymoron, the term blindsight would be it. Other than the best oxymoron ever, what is blindsight?  Alan Cowey, in his 2010 review article, The blindsight saga, describes it as such:   It is the ability of patients with absolute, clinically established, visual field defects caused by occipital cortical damage to det; (read more)

Source: Cynthia McKelvey - Discipline: Neuroscience

Kitchen Hacking - Who's Got It Better Than Us?

Sat, 14 Jan 2012 19:56:02 -0600

NOBODY! <iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/gw5Eld-KRuQ" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> Sorry. Had to get that out.; (read more)

Source: JaySeeDub - Discipline: Misc

Featured - Off Topic: Facilitated Communication and the Scientific Method

Sat, 14 Jan 2012 13:18:47 -0600

Last Friday I was watching 20/20 with my fiancee. Shows like 20/20 or Dateline are usually about some unsolved murder mystery that is just creepy, but TV offerings on Friday evening are slim pickings so we gave this one a shot. This episode by Chris Cuomo (son of former NYS Governor Mario Cuomo and brother of current NYS Governor Andrew Cuomo) dealt with the unexpected consequences of facilitated ; (read more)

Source: Nick Fahrenkopf - Discipline: Psychology

Kitchen Hacking - Tasting Menu - January 11, 2012

Wed, 11 Jan 2012 12:00:00 -0600

Apparently some of the French have decided that restaurant menus should note when items have been prepared from frozen, processed and canned goods versus fresh. A very interesting, and curious concept. I'm pretty sure if something similar were proposed in the US, chain restaurants would be up in arms as so very little of their products are prepared fresh and on site. This is to keep costs dow; (read more)

Source: JaySeeDub - Discipline: Misc

Featured - This is the post that doesn't end, yes it goes on and on my friends, some people started reading it not knowing what it was...

Sat, 07 Jan 2012 20:27:20 -0600

I've been thinking about the phenomenon of Earworms lately... If you're not familiar with the term it does not refer to an exotic and horrifying parasite. It's actually a word used to describe the (personally annoying) situation where a song gets stuck in your head.  The most recent example of this, for me, was after listening to a Radiolab episode and hearing a skipping-t; (read more)

Source: Psycasm - Discipline: Psychology

Featured - The neuroscience of optimism: why we resolve (and believe) we'll be better

Fri, 06 Jan 2012 19:09:44 -0600

If you're within the 32% of Americans that made a resolution for 2012, chances are you're still going strong. Nearly a week in, you've been faced with the temptation, the test of willpower, and likely some teasing from loved ones. And you've only got 360 days left to call your resolution a success? Easy as pie...   Experimentally (and in real life; (read more)

Source: Jordan Gaines - Discipline: Neuroscience

Featured - Food Labeling

Fri, 06 Jan 2012 09:35:20 -0600

Credit: Frito Lay Food labeling is complicated. And confusing. For one thing, there is a lot of information on there, from calorie count to ingredients to calories per gram of fat. You almost need a science degree to start to understand it. Serving size, for example, isn’t helpful. On a bag of Doritos you’ll see that the serving size is 1oz (28g), and that there are about 9 servings in a bag.; (read more)

Source: JaySeeDub - Discipline: Agriculture

Featured - Filtering - That Alfredo Guy...

Wed, 04 Jan 2012 10:35:53 -0600

The jars of the stuff are everywhere. Glass jars with thick, white sauce. Alfredo with garlic. Alfredo with mushroom. Alfredo with four cheese. Alfredo with red peppers. Sun dried tomatoes. The list goes on and on. And the way we eat them is no different. One of my younger cousins will only eat pasta alfredo if there's chicken and garlic. A simple bowl of homemade pasta with white sauce? Nope; (read more)

Source: JaySeeDub - Discipline: Chemistry

Featured - New Year's (Lab) Resolutions

Sun, 01 Jan 2012 17:23:43 -0600

With 2012 officially here we're all making resolutions. I've pledged to eat breakfest out less (bagel and cream cheese is so good!) and to blog at least once a month (sorry I've been scarce!) I think now is also a great time to make some New Year's Resolutions for the lab too. Here's what I have planned, if you have some more in mind leave them in the comments! Safety First! With the recent n; (read more)

