It’s been a long time coming. Today is the official release date for the Better Posters book. The Better Posters blog started in 2009, ins...

Last week, Randall Munroe started a whole thing with one of his xkcd cartoons, “ Types of scientific papers .” People were inspired to make ...

I’m grateful that: I had a book in me that I thought was worth writing. Pelagic Publishing gave me a chance to write it. I made it through a...

On Twitter, Rejji Kuruvilla asked : I’m sorry, but WHY are descriptive studies a problem in grant or ms review? If you don’t provide the 1s...

Matthew Cover pulled numbers I was going to look for on this year’s graduate research fellowships from the National Science Foundation (NSF...

The scandal of the day on Twitter: Jensen Karp asking why there appear to be bits of shrimp in his cereal. The company claims they couldn’t...

The Crustacean Compassion website is reporting that Australia’s major government research agency, CSIRO , will now be requiring ethics appr...

Check out the bike rack on the right. It’s a picture I took in Austin, Texas. People in Austin love bats now. They didn’t always. The podcas...

Yes, I have successfully completed another trip around the sun. Rather than a birthday present, you can do me a favour: pre-order my book ! ...

I finished reading the latest proofs of the Better Posters book this week. Having just done that a couple of days ago, I appreciate this qu...

 I’ve mentioned before that the Eagle from Space: 1999 is my favourite spaceship . What I didn’t know what its role in my favourite space m...

May I introduce Bipes biporus , also known as the Mexican mole lizard or Belding’s mole lizard. It’s an odd and fascinating beast, becau...

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...