A few years ago, I wrote about Denis Rancourt, a professor who gave every student in his class an A. I listened to an interview with him...

At the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology meeting earlier this month, Randy Olson said, “The word ‘storytelling’ is damaged .”...

I’ve featured many colour variants of fished crustaceans on Tuesday Crustie, but I don’t think I’ve ever seen one quite like this. It’s q...

I see at Denim and Tweed that Hope Jahren has started a project to collect stories from scientists who blog under their real names. I talk...

This is an odd video from Minute Physics. First, they say that “evolution” is misused, and just means, “change” in anything, not just bio...

This wonderful pic is just a teaser of a great series of pictures that Sara Mynott has done over at Saltwater Science . She describes of ...

January has been a crazy month, what with the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology meeting, manuscripts due, the start of classes...

Small Pond Science discusses tenure denial, with a story about recommendation letters that is both fascinating and terrifying.

I particularly like the “USA” in red, white, and blue. Hat tip to Sleestak on Twitter.

This morning, I got a survey from the Chronicle of Higher Education about flat research funding. The Chronicle of Higher Education is wo...

Here are posts that I though were talking about in the last two weeks. Dr. Isis’s blog is wonderful, and she’s looking for help describin...

Things have been crazy around here. In the last couple of weeks, I have submitted a book chapter (never again, no more book chapters), and a...

The whole world turns upside down in ten years, but you turn upside down with it(.) - Spider Robinson, 1977, “The Time Traveller,” The Ca...

From this year's Hidalgo Festival of Lights . And here's a song from an artist whose first album was big when I was living in Aus...

If you’re looking for a holiday treat, maybe you’ll be lucky enough to live someplace that makes these: The powdered sugar may alert you ...

The Texas Tribune reports that every candidate for the Lieutenant Governor position in Texas wants to teach creationism in public schools. ...

Namnezia asks how much work you should do for a doctorate . Michael Tomasson exposes anti-blogging bigotry . Small Pond Science talks ab...

After the announcement yesterday, I did three interviews about the name of the new university. This is what happens when you sit in the fro...

When the name was announced, I got to my feet and yelled, “ Yes !” In Fall 2015, I will be a charter faculty member of University of Texa...

I get to find out the next university I’ll be working at tomorrow ! The name of the new south Texas university is being announced tomorro...