Last weekend, I attended the American Society for Parasitologists meeting in New Orleans. It was my first time at this meeting, so I had ...

My parents are Sharknado 2: The Second One . Sharknado 2 ran a crowdfunding campaign to finance a scene. I initially kicked in because...

Continuing the series of “behind the scenes” stories around papers in the new issue of Intergrative and Comparative Biology issue... Bria...

To paraphrase Michael Jackson, if you want to be my crayfish, it don’t matter if you’re milk or white. Spotted in the New Orleans airport...

Starting yesterday, I took the wheel of the Twitter account Real Scientists for a week! If you don’t know the project, the account rotates ...

I’ve had the good fortune to have a glut of papers appear, thanks in part to the publication of symposium proceedings I helped organized wit...

To the right, we have the new University of Dayton logo (hat tip to Matthew Hartings ): It looks like the initials, “VD,” which, for many...

“Hey Meera, check this out.” Not as powerful or concise as Archimedes’s “Eureka!”, but that was what I said at the moment of discovery – e...

I’ve had four papers published in the last seven days. I’m pretty sure this is a record for me. Three came out as part of the Society f...

Spotted on a car outside my apartment.

Back in 2006, I wrote : In another one of those still-not-quite-sure-how-this happened events of the summer, I spent this afternoon meeti...

The latest issue of Integrative and Comparative Biology is now out! And the cover story comes from one of the papers from the parasite sy...

One of my undergraduate mentors told me, “Academics are make believe rich people.” Academics don’t get the actual money, but they get some...

Anna Sharman asks why authors publish in small, paywalled journals , using my story as an example. I try to answer. Lenny Teytelman notes ...

But wait! You can do this! From here . Hat tip to Jarrett Byrnes.

After over a year of existence, the journal DeNovo has still not published a second article. Its single article remains a paper on sasqua...

I have both hearts and darts for Nature in the wake of its retraction of two stem cell papers from earlier this year, now known as the “...

I’ve always thought that the potential of lobsters as draught animals was under appreciated. Hat tip to Retronaut . This was part of a ...

Complex Roots hates manuscript submission systems . I put in my vote for one of the better ones out there. DrugMoneky is eagerly awaiting o...

It’s weird how social media works sometimes. This appeared in two of my social media feed this morning, Facebook and Quora : Seeing this ...