ScienceSeeker Editor's Selections February 22-28 2016 #sciseekpicks #scicomm

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 academy awards won by scientists at UC Research
• Why do we have leap days? by Phil Plait and Andrew Bouvé at Bad Astronomy
• Watching a Bitter Competition From Afar: Kin Selection, Eusociality, and the Gradual Advance of Scientific Thought by Ambika Kamath
• Eureka! Self-deception in Science and What We Can Do About It by Cara Gormally and Regina Nuzzo
• To Improve Reproducibility, Do-It-Yourself, Daniel Klionsky Tells Researchers by Christina Szalinski at ASCB
• The Stress Test by Dana Goodyear at The New Yorker 
• How Do We Know? The Value of Scientific Models by Joel Frolich at Knowing Neurons
• The blue blood of the horseshoe crab by Jaime de Juan Sanz at Mapping Ignorance
• Pregnancy Brain: A Neuroscientific Guide for the Expectant Mom Part 2 by Jordan Gaines Lewis at Gaines on Brains
• Which one comes first, nature or nurture? by Vivien H at On Psychology and Neuroscience
• Does mental illness enhance creativity? by Claudia Hammond at BBC Future
• What makes the brain so fast? at Lunatic Labs
• Wired to Connect – The Emotional Brain and “Feeling Felt” by Paul Henry at Inside the Alcoholic Brain
• Virtual reality by Phil Taylor at PMLiVE
• Can LIGO Test Quantum Gravity? by Sabine Hossenfelder at Starts With A Bang!
• Hot exoplanet reveals its spin by Caleb Scharf at Life, Unbounded
• Earth is warming 50x faster than when it comes out of an ice age by Dana Nuccitelli at Skepical Science
• Tim Flannery and the Megafaunal Extinction Shuffle-Puck by Mike Pole at mikepole.com
• Amusing bird names explained: Fluffy-backed Tit-babbler by Alex Bond at The Lab and Field
• Identification of animals and plants is an essential skill set by Susan Lawler at Wild Equus Network
• Interview: Authors of the paper “Women’s Representation in Mathematics Subfields” by Sumana Harihareswara at Geek Feminism
• One in three chronic patients do not understand their illness by Mikkel Andreas Beck at ScienceNordic
• Another Emergency Funding Request for Global Health. Can’t We Do Better? by Amanda Glassman at Center for Global Development
• Need Protection? Hire a Virus! by Jamie Henzy at Small Things Considered

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ScienceSeeker Editor's Selections February 15-21 2016 #sciseekpicks #scicomm

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:

• Science Blogging 101 at The Open Notebook
• 3D Printing Body Parts by Steven Novella at Neurologica Blog 
• Persecution of Scientists Whose Findings Are Perceived As Politically Incorrect by Harriet Hall at Science-Based Medicine
• So you want to make methanol? Start with ruthenium and add some air by Jonathan Trinastic at Goodnight Earth
• The Carnivorous Rodents of Southeast Asia by Bryan McLean at The Molecular Ecologist
• Six ways the new Old Spice ad violates the Marine Mammal Protection Act by Andrew David Thaler at Southern Fried Science
• Florida panthers, Trinidadian guppies, and genetic rescue by Sarah Fitzpatrick at Evo-Eco Eco-Evo
• Earlier Mixture From Modern Humans Into Neandertal Populations, by John Hawks at John Hawks Weblog 
• Neural Reuse as a Way of Moving Beyond Phrenology by Bruno Dubuc at The Brain from Top to Bottom Blog  
• Talking Brains: What’s the right hemisphere doing? by William Matchin at Talking Brains
• Mirror Neurons and the Evolution of Language by Melissa Glenn at On Psychology and Neuroscience  
• Can We Have Class Outside? How Nature Really Can Make You Smarter by Sara LoTemplio at On Psychology and Neuroscience    
• Study finds farmers markets can increase healthy food access among the most disadvantaged by  Kim Krisberg at The Pump Handle
• Surprise Discovery of X-ray Bright Supermassive Black Hole Jet in the Early Universe by Aurora Simionescu at Chandra Blog
• Spacetime Ripples and the Human Condition by Caleb Scharf at Life, Unbounded 

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ScienceSeeker Editor's Selections February 8-14 2016 #sciseekpicks #scicomm

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:

• Physics Buzz: Not Just Waves but Black Holes (Go LIGO!!) by 'Mathlete' at Physics Buzz
• The discovery of gravitational waves is the perfect opportunity for the Nobel Prize committee to change its rules by Ash Jogalekar at The Curious Wavefunction
• The best advice on Zika virus and pregnancy is to know the unknowns by Laura Sanders at Growth Curve
• Zika and Rubella: Lessons from Our Past Must Inform Our Future by Robert Marion at The Doctor's Tablet
• Darwin Day and the Birth Certificate of Cell Biology by John Fleischman at ASCB
• Happy Darwin Day! by Joe Hanson at It's Okay to Be Smart
• Meet the Robin Hood of Science by Simon Oxenham at Neurobonkers
• Too many neurons spoil the memory by Mo Costandi at Neurophilosophy
• Pinpointing loneliness in the brain by Anne Trafton at MIT News
• This Is Your Memory on Love by Julia Shaw at Scientific American Mind guest blog 
• Expanding Coercive Treatment Is The Wrong Solution For The Opioid Crisis by Leo Beletsky, Wendy Parmet, and Ameet Sarpatwari at Bill of Health
• Winter Brain, Summer Brain: Seasonality in Brain Responses? by Neuroskeptic 
• How Does Language Work? by Blair Bolles at Babel's Dawn  
• A Tour of Pictor A at Chandra X-ray Observatory
• Greenland ice sheets losing ability to absorb meltwater by Neha Jain at Goodnight Earth
• Why Spider Man Can't Exist, Geckos Can by Kate Stone at GotScience.Org
• Breaking Down Sugars by Jessica Karch, Maxine Nelson at The STEM Chicks 
• Regenerating a broken heart by Samantha Payne at Signals Blog 
• Dobzhansky: Bug collecting and the Modern Synthesis by Cristy Gelling at Genes to Genome 

