My newest paper is part of my own Pirates of the Caribbean franchise. It’s the fifth in a series, “pet crayfish on the internet.”  T...

I just signed an author’s agreement for ReSearch: A Career Guide for Scientists . It’s been a while since I’d thought about this project. ...

Last week, I was out on the beach at South Padre Island, collecting sand crabs for my research. This involved lots of shoveling. When I do t...

Hooray for arbitrary large round numbers! My answers on Quora have tallied one million views on Quora . And yesterday saw my most views...

Australian crayfish are often like the country itself. Big, brash, and often highly charismatic. This newly discovered crayfish is a fine ex...

Back in grad school I read a lot about movement analysis and dance notation, and that was when I came across this dedication of the book Cho...

Experiments are intended to show one thing effects another. However, not everything affects something else. Many experiments that show “no e...

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...