ScienceSeeker Editor's Selections October 3-9 2016 #sciseekpicks #scicomm

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

• Nobel Prize 2016 – how yeast and mouse studies uncovered autophagy by Tom Holder at Speaking of Research
• How studying bakers’ yeast unlocked the secrets of our body’s recycling plants by Cristy Gelling at Genes to Genomes
• Nobel Prize 2016: What Ohsumi’s discovery of cellular ‘self-eating’ means for cancer by Aine McCarthy at Cancer Research UK Science Blog
• "Flatland Physics" Wins 2016 Nobel by Stephen Skolnick at Physics Buzz
• Molecular Machinery: the 2016 Nobel Prize in Chemistry by Derek Lowe at In the Pipeline
• Are the Nobel Prizes Missing Female Scientists? by Jesse Emspak at Scientific American
• That time 20,000 jellyfish orbited Earth by Emily Makowski at Sextraordinary! 
• The Real Reason Clowns Creep Us Out by Erika Engelhaupt at Gory Details
• The Visual Story of the Human Heart by Amanda Montañez at Scientific American
• Do Emojis Reveal How Horny You Feel? by Dermot Barry at Brain Sponge Blog
• Does ‘brain training’ work? by Tom Stafford at Mind Hacks
• Brain scan study reveals dogs attend to word meaning, not just intonation by Sofia Delenev at BPS Research Digest
• New Target in Brain for Treating Depression by Traci Pedersen at BrainBlogger
• The Science of Monster Storms by Jeff Masters at Scientific American
• Extreme Denial by Tamino at Open Mind
• Let’s Talk About Responsible Science Communication… by Christy Haynes at Sustainable Nano
• How did I become a mathematician? by Dana C. Ernst
• Vida basada en rayos cósmicos at NeoFronteras

Check back next week for more great picks!