I discovered today that I got scooped on a project I was working on. I wasn’t very far along on it, but I had some data in the can on it. Al...

The Murray cray, Euastacus armatus . This impressive, spiny species is protected in Australia. Picture by user Aaron Gustafson on Flickr...

On the TED blog , Jonathan Haidt says something important about how people interact with evidence. I’ve added some bolding for emphasis. We ...

Here’s a questions that prospective grad students and post docs might want to ask prospective supervisors. “How did you get along with your ...

A land crab, Sesarma dehaani . Photo by user redslmdr on Flickr , used under a Creative Commons license.

I’m surprised I've never seen this list of seven warning signs of bogus science. (The second one made the most recent appearance in thi...

This article by Jeff Ello is about information technology (IT) professionals, but it also applies to scientists: While everyone would like ...

Online Universities weblog lists this one as one of their top 100 blogs by science professors. Hi, new people! You caught me just as I'...

The road to Hell is paved by people telling themselves, “Just this once.”

In my more cynical moments, I’ve often thought that people will do anything to combat climate change... as long as it doesn’t inconvenience ...

Species unclear, but probably American clawed lobster ( Homarus americanus ). Spotted at Deep Sea News .

In her New York Times blog The Wild Side, Olivia Judson asked what organisms should have their genomes sequenced , and I had to make a case...

Let me try to apply one of the suggestions in Don’t Be Such a Scientist and practice a little concision: I love this book. I devoured it i...

From this post on data management: Data also has to be accessible and stored securely. 56% of the researchers surveyed stored their data on...

I was watching an interview with Annie Lennox recently. She commented that a lot of people wanted to be famous, but they didn’t really know...

“We’re going to have some problems getting this under the microscope...” There are just times you’d like to be a fly on the wall when cert...

I was listening to an interview with neuro researcher Dwayne Godwin on this week’s Science Talk podcast . After discussion of Godwin’s work ...

Marv Wolfman, one of the most successful comics writers around, wrote today about the medium that he loves (and that I do, too): When you l...

The best cartoon shows – like Rocky and Bullwinkle , ReBoot , or Avatar: The Last Airbender – work on two levels. There’s one layer of mean...

Paranoia sells in this day and age. Saw the cover of the new issue of Popular Mechanics : I swear, the first thing I thought was, “They shou...