Science, Writing, Fitness, Nutrition, Professional Development. I blog on a variety of topics, including professional development, scientific writing, and health and fitness. Below are a few select articles you might find interesting. To read my latest posts, visit my blog. To read posts on specific topics, head over to virtual books. To see a complete list of all blog posts ever written, visit the table of contents. How good is good enough? Critical decision points in the academic career.

You just gotta love him. Friday, 9 August 2013. Another one on musvaer, a group of small islands with a farm and one family living there. We actually went there several times for goose hunting and one of the times had a look in their barn too.

Mechanisms underlying the neurochemical logic of behavior. Our goal is to understand how neuromodulators control behavior, and in particular how neuropeptide signaling is regulated in the brain. We seek to understand how the behavioral outputs of a neural circuit are encoded by the diversity of neurotransmitters that they express, and to investigate the cellular and molecular mechanisms that govern neuropeptide signaling in behavior and aging. Signaling in the Aging Brain.

The blog of Robert Moorehead and students at Ritsumeikan University. Race and Ethnicity in the Modern World. Get A Life, PhD.

Explores late quaternary human prehistory, culture and climate. Saturday, March 31, 2018. The Special Challenges of Being Both a Scientist and a Mom. Being a woman, a scientist and now a mother in a system created for and by white men with stay-at-home partners obviously has its problems. Many of us are either pushed out or decide to set sail for smoother waters.

I am a Professor in the Department of Mathematics at UCLA. Previously I was Professor of Nonlinear and Complex Systems in the Mathematical Institute at University of Oxford. I was also a Tutorial Fellow of Somerville College. Sunday, April 01, 2018. Is another one of those that needs to be mapped out. We should calculate some properties of it. While navigating the menus, I managed to get eaten by a grue.

Academics, teaching, books, technology, writing inspiration. Saturday, March 24, 2018. The conference cycle as it really is. 1 Call for papers comes out. That looks so interesting, and the conference is in a cool place! I have to submit something. Do I have something already written? Nah, but the New Direction will spur me to do better work.