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The last day of this conference featured a keynote by Ivan Oransky, co-founder of Retraction Watch and Embargo Watch . His slide deck is be...

The PACE conference continues to go well, as far as I can tell. I was not able to spend as much time at the conference today, but a panel...

I spent most of the day at an ethics conference here at the university. Let me give you a brief round up. I didn’t see everything (schedule...

This crab was photographed off the coast of Belize. There are so many brachyuran crabs, I am always in awe of people who can come up with e...

Eyes are good things to have in the light. But if you lived in the dark... all the time... would those eyes become so much a nuisance that y...

The NSF DEBrief blog asks what proportion of awards should be awarded to beginning investigators and undergraduate institutions? (Pushed to...

This week has seen a couple of headlines where not surprising things were gussied up to look like very big deals. I’ve already written about...

As I’ve mentioned before , scientists are so conservative that when you see an adjective like “extraordinary” in the title, you should at ...

The BBC has this headline about some new letters by Charles Darwin that have not been published before: Charles Darwin letters reveal hi...

Lots of animals in the ocean need hard surfaces to settle on. So it’s no surprise to see a log adrift to be occupied. It might be unusual, t...

A couple of years ago, I got into a car wreck . A tire blew out on a truck to my right. It swerved and hit me. I skidded across the road. Yo...

I’ve been playing around with ImpactStory , which I learned about at Science Online and was also featured at the recent AAAS meeting . I ...

One of the most common pieces of communication advice is, “Know your audience!” I’m going court controversy by saying that is overrated advi...

There have been a few retrospectives the last couple of weeks about the tenth anniversary of the emergence of SARS. There are several arti...

Today is a big day for my institution. A deciding vote on whether to create a new university in south Texas by merging mine (The University ...

Squee! This blog is featured at Girls are Geeks today! They say lots of nice things about this blog. I’m blushing. Thank you, Girls!

Poor hermit crab. He could really use a new phone. Those clicky keyboards are old school... Spotted here .

A new editorial in The Journal of Comparative Neurology celebrates a paper that goes the extra mile in making its anatomical data available...

True facts about giraffes! They’re tall . And I use the word precisely. They’re not just big; their legs are about half again as long...