Sunday, August 15, 2010

Comments for first half of August 2010

Kevin Zelnio at Deep Sea News mentioned that one of my posts (on the Marmorkrebs blog, not here) led him to a paper that he discusses in a post about unisexual species.

Mike Lisieski at Cephalove talks about neurotransmitters in octopuses, and generally does it pretty well. But I go in to clarify just in case anyone might misinterpret what he wrote.

Michele Sullivan at talks about a digital poster session. Second time I’ve heard of such a thing, and the reports I heard were similar.

Neuroskeptic discusses the developing story with psychologist and primatologist Marc Hauser. But I think some switches got made between a picture of Hauser and one of his subjects.

Jeremy Yoder at Denim and Tweed looks at the relationship between the length of references in a scientific papers, and the number of times that paper is cited. I suggest a testable hypothesis.

0 comments: