I recently discovered the TV show Skin Wars on Hulu. It’s one of those, “Make some cool really fast” competition shows like FaceOff , To...

As a professor, you write recommendations for student regularly. One came in this morning, so I started filling it out. First questions were...

In late February, there was a lot of chatter on my Twitter feed from the #ASAPBio meeting, about using pre-prints in biology.This has been...

I love this design, although since the only native Irish crayfish is the what-clawed crayfish, I kind of wish this guy had some patches of ...

The National Science Foundation just announced changes to its Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) that limits the number of applica...

Things moved fast last week. I blogged about a paper with strange references to “The Creator” . Within hours, the story exploded on social m...

Back on January 5, PLOS ONE published an Intelligent Design paper containing numerous references to “the Creator.” Judging from the consist...

Jessica Waller took this gorgeous picture of a juvenile American lobster ( Homarus americanus ). It’s the People’s Choice award winner in...

A new paper in Science Advances by Kicheli-Katz and Regev (2016) is interesting in several ways. It’s a very interesting look at gender ...

Sometimes, it feels like every proposed reform of scientific publishing involves me doing more work. There’s significant mission cre...

“It’s okay, we can regrow the claw!” Hat tip to John Wares on Twitter.

Consider a world much like our own. Scientists do research, and publish their findings in academic journals, made of paper and ink and gl...

  We’re exactly two weeks out from the launch of Science Blogging: The Essential Guide . When I got my review copy, one of the first things...

We can thank Queen B for the latest crustacean meme. External links After Beyoncé Shout Out, Red Lobster Makes “Lobsterworthy” Shirts...

UTRGV tweeted this image from our Brownsville campus: I’ve walked through this lobby a few times, but it never clicked that the spiral...

Jon Tennant, writing at Science Open, has me thinking about the ongoing issue of anonymity in science again, particularly in peer review...

We’re still more than two weeks away from the official release of Science Blogging: The Essential Guide , but the book has already racked up...

Colouring books for adults are popular now, so I applaud the BioDiversity Library for making this outreach tool! They have a whole big b...

It’s here! It’s been a long time in writing and editorializing and proofing and printing (I first announced it in fall 2014 ), but th...

Despite the title, committee chairs don’t have all that much power, particularly in academia. The whole point of having committees is that c...