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Open Laboratory 2013 - submissions so far

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American


It is now expected by the science blogosphere that I post the full updated listing of all the submissions every Monday morning. This serves as a reminder for bloggers to submit their (and other people’s) posts, and to some extent prevents duplicate entries. But most importantly, it presents a growing listing of some of the most exciting work on science blogs. This is a weekly post where bloggers can discover each other and discover blogs they were not previously aware of. Thus it is also a promotion for all the bloggers involved.

The submission form for the 2013 edition of Open Lab is now open. Any blog post written since October 1, 2011 is eligible for submission. We will close the form on October 1st, 2012.

We accept essays, stories, poetry, cartoons/comics, and original art.


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Once you are done submitting your own posts, you can start looking at the others', including on aggregators like ScienceSeeker.org, Scienceblogging.org and Researchblogging.org.

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3 Quarks Daily (Julia Galef): My Little Pony: Reality is Magic!

The II-I- blog: We, the pioneers.

The II-I- blog: The Great Revolution

A Blog Around The Clock: The New Meanings of How and Why in Biology?

A Blog Around The Clock: #scio12: Multitudes of Sciences, Multitudes of Journalisms, and the Disappearance of the Quote.

A Blog Around The Clock: Books: ‘Reinventing Discovery: The New Era of Networked Science’ by Michael Nielsen

A Blog Around The Clock: Myths about myths about Thanksgiving turkey making you sleepy

A Hippo on Campus: Why men don't listen and women are great at maths

A Schooner of Science: Fever dreams - the true tale of Richard Spruce

Addiction Inbox: Reward and Punish: Say Hello to Dopamine’s Leetle Friend

Addiction Inbox: Army Doctor Sees Victory, and a Dangerous Drug Bites the Dust—Almost.

Addiction Inbox: Night Owls Get a Coffee Break

Almost Diamonds: About Those Gay Homophobes

Almost Diamonds: Writing Fiction with Science: Pedophilia

Almost Diamonds: About That Evo Psych Polygamy Stuff

Anole Annals: If You Want A Lizard To Run Fast, Yell At It

Anthropology in Practice: Beware: The Ides Have Come. No, Really. This Time It’s True.

Artologica: From the Cells to the stars

Au Science Mag: Geomagnetic Reversals – the end of the world?

Au Science Mag: Homeopathy and Medical Ethics – Aberdeen Skeptics in the Pub

Australian Science Magazine: Here be Dragons

Beach Chair Scientist: An important call for more forage fish to remain in the sea

Beach Chair Scientist: Dear Online Science Writing Community: A reminder for ‘call to actions’ because your perspective is priceless

Beatrice the Biologist: How the Brain Works (cartoon)

Beatrice the Biologist: Amoeba Hugs (cartoon)

Single Cell is Just Fine, Thank You (cartoon)

Biobabel: On Transposable Elements and Regulatory Evolution

The Bug Chicks (Michael Barton): A taste for collecting beetles is some indication of future success in life!

Bug Girl’s Blog: How to get free media coverage for a bogus beehive design

Bug Girl’s Blog: Transcript of my ESA talk about Social Media

Byte Size Biology: The Search for Small finds Life on a Gradient

Byte Size Biology: So what’s new with humans?

Byte Size Biology: Using phylogenetics to reconstruct a 59 million year old drug

Byte Size Biology: Life is short

Byte Size Biology: The Origin of Gender Symbols in Biology

Cedar's Digest: Purple Doesn’t Exist: Some thoughts on Male Privilege and Science Online

The Cellular Scale: The "Human Neuron", not so special after all?

CENtral Science IYC 2011: Chemistry Carnival: Your Favorite Chemical Reactions!

Chemjobber: How do institutions change? Not easily

Chemjobber: Ozymandias, senior med chemist (poem)

Chemjobber: Why choose a Ph.D. in chemistry? A response to @DocFreeride

Chimeras: Another genetic puzzle: why is mitochondrial DNA only inherited from the mother's side?

Cocktail Party Physics: The Science of Mysteries: Of Granular Material and Singing Sands

Contagions: Mapping Malaria in Anglo-Saxon England

Contagions: Did India and China Escape the Black Death?

