Circus of the Spineless #51, the circus for all things invertebrate, is up at Deep Sea News . Carnival of the Blue #37, for all things sal...

Everybody makes mistakes. But the peer-reviewed scientific literature tries to reduce mistakes by having fairly rigorous rules for citation....

Are American scientists twice as good as British scientists? Because the Americans are spending about twice as long working on the doctora...

It’s good to be omniscient. Only a few natural studies have been able to approach that level of all-knowing knowledge. Peter and Rosemary ...

The Scientist has a must read article about the disparity in funding across institutions and states. This article resonates with me, bec...

I knew the day would come, but wasn’t sure when. Yesterday, a court ruled against using fMRI data as a lie detector as evidence in a crim...

Voting has started for this contest. Lots of good reading there. Please vote as you will, but the important thing is to vote. I self-nomi...

Welcome to the June edition of... Hm. You know, something’s not right here. That logo could use a little something... extra. (Click to en...

Research Explainer picks up on the theme that scientists are bad communicators . The examples used, though, may not be indicative of just b...

Speleonectes tanumekes is a remipede. The remipedes are an interesting group of crustaceans for many reasons. They were, for many years, k...

Almost every grad student experiences a certain amount of pain in pulling together their thesis. But does it have to be that way? Boris Gore...

Walter Garstang famously said that ontogeny creates phylogeny: you need to understand the development of a structure to understand the diver...

What do global warming, ocean acidification, and KO’d crayfish have in common? Carbon dioxide. A forthcoming paper by Biewbower and Cooper...

Canadian Girl Postdoc resumes her look at slow science . She asks: Although I’ve heard the common refrain from faculty that some members o...

I received the following email from Roberto Di Lauro, president of Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn. The Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn of N...

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A picture like this used to adorn the office door of some of my fellow graduate students: The original picture (minus the labels) was ta...

I know, I know. Even I’m getting tired of me fisking Texas State Board of Education members when they say dubious things about the teaching...

3 Quarks Daily has started nominations for their second science blogging contest. If you’ve read something you’ve liked on any science b...

My university’s news page has a story on a lecture capture system called Tegrity today that features some quotes from me. (I made a joke ...