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It’s been almost 20 years since the Fallen Empires expansion of Magic: The Gathering appeared. It included a race of lobster creatures ...

While I was updating the Neuroethology webpage today, I got sucked into watching this excellent retrospective on Steve Ditko, whose birthday...

Mathbionerd has a look at different funding sources .

It’s fair to say I’m a fan of yeti crabs, since I’ve had the yeti crabs on this feature a few times before. (And then there’s the dancing ye...

A colleague, who is a new assistant professor, asked on Facebook, if he should reply to an “endless” stream of emails from international s...

It’s always polite to welcome a new family to town! Nicolai Roterman tweeted about his new paper: If you like fossils and yeti crabs, th...

I am a romantic, I guess. I would like to see universities as places where everyone can thrive regardless of their background. A leveler, if...

A common piece of advice for technical presentations is to figure out what your “take home message” is. People will only remember one or...

People change their names for all sorts of reasons. Marriage is only one. What can you do to make sure people can find your scientific pape...

Terry McGlynn looks at external reviews for tenure and promotion decisions . This has been a contentious addition to our procedures at UTPA ...

More than a decade after it debuted, Gilmore Girls is experiencing a renewed burst of interest after arriving on Netflix this month. W...

Calm people solve problems. Panicked people cause them. (Inspired by Adam Savage, who said, “Calm people live,” in the Mythbusters episod...

Does this need to be said? Yes, apparently, someone does need to say that there are not crabs wider than two or three cars are long. An...

Francis Collins, director of the National Institutes of Health, said about the prospects for an Ebola vaccine: Frankly, if we had not...

Inside Higher Education has an article about the hiring process for University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. Twenty-five faculty from UTPA...

Fellow crustacean neurobiologist Eve Marder has an opinion piece in eLife arguing against the notion that we should limit the number of doct...

A Salon article about the importance of editors in literature surprised me when it took a turn in discussing scientific publishing. But...

Our incoming president UTRGV president, Guy Bailey, said at a presentation this morning : I wouldn’t think students would have to be trav...

I would like to thank Sean Carroll . Sean made me appreciate something that I think is quite profound, and that should be much better known ...