My last jobs didn’t have any expectations for research, so my publication rate slowed significantly. I wanted to do something about that. A ...

I finally got a chance to update my collection of academic hoaxes ! I am now up to 42 academic hoaxes, which is triple the number that I sta...

Advice from people with experience fighting powerful fascist opponents: “ Do not comply in advance. ” In a new Science editorial , National...

You get hurt, hurt ‘em back. You get killed… Walk it off.  Captain America,  Avengers: Age of Ultron

Generative AI fatalism (or Gen AI fatalism): The assertion that generative AI must be accepted, because its widespread adoption is inevitabl...

Something I had long dreaded came to pass yesterday. Google Scholar introduced generative AI. “New! AI outlines in Scholar PDF Reader: skim ...

Apropos of nothing, here are two pictures I thought I’d posted back in November 2016, but I can’t seem to find any more. They’re a couple of...

A new paper by Kasiouras and colleagues attempts to provide evidence for nociceptive neurons in a decapod crustacean, a shore crab.  The aut...

I was reading yet another “Scientists behaving badly” article . This one was about Jonathan Pruitt, who used to work where I used to work (d...