Yeah, all I got is a meme. Sad. Hoping this fatigue will be gone and blogging will be back in force next week.

This looks like something in the Australian genus Euastacus , but I don’t recognize the species. Maybe E. suttoni ? Photo by sri_the_qu...

A common claim by science deniers is that scientists lie to keep their jobs . There’s a premise in that claim: that scientists are working ...

The news just broke that Neil Armstrong has died. Earlier this year, a series of interviews with Armstrong appeared here , which I watch...

Occasionally, ships are put into drydock. There are certain repairs and upgrades you just can’t do when the ship is in continuous operatio...

Matthew Francis saw a bad scientific talk . Nearly every sentence was unintelligible. ... (T)he speaker compounded the problems listed ab...

I submitted a manuscript yesterday, which made me happy. But as I was updating my CV, I looked at my other manuscripts in review, and my hap...

Spotted on Facebook , via Reese’s.

Two anecdotes. First, last Friday, I was at a meeting of coordinators for our university’s graduate programs. Our vice-president for acade...

I have a guest post over the blog for Things We Don’t Know . The post is about what this... ...tells us about one of the biggest quest...

I was stopped by this quote in Soapbox Science : I feel people should be aware that, while a PhD program almost perfectly serves the purpo...

1976. I didn’t even have to look that up. That was the year that the first machine made by human beings landed on the surface of Mars. I...

I can’t watch “The Power of the Daleks.” The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), feeling that television was a disposable, ephemeral m...

Living in an Ivory Basement (my favourite blog title a long time) talks about publishing in PLOS One . Is there wiring in the brain ?

The use and misuse of journal Impact Factors continues to attract attention. I think Impact Factor has some usefulness in showing a jour...

The Neuroethology congress was held last week. The congress had a banquet on on a ship on Thursday night, and this statue was outside the do...

Back in grad school, we had a speaker who was given a general public lecture. He was talking about the prospects for personalized medicine. ...

After a fairly late night on the cruise, plus the usual last day attrition, made for a slightly subdued day for many attendees. But not fo...

Today was a half day at the meeting. The organizers deliberately scheduled half a day of free time so people could muck around the Washing...

Learned today that this conference has 563 attendees from 28 countries. Today proved yet again that Ron Hoy’s “core four” (or “evil four”)...