Context and Variation: Vaginal pH Redux: Broader Perspectives on Douching, Race… and Lime Juice

Cosmic Variance (Sean Carroll): Everything is Connected

Counterbalanced: Problems in the neurozone

Curiouser and Curiouser: James Randi: An Honest Liar

Curiouser and Curiouser: On Stanislaw Burzynski, the Streisand Effect, and Standing Up for Skeptical Bloggers

Curiouser and Curiouser: On Codes of Conduct, Part II

Curiouser and Curiouser: Mythbusting Makeup: Skepticism and Cosmetic Claims

The Curious Wavefunction: The unstoppable Moore hits the immovable Eroom

Deep Sea News (Miriam Goldstein): A wicked bad idear: National Geographic hunts bluefin tuna for entertainment and Eating Wicked Tuna: A marine scientist tries to figure out what the heck is going on fused into a single post.

Deep Sea News (Alistair Dove): On common names

Deep Sea News (Kevin Zelnio): #IamScience: Embracing Personal Experience on Our Rise Through Science

Deep Sea News (Alistair Dove): No fish is an island

Deep Sea News (Craig McClain): What knowledge of the deep sea tell us about life on other planets

Deep Sea News (Alistair Dove): A (fetid) river runs through it, the Brooklyn edition

Deep Sea News (Alexis Rudd): True Confessions of a Dolphin-Loving Marine Biologist

Deep Sea News (Craig McClain): Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow

Deep Sea News (Craig McClain and Alistair Dove): James Cameron’s Deep Sea Challenge: a scientific milestone or rich guy’s junket?

Deep Thoughts and Silliness: The Problems of Interpreting Data

The Demarcationproblem: What chronic stress does to your immune system (cartoon)

Denim and Tweed: Baby steps versus long jumps: The "size" of evolutionary change, and why it matters

DiverseScholar: #SCIO12 Policy Report: Academia is Productive but Messy - Effects on (Mis)Communication

Endless Forms Most Beautiful: The Wool of Snowfall

Eruptions: Looking Back at the 1982 eruption of El Chichón in Mexico

Eruptions: The Mysterious Missing Eruption of 1258 A.D.

ESC Blog: Cool Insect Viruses

EvoEcoLab: The Message Reigns Over the Medium

EvoEcoLab: Trying to Catch His Breath With a Hole-Ridden Safety Net

The Febrile Muse: Inflammatory Language No 1. The ongoing cycle

From The Lab Bench: Google Search Engine Software goes 'Chemistry'

From The Lab Bench: Old News for Carbon Dioxide, New Threats for Climate Change

From The Lab Bench: A Planet Under Pressure, and Why Gender Matters

From The Lab Bench: Putting the 'Fear' in Climate Change

From The Lab Bench: The Nature of Learning, or the Learning of Nature?

From The Lab Bench: Climate Change Communicators Should Listen to the Public

From The Lab Bench: Melancholia and the 'Dance of Death'

From The Lab Bench: Bubbles for Life

Gaines, on Brains: Seeing into the future? The neuroscience of déjà vu

Galileo's Pendulum: If You Love a Flower Found on a Star

GeoSphere: The Art of Geology

The "Germ Guy" Blog: Confessions of a Mercurial Microbiologist: From Germ Guy to Monsieur Microbes…

Green Tea and Velociraptors: What is a Fossil Species..?

Green tea and Velociraptors: Dinosaurs: Then and Now

Happy Science: Eating More Chocolate Makes You Skinny

Happy Science: Negative Calorie Food: Science Myths and Legends

The Happy Scientist: Teach It Right the First Time.

The Haystack: How Jagabandhu Das made dasatinib possible

The Haystack: On Birth Control,“Plan B,” and…Batman

The Haystack: Biogen Idec Reveals Clinical Data for (Really) Small Oral MS Drug BG-12

The Haystack: Tetrodotoxin: Why Toxic Is Complicated

ICBS Everywhere: Science and Spin Are Very Bad Bedfellows

ICBS Everywhere: Are Atheists More Compassionate or Prosocial Than Highly Religious People?

In the Company of Plants and Rocks: Taxonomy of Agaves and Vino-mezcal

io9 (Maria Konnikova): What Happens When Alice and Anti-Alice Meet? (A Celebration of Lewis Carroll’s 180th Birthday)

io9 (Annalee Newitz): You are bitching about the wrong things when you read an article about science

Iqsoft science blog: Dilemma

Just Like Cooking: Petition Expedition – Cancer in Laundry Detergent?

Just Like Cooking: This Just In - File Under 'Huge Marine Polyethers'

Just Like Cooking: Did Someone Say Pink Slime?

