One more quick observation from the Evolution meeting in Austin last week. Every tree of relationships between species I saw was based...

Perhaps the highlight of my last day of the Evolution meeting was learning from Paul Durst that you can get fleas off a (dead) mouse by p...

Yes, I saw some cool science, yesterday, including some cool and contradictory results on how predators shape brain evolution (big brai...

Obviously, the biggest, most important day at any conference is the one where you present your own research. 😉 First, thank you to al...

The conference began in earnest Saturday, and some of the notable things were about the conference organization rather than the science. ...

I've wanted to go to the Evolution meeting for years. I was so delighted when it practically landed in my backyard this year in Austin. ...

If you look at your arm, you have a single long bone connected to your shoulder, followed by two more long bones, a bunch of little bones th...

The Atlantic recently ran an article about science funding that asked for scientists to write in and answer three questions. So, I did. Th...

  “We need to change incentives!” Ah, how many times I have heard some variation of that phrase in describing scientific publishing. Wi...

I hate it when news organizations act boggled when there is no reason to be. Man-Eating Nile Crocodiles Found In Florida, And No One K...

In general, people in science get doctoral degrees because they want to do science. But the opportunities to do so after grad school and po...

Trivia night! A local pub , Grain to Glass, hosts trivia night every Tuesday. I got invited to join a team over a year ago now. Our team c...

As a grad student, one of my keys to my development as a professional scientist was getting acquainted with the relevant literature. Beca...

Today is the last day of class for the Spring semester, which kind of means it’s the end of the first regular academic year at UTRGV. Okay, ...

Retraction Watch is reporting on a case where the journal Evolution is retracting a paper, against the author’s wishes, because the author...

Here’s a treat. The Biodiversity Heritage Library has digitized one of the first books to show crustaceans in colour ! It’s from 1754. As wi...

I recently discovered the TV show Skin Wars on Hulu. It’s one of those, “Make some cool really fast” competition shows like FaceOff , To...

As a professor, you write recommendations for student regularly. One came in this morning, so I started filling it out. First questions were...

In late February, there was a lot of chatter on my Twitter feed from the #ASAPBio meeting, about using pre-prints in biology.This has been...

I love this design, although since the only native Irish crayfish is the what-clawed crayfish, I kind of wish this guy had some patches of ...