A new manuscript detailing what we learned from the first three rounds of #SciFund is up at PeerJ ! Much of the analysis you will have s...

In case you didn’t know, there is an entire Tumblr of deep sea creatures with googly eyes . This photo of Mysis relicta seems to have co...

The UTPA and UTB community had its first chance to meet the presumptive first president of UTRGV, Guy Bailey, today. He was at Brownsvil...

Pascale Lane went to Randy Olson’s narrative workshop and reports back on what she heard .

I currently still have my head down, writing, writing, and doing more writing, but I took a little time to talk to Jane Lee, who was repo...

Painting on the wall of a bait shop on South Padre Island. I was there yesterday, buying – surprise, surprise! – shrimp to carry on the wor...

Joan Strassman looks at author credits . This bycatch inforgraphic looks nice, but on its own, lacks credibility. Citations, please! Mo...

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...