When I was at a textbook focus group near Austin recently, one of the things I said to the authors and others present was that "Relevan...

This last week has been absolutely non-stop. It's at least partly due to Thomson Higher Education , who invited me up to the Austin area...

Page proofs for my upcoming article came in the mail today. There do not appear to be any typos or problems (yay!) except one or two sentenc...

My grad student Sandra is pretty much fine. I just thought I'd put that in first before mentioning that she got in a car wreck that tota...

Now this is cool (in a geeky-pretend-to-do-something-because-you-have-no-actual-talent kind of way). Basic research... put to geek use. More...

My next article is now listed in the upcoming table of contents for The Biological Bulletin . Which reminds me that I should be seeing page...

None of my developmental experiments worked this weekend. As a sort of last ditch effort, I tried to extract some DNA from the animals while...

Cell division, that is. It's 4:00 p.m. rather than a.m. this time, but otherwise, the story is much the same as my last post. I'm he...

It's now about 3:15 a.m. Yes, I'm running an experiment. About a week ago, I went out to the Coastal Studies Lab, and to my surprise...

The big red column that you see in a lot of the pictures on our departmental home page has not looked as advertised for many months now. Th...

Been meaning to mention a few things about the NSF regional conference in Maryland last week. I think the tone may have been set a little on...

"It's like I'm living in a straw factory, there's so much suckage going on." I went out to the Coastal Studies Lab tod...

I seldom watch news channels, but when I'm at the gym, I can't really help it, because they have televisions in almost every place y...

This week just keeps sucking. There's not too much I actively look forward to in a week. Doctor Who is one. And the stupid Sci-Fi chan...

And it's been downhill ever since. The National Science Foundation (NSF) regional conference was okay, I suppose, but I was the wrong pe...

To Washington, D.C. for this little NSF Regional conference . No idea how much internet I'll have over the next few days, but promise to...

This week's Raised Eyebrow Award goes to the editors of the brand new issue of PLoS Biology . One of the very interesting new articles i...

And when you see that headline, you probably think brown leaves, a jacket, maybe a light pair of gloves and a scarf... Not in Texas. Still s...

Rather unexpectedly, our Research Office offered me a chance to go to a National Science Foundation conference in Maryland. Only a week an...

Wow, the second new vertebrate species in a week! This time, a mouse in Europe. I like the point that the article mentions: "it was ge...