Source: Nick Fahrenkopf - Discipline: Research

Featured - Bad Christmas gifts: a neuroscientific gifting guide

Wed, 21 Dec 2011 11:21:17 -0600

Gift-giving isn't easy—particularly during the holidays, when there are so many different people for whom to buy. It's overwhelming and stressful, and people cope with the burden in different ways. Some, like myself, begin lists in September, all the while picking up hints from others and taking note, then making my purchases before Thanksgiving. Others rush to the mall the weekend b; (read more)

Source: Jordan Gaines - Discipline: Neuroscience

Featured - Can woodpeckers help us design better helmets?

Sun, 18 Dec 2011 15:37:51 -0600

Despite being one of the more annoying animals, woodpeckers are actually pretty cool when you consider how well they're designed for what they do.  Their feet have two toes in front and two in back to better grip vertical surfaces.  Their stiff tails act like a third leg to balance themselves against the tree (or building) that they're pecking.  But what' (read more)

Source: Cynthia McKelvey - Discipline: Zoology

Kitchen Hacking - So Unbelievably Mad Right Now.

Tue, 06 Dec 2011 06:00:00 -0600

I have quite a few friends graduating this Winter. Some in teaching credential programs. Some in undergrad. Some from Grad School. And hey, that's awesome. I'm looking forward to quite a few parties this Winter. And some people I know are graduated from Chiropractic school. And have started to call themselves "Doctor." All three people I know who went to Chiropractic did not make it int; (read more)

Source: JaySeeDub - Discipline: Misc

Featured - Robot Insects

Tue, 06 Dec 2011 00:03:17 -0600

The other day the institution I study at was lucky enough to have Dr. Justin Werfel, a robotics researcher at Harvard (at the Wyss Institute), give a talk on a couple of his current projects.  It was mainly aimed at the engineering/robotics faculties, but a few of us Psych people heard about it and decided to attend.  I can do no justice to his work here, so I will attempt to p; (read more)

Source: Psycasm - Discipline: Psychology

Featured - Why yawning is contagious

Mon, 05 Dec 2011 23:31:15 -0600

Check out the woman on the left and try not to yawn. Go on, give her a good ten seconds of your time. In the spirit of A Christmas Story, I triple-dog dare you. Really—try your absolute hardest not think about yawning as you read this post! C'mon, you know you can do it—you've been dared before, and you always fail miserably. NO YAWNING! Chances are you've already let ; (read more)

Source: Jordan Gaines - Discipline: Neuroscience

Featured - Home for the holidays! How pigeons use their sense of smell to find their way home.

Sun, 04 Dec 2011 15:34:19 -0600

Happy holidays, everyone!  It's a time of eating lots of delicious food, spending time with friends and family, and celebrating long-held traditions.  For many, it's also a time of finding their way back home, whether it's in the town where they grew up, or in the company of loved ones (or both).  This also means that for many, it's a time of airports; (read more)

Source: Cynthia McKelvey - Discipline: Animal Behavior

Featured - The neuroscience of "Christmas Shoes"

Mon, 28 Nov 2011 21:58:53 -0600

Sir, I wanna buy these shoes for my mama, please. It's Christmas Eve and these shoes are just her size. Could you hurry, sir? Daddy says there's not much time... This little gem by New Song permeates the airwaves each year around this time, igniting tears and snickers alike in its listeners. We all know why the man agrees to buy the shoes for the boy—I mean, "his clothes were wo; (read more)

Source: Jordan Gaines - Discipline: Agriculture

Featured - 33 Years of Destroying Closet Doors

Mon, 28 Nov 2011 03:41:50 -0600

It has been 33 years since San Francisco Supervisor Harvey Milk was shot and killed in his office in San Francisco City Hall, along with then Mayor George Moscone. Harvey was elected in 1976, to represent the Castro District, and in 2 years he helped focus and change San Francisco and California politics. Most famously, in 1978 he fought against the Briggs Initiative. The Briggs Initiative would h; (read more)

Source: JaySeeDub - Discipline: Misc

Featured - Skepticomp2011 - What Woo Will You Do?

