ScienceSeeker Editor's Selections June 21 - 27, 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:

• Transitioning out of academia at The Thesis Whisperer
• The Latest Health Scare, In Perspective at Big Think by Simon Oxenham
• Do Children with Stronger Functional Connectivity at Rest have Better Working Memory Capacity? at Forging Connections
• I am an adjunct professor who teaches five classes. I earn less than a pet-sitter at The Guardian by Lee Hall
• A Design Dilemma Solved, Minus Designs at Quanta Magazine by Erica Klarreich
• Have we just found the first stars in the Universe? at Starts With a Bang! by Ethan Siegel
• Chemists are wildly polysemous at The Culture of Chemistry by Michelle Francl-Donnay
• Dissolving Surface May Form Titan's Lakes at Life, Unbounded by Caleb A. Scharf 
• The Brain Age at The Long + Short by Steven Poole
• It feels instantaneous, but how long does it really take to think a thought? at The Conversation by Tim Welsh

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ScienceSeeker Editor's Selections June 14 - 20, 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:

• Nobel Prize Winner Tim Hunt Thinks Just Like You Do at Forbes by Emily Willingham
• Just one action for women in science at Occam's Corner by Athene Donald
• Speculative Sunday: Can a Black Hole Explode? at The Physics Mill by Jonah Miller
• The Philae Lander – Chemistry on a Comet at Compound Interest by Andy Brunning
• Playing Peekaboo With Reality at Pop by James Keen

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ScienceSeeker Editor's Selections May 31 - June 13, 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 two weeks:

• Appeal to False Authority: Who is Tetyana Obukhaynch at Skeptical Raptor Blog
• The Last 5% at The Thesis Whisperer by Inger Mewburn
• This one simple trick to help fight the male scientist stereotype at Small Pond Science by Catherine Scott
• Chocolate study sting: Where are these millions of fools, anyway? by Emily Willingham
• 115 years of JACS titles at Chemical Connections by Stuart Cantrill
• Research funding: Is size really the most important thing? at The Guardian by Jon Butterworth
• Hannah and Her Sweets by Patrick Honner
• Image of the Week: Red blood cells at Wellcome Trust Blog by Emily Pritchard
• My collapse of confidence in Frontiers journals at BishopBlog by Deevy Bishop
• The art and science of animating life at Occam's Corner by Stephen Curry
• Your Brain Is Bigger In The Morning by Neuroskeptic
• From Broca’s area to Broca’s aphasia: a tale of two eponyms at PLoS Neuroscience Community by Pierre Mégevand 
• Philae Phones Home at The Spacewriter's Ramblings by Carolyn Collins Petersen
• Getting at the truth: gender in the lab at The Culture of Chemistry by Michelle Francl-Donnay
• Dexter on the Rocks at ScienceBase by David Bradley
• Crystals in Chemistry: The How and (Some of) the Why at Tree Town Chemistry by Jimmy Brancho

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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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