I’m quoted in this Times Higher Education article about the forecast for science under a new American political regime. External links ...

The search function on Quora sucks, and so I’m collecting some of my favourite answers here so I can find them again later. Neurobiology ...

Back in July , I posted this graph: It’s an appropriate time for an update: Related posts Reasons to go back to blogging

Question and answer originally posted at Quora . Q: If a university were to be created today, how could it compete with MIT, Harvard, and ...

( Note: I’ve been answering questions on Quora for a while, and this one has proved to have a “long tail”: it’s been slowly, but consistent...

You can find the images above floating around on various Internet websites in listicles purporting to show amazing family resemblances. T...

There are some discussions about double blind peer review making the rounds on science Twitter this morning, predominantly over whether do...

Interstellate is the brainchild of Cait . The mandate of this project? To show off bee-yoo-tee-ful neurons. There’s a magazine coming ...

Well, this is an interesting reveal on the eve of UTRGV’s big flagship science and technology event, HESTEC . The physics department in the ...

There are fifteen rounds in a heavyweight boxing match. There are fifteen weeks in a semester. Today, I feel like that isn’t a coinc...

Earlier this year, the UTRGV medical school had its dean step down for reasons unknown. Now, one of the communities is backing out of its...

Sharp. It’s a word that has both a negative and positive meaning when you say it of a person. And if I had to use one word to describe th...

Seen on Twitter this morning, from Moosesplaining Max: A neutral stance on a contentious person is an implicit endorsement, stop kidding...

“This crustacean appears to be on a tenure track.” - Rutger Vos “2017 goals” - Ryan Broderick

Here’s a picture of UTRGV president Guy Bailey from a little over a week ago, doing what he’s doing in a lot of pictures: agreeing to tak...

In a recent document, one of our adminstrators was talking about student learning outcomes (SLOs), and wrote (my emphasis): Identifying w...

There’s practically a new emerging literary genre of academics writing pearl clutching thinkpieces decrying the sad effect of social media o...

This is an excerpt of a data set from a manuscript I’ve been working on. The box shows where half the data live, with a line dividing t...