Thu, 24 Nov 2011 18:48:07 -0600

  The UQ Skeptics Present Skepticomp 2011    What untapped market of woo would you develop to dupe the masses? Create a pseudo-tech or woo-powered product, describe it, and win! WIN! WIN!  Skepticomp 2011 is open to anyone, anywhere.      The Prize   A $20 iTunes voucher to the iTunes of your choice ; (read more)

Source: Psycasm - Discipline: Research

Featured - Killing Brain Cells and the Hangover...

Thu, 24 Nov 2011 05:54:33 -0600

Did you know it's next to impossible to measure the cognitive impact of a hangover?   Yeah, think on that for a moment.    In preparation for an upcoming Psychobabble episode I decided to do a bit of research into what impact the hangover has on performance. I mean, we all know what happens when we're drunk - it makes us super sexy, super smart and super co; (read more)

Source: Psycasm - Discipline: Psychology

Featured - How Like You are You?

Sat, 19 Nov 2011 21:16:46 -0600

The following video relates to the bystander effect. You know the kind of thing - some actor lies down in the street and you watch, dismayed, as a dozens of people walk by apparently without concern. It's not imperative to this post that you watch it and make some judgements about it - but it will help me make some (hopefully) interesting points later on (and watching it later will give away ; (read more)

Source: Psycasm - Discipline: Psychology

Featured - Error, Will Robinson, ERROR!

Sat, 19 Nov 2011 11:17:57 -0600

I’ve unfortunately had to sit through some very rough presentations lately, so in everyone’s best interests, here is my second volume of things to think about when giving a presentation (see: Ten Tips to Give Great Thesis Defense). In this case we won’t be looking so much at the presentation, but instead the experiment and how small oversights can blow up in your face during a presentation. ; (read more)

Source: Nick Fahrenkopf - Discipline: Misc

Featured - Lunacy by the full moon-acy: is it real?

Thu, 17 Nov 2011 20:49:36 -0600

When I was in elementary school, my teacher told my class that the full moon makes people crazy. She said it was caused by the gravitational tug of the moon on the Earth—the same forces that cause high and low tides—the argument being that our bodies are more than 60% water. I was impressionable and fascinated by weird science—who isn't at that age?—and have long since stored that "; (read more)

Source: Jordan Gaines - Discipline: Neuroscience

Featured - Gender-Bending in the Animal Kingdom

Thu, 17 Nov 2011 16:24:42 -0600

An article in the New York Times this week inspired me to write about my favorite animal of all time, the cuttlefish.   :D   Cuttlefish are cousins of squids and octopuses.  They're not native to the Americas (which is why many American readers may have never heard of them before), but they are common virtually everywhere else; (read more)

Source: Cynthia McKelvey - Discipline: Animal Behavior

Psycasm - Do it for the Science! Again!

Tue, 15 Nov 2011 23:40:44 -0600

What up? I'm back from my brief hiatus, and, very happily, am full of ideas. The first one follows in a similiar vein to my post on the False Consensus Effect. This post, by the by, is in no way related to the FCE. However if you feel compelled to answer the survey AND think you've figured out what I'm getting at - just drop a mention at the end of the questionairre (there's ; (read more)

Source: Psycasm - Discipline: Psychology

Featured - Mirror mirror on the wall, relieve me of pain once and for all

Tue, 15 Nov 2011 23:40:44 -0600

A very exciting event is happening as I type this: Neuroscience 2011, the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience. This nerd-tastic event attracts a bevy (over 30,000, to be more precise) of the best and brightest in brain research under one roof once a year. This year's meeting is in Washington, D.C. Unfortunately for me, I am not in attendance; but fortunately for myself; (read more)

Source: Jordan Gaines - Discipline: Neuroscience

Featured - Commercial Space and Me

Thu, 10 Nov 2011 17:41:46 -0600

I've been job hunting for a while. Sent out hundreds of resumes, filled out countless applications, had phone interviews, unofficial meet and greets, official interviews, tests, take home tests.. you know the drill. Nothing seemed to be panning out. Imagine my surprise as I suddenly found myself with not just one, but two incredible job offers both in the Commercial Space field. I never und; (read more)