Just Like Cooking: hERG: Legs, Drugs, and Heartbeats

Just Like Cooking: Super Tasters and Smells in Space

Just Like Cooking: The Chemistry Popularity Conundrum

Just Like Cooking: Sunscreen Chemophobia: Oxybenzone

Just Like Cooking: Chemistry Words, with Friends

Just Like Cooking: Friday Fun - Lab Arts-n-Crafts

Katatrepsis: Why are there imperfect mimics?

KatiePhD: What exactly is a genetically modified plant?

KatiePhD: The Trouble with Teeth…

KatiePhD: Pain-free but itchy: Morphine’s alter ego

LabHomepage: Getting in on the ‘what they think’ meme

Lab Rat: Pathogens that feed off human blood

Last Word on Nothing (Sally Adee): Better Living Through Electrochemistry

Last Word on Nothing (Christie Aschwanden): What beer and running taught me about science (part 1 of 2) and/or Life without beer: part 2 of my beer & running science experiment

Life Traces of the Georgia Coast: Georgia Life Traces as Art and Science

Listen to Us!: Moby the Manta Ray

Literally Psyched: Our Storytelling Minds: Do We Ever Really Know What’s Going on Inside?

Lithics: Fault Dynamics 101

Magma Cum Laude: This is what a geologist looks like

Making Science Public: GM food, war metaphors and the perils of political entrenchment

Making Science Public: Making science policy public: Exploring the pitfalls of public protest

Making Science Public: Carbon and energy/publics and politics

Making Science Public: Making neuroscience public: Neurohype, neuroscepticism and neuroblogging

Making Science Public: Making science (in) public: What we can learn from museums

Making Science Public: Hype, honesty and trust

Making Science Public: Languages of uncertainty

Making Science Public: Waiting for gate-gate

My Growing Passion: When Plants Parasitise Fungi: myco-heterotrophy

Neurophilosophy: Sleights of hand, sleights of mind

Neurotic Physiology: Do you love Science? Well, that depends, do you like sleep?

Neurotic Physiology: Friday Weird Science: Does your menstrual blood attract BEARS?!

Neurotic Physiology: Friday Weird Science: Laptops and WIFI are coming for your SPERM. Again.

Neurotic Physiology: Overeating and Obesity: Should we really call it food addiction?

Neurotic Physiology: Friday Weird Science: The Social Psychology of Flatulence

Next Scientist: How Writing A Science Blog Saved My PhD

Nottingham Science Blog: Interview : Eben Upton at Raspberry Pi

Nottingham Science Blog: The Birdies and Peanuts Experiment

Nottingham Science Blog: Public Lecture - Chris Lintott - Astronomer

Nottingham Science Blog: Interview : Prof Alfonso Aragón-Salamanca

Observations (Ferris Jabr): Animals Exposed to Virtual Reality Hold an Emergency Meeting

The Organometallic Reader: Ligand Field Theory & Frontier Molecular Orbital Theory

Oscillatory Thoughts: Automated Science, Deep Data, and the Paradox of Information

Powered by Osteons: From Birth to Burial: the Curious Case of Easter Eggs

Powered by Osteons: Childbirth and C-Sections in Bioarchaeology

Powered by Osteons: Line on the left, one cross each: Bioarchaeology of Crucifixion

Powered by Osteons: A Brief History of Bioarchaeology - Part I: America

Powered by Osteons: Lead Poisoning in Rome - The Skeletal Evidence

Providentia: That X-ray Vision

Providentia: Why Are People So Skeptical About Psychology?

PsySociety: Why Jersey Shore Won’t Make You Dumber: The Importance Of Responsible Science Journalism

PsySociety: If I Were A Well-Off White Man… I Might Not Understand Other People Very Well.

Puff the Mutant Dragon: Do vaccines contain toxic chemicals?

Puff the Mutant Dragon: Confessions of a Creationist: the making of a serial killer

Puff the Mutant Dragon: Does beer make you blush? or, why “race” is a myth

Quantum Diaries: Error Control in Science

Questioning Answers: When poo tells a story (and I'm not talking about Winnie)

Reciprocal Space: What’s your favourite colour?

Reportergene: Where are your cells from?

Reportergene: Packaging madness

Rule of 6ix: The ethics of vaccination

Safari Ecology: Why is the African Savanna so full of thorns?

The Scicurious Brain: Cocaine and the sexual habits of quail, or, why does NIH fund what it does?

