Storify is shutting down soon. Which is a shame. There was a point where I, and others, were using is a lot. It was a nice way to compil...

What are you thinking, Switzerland? At the start of this week, I saw a news story about new Swiss regulations for the handling and killi...

Surface dwellers, meet Cherax acherontis . Cherax acherontis , meet surface dwerllers. There are plenty of burrowing crayfish in Austra...

Last time , I only saw the aftermath. This time, I got to see it happen. Snow! There hadn’t been snow in a century before 2004, ...

Eight years ago and three months ago, I started a project to accommodate Jessica Murph’s request to do fieldwork (she was a student in th...

Sometimes we underestimate how long our pets might live. This female pet hermit crab, Jonathan Livingston Crab (name given before sex d...

For one student, it was, “Keep it simple. Science is hard enough as it is.” For another student, it was, “It’s a skill, like anything e...

I’ve seen a few graduate programs announce that they are not going to require students submit GRE scores any more. These announcements are w...

I just looked in the introductory textbook we use for general biology, and it provides a good explanation of chemical neurotransmission ...

Matthew Hahn reminded me of a paper that proposed the “Kardashian index” for scientists. I don’t like the paper. It demeans outreach by ...

Mensh and Kording (2017) have a new paper on scientific writing. It’s very good. I agree with most of their advice. But not this. You ...

Anne Madden asked : Academic scientists, how many of you have contributed significant out of pocket funds (or fam. $) to make your sci...

There’s an editorial in the journal mBio asking members to publish in society journals. The editorial contain some nice data outlining t...

By happenstance, I thought of Microsoft’s imitation of Google Scholar, Microsoft Academic Research, yesterday. I reviewed it years ago, ...

Richard Poynder and Michael Eisen got into it on Twitter over the weekend over open access publishing. Poynder wrote : ...

It’s so nice to have two new papers drop in short succession! I had one come out in Journal of Coastal Research last week, and another pape...

You have to be honest about your papers. I am happy with my latest paper, for several reasons. It’s probably the longest I’ve ever col...

Portia Roelofs and Max Gallien argue that the high altmetric score for a dire article defending colonialism is evidence that academia has b...