For a while, people thought that vertebrate brains did not get new neurons throughout life. Songbirds provided one of the first known counte...

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Quite a while ago (Sometimes I forget how long I’ve been blogging), I wrote an article about reality television shows for scientists . A w...

I’ve written a bit about how evolutionary theory might help resolve Fermi’s paradox . A new article by Geoffrey Miller in Seed focuses on ...

The Dr. Jekyll & Mrs. Hyde blog had a quite good post on writing personal statements . There’s a tricky thing about personal statement...

When you’re a crustacean neurobiologist, cooking a lobster is a topic you’d better be familiar with, because you will be asked about it. (Se...

Things you rarely read on RateMyProfessors.com : “This professor had a great syllabus.” At a meeting about faculty development last week...

Hummingbirds are amazing animals, but one of their less appreciated talents is their vocal abilities. Hummingbirds are one of the few animal...

Today is the 150 th anniversary of the publication of On the origin of species by means of natural selection, or the preservation of favour...

From ScienceInsider : fMRI scans of brain activity have been used as evidence in the sentencing phase of a murder trial. I’m guessing we...

The nomination deadline for The Open Laboratory anthology, the annual compilation of the best science writing on blogs, has only one week t...

Dear students, I know that the university is closed on Thursday and Friday this week. I’m told it’s some kind of American holiday thing. ...

I’ve frequently had reason to talk about Texas science standards here, thanks to the dubious actions of the Texas State Board of Education....

That said, this only covers the main science portion of the blog, not the various other concerns addressed here.

Over at Speaking About Presenting, Olivia Mitchell has written a free ebook about working with Twitter and similar online tools during pre...

Normally, we think of extinction happening because organisms fail to reproduce. In the case of Canadian sticklebacks, some incipient species...

Sincere question, not rhetorical. How and when and, for goodness’ sake, why did “overqualified” become a reason to turn someone away from...

Steve Jobs is good at presentations. Garr Reynolds has written about this a lot over on his Presentation Zen blog. Now, a whole new book ...

  This squat lobster, Munida andamanica , has been in the news recently for its peculiar ability to eat wood. Picture from here . Addit...

I am not too proud to beg. The nomination deadline for The Open Laboratory anthology, the annual compilation of the best science writing...