I used to be a big proponent of putting a lot of stuff online for students. After two upgrades to learning management systems, where most ...

My colleague Maria Pereyra died today. I was on the search committee that helped hire her, and I was happy to have her in the department...

I love that aquatic organisms can be more delicate than almost any animal you can see on land. This small cleaner shrimp is one example. ...

This is my iPad cover: By this time next year, I’m going to need a new cover. The University of Texas-Pan American won’t exist any more...

I was having a discussion last week with some colleagues who are not in the sciences about their publishing experience. The conversation ech...

I used to wonder what this logo was supposed to be: I’m renaming this logo, “Slug is disappointed by SfN’s social media policies.” ...

I recently wrote a slightly whinging blog post about the time I spent updating all my online profiles after I had my most recent paper pu...

I•Con was a fan run science fiction convention in Victoria, British Columbia. There are several SF conventions with that name, but in this...

Saduria entomon is the Latin name of this isopod, photographed on the sea bottom as it chows down on a meal. Photo by Mercury dog on ...

A project I’ve been quietly working on is now up at the publisher’s website . Here is the publisher’s description: Features Provide...

I love old Victorian artwork, and this larval crab is no exception. This particular one is from a book by that brilliant but harsh anatom...

We now have the first look at the American Association for the Advancement of Science’s promised open access journal, Science Advances . ...

As an instructor, I never want to say that education or training or teaching is worthless. But I don’t think every problem can be fixed with...

Yesterday, a single tweet announced that Kent Anderson would be the publisher for the American Association for the Advancement of Science (...

Visual of a tweet from Dr24Hours . Dance! Boogie wonderland!

Another prominent opinion piece is crying again that there is too much low-quality research. This annoys me so much. It presumes “quality...

If you look closely, you can figure out what city this little guy is from. When I tweeted this picture on the Real Scientists, someone...

As I mentioned earlier , my parents got to be voice actors for Sharknado 2: The Second One . (They screamed.) I also got to name sharks in t...

When I recently published a paper (full text on DoctorZen.net ) about finding a sand crab ( Lepidopa websteri ) where it hadn’t been before,...

It’s time for my semi-regular curated list of things I felt compelled to respond to: People are still trying to work out how to use Prezi ...