The Scicurious Brain: It hurts so good: the runner’s high

Science Calling: Seeing through sound

Science. How hard can it be?: A tale of generations

Science. How hard can it be?: When we become nature’s mice.

Science Is Everyone's Story: The Health Cost of Black Women’s Hair Products

Science Is Everyone's Story: Energy Journalism: Cleaning up the Numbers

Science left untitled: Cholera riots…!

Science Sushi: Evolution: The Rise of Complexity

Science Sushi: Time – and brain chemistry – heal all wounds

Science Sushi: The Joke Isn’t Funny – It’s Harmful

Scientific American Guest Blog (See Arr Oh): Cochineal Dye Bugs Starbucks Customers

Scientific American Guest Blog (Alexis Rudd): Singing Snails and Killer Whales: Parallels in Conservation

Scientific American Guest Blog (Deborah Blum): About Pepper Spray

Scientific American Guest Blog (Meera Lee Sethi): Internet Porn Fills Gap in Spider Taxonomy

Scientific American Guest Blog (Cheryl Murphy): Learning the Look of Love: That Sly “Come Hither” Stare

Scientific American Guest Blog (Cheryl Murphy): Music can change (the way we see) the world

Scientific American Guest Blog (The Dog Zombie): The Hearty Ingredients of Canis Soup

Scientific American Guest Blog (Paige Brown): Catalytic Clothing–-Purifying Air Goes Trendy

Scientific American Guest Blog (Melanie Tannenbaum): Trayvon Martin’s Psychological Killer: Why We See Guns That Aren’t There

Scientific American Guest Blog (Melanie Tannenbaum): If It Looks Like a Compliment, and Sounds Like a Compliment…Is It Really a Compliment?

Scientific American Guest Blog (Sam McNerney): A Brief Guide to Embodied Cognition: Why You Are Not Your Brain

Scientific American Guest Blog (Danica Radovanovic): Digital Divide and Social Media: Connectivity Doesn’t End the Digital Divide, Skills Do

Scientific American Guest Blog (Danica Radovanovic): Phatic Posts: Even the Small Talk Can Be Big

The Scorpion and the Frog: The "Love Hormone" Pageant and The "Love Hormone" of 2012 fused into one.

Skulls in the Stars: François Arago: the most interesting physicist in the world!

Skulls in the Stars: The secret molecular life of soap bubbles (1913)

Social Dimension: New Ways to Measure Science

Social Dimension: The Fractal Dimension of ZIP Codes

Southern Fried Science: If fish evolved on land, where did they all go? Evolution and Biodiversity in the Ocean

Southern Limits: Seven Myths Deniers Use To 'Debunk' Peak Oil, Debunked

Speakeasy Science: Cough Syrup, Dead Children, and the Case for Regulation

Speaking of Research: A New Low at NIO: extremists threaten students

Squid A Day: Neurotoxins In Stranded Squid (With Bonus Rant About Academic Publishing)

Squid A Day: Why Aren't Humboldt Squid Giant?

Starts with a Bang: So, you've learned that the Sun is going to explode...

The Starving Neuron: Fooled by the senses.

The Starving Neuron: 24 hours in the lab

The Starving Neuron: Bad behaviour

This View of Life: There is Grandeur (Really)

Tim Poisot's blog: What should the next generation of ecological journals look like?

Token Skeptic: Eye-Witness To A Crime And Not Raisins – Reflections On The Bystander Effect In Helping Behaviour

Token Skeptic: The Special-Ness Of Species

Token Skeptic: Live-Blogging #ASC2012 – Monday Morning At The Australian Science Communicators National Conference

Trauma Recovery: Parents tell about their children’s recovery from trauma

Universe Today: A New Look at Apollo Samples Supports Ancient Impact Theory

Universe Today: Is Earth Alive? Scientists Seek Sulfur For An Answer

The Virtuosi: A Very Small Slice of Pi

Watershed Moments: Tree die-off in western North America

Watershed Moments: C is for Communication

Watershed Moments: Food, water & energy

We Beasties: Allergies 101

We Beasties: Allergies 101 - Part deux

We Beasties: Allergies 101: Part the Third

Words in mOcean: I’m a marine biologist, but sometimes I wish that what I did sounded a bit less interesting…

Zoonotica: How do we know what causes an infectious disease? Part 1 and How do we know what causes an infectious disease? Part 2