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ScienceSeeker Editor's Selections February 1-7 2016 #sciseekpicks #scicomm

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:

• Resting Bitch: How your moods make you a more optimal you by Sarah Hillenbrand at Unsolicited Honesty
• Who is Jingmai O’Connor, and why is she saying nasty things about science bloggers? by Zen Faulkes at Neurodojo
• Scientists Should Talk to the Public, but Also Listen by Caren Cooper at Scientific American
• Do You Share Political Preferences With Your Parents? by James M Sherlock at Psychology Today
• On spending a month publishing science fiction from our Ocean Future by Andrew David Thaler at Southern Fried Science
• Poetry Inspired by Chandra Discoveries by Bethan Nutting on ChandraBlog
• We Need To Rewrite The Textbook on How To Teach Teachers by Simon Oxenham at Neurobonkers
• Who should write the curriculum? by Kristy Turner at Education in Chemistry Blog
• 'The Blob' Disrupts What We Think We Know About Climate Change, Oceans Scientist Says by
  
  Judith Lavoie at Desmog Canada 
• Butterflies for Ted Cruz, Determined Foe of Ethanol Mandates by Andy Revkin at Dot Earth
• Shooting down a widely held scientific myth by Terry McGlynn at Small Pond Science
• When genes forget to forget by Todd Macfarlan at The Emory Health Sciences Research Blog
• How Synthetic Biology Will Solve Biological Mysteries and Make Humans Safer in Space by Lucas Hartsough at PLOS Synbio
• The Arch-Humanist by Thony Christie at The Renaissance Mathematicus
• Oxygen's Alchemical Origins: The Phlogiston Story by Jimmy Brancho at Tree Town Chemistry
• Neuroscience and Free Will Are Rethinking Their Divorce by Christian Jarrett at The Science of Us 
• A Virtual Brain – The Benefits of Brain Modelling by Viatcheslav Wlassoff at BrainBlogger
• Depressive Symptoms and the Enriched Environment by Anahita Hamidi at Maze Engineers Blog
• Depressed or inflamed? Inflammation attacks brain's reward center at Lunatic Labs
• Neurological adaptations to the presence of toxic HIV protein at Lunatic Labs  
• EU forms mHealth app working group by Dominic Tyer at PMLiVE Digital Intelligence Blog 
• Q+A: The Troublesome Implications of Monitoring Student Weight by Frank Otto at Drexel News Blog

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ScienceSeeker Editor's Selections January 25-31 2016 #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 Went Wrong in Flint by Anna Maria Barry-Jester at Five Thirty-Eight   
• Science-based medicine versus the Flint water crisis by David Gorski at Science-Based Medicine
• Lead in the Water – The Flint Water Crisis by Andy Brunning at Compound Interest
• The Zika Virus by Steven Novella at Neurologica Blog
• Pondering The Great Zika Unknowns by Michael Coston at Avian Flu Diary
• Dawn of the DREADD by Drew Schreiner at Neuwrites
• It’s complicated: Benefits and toxicity of anti-prion antibodies in the brain at Lunatic Labs
• Scientists open the ‘black box’ of schizophrenia with dramatic genetic discovery by Amy Ellis Nutt at The Science of Us
• There’s a sour side to serotonin by Bethany Brookshire at Scicurious
• How do people with Dark Triad personality traits fare at speed dating? by Christian Jarrett at BPS Research Digest
• Stoking the Motivational Fire: Neuroscience Guides the Way by Teodora Stoica at Huffington Post 
• The Differences Between Happiness and Meaning in Life by Scott Barry Kaufman at Beautiful Minds
• Organ transplantation: Using biomaterials to prevent immune rejection at Signals Blog
• How many emergency admissions can primary care policies actually prevent? Answer: Not many by Ed Wilson at Cambridge Centre for Health Services Research
• A day in the life of a butterfly ecologist by Jenna Siu at Dispatches from the Field
• Waterfall-Climbing Fish by Patrick Cooney at Buzz Hoot Roar
• Think Manatees are Recovered? Look Farther South by John R Platt at Extinction Countdown
• Top four threats to the ocean, according to marine scientists by Catherine Jex at Tak Fur the Kaffe 
• The Real Octowives of Jervis Bay by Christie Wilcox at Science Sushi
• Wilbur Scoville and His Famous Heat Scale by Ian Street at The Quiet Branches
• Having your oil palm, and forests too by Tara Lohan at Forests News 
• Experience the Earth Like an Astronaut: Glittering Blue by Caleb Scharf at Life, Unbounded
• Entanglement is spooky, but not action at a distance (pt 1) and Quantum spookiness survives its toughest tests (pt 2) by Tom Siegfried at Context

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