It’s return of Kiwa hirsuta , the yeti crab. How much do I love yeti crabs? Have you seen them dancing ? But this time, it’s in huggable sof...

“But what if they’re different?” Empathy is the ability to realize what someone else experiences, because it would be what you would ex...

Tim Gowers has a long post on the cost of Elsevier journals. My contribution to the discussion is to plot data he showed in tables relating...

Faculty searches at universities are usually driven by the faculty. Even if a dean or other administrator usually makes the offer, the searc...

It would be quite a shock to be walking along in a forest, then look up... Not a coconut, but a coconut crab, which is featured in this...

Because I am starved for attention, I have been obsessively watching the altmetric score for my article on post publication peer review in...

I’ve been very pleased with the response to my Neuron article on post-publication peer review . (Read more about the backstory here ). The ...

I have a new article in Neuron ! This is a pleasant surprise to me, because I never thought I would ever get anything in that journal. ...

Impact Story looks at what people consider to be obstacles publishing in “megajournals” like PLOS ONE . Their list is good, but it doesn’t h...

A.A. Agrawal (whose alliterative name I envy) has penned a letter saying the people should be skeptical of open access publishing. In brief,...

World, meet Gramastacus lacus. Gramastacus lacus , world. This is an interesting new burrowing crayfish species. For one, it’s only the...

From the Aquatilis Expedition (on Twitter here ): Hyperia galba is a small crustacean which uses jellyfish as its home and a source ...

I’m hearing a lot of people say, “Publishing is a button” as a simple argument against scientific publishers and, to a lesser extent, journa...

This is a Cape River crab ( Potamonautes perlatus )... with passengers. A new paper by Badets and Du Preez (2014) shows how these crabs a...

Retraction Watch covers the graphical abstracts train wreck at Journal of Proteomics , which I wrote about here . Terry McGlynn says scie...

When I was on the academic job market, I read somewhere that successful applicants sent out around sixty applications. That was pretty ...

Printing pages using the Garamond typeface will save money, and CNN is on it ! This is a popular story, judging from the error message I got...

Luis Colom, a professor at University of Texas Brownsville, has died from cancer . Dr. Colom and I were hired the same year, 2001. I was h...

And now, a moment of gloating celebration. I mentioned a while back that I was up to my eyeballs in writing. Between Christmas Eve an...

On the CRUST-L discussion list, Daniel Abed-Navandi shared this picture. He stumbled upon this large flat isopod clinging to the mantle of...