Now this is cool. Giant squid! They've only been known from corpses -- until now. Finally, a television crew has seen and recorded a liv...

I didn't work at all this weekend. No going to the office. Didn't even check university email. After seven day work weeks for the la...

One of the things I'm very interested in is scientific graphics. So to find a link to the winners of a 2005 competition in scientific vi...

September has continued to work its own peculiar magic (translation: butt whupping) on me. Around Tuesday, I finally managed to put out most...

Because you're always just getting in under the wire. I am not sure if my last second remembrance of an abstract deadline for today mean...

They say you will catch more flies with honey than vinegar. Maybe so. But sometimes don't you just want to crack open a can of Raid and ...

I'm having a Beowulf kind of day. Recap of the poem: Boewulf kills the monster Grendel. But does he get a break? No. He learns he has to...

Today’s project involves trying to avoid getting fired for another year. I’ve been working on my annual tenure binder. Mine is 4 cm thick th...

I've become a member of a blogging team for FUNFaculty . This is blog run by the Faculty for Undergraduate Neuroscience , which I belong...

Now that I managed to submit my most recent NSF proposal on time, how did I spend today? Writing another proposal. This time, though, I'...

I am kind of feeling like a floppy little kid's toy at the moment. This week is kicking my butt. Again. But the good news is that I mana...

So here I am, working on a Sunday on a long weekend. But at least I'm not the only one .

Although I think it's a symbolic gesture more than anything else, it's a good gesture nonetheless: UTPA is opening up enrollment to ...

Old joke: Guy runs a stop sign. Cop pulls him over and says, "Didn't you see that stop sign?" Driver replies, "Sure. But ...

I woke up last Monday morning with a big scratch on the left side of my face that was not there when I went to bed Sunday night. And that ha...

It's so cool to have two papers in the works that are coming out. As I mentioned earlier, I received news this week that I've had a ...

I was moping a little over thwarted plans this weekend, thinking I really hadn't gotten any good news in a while. And wouldn't you k...

I started my research career working with octopus (under the guidance of Jennifer Mather), so I was tickled to see this video clip . (Spotte...

I had an intermittent smirk on my face last night. I mean, how can someone look at the captioning for this Japanese Elmo toy and not laugh?...

The last few days have been strange. Every time I turn around, I have people in my office talking to me, mostly about the graduate program. ...