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2013-05-08 17:49:52 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

LOVE this paper by +Jarrett Byrnes et al.!

2013-04-29 01:19:52 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

For anyone suffering serious squid withdrawal while I'm on maternity leave, here is my Nerd Nite talk from last year! You can watch it over and over until my daughter stops being more interesting than the internet and I return to regular posting.

2013-04-26 02:17:39 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Last year I supported a journalism project on Kickstarter called MATTER. Tagline: "The world is full of big stories. We don't want them to go missing." As a reward, I've gotten free access to the first few pieces. The quality of reporting and writing is exceptional, as one might expect from the people involved. But I've been somewhat disappointed by the content.

The first MATTER story, "Do No Harm," was about apotemnophilia, a compulsive desire for amputation. I thought, haven't I read about this before? Yes, there it was on my bookshelf: "Brain Games," in the Best American Science and Nature Writing of 2010. MATTER's latest story, "Bad Blood," about the radioactive murder of a Russian dissident, has given me the same sense of deja vu, this time reminding me of "The First Assassination of the Twenty-First Century" from BASNW... more »

2013-04-24 17:02:13 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 1 +1s)

Notes from Nature has an incredibly elegant interface and a noble goal: to crowdsource the transcription of the world's biological collections. I just did a lovely cuckoo wasp. Highly addictive. H/t +CA Clark

2013-04-10 23:30:10 (2 comments, 1 reshares, 3 +1s)

I am so using this for a sci-fi story someday. CREEPY.

2013-03-02 23:56:47 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

This. Is. So. Cool. h/t +CA Clark 

2013-02-25 03:51:09 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

2013-02-19 05:19:41 (0 comments, 3 reshares, 7 +1s)

Cohabitation! Mouth-to-mouth mating! Mothers living to raise more than one brood! Is this even an octopus??

2013-02-18 02:18:56 (3 comments, 1 reshares, 4 +1s)

Hey, I'm back to blogging! Kinda.

2012-11-13 22:39:13 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 2 +1s)

If I had known about these years ago, I might be known as "Pugglejo" instead of "Plattyjo". Fascinating creatures!

2012-11-08 23:04:28 (6 comments, 3 reshares, 11 +1s)

Braxton Higgs contractions, of course, are those that impart mass to the baby.

2012-11-06 15:59:56 (3 comments, 2 reshares, 7 +1s)

New brooding squid discovered! In oddly related news, I won't be blogging for a while.

2012-11-05 16:11:30 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Wikipediad: past tense of a verb or epic poem? I am amused!

2012-11-03 00:59:09 (0 comments, 3 reshares, 2 +1s)

Lovely piece about the disastrous state of US health care--and how to fix it. (It's pleasing that their excerpt is exactly the one I would have chosen.)

2012-10-30 23:20:17 (2 comments, 1 reshares, 3 +1s)

Celebrate Halloween with some real anatomical accuracy! (This will be my last KQED post for a while, as I'm going on maternity leave in November.)

2012-10-29 17:43:02 (4 comments, 0 reshares, 6 +1s)

I'm very fond of both parasites and babies, so it hurts me when people get them confused. Particularly interested to hear +Tommy Leung 's thoughts on the matter!

2012-10-25 00:24:44 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 6 +1s)

Happy (belated) Ada Lovelace Day! I got to write about some rad people to celebrate. 

2012-10-17 03:47:45 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 5 +1s)

Data viz at its finest! All the winning entries are worth checking out.

2012-10-12 19:55:56 (3 comments, 1 reshares, 2 +1s)

Want!

2012-10-11 07:15:58 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 4 +1s)

Cream skimmed from a year of rich cephalopod news.

2012-10-09 17:02:33 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

I guess I'm on a mural kick lately? Anyway, Sierra Nevada bighorn sheep are rad. Thanks +CA Clark for introducing me to +Jane Kim!

2012-10-08 22:20:05 (3 comments, 1 reshares, 0 +1s)

Woo! Happy International Cephalopod Awareness Days! I'm compiling a list of top ceph news since last October. What shouldn't I miss?

2012-10-06 00:28:32 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Squid win photography competition! Well okay, I guess it was a guy who took their picture.

