The Dog Zombie

I've been doing a lot of bench work in the laboratory lately. This involves filling the tiny little wells on a plate with my ingredients...

The study about a mutation associated with obesity in labrador retrievers has received massive news coverage for a dog genetics article (and...

We don’t actually know how behavior medications work. We know how they change the operations of cells — for example, we know facts like “t...

I’m writing a peer-reviewed article right now. I can almost guarantee it’s something pretty much none of you will be interested in (it is no...

As I move through my training and think ahead to my future career, I wonder: who will pay for all this research I want to do on dogs? I have...

[Note: this post was originally published at the lovely Julie Hecht's Dog Spies blog at Scientific American.] Where I live, in Am...

I am again indebted to my APDT students, who asked a very interesting question which turned into a blog post. This time it was: “Can a fathe...

My mom called me yesterday because she had experienced some Science and was excited about it. She was watching a TV episode about aggression...

I finally got around to sharing the data from my study of dog salivary cortisol levels on figshare. I have meant to do this for months. Par...

Today I was privileged to visit Dr. Greg Berns' laboratory to see awake dogs in an fMRI. In vet school, of course I saw dogs getting MRI...

Standing in the ward of a veterinary hospital, you see a dog jumping up and down in his run, barking. Is he distressed at being here? Or is ...

Pluto's demotion is a great opportunity for science . Timmer concludes that scientists need to do a better job of communicating with the...

This semester I have (almost) no classes. My one class is Journal Club, which mostly involves listening to other people present journal arti...