I believe that all scholarship is hard . But people think humanities are not as hard. You rarely hear about students who “can’t cut it” i...

Nobody told me it was “Drug an invertebrate week.” But not only has a story of lobsters getting pot rather than going into pots made the ro...

I’ve been studying issues roiling around the question of “Does it hurt lobsters when they go into a pot?” for about a decade. After ten year...

The Society for Neuroscience recently posted a short guide for publishing papers for early career researchers . It makes me grumpy. “ Aim ...

I noticed something new in my library’s search results while searching the catalog. Journals showed up with “Peer reviewed” and “Open acc...

Anticipation. I had been anticipating the chance to speak at the North Carolina Natural Sciences Museum for a good long while. I’d be...

I was listening to the radio this morning, and heard some very strange coverage about something called “rosehip neurons.” The coverage was ...

I recently reviewed a couple of papers, and was reminded by how bad the presentation of statistics in many papers is. This is true even from...

There’s been a few recent moves in the war on “fake news.” For instance, several platforms stopped hosting a certain conspiracy-laden podcas...

You are looking at the winner of the International Association of Astacology T-shirt contest! By me! First place: “Astacus fluviatili...

It is, according to my social media, World Emoji Day. No sure why that needs a day, but I’m not here to judge. Well, not, today I am, becaus...

Hypothesis : Complaints about peer review are often made by people who believe that their work is so infallible and perfect that it cannot...

With preprint servers and data repositories like Figshare gaining in popularity, a related myth is also gaining in popularity: “Giving thi...

The website Rate My Professors is getting rid of its “hotness” rating. Which means you won’t see stuff like this any more: The idea of ...

While I knew some journals won’t publish papers that had previously been posted as preprints, I didn’t know that some journals are picky. ...

Last year, I submitted a preprint to biorXiv . I was underwhelmed by the experience. But I am a great believer in the saying, “Never try ...

Making the rounds in international news in the last couple of days is a viral video that is normally described in the headlines this way: ...

Years ago, while listening to CBC's Morningside, I heard this description: "Canada is a country that works in practice, but not in ...

Never heard of the US Digital Services agency? Now you have. Meet Mollie, their mascot: Yes, those are light sabers. Slate has the sto...

Nicholas Evans wrote : The solution levied by synthetic biologists is to get more biologists doing ethics. That this is always the sugges...