An argument in scientific publishing is, “Who pays?” For many journals run by traditional, for-profit publishers, usually the library pays. ...

It’s kind of been a disheartening week for data on faculty career hiring. In less than a week, a paper by Clauset and colleagues showed tha...

The UTRGV mascot was unveiled... at 4:00 pm on Friday afternoon. I do not think the timing of this release was accidental. After the upro...

The real winner of the 49th Super Bowl was not a football team. It was the left shark. Katy Perry performed at halftime flanked by t...

Small Pond Science has a look at science crowdfunding , which was partly informed by the PLOS ONE paper I contributed to on the subject. ...

I’ve taken over the @PeopleOfCanada Twitter account for the week! I’ll be tweeting about maintaining a Canadian identity while living out...

Just when thought we had finished with the whole Vaqueros controversy, it’s back in the news . Texas lawmaker Terry Canales has made good ...

Well, this is frustrating. Currently, both The University of Texas-Pan American and University of Texas Brownsville handle graduate a...

A recurring concern from some researchers about open access is the cost to authors . This is an area of persistent misconceptions and a lo...

“Those aren’t fangs... “They’re claws!” Geosesarma hagen is a new species dubbed a “vampire crab” in a new paper by Ng and colleague...

I’m working up a storm to get a crayfish paper done before classes start next week, so I wanted to feature crayfish in this spot today. ...

Dear science journalists— I propose this simple rule for all headlines about medical research: All headlines must include the species th...

In the Chronicle of Higher Education , Leonard Cassuto asked: That phrase – “my own work” – has bugged me for my entire career. It’s alw...

Writing and data analysis is going very well for me right now (one manuscript revisions submitted, two manuscripts developing at a nice clip...

This amphipod is probably Acanthogammarus victorii . It’s about 70 millimetres long, and found in Lake Baikal in Russia. Photo by Olga ...

I worried that I would never had a professional year as productive as 2011. I had six papers that year. I'm super pleased I matched my ...

Terry McGlynn makes the case that professors shouldn’t be sharing student gaffes .

This is Albert Girther (left), held by Forrest Galante (right). This story is simultaneously cool and depressing. On the cool side, it’s ...

Holidays are a time for opening things (like presents)! Today, I want share my latest experiences in open science, involving the recent pape...

This was the scene last week, when H.E.B. , a chain of grocery stores that runs through Texas and Mexico, donated a million dollars to the...