You’re involved in a research project. You do a lot of work. And then your name appears nowhere on the manuscript or paper in the journal. ...

Many science questions emerge from a place similar to what Penn Jillette describes in this quote about people’s attitudes to video games. (E...

Forgive me a fanboy moment as I react to the announcement of the new Legend of the Five Rings card game! At first glance, it looked l...

At the Sociobiology blog, Joan Strassman tackles inequality in scientific awards. This topic has been making the round lately because of ...

So apparently this happened a couple of hours ago. I have no idea what “Project C.R.A.W.F.I.S.H.” might be about, despite being the onl...

Last week saw the announcement of a shrimp that kills with sound and was named after Pink Floyd. That is Synalpheus pinkfloydi . This n...

I saw the opening of “My Hero” exhibition at IMAS McAllen yesterday (originally curated by the Bedford Gallery in California). I enjoyed ...

Making the rounds today is a new story that an adult entertainment website has provided a $25,000 research scholarship to Natalie Nevárez ...

Earlier this week, I argued that we could kill predatory junk journals with a single stroke if regular scientific journals would publish ...

Understanding something for the first time is often shown in comics and cartoons as a light bulb appearing over someone’s head. It’s off....

Two years ago, Eleftherios Diamandis wrote a horrible piece in Science Careers that glorified overwork. This was widely criticized. And f...

Another obviously bogus paper accepted got accepted by a junk journal. This is hardly news; barely a year goes by without someone demonstr...

Pretty regularly, American news media runs a story with some version of this headline: Accepted into every Ivy League school That’s obvio...

Matt Shipman pointed to a crowdfunding campaign for a student who wants to do an internship at NASA. That’s horrible . Internships shou...

This is shocking. From the University of Louisiana at Monroe Museum of Natural History’s Facebook page : Dear Friends, It is my sad ...

I was thinking about the “Most people can’t name a living scientist” factoid again. Something that often puzzled me was that the fraction of...

Katherine Crocker suggested that scientists should acknowledge when their work was carried was carried out on First Nations / native Americ...

There is a line of thought among some scientists – and it is not a short line among a small fraction of scientists – that pre-publication pe...

I see an amazing number of questions on social media and Quora and the like from students of all sorts where my answer is, “You have to talk...

Man, I love vintage science fiction covers. The cover may be the best thing about the book, since the author’s work is described thus : ...