Earlier on Twitter, I shared an Instagram picture of Dr. Katie Bouman at work, imaging a black hole . This has been a widely shared pi...

Wingfield and Millar have a well-meaning but misleading article, “The open access research model is hurting academics in poorer countries.” ...

Having been interested in science communication (and being a low-level practitioner) for a while, I recognized that there are a lot of ol...

In the light of the “Operation Varsity Blues” college scandal last week, a lot of people were complaining about university admissions gener...

At any given moment in time, there are people who are well known for giving good presentations. In the early part of the twenty-first cent...

This morning I learned of the UK advocacy group “ Crustacean Compassion ”, which wants to change laws around the handling of crustaceans in ...

One of the downsides of living in a world where you can verify so many things with a single search in Google is that when you can’t do that,...

In politics, there is constant referencing to the “news cycle”, which is generally considered to be 24 hours. The next day is not quite a ...

I have yet another story of a publication that started because I was wasting time on the Internet. I say again: blogging is one of the best ...

I went looking for how many ways people completed the some version of the sentence, “We need to do a better job training PhDs in...”: Teac...

Grumpy prof is grumpy (low agreeableness score) just because, not because he’s stressed (low negative emotion score). Test results of t...

I did my fair share of physiological experiments with neurons when I was a trainee. The experiment was an attempt to get a handle on whe...

It's probably fair to say that for the last few years in the science community, the thing I’m best known for is the poster blog . I wa...

I’m a little surprised to realize that one of my most recent papers, about the crayfish pet trade, marks almost ten years of “following m...

You may know this gentleman pictured at right. It’s Sir Ian McKellen. This is a person who is pretty good at what he does. Understatemen...

My newest paper came about as a direct result of me wasting time on the internet. It’s not the only paper that started out this way, but ...

Being an academic is a juggling act. You’re expected to perform teaching, and do research, and do service. And that’s just the highest level...

This finding about recommendations letters shook me: The commonly used phrase, “If I can provide any additional information, please call...

You’re an early career academic, and you think, “I should have something more professional than my personal Facebook account.” I’m here to...

Because I have science attention deficit disorder (science ADD) and am not independently wealthy, there is no conference I go to each and ev...