I’d like to thank fellow blogger , invert biologist , man with name containing last letter of alphabet: Kevin Zelnio . Were it not for his...

This morning, I found yet another editorial (this in the Forth Worth Star Telegram ) claiming that we need more science graduates. This is ...

Blast it, I hate it when the authors of a research article come up perhaps the best possible title. “Do desert ants smell the scenery in s...

NeuroDojo has made the list of finalists in the Research Blogging Awards for “Best Neuroscience Blog.” More about this later. Needless to...

Things Canadians take for granted that Americans find hysterically funny: Curling. Tuques. Toonies. Boxing Day. The 55 yard line . B...

Words fail me. From here .

Editor Scicurious has announced that The Open Laboratory 2009 anthology is finally here!As you may well know, one of my posts is featured...

The Dallas Morning News is covering the Texas State Board of Education races. I’ve been blogging about these because science textbook adop...

Usually, a class syllabus is a boring legal document . So it was with great interest that I went to a workshop by Ken Bain last Friday. Ken...

Yesterday, I gave a talk at this new wonderful new building, the South Padre Island Birding and Nature Center. I went in and chatted abou...

This article in the Dallas Observer looks at the races for the Texas State Board of Education. As readers of this blog may know, several of...

Last week, I wrote about a brief presentation I gave to some of the tenure-track faculty at our institution. The major point I made was tha...

Michal Grabowski sent this picture to the CRUST-L list with a request that people help identify this animal. It comes from the Great B...

I’m tired of tenure being described as “a job for life.” Tenured people can, and do, get fired or laid off . There is post tenure review. ...

I’ve avoided writing anything about Friday’s shooting at University of Alabama Huntsville, because in such a terrible situation, it is so ha...

I comment on Effect Measure about the alleged stem cell cabal . The same stem cell kerfuffle also prompts a discussion of the value of peer ...

I just got this email from my department chair: I am saddened to inform you that Ms. Kathryn Dodd, a lecturer in our Biology Department, a...

Back in December, I commented upon a video one of my neuro students asked me about. There has now been an update on this story. See partic...

I’ve been finding a lot of students have no idea how to go about finding out about research opportunities. So, here’s one for you students. ...

In the movie Roxanne , Steve Martin’s Cyrano-esque character has a scene where he’s supposed to drink from a small fluted wine glass, but hi...