I’ve been watching Beast Wars: Transformers on Netflix recently, a show which featured this crab-inspired Predacon... Rampage, also kno...

I often hear colleagues extolling the virtues of taking undergraduates and beginning grad students to “student friendly” conferences. What...

At the Gulf Coast Summer Institute last week, we talked a bit about mentoring at the end of the week. We had this case study: An undergra...

How far willing you go for your career? I don’t mean, “What immoral or illegal activities would you engage in?” I mean, how far are you wi...

A juvenile Gnathia marleyi , a recently described isopod from the Caribbean. The specific name was supposed to be in honor of Bob Marley......

Last Friday was the last day of the Gulf Coast Summer Institute , an teaching workshop. It was a very enjoyable week that ended at mid-day. ...

I've been in Baton Rouge all this week at a biology teaching workshop . It’s nice once in a while to think about nothing else but how to...

A student asks you a question about something that you have been discussing in class. Let's say it's about some species that you dis...

Why do scientific supply companies’s websites have to be so bad? Trying to find anything on them is an excruciating experience. Let’s co...

This lovely crab, Insulamon palawanense , made some news a few months back. The name refers to the Greater Palawan in the Philippines, w...

In a conversation over the weekend, I was asked what made for an “expert blogger.” These are the things that spring to mind. The first, an...

Jeremy at A Taste for Desert Landscapes examines opinions about evolution . Should the original arsenic life paper be retracted ? David Sa...

I’ll be in Baton Rouge this coming week, where I am attending a teaching workshop . My students better not be doing this unless they are w...

Near the end of the second season of the TV show Prison Break (Episode 15: “The Message”), there was a bit where two escapees release a tap...

I’ve always thought that the purpose of retracting a paper was to expunge it from the scientific literature. To pretend it was never publish...

I spotted this on Facebook: As Fry might say: The problem with this is that are only two years shown. In most social statistics, the...

Ah, Maine. There’s nothing you won’t race. Hat tip to Scicurious .

A Washington Post article from the weekend looks at current job prospects for scientists. It ain’t pretty in the United States. Ends with ...

Bugs used to be bigger. Much bigger. That’s right: fossils from the Carboniferous and Permian times had insects with single wing lengths ...

The great thing about this picture of CNN ’s coverage about the announcement of finding the Higgs boson (spotted by Jon Mitchell )... I...