I have a new project to share! Just for fun, I spent the last few days making another little ebook, similar to what I did with Presentati...

Yesterday , I wrote about Dr. Becca’s tumultuous ride through her tenure process. (And thank you to all who read, like, tweeted, shared, an...

Sometimes, you get to watch a friend win one. And that win is practically as sweet as one of your own. Friend of the blog Dr. Becca has...

This year has seen something special. There’s been a hunger for new heroes. You can see it in these projects. Hidden Figures . It chall...

I was very excited yesterday. I got to add another data point to this graph: It’s taken me five years to get those seven data points. ...

( This was originally published here in 2005. ) Few events in animal behaviour evoke an observer’s visceral response as interactions b...

When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure. - Goodhart’s Law The longer I’m in academia, the more I appreciate ...

A couple of threads on Twitter recently reminded me of something. This from Liang Gao (my emphasis): Just visited a new PI. He showed me...

For the last day at the Parasitologists conference, I mostly sat in on taxonomy talks. Now, I love taxonomists and admire the work that th...

These are my notes from talks I saw on Friday's sessions! R Grunberg gave a very nice talk about whether parasite abundance (density)...

I brought my iPad, with one of those nice little keyboards, and all the keys were working except the space bar. Great. That rather slowed my...

I missed Day 1 entirely. Nothing to report. Sorry. I drove up to San Antonio on Wednesday afternoon. During the four hour drive, I reflect...

Kate Clancy is someone who I admire. She is someone who says stuff the needed saying. Like pointing out the high incidence of sexual haras...

Because I hate people who just retweet something interesting and say, “Thread,” I’m compiling Jason Hoyt’s series of tweets about the state...

Yesterday, I learned that the Society for the Study of Evolution will not hold meetings in Texas for the foreseeable future. And they were ...

NeuroLogica blog has an article examining the loss of Jeffrey Beall’s list of dubious publishers. This post presents a nice, clean narrativ...

I was the first in my family to go to university. My mom finished high school. My dad didn’t get that far. (People attended university le...

I’ve been very excited by the way this graph has been coming along: You don’t get many graphs like that in my business where the differe...

Last year, I tweeted : One of today's highlights: helping a colleague photograph the holotype of an undescribed species! I’m please...

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...