Klout amuses me. While many argue it’s flawed , I say, “Hey, all those kinds of flaws haven’t stopped Impact Factor from being swung about ...

Sharks! Feared ultimate predator of the sea! Striking terror into... ah, no can’t say it with a straight face when the shark in question is ...

Dear Americans for Medical Progress, As a pro-research, pro-science advocacy group, I'd like to think you take facts seriously. On y...

Yesterday, my productivity was way down, because I was watching the Science Writing in the Age of Denial and the Experimental Biology conf...

They’re not horns, actually, but antennae, that make this spiny lobster ( Jasus edwardsii ) so impressive. I love this pictue! Photo by ...

This is mostly going to be a link round-up for reviews and news related to The Revisionaries movie. I’ll update it I find more review. 23...

Margaret Lowman, a.k.a. Canopy Meg , will be visiting our campus on 1 May 2012 next week. Here she is at the grand opening of the Nature Re...

Over a year ago, I noted that there was a Kickstarter campaign to fund a documentary about the contentious revision to the Texas K-12 scien...

Note : This paper in this post is also being covered by the mighty Scicurious in her weekly Friday Weird Science ! Last week, I wrote abo...

I recently described myself as a “crustacean biologist” for a project I was working on. But whenever I do, I feel like such a sham, because ...

As a professor, I'm expected to excel at a lot of tasks, each one of which can be a full-time job of its own. For instance, researcher...

Michael Eisen looks at the disconnect between aggressive promotion of a scientific article that people have to pay to read. Renatta Tull ...

The other day, Jacquelyn Gill mentioned that she found herself swearing more as the defense date for her dissertation drew closer. This str...

I have a brief essay about the role of comparative biology in a scientific world of model organisms in the new Society for Integrative and C...

The prisoner’s dilemma is a classic problem of cooperation. You’ll find lengthy and erudite academic discussions of it in many fields of aca...

This week, the focus is not so much on what a crustacean looks like as what it can do. Waach this little speck – a copepod – faced with be...

The Methods section of most papers is the least read part of the paper. You can see this in how some journals print the Methods in a tiny po...

Columbia University hosted a debate between Tony Movshon and Sebastian Seung last Monday, “Does the brain’s wiring make us who we are?” This...

A student organization asked in a medical professional to come give a talk this week. During this talk, this physician told the students t...

Here’s a teaser trailer for a highly anticipated new project coming out in May... The Avengers ? Heck no. May is the start of the next round...