The real reason to write a book is to do interviews. I’ve long noticed that I know the basic arguments of many books I’ve never read, beca...

The Guardian is reporting that there is the potential new animal welfare regulations that would affect decapod crustaceans and cