Editor's Selections: LinkedIn, Caffeine for Night Owls, and Seeing Smells

By Jason G. Goldman on March 6, 2012

Here are my Research Blogging Editor's Selections for this week.

Do you change your resume when posting it on LinkedIn? At NeoAcademic, Richard Landers discusses new research that suggests LinkedIn profiles contain fewer lies than resumes.

Are you one of those people who can drink some coffee at night and then go to sleep with no problems? You're not allowed. Dirk Hanson has the details at Addiction Inbox: “Morning people” have more caffeine-related sleep problems.

At Inkfish, Elizabeth Preston asks you to "imagine the smell of an orange. Have you got it? Are you also picturing the orange, even though I didn't ask you to? Try fish. Or mown grass." Find out how vision and smell are connected.

That's it for this week... Check back next week for more great psychology and neuroscience blogging!

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Jason G. Goldman

Jason G. Goldman is a science journalist based in Los Angeles. He has written about animal behavior, wildlife biology, conservation, and ecology for Scientific American, Los Angeles magazine, The Washington Post, The Guardian, the BBC, Conservation magazine, and elsewhere. He contributes to Scientific American's "60-Second Science" podcast, and is co-editor of Science Blogging: The Essential Guide (Yale University Press). He enjoys sharing his wildlife knowledge on television and on the radio, and often speaks to the public about wildlife and science communication.