In this, the mid-point of the second decade of the twenty-first century (which is still awkward because it doesn't really have a name......

Are you reading the blog post from your home or your office? It’s the start of the week between Christmas and New Year’s. There is a lot o...

Grades were due today, marking the official end of UTRGV’s first semester.  How did we do? Well, we kept the wheels on the bus. The univ...

Today is the day I will finish grading this last assignment I gave my neurobiology students! Just five left! I cannot remember the last time...

I’ve shown custom hermit crab shells on the blog before, but artist Aki Inomata has made the more beautiful I've seen. More here ....

Michael Eisen recently took all the journal titles off descriptions of his papers on his lab website. This upset some people, which Eisen c...

Science ’s latest editorial is a strange attack on tenure that seems to have originated from some non-academic think-tank rather than any...

Earlier this week, I got one of those emails that had been forwarded through the administrative chain (Provost’s office to dean to associa...

This crustacean isn’t big, but space is in short supply when you’re 1.4 kilometers under the surface of the earth. This little animal m...

In tooling around Quora , I see a lot of questions from non-scientists that sort of run like this: “I have an idea! How do I proclaim it t...

Ah, Emerita analoga . It’s been a while. What have you been up to? Emerita analoga is one of the sand crabs species I studied for my d...

Mark Carrigan’s website poses this question as part of a lead-up to a roundtable in early December: Why have researchers been so ready t...

I’m such a sucker for digging crustaceans... One of the matutid digging crabs, Ashtoret lunaris . Look at those lovely digging feet! ...

I like open access, but I think for profit publishers can continue to have a role in the scientific publishing ecosystem. But boy oh boy, s...

My latest paper started as a spreadsheet. During the writing of my last paper on the crayfish pet trade (described here ), I was kind of ...

On not publishing results because they won’t end up in glam journals: Refusing to release findings that you have already worked on, jus...

Batman : [reads the second riddle] What people are always in a hurry? Robin : Rushing people... Russians! I’m very excited to announc...

I like it. Subdued and understated. Related posts Science blogging book: now with blurbs! External links Sci Blogging Guide Faceb...

A few years ago, I published an original, data driven research paper here on this blog. As I wrote in a companion post : I thought, “Let...

Science Blogging: The Essential Guide is now available for pre-order on Amazon! The fun thing about the Amazon page, in comparison to ...