I went to a Doctor Who convention in 1986. John Nathan-Turner, then producer of the show, was asked about efforts to recover the old missin...

Yes, there are crustaceans in this picture. Enlarge and look closely at the second and third toes from the left... Photo by Michela Simon...

My “Save the Day” essays will be a series celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of Doctor Who , which is less than a month away. I didn’t...

Deciphering authorship of scientific papers is an esoteric task. Something that raises red flags for those in the tribe of science (like 300...

The National Math and Science Initiative blog claims there is a STEM crisis. We just aren’t producing enough skilled STEM graduates, it cla...

Bonus Tuesday Crustie! Because breaking crustacean news! I’ve featured remipedes before, because they are cool in many ways. They are cav...

From here. Hat tip to Craig McLain and Andrew Thaler

Last week, I gave a talk on research culture, about which I shall write more later. I wanted was feedback from people who work with or hir...

Science blogger Danielle Lee was on the receiving end of bad behaviour. On the other hand, science blogger Bora Zivcovic engaged in bad beh...

Say what you will about John Bohannon’s Science article about dodgy peer review , he’s done a service by getting people talking about prob...

Christina’s LIS rant looks at the journal sting conducted by Science magazine. The journal sting is also the subject of Brian Wood’s Hu...

This lovely little caldoceran Moina macrocopus has a frosty colour. Photo by PROYECTO AGUA** /** WATER PROJECT on Flickr ; used under a ...

Maliniak and colleagues (2013) have found an important fact: if a paper in international relations has only female authors, it will be cited...

Danielle Lee is someone the blogosphere, and science, and science writing, needs a lot more of: smart, passionate, articulate. Can never ha...

I’m grateful to Brian Wood on the Human Ecology blog for analyzing some of the data from Science magazine’s journal sting . He was curio...

This is a little cladorceran named Ceriodaphnia reticulata , if I’m translating the caption correctly. Photo by PROYECTO AGUA** /** WAT...

Dr. 24 Hours tweeted : Asked to review for the #1 theory journal in my field! A journal that will NEVER publish my work. DrugMonkey sai...

There’s a lot of variation in people’s understanding about how to convey information about your past work experiences in academia. First, ...

Earlier this year, I co-moderated a panel at Science Online about open access. To me, it was about the reputation economy in science, and ho...

Just a quickie: Jon Tennant reports that the sasquatch DNA paper I blogged about previously is now available for all . It is not on the j...