From a conference I'll be going to in the near future: “You will be expected to be present to respond to questions from delegates for ha...

That, my friends, is a heckuva lot of animal. Read more here .

This week is going to be ratty ugly nasty busy. There are two job candidates interviewing for positions today and Thursday. Tomorrow I'm...

“Kill the wounded monster first” is quickly becoming a mantra of mine after reading this post . Another favourite quote on the subject of ...

I feel like much of what I'm doing intellectually this week is just reviewing other people's stuff. I'm reviewing one paper for ...

Great video footage (scroll down to the bottom) of some squid having a go at bait. Not the lethargic animals they were thought to be, the v...

I've been interested in the ethics associated with brain scans for years now, and I've been saying for years that we're on the v...

I just submitted my latest manuscript, a review article, into Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences . I'm aiming high ...

I am constantly amazed by how simple some things are, yet how many people are bad at. I have voice mail. Anyone who has ever listened to a r...

I've had my door shut a lot this last week. I've been working on a new paper, and I've been getting increasingly chuffed about h...

Just checked my mail, and saw a box. But what could be it be? Another textbook being sent by a publisher trying to sway me into adopting a n...

I've had a good few days. I finally managed to shut my office door over the weekend and this afternoon and make very nice progress on a ...

I tool around a lot of science websites. Last month, I saw multiple blogs and websites reporting about how the Parks Service was waffling ov...

Or at least, administration is eating my time. Since Monday... let's see... I've been dealing with documentation concerning our univ...

We had a bad few days in the department when one of our instructors went missing. She had gone overseas for the holidays, and when classes s...

Some time last year, I wrote that I had started work on a book manuscript, on the "200 words a day equals a book in a year" theor...

In my role as Graduate Program Coordinator for the department, I found I was starting to lose track of when I'd received certain bits of...

First, I'm Isaac Newton , now this... Your Intellectual Type is Visual Mathematician . This means you are gifted at spotting patterns — ...

Y.A.R. = Y et A nother R ejection. Another grant proposal has now officially bit the big one. Which, considering we're in the last few h...

I've written in this journal before about some of my excitement concerning the discovery of new species. (For example, here ; here ; he...