I once called scientific articles “love letters to the future.” I was making the point that just because a paper doesn’t get cited soon ...

I moved from Canada to the United States in August of 2001 to take a job at what was at the time The University of Texas Pan American. ...

This has been a long week. It started Monday, with the news of the American Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) being instructed to free...

Earlier this month, Jeffrey Beall (rhymes with “wheel”) removed his blog and well-known list of probable “predatory” open access publish...

Not much information yet, but here it is: H.R.483 — 115th Congress (2017-2018) All Bill Information (Except Text) As of 01/24/2017 te...

In light of the EPA freeze , I spent a chunk of today writing emails and filling out contact forms to pretty much every scientific society ...

When I was asked by Times Higher Education about whether scientists should worry about the incoming US president , I pointed to the candida...

Kellyanne Conway, who coined the term, “ alternative facts. ” This was in reference to yesterday, when the White House press secretary’s l...

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There are reasons aplenty to hate this wretched year, but I’m just going to focus on the professional side for me. 2016 was a year I felt li...

In 2013, writer John Bohannon published a Science article where the main drawing card was an obviously bad paper that he got accepted or pu...

A friend whose opinion I trust asked people what they thought of a talk by Jonathan Haidt. Haidt’s summary of the talk is here . His thesis ...

“Have a nice break.” I know students and other mean well, but “breaks” are very stressful for me. I’m sure I’ve complained about this ...

Even people who try to incorporate evolutionary thinking into their research struggle with the concepts, it seems. Thomas Wittum was in...

SACS, the accreditation agency for UTRGV has released its document about why the institution has been placed on probation. There isn’t much...