The Dog Zombie

Here's what I've been reading and tweeting about this week (in between scrambling to get an NSF grant proposal submitted): Fascinat...

I've been doing a lot of writing, actually, but none of it on this blog. Right now I'm working on an NSF grant proposal. This is rea...

I haven’t been reading many blogs lately, so these link recommendations are pretty old. Still delicious, though.   Who’s your double merl...

As usual, may of these are old, because I don’t have time to keep up to date on my blog reading. Dog Fear Isn’t Funny or Cute (Champion of...

Science Online 2011 is this weekend and I really wish I could be there. Luckily I can attend virtually . A post from this blog will be inc...

Scared or feral: How do you know? (Pet Connection) Repost: The ethics of snail eradication (Adventures in Ethics and Science): “Plenty of...

Animals Do Dogs Inherently Understand Pointing Gestures? (The Other End of the Leash): Patricia McConnell weighs in on the ongoing researc...

Animals/veterinary “Hoarding” and “warehousing” arise from traditional, not no-kill, shelter models (Pet Connection): Nice overview of th...

Policy Nonprofit helps pet owners cope with emergency vet bills (Seattle Times) It’s time to try funding spay/neuter instead of mandating...

Dog stuff Mandatory spay/neuter laws: Follow the (lack of) money (Pet Connection): Why mandatory spay/neuter laws for pets are a bad idea...

The illustrated guide to a Ph.D. (Matt Might) The Zen of Presentations, in at least 34 parts (Neurodojo): Neurodojo has apparently been w...

ZooBorns has your canid puppy fix, with baby bush dogs , dingoes , and fennec foxes . The dingoes post has some interesting background on di...

I’m catching up on science blogs reading after a few days off. I was awfully busy recovering from defending my thesis ! I am now almost done...

The ancestry of the domestic donkey is no longer a “wild ass” guess (Retrieverman) Should Doctors Have to Take Physics and Chemistry? (Un...

Are clicks better markers than words? (The Other End of the Leash): Patricia McConnell gets nerdy about the mechanics of operant conditioni...

Links about science blogging The Nature of Science Blog Networks (Science in the Open): Reflections on what’s next for science blogging ne...

Following on the topic I posted about recently , the Worcester Animal Rescue League (a shelter in Worcester) has stated that if Worcester pa...

The Chicken Project: Hope: La Vida Locavore has been writing about her project to convince her town to legalize ownership of chickens. I co...

The Slaughterhouse Problem: is a resolution in sight? (Food Politics): Overview of the slaughterhouse problem by Marion Nestle, author of F...

Work hours for (human) surgery residents . This is something I feel strongly should be implemented for veterinary students, interns, and re...