ScienceSeeker Editor's Selections May 24 - 30, 2015 | #sciseekpicks

Each week, the ScienceSeeker editors pick their favorite posts within their respective areas of interest and expertise. Here is a round-up of the Science Seeker Editors’ Selections for the past week:

• Writing a response to reviewer comments at Dynamic Ecology by Meghan Duffy
• fMRI of the Amygdala: All In Vein? at Neuroskeptic
• Ben Barres: On Science and Sexism at NeuWrite San Diego by Megan Kirchgessner 
• HIV virons attached to cell membranes at Lab Land by Quinn Eastman
• The Strange Brain Part I and Part II at Shudder 
• The Immersive World of Virtual Reality at Lions Talk Science by Lina Jamis
• WN: "I earnestly want to do research..." at Chemjobber
• On the ethics of that "chocolate sting" study at The Curious Wavefunction by Ashutosh Jogalekar
• Will Computers Redefine the Roots of Math? at Quanta Magazine by Kevin Hartnett
• In Memoriam: Grant Wiggins by Patrick Honner
• How a Graduate Student Reluctantly Uncovered a Huge Scientific Fraud at Science of Us by Jesse Singal

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ScienceSeeker Editor's Selections May 17 - 23, 2015 | #sciseekpicks

Each week, the ScienceSeeker editors pick their favorite posts within their respective areas of interest and expertise. Here is a round-up of the Science Seeker Editors’ Selections for the past week:

• What Can “Lived Experience” Teach Neuroscientists? at Neuroskeptic
• No, Smartphones Aren’t Making Children Autistic at Neurobonkers
• Image of the Week: Killer T Cells Caught on Camera at Wellcome Trust Blog by Clare Ryan
• Science careers: doomed at the outset at Occam's Corner by Steve Caplan
• I thought I’d seen it all: Epigenetic birth control at Respectful Insolence by David Gorski
• Survey Says at The Last Word on Nothing by Sally Adee
• What does fMRI measure? at Brain Box by Mark Stokes
• Blind-Sighted at All in Our Head by Roisin Guihen
• NSA in P/poly: The Power of Precomputation at Shetl-Optimized by Scott Aaronson
• The Mysterious X at Chemistry World Blog by Rowena Fletcher-Wood
• The Chemistry of Spider Venom at Compound Interest by Andy Brunning

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ScienceSeeker Editor's Selections May 10 - 16, 2015 | #sciseekpicks

Each week, the ScienceSeeker editors pick their favorite posts within their respective areas of interest and expertise. Here is a round-up of the Science Seeker Editors’ Selections for the past week:

• The Men Who Weighed Mountains at The Physics Mill by Jonah Miller
• Dark Matter: Giver of Life at Starts with a Bang by Ethan Siegal
• We do not need to discard old scientific role models in order to embrace new ones The Curious Wavefunction at by Ashutosh Jogalekar
• Bacteria on shoes could help forensic teams catch suspects by Stefano Vanin at The Conversation US
• Give up the #OCD jokes on Twitter, they won't make you popular at BPS Research Digest by Christian Jarrett
• Shooting the Phantom Head (perceptual delusional bicephaly) at The Neurocritic
• Turning Off Inflammation: A Novel Anti-Inflammatory Switch in Macrophages at Next Regeneration by Jalees Rehman

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Welcome to the new ScienceSeeker!

Last October, we were happy to announce that ScienceSeeker would continue to operate despite the dissolution of ScienceOnline. Since then, our technical team, editors, and I have been working to find more sustainable options for ScienceSeeker's future. We greatly appreciate everyone who gave us feedback on ScienceSeeker when we distributed our survey early last month.

After lots of discussion and hard work, we've created this site. We've been able to hold onto many of ScienceSeeker's old functions, but re-introduce them in new ways:

• Our blog feeds are now housed by Inoreader. You can access individual feeds by topic on the right sidebar. You can also search for specific blogs within each feed. Any new posts you write on your blog will be automatically updated on Inoreader.
• Our weekly Editor's Selections will still continue and can be found right here on this blog every Monday morning. Our editors and/or the @SciSeeker Twitter account will contact all authors whose posts have been selected as best of the best each week.
• If you'd like to add your blog to our site, you can do so here (link is also in the top menu).
• Although we no longer have our citation generator, which we know that many users appreciated, we have included a brief tutorial (see top menu link) for easily creating citations using Google Scholar in MLA, APA, or Chicago format.

I'd like to especially thank Jessica Perry Hekman and Karyn Traphagen for all their hard work, late-night e-mails and phone calls, and outreach efforts during the past few months as we planned for ScienceSeeker's future together. We're thrilled that we are able to continue doing what we've always done, and we'd love to get your feedback as we grow our new site. Thank you for your continued support of ScienceSeeker!

Jordan Gaines Lewis, @GainesOnBrains

Editor-in-Chief, ScienceSeeker

ScienceSeeker Editor's Selections May 3 - 9, 2015 | #sciseekpicks

Each week, the ScienceSeeker editors pick their favorite posts within their respective areas of interest and expertise. Here is a round-up of the Science Seeker Editors’ Selections for the past week:

• The Accidental Birth of Radio Astronomy at Physics Buzz by Tamela Maciel
• Simulating Gamma Ray Bursts at The Physics Mill by Jonah Miller
• Brewing Up Shikimic Acid at Just Like Cooking by See Arr Oh
• Few of My Favorite Spaces: Fat Cantor Sets at Roots of Unity by Evelyn Lamb
• Different Dog Breeds, Different Sensitive Period? at Companion Animal Psychology
• Eyes on Environment: the search for artificial photosynthesis at Goodnight Earth by Jonathan Trinastic
• Murder Your Darling Hypotheses But Do Not Bury Them at The Next Regeneration by Jalees Rehman
• What Should We Do in the Absence of Evidence? at Science-Based Medicine by Mark Crislip
• Snake Oil and Skepticism: Some recent examples at MostlyScience by Christopher Weir

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ScienceSeeker Editor's Selections April 26 - May 2, 2015 | #sciseekpicks

Each week, the ScienceSeeker editors pick their favorite posts within their respective areas of interest and expertise. Here is a round-up of the Science Seeker Editors’ Selections for the past week:

• Boron and the Permian extinction: a glimpse into the past gives a hint of the future at Goodnight Earth by Jonathan Trinastic


• More than two thirds of California is in “extreme” drought at Periodic Tabloid by Jacob Roberts


• Supermassive Black Holes Running at Full Tilt at ChandraBlog by Bin Luo


• Two is Better than One, Cancer Drug Could Cure HBV at Crystals and Catalysts by Miriam Zaki


• Why do patients suffer scratched corneas during robotic hysterectomies? at ScienceLife by Sara Serritella


• Discovering genetic variants from de novo assembly of high-throughput sequencing at biomolbioandco by Michael Manhart


• Birds, Brains, and Boats: The Harvey Karten Story at NeuWrite San Diego by Ashley Juavinett

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