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Sunday, November 22, 2009

Open access

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It’s possible that twelve years of working as a programmer in the online publishing industry has sharpened my interest in open access, the i...
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

Spit Girl

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Monday through Thursday evenings around five pm, I drive in to my school’s small animal hospital to collect spit from dogs. I’ve learned a l...
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Saturday, November 14, 2009

Overstatement

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After reading a post about how Strunk & White is a deeply weird book , I was inspired to pick it up and read it cover-to-cover, which I ...
Thursday, November 12, 2009

The devocalization debate

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Today, a newspaper local to me published a story about the devocalization debate in Massachusetts . The Massachusetts legislature is current...
Tuesday, November 10, 2009

SICP: Scientific Information Communication Protocol

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A researcher does a study. Based on the results, he comes to a conclusion about a small part of the nature of the universe. He writes up thi...
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Fish personalities

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My roommate, RKt, has a 55 gallon marine fish tank. It is awesome. For more than a year, a small yellow fish has lived in it. I never saw th...
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Monday, November 9, 2009

Epigenetics of stress

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Last week in journal club I presented "Prenatal exposure to maternal depression, neonatal methylation of human glucocorticoid receptor ...
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Marlborough, MA, United States
Jessica Perry Hekman, DVM, PhD is fascinated by dog brains. She is a postdoctoral associate at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, where she studies the genetics of dog behavior. Her interests include the stress response in mammals, canine behavior, canine domestication, shelter medicine, animal welfare, and open access publishing. You may learn more about Jessica at www.dogzombie.com, or email her at jph at dogzombie dot com. All opinions expressed here are her own.
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