Karsten Hueffer was on our campus yesterday, giving an interesting talk on the biology of rabies in Alaska. And yes, whenever someone f...

Scientific Reports and Nature Communications are both published by the same company, Nature Publishing Group. Both are online only, open ...

Neil DeGrasse Tyson was uncharacteristically scrappy on last night’s episode of The Nightly Show , taking on B.o.B. over the flat Earth idea...

This is a pure delight, guaranteed to lift any day. So worth carpet bombing my social media feed for. Hat tip to John Wick. External ...

Savraj Grewal was bemoaning that it would cost Canadians CAN$7,000 to publish a paper in the open access journal Cell Reports . Lively disc...

Stuart Cantrill, writing at The Chemical Connection blog, had this plot showing the citations of one article that was published in multipl...

Michael Hoffman did the research world a favour by highlighting a new editorial in the New England Journal of Medicine about data re-use. ...

I haven’t yet been able to figure out whether this Anderson... Inspired this one: Or maybe I’m just too excited by The X-Files r...

I’m giving a free public talk next weekend! It’ll be held at the Coastal Studies Lab on South Padre Island on Saturday morning, 16 Januar...

This morning, I sat in the complementary talks to the neuroecology symposium, which I blogged about yesterday . My notes are not as extens...

(Note: These notes from talks I sat in today at SICB are largely unedited. Apologies for typos! ) I sat in the neuroecology symposium. It ...

Portland decided to snow the first day of SICB in the morning, which turned into freezing rain by the time of the plenary talk in the evenin...

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...