Source: Evie - Discipline: Space

Featured - Filtering - Sous Vide

Wed, 09 Nov 2011 12:00:00 -0600

I feel really bad for leaving readers in a lurch. I think I may have taken on a bit more than I could handle these past few weeks. But, I did run across this really cool article on MAKE on how to make your own immersion circulator. They call it a "sous vide machine," which is fine. The upside is that it costs about $75 to make. Versus spending $400 for the "SousVide Supreme." And anyone with a lab; (read more)

Source: JaySeeDub - Discipline: Technology

Psycasm - 'Happy Ending' and 'Colonoscopy' do not belong in the same sentence...

Mon, 07 Nov 2011 02:18:15 -0600

Wow, do we have it wrong...  Ask yourself what happiness (and the pursuit thereof) means to you before watching this clip: ; (read more)

Source: Psycasm - Discipline: Psychology

Featured - Hippocampus (or should I say, elephant-campus)

Sat, 05 Nov 2011 11:31:52 -0500

I am always in awe of "unlikely animal friends," and there are plenty of these videos on YouTube from which to enjoy. This CBS Evening News Assignment America particularly interested me. Steve Hartman has reported two follow-ups since this 2009 feature about an unlikely friendship between Tarra the elephant and Bella the dog. The latest, which I caught when aired two ni; (read more)

Source: Jordan Gaines - Discipline: Neuroscience

neuroBLOGical - Welcome to neuroBLOGical!

Fri, 04 Nov 2011 19:22:09 -0500

Welcome to my new blog, neuroBLOGical! My name is Jordan, and I'm a 22-year old graduate student in the Neuroscience program at Penn State Hershey. I'm a native of the Baltimore area, and graduated from the beautiful St. Mary's College of Maryland in May with my Bachelor's in Biology and Neuroscience.  I have had an interest in neuroscience since 8th grade�; (read more)

Source: Jordan Gaines - Discipline: Neuroscience

Featured - Goodbye, sun. Hello, confused suprachiasmatic nucleus!

Thu, 03 Nov 2011 23:07:09 -0500

In my book, Ben Franklin is the man. An expert swimmer, self-taught pentaglot, and inventor of the "glass harmonica," he was also among the first to suggest the notion of Daylight Savings Time. A 1784 essay by Franklin suggested that an extra hour of daylight in the evening would save on candles. I love that extra hour. As a kid during the summertime, it meant my brother and I; (read more)

Source: Dangerous Experiments - Discipline: Neuroscience

Featured - What do the OWS protesters and Chimps have in common?

Thu, 03 Nov 2011 06:58:34 -0500

A Psychobabble short. Occupy Wall Street and the Inner Primate.  My motivation for doing this particular research was to ask the question 'how deep does our sense of fairness run?'. There's a little bit of anthropomorphising going on, but I think some of the more interesting stuff comes through. This short is less than 10 minutes long. Hope you enjoy it. ; (read more)

Source: Psycasm - Discipline: Psychology

Featured - How film makers are using your own imagination to scare you

Sun, 30 Oct 2011 13:40:31 -0500

Happy Halloween!  It's a time of costumes, candy, and for those more thrill-seeking types, horror movies.   Personally, I'm a total wimp when it comes to scary movies.  Show me anything that's even trying and failing to be scary, and it will still scare me.  So that got me thinking, why is it you can walk into a movie feeling like this:; (read more)

Source: Dangerous Experiments - Discipline: Neuroscience

Featured - Poking a barking dog with a big stick.

Sun, 30 Oct 2011 13:38:29 -0500

Lately, I've been reading about salmon.  Adult salmon swim upstream thousands of miles to return to the place they were born.  Because their objective is to reproduce, they stop feeding, their stomach disintegrates, and instead all their fat stores go to producing eggs and sperm.  Only the fittest salmon make it to the spawning grounds.  And I realized, po; (read more)

Source: GirlPostdoc - Discipline: Careers

Little bit bitch and a little bit buddhist - For the math nerd in you.

