Drugmonkey looks at the chase for perfection in a scientific career. Matt Shipman weighs in on the question of whether a science journali...

After reading Scicurious’s rant about the difficulties of networking , particularly at conferences, I got to thinking. Several people in the...

I’ve had several reminders this week about the importance of having students do stuff. Not just answer questions. This video has a lot o...

One of the things that made last week absolutely frantic was that the annual PACE ethics conference, It ran during the last half of the week...

If you are a researcher, you have only until the end of this week to sign up for round 2 of the #SciFund Challenge! Go here to sign up !...

Decisions, decisions... what kind of crustacean to feature on the Tuesday Crustie feature today? I choose not to decide! I don’t reco...

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand it’s yet another piece claiming that professors are lazy, this time from the Washington Post . Here...

When you are in the thick of a project, the time you spend getting stuff done might look like this. Because of how much time you have spe...

Could you have made a mistake? If you are a fingerprint examiner in court giving testimony, the answer was once, “No,” according to Mnooki...

Various species. Their identity uncertain, but they seem to represent caridian shrimps, and anomuran crabs and squat lobsters (too few large...

A nanometer is one billionth of a meter. It’s hard to visualize something that small. To try to put it in understandable terms, Robyn Willia...

This one is Becca’s fault ... More appropriate for those in grad school, tenure track... academia generally.

Scicurious offers advice on writing a dissertation . Jason Snyder looks at differences in citation report databases . What’s the crazies...

Have you seen the items in this gentleman’s hands? Whale shark researcher Dr. Al Dove reports that these GOS tags have been found near B...

Two people go in for a rather invasive and somewhat painful surgical procedure. The nature of the procedure means that the can’t be anesthet...

Because really, kids should be getting IACUC training much earlier. Okay, this is a cheat: there is no actual crustacean in this pictur...

When I was at the University of Texas San Antonio last week , I recorded an interview with them for their Neuroscientists Talk Shop podcast....

On Wednesday, I drove up to San Antonio to give a talk and meet the fine folks in the University of Texas San Antonio neuroscience group. B...

In the last few years, there has been much discussion about the prospect of tracking the neural connections of mammalian, and particularly h...

I am excited that Edgar Rice Burroughs’s John Carter of Mars is coming to the movie theatres*,  just in time for its hundredth anniversary. ...