I feel like this should be a bigger story. HI EXCUSE ME, I just found out the the prof for this online course I’m taking died in 2019 an...

A friend of mine sent me a screenshot of a page from Abominable Science: Origins of the Yeti, Nessie, and Other Famous Cryptids by Daniel L...

There’s a graphic on Instagram from August that started making the rounds on Twitter. It says, “imagine a world run by scientists instead o...

Saw a complaint about how PLOS had created predatory journals and made publication inaccessible through its article processing charge (APC) ...

I’ve written before about how refusing to review a paper because you don’t like a journal hurts authors more than editors or publishers. I c...

Ed Wood, Jr. is frequently described as “incompetent.” He made films that are usually regarded as some of the worst ever made, like Glen or...

Six months ago, I wrote about how American patients dying of COVID-19 would fight with physicians who were trying to save them because they...

Consider the following scenario. You are a young person. Let’s say a woman, for the sake of argument. Like many others, you are mostly worki...

In this YouTube video , “9 circles of hell of a scientific paper publishing, or the world is full of non-elephants,” one of my less pleasa...

( This was written for a behaviour class I am teaching this semester. ) Konrad Lorenz was an important figure in the development of the scie...

 

So across the US, university towns are quickly becoming COVID-19 hotspots because campuses reopened, with crummy plans, and despite warnings...

Today is my last day as a tenured full professor at The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. This is going to be a tough post to write. Si...

The death of actor Chadwick Boseman is unexpectedly hard. It was bad enough that he died young, but it was seeing the tributes and reaction ...

One of the few delights of 2020 has been finding out that rapper MC Hammer is an amazing fan and booster of science . If there is any academ...

Despite its decisive drubbing in Kitzmiller v. Dover , intelligent design just keeps showing up like the proverbial bad penny. The latest po...

“It’s time to ask yourself what you believe.”

This is the happiest spiny lobster ever. And why not? He’s a king! This is Ise Ebi-daio, mascot of Shima City in Japan. Spotted on Mondo Mas...

Oh, is it that time again? When I review a news story about crustacean welfare where someone wants to change policy around treatment of crus...

Over the weekend, I added two new hoax papers to my Stinging the Predators anthology. Having spent a few years curating this thing (it’s on...