From a cave in Tennessee. The photographer calls them isopods, although they look a little longer and narrower than many isopods. Photo...

The ancient so revered crustaceans that they put them on their money! According to the caption: Coin from the city of Priapos, Mysia, ...

The issue of how science funding should be distributed (To the few, the proud? Or share the wealth?) is brought up at Scientists Sees Squir...

Natalie Morales reviewed my itty bitty ebook, Presentation Tips ! Natalie. Effing. Morales ! (And she liked it! Squee! ) Updat...

Meet a regular on Teen Titans Go! Unfortunately, this resident outside Titans Tower seems to have no name. But he can take comfort...

“My god... it’s full of authors.” Prof-Like Substance drew my attention to this fruit fly paper , which may be a new record setter. I hav...

I just taught my last class at The University of Texas-Pan American ever . And, in contemporary fashion, I marked the occasion with a few se...

Meet Cherax pulcher . Its last name, “pulcher,” literally translates to “beautiful.” Unfortunately, the beauty of this species may be ...

The University of Michigan has been hosting a series of talks on the future of graduate and postdoctoral training in biology . There is a ...

If a student called me a “f*cking moron” to my face, do I have the right to fail that student in my class? Because that happened recentl...

In an editorial , Society for Neuroscience president Steve Hyman takes on issues of replication and rigor. Near the end, he writes: With t...

Dead Sea News has a nice new paper on science outreach . Love that. But confused as to why it’as in a computational biology journal. DrugM...

You may have to look twice for the crustaceans in this picture... And yes, it’s crustaceans, plural. They are sitting on top of a crino...

Late today, I got notice that it was time to activate my email address for UTRGV. Done. It was quick to do, but in many ways, it signa...

We’ve started registering students for the inaugural fall semester of University of Texas Rio Grand Valley (UTRGV), and it’s kind of a mes...

My field work is on a sandy beach, so there are not very many hard surfaces available for organisms to settle on. So I don’t expect to find ...

Awesome discussion over at Small Pond Science about the disparities in the National Science Foundations graduate research fellowship progra...

I’m not terribly familiar with these skeleton shrimp . When I saw the picture, I had to go look them up on Wikipedia, just like everyone...

I’m trying to work out which is the more terrifying image. This : Or this : The lion’s face is perhaps the purest expression of ...

I’m sorry, Adam and Jamie. I tried. In our most recent paper on nociception, one of the major points is that not all animals react to pot...