Mooney Kerfluffle redux, or How Science Journalists Don’t Get What The Average Scientist Is Up Against

Chad at Uncertain Principles wonders what the kerfluffle is with Chris Mooney. Chris wrote an Op-ed in the WaPo that summarizes this AAAS article. My last post was directed at the Op-ed, which was pedantic and useless, if not counterproductive. The AAAS article has decent recommendations that will never do what he hopes they will [...]

The LOLcats of Science

Sci has something rather big brewing for tomorrow. Really rather large. In fact, it’s SO large, that…ok she could have posted today. In fact, she was going to. But then she thought about science LOLcats and how AWESOME they would be…and… Well here you go. Sure I’m busy! I’m doing ‘research’. And then I got [...]

Rheumatoid Arthritis and the Cell Cycle

This is a paper in which Sci has a certain amount of personal investment. You see, Sci has a family member who suffers from rheumatoid arthritis. And when I say suffer, I mean she suffers terribly. Rheumatoid arthritis is an autoimmune disease where you own body attacks the lining of the membranes between your joints. [...]

A simple way to get the antiscience crowd to come around?

Mooney has the right message, but gets it wrong from there.

Friday Weird Science: Snoring Problem? Have you considered a didgeridoo?

Thanks again to NCBI ROFL, who finds these hilarious things and posts their abstracts for all the world to see, and for Sci to giggle over and then run around trying to find hilarious pictures of didgeridoos. So, let’s talk about your snoring problem. And then let’s talk about your musical stylings on the didgeridoo. [...]

Friday Weird Science: Snoring Problem? Have you considered a didgeridoo?

Thanks again to NCBI ROFL, who finds these hilarious things and posts their abstracts for all the world to see, and for Sci to giggle over and then run around trying to find hilarious pictures of didgeridoos. So, let’s talk about your snoring problem. And then let’s talk about your musical stylings on the didgeridoo. [...]

Calling Grad Students, past, present, and future

Samia, over at 49 Percent, is about to become a brand spanking new grad student. And, like the good blogger she is, she’s interested in the input of…other bloggers. What’s grad school going to be like? What should people watch out for? What things should you look for when choosing a lab? When choosing a [...]

Here there be dragon drool!!!

Sci was going to save this one for a Friday Weird Science, but it’s just so awesome that she couldn’t bring herself to save it. She had to blog it NOW! It’s not neuroscience, but it’s awesome. Also, there’s dragons. Not this kind: (Anyone else think Dragon Age Origins is really awesome?! Well, Sci spends [...]

Congrats, and Awesome Site!

First off, YAY ED!!! Ed Yong, of Not Exactly Rocket Science Fame, has won the Top Quark Prize for Science, given out by Three Quarks Daily. His post, on gut bacteria in Japanese people who love sushi, is truly really awesome. Kudos also to the winners of the Strange Quark and the Charm Quark! Well [...]

Stress and Anxiety, aka CRF and 5-HT2

Today’s post comes to you from several tweets that Sci received way back in the mists of time (that is…two weeks ago. Three? Something like that). Sci got wind of this paper and has been meaning to blog it for a while, but other things get in the way, like other things will. And when [...]