2012-10-05 17:03:04 (5 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Wait wait wait, starfish don't use suction to walk after all? I'VE BEEN LIED TO ALL THIS TIME!

2012-10-04 22:21:15 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

This biologist-poet intrigues me! I think I want to read her book, Radial Symmetry.

2012-10-03 20:59:03 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 0 +1s)

A good point about what kinds of studies get published in what kinds of journals--it's not just journalists who are biased toward the new and exciting.

2012-10-03 19:02:40 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 2 +1s)

Vampire squid: they are weird. Also they managed to remind me of my thesis subjects. I swear I'm not obsessed--there really is a connection!

2012-10-02 23:07:07 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

Did you know Genentech has an in-house artist? I think that's pretty cool.

2012-09-25 21:19:51 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

Do you think the next pandemic is more likely to come from natural pathogens or a scientist's lab? Or won't it come at all?

2012-09-20 00:05:09 (8 comments, 0 reshares, 5 +1s)

I want to believe this is an intentional meme reference.

2012-09-18 22:54:04 (4 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

I got to profile this gorgeous mural that transects California's eco-zones. The artist who painted it is pretty cool too.

2012-09-17 18:50:09 (3 comments, 0 reshares, 12 +1s)

L'Shana Tova! I made challah, one 3-strand and one 4-strand, then started reading about braid theory in topology, and learned that it is actually applicable to fluid dynamics! Who knew? http://www.math.ufl.edu/~boyland/stir.pdf
Also, the bread is delicious.

2012-09-13 19:10:28 (2 comments, 1 reshares, 3 +1s)

This is a dialogue between an octopus and a large man with a beard and a pipe.

2012-09-11 16:36:53 (0 comments, 3 reshares, 1 +1s)

Want to see a mama vulture with a litter of piglets? Tiffany Bozic's art is adorable and disturbing, and I got to write about it for #kqedquest  this week!

2012-09-11 16:27:56 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

I got interviewed, in writerly fashion.

2012-09-11 16:20:01 (4 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Does anyone else used Streamified? For a while there it was a handy cross-posting tool, but their latest updates seem to have created a crash-prone, unfriendly product. Maybe I'm just not using it right?

2012-09-05 23:28:12 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

This has almost nothing to do with science, though two journal articles are briefly referenced. But the topic is irresistible, and what's more, the writing is inspired.

2012-08-28 16:54:29 (5 comments, 2 reshares, 2 +1s)

The internet is temporarily enthralled with squid skin, and I am not immune. #kqedquest

2012-08-28 00:12:09 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

Lanternfish and krill, just when you thought you were safe: hungry Humboldt squid can spend HOURS hunting in the OMZ.

2012-08-22 03:35:34 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

Crowdsourced art made with beautifully crafted tools! This is what the internet was made for, people.

2012-08-22 03:31:59 (3 comments, 2 reshares, 2 +1s)

Lovely meta-reporting on a questionable study about egg-eating.

2012-08-21 00:41:47 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

I'm pretty sure squid don't get seasick, but one has to wonder . . . 

2012-08-20 23:56:50 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

Wild! I had no idea the weather was such a hotbed of theoretical physics mystery. This makes me feel a lot better about the fact that I've never really understood thunderstorms.

2012-08-19 22:40:13 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Children's book writers have a lot in common. And yet they absolutely don't.

2012-08-15 20:44:46 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 2 +1s)

Meet an artist inspired by the inside, rather than the outside, of the human body . . . 

2012-08-09 01:55:01 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

"Loving Little Egypt" sounds like brilliant historical science fiction, and I want to read it.

2012-08-08 00:23:37 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

Some VERY pretty--and informative--images of the sun, on #kqedquest :

2012-08-07 16:14:43 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

My remarkable Jr. High science and math teacher passed away last week. Fitz's thoughts on education ring as true today as they did in 1987 when he called for "citizens who have a general awareness of problems--not just scientists who know only science or people in the humanities who know only humanities, but people who can understand both sides of the spectrum."

2012-08-01 00:51:43 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Aliens, video games, art and science! All the good stuff at #kqedquest  today--

2012-07-28 00:29:28 (1 comments, 5 reshares, 9 +1s)

First evidence of REM sleep in an invertebrate--of course it's a cephalopod! Watch their cute little arms twitch.