Sat, 29 Oct 2011 11:42:36 -0500

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Source: GirlPostdoc - Discipline: Engineering

Little bit bitch and a little bit buddhist - Misguided.

Fri, 28 Oct 2011 20:20:15 -0500

Out 'n 'bout: If you eat enough shit sandwiches in academia then you're bound to have success. [Maybe, but who would want to kiss that face.] I'm not saying it's your fault, I'm just blaming you. [Oh wait, was that your insecurity talking?]; (read more)

Source: GirlPostdoc - Discipline: Agriculture

H2SO4Hurts - YouTube: Just a (PhD) Dream

Thu, 27 Oct 2011 13:06:11 -0500

Source: Brian Krueger, PhD - Discipline: Agriculture

Psycasm - BRB

Tue, 25 Oct 2011 08:13:17 -0500

So I just wanted to make quick personal note. I'm going to be going silent for the next week or two considering it's the pointy end of semester. Not that I have a lot of exams, per se, but they are back-to-back. Addtionally, I've been wondering whether or not to share this. As a blogger I generally don't go into too much personal stuff, but I feel this is contributing to my two-week break and (on; (read more)

Source: Psycasm - Discipline: Agriculture

Featured - Big friend list = big brain?

Sun, 23 Oct 2011 00:14:03 -0500

  You know what they say about people with big brains...  Big Facebook friends lists. That's not entirely true. But a new study in Proceedings of the Royal Society B has neuroscience junkies abuzz this week: the number of Facebook friends we have may be linked to certain brain structures. Now, let's not get too worked up about this. I&#; (read more)

Source: Dangerous Experiments - Discipline: Neuroscience

Featured - Women's Intuition

Fri, 21 Oct 2011 00:06:19 -0500

So we (myself and the Psychobabble crew) are playing around with formatting and structure ideas for the podcast. Here's smething we're going to try and do a bit more of - Shorts. Something well less than 10 minutes that's on topic and covering a nice little chunk of information. The following is only 8 minutes long, and it covers the history and science behind the idea of 'Wom; (read more)

Source: Psycasm - Discipline: Psychology

Little bit bitch and a little bit buddhist - On-line therapy

Wed, 19 Oct 2011 18:21:23 -0500

My officemate knowing of last week's hulabaloo left a piece of yummy German chocolate on my desk. Think hard because it may be as small as a stranger smiling at you, what act of generosity have you been the reciepient of today? You know I'll just keep asking until I get something resembling a response....; (read more)

Source: GirlPostdoc - Discipline: Careers

H2SO4Hurts - Slides - From the Bench to the Blogosphere: Why every lab should be writing a science blog

Wed, 19 Oct 2011 10:03:32 -0500

Here are the slides from the presentation I gave on Monday.  We recorded a video, but I'm not sure how it turned out.  I have a feeling the audio is going to be bad so I might just sit down and do it over again this weekend on my laptop. Two of the slides are movies.  The first is a clip from "Flock of DoDos" where some lady says scientists are horrible communica; (read more)

Source: Brian Krueger, PhD - Discipline: Agriculture

Featured - Fact Checking AARP: Why soundbytes about shrimp on treadmills and pickle technology are misleading

Mon, 17 Oct 2011 09:00:00 -0500

AARP put out a commercial a few months ago deriding wasteful spending in Washington.  Unfortunately, the soundbytes don't accurately represent the full story behind the spending.  Have a watch before continuing. The main points of this mis-infomercial are: We're wasting money on a Brazillian corn institute, Poetry in Zoos, Shrimp on treadmills, and pickle technolog; (read more)

Source: Brian Krueger, PhD - Discipline: Science Politics

Featured - MHV68: Mouse herpes, not mouth herpes, but just as important

Mon, 17 Oct 2011 08:33:38 -0500

In the current political climate it has become clear that science is a major target of Republican directed budget cuts. However, the soundbytes of politics do not represent the importance of science in our lives.  Because of this, I think it's extremely important that we explain why some of our model systems are so important for understanding how viruses and ultimately human diseas; (read more)

Source: Brian Krueger, PhD - Discipline: Microbiology

Featured - Thinking with your Fingers

Mon, 17 Oct 2011 02:02:54 -0500

This is a bit of a pet topic of mine, so I was surprised to find that I'd only written about it once before. Here I wrote on the idea that washing one's hands influences the manner in which we make moral decisions. At other times we've spoken of this topic on the podcast. Here, now, I'm going to give it a much better airing.  I'm talking about E; (read more)

Source: Psycasm - Discipline: Psychology

Little bit bitch and a little bit buddhist - Moving towards generosity.

Sun, 16 Oct 2011 13:59:53 -0500

If you folks are feeling generous, Donor's Choose could still use some help.  There is another project that readers could get behind, it's to bring microscopes into the classroom.  Its called, Request for Young Scientists' Tools of the Trade.  I asked this question in an earlier blog and didn't get much of a response, so let me try again.&nbs; (read more)

Source: GirlPostdoc - Discipline: Careers

Little bit bitch and a little bit buddhist - The Longest Revision process ever?

Fri, 14 Oct 2011 14:56:52 -0500

Good grief.; (read more)

Source: GirlPostdoc - Discipline: Careers

Featured - @DonorsChoose update: Pictures of the materials we bought being used!!

Fri, 14 Oct 2011 09:37:13 -0500

Wow!  Mrs. Irish has posted pictures of her students using the microscope, slides and workbooks that we helped purchase for her classroom.  This is exactly why we work so hard to try to bring in donations through the DonorsChoose program. There are still 60 or so unfunded projects on our giving page, sp please stop by and help in any way you can. ; (read more)

Source: Brian Krueger, PhD - Discipline: Science Politics

Little bit bitch and a little bit buddhist - Update - Part II On Generosity

Thu, 13 Oct 2011 13:24:33 -0500

Lately before we go to bed, HippieHusband and I watch Animal Planet's 101 Dog Video's. I think, in part, because we both want to get a dog.  But another reason is because we want to watch something that makes us feel happy before we go to bed.  I had no idea there were so many different kinds of dogs.  Last night, however, I decided to listen to something else ; (read more)

Source: GirlPostdoc - Discipline: Careers

Little bit bitch and a little bit buddhist - Okay enough of the bitching and complaining. More importantly...

Wed, 12 Oct 2011 17:23:23 -0500

In all my bellyaching and self-absorbed navel-gazing, I completely forgot to thank the very generous person who donated $680 to the "Do Plants Wear Genes?" Donor's Choose Project. Thank you, whoever you are.  There is another project that readers could get behind, it's to bring microscopes into the classroom.  I believe its called, Request for Young Scientis; (read more)

Source: GirlPostdoc - Discipline: Sociology

Featured - Update - When a supervisor shoots themself in the foot.

Wed, 12 Oct 2011 10:40:07 -0500

After I received an email from RedBull, I spoke with several tenured and t-t faculty to get their opinions on how to deal with this.   Based on their advice, I answered her email with one that said I value our relationship and have absolutely no intention of stepping on her toes (And really this is true) .  That I respected her preliminary data collection and thinking for t; (read more)

Source: GirlPostdoc - Discipline: Careers

Psycasm - Choice

Tue, 11 Oct 2011 07:49:19 -0500

I feel that some people might object to the ideas presented here. I wonder if that's ironic.  ; (read more)

Source: Psycasm - Discipline: Psychology

Featured - A rant.

Mon, 10 Oct 2011 20:53:13 -0500

Be forewarned, this is a rant. So Sunday night I received an email from my supervisor, RedBull.  It's a doosy.  In the email, she states that I have not made it clear in my Research Statement (for the tt apps) that my accomplishments in her lab are part of her research program.   Despite the fact that within the statement, it clearly says, "As a postdoc in such a; (read more)

Source: GirlPostdoc - Discipline: Careers

Featured - Removing the fear

Sun, 09 Oct 2011 10:55:14 -0500

First off, I would like to apologize for not posting as recently as I would have liked to on LabSpaces. I've been with LabSpaces blogs since the very beginning, and I would never stop posting ... but, life got in the way. Over the past few months, I've been busy writing and working, and I let a few things fall away. So, I apologize for my absence, but I'm back now and will post mor; (read more)

Source: David Manly - Discipline: Psychology