When Apple launched the iPod , the company had to put a lot of effort into educating people about digital music. Mr. Jobs pulled the w...

A side effect of my bafflement yesterday over how lobsters became some sort of strange right-wing analogy for the rightness of there being ...

Miriam Goldstein and Bethany Brookshire burst my cosy bubble of ignorance. Today I learned  Jordan Peterson , a current darling of conserv...

Sad news about the death of Sudan, the last northern male white rhino, prompted some discussion about whether the northern white rhino is ...

Reason I love the AFLW competition, number 2,749: Going into this last round of the home and away season, five out of eight teams had a s...

Max Headroom was an 1980s television series that billed itself as taking place “20 minutes into the future.” In 1987, its second episode wa...

I am teaching an online course this semester, and I had to undergo training and review of the class before it ran. In preparing it, one...

Last time , I was musing about the consequences of signing or not signing reviews of journal articles. But I got wondering just how often pe...

Seen on Twitter, two days apart. First, Kay Tye : Dear everyone! You don’t need to wonder if I reviewed your paper anymore. I now sign A...

Gordon Pennycook asked how far people have moved in pursuit of their academic careers. I’d never added it up before. I found an online di...

Canada has butter tarts. Australia has lamingtons. But because Autralia is the lucky country, it not only has lamingtons as dessert, bu...

While searching for crayfish news (as you do), I stumbled across this description of the value of crayfish. Crayfish are the most popu...

Storify is shutting down soon. Which is a shame. There was a point where I, and others, were using is a lot. It was a nice way to compil...

What are you thinking, Switzerland? At the start of this week, I saw a news story about new Swiss regulations for the handling and killi...

Surface dwellers, meet Cherax acherontis . Cherax acherontis , meet surface dwerllers. There are plenty of burrowing crayfish in Austra...

Last time , I only saw the aftermath. This time, I got to see it happen. Snow! There hadn’t been snow in a century before 2004, ...

Eight years ago and three months ago, I started a project to accommodate Jessica Murph’s request to do fieldwork (she was a student in th...

Sometimes we underestimate how long our pets might live. This female pet hermit crab, Jonathan Livingston Crab (name given before sex d...

For one student, it was, “Keep it simple. Science is hard enough as it is.” For another student, it was, “It’s a skill, like anything e...

I’ve seen a few graduate programs announce that they are not going to require students submit GRE scores any more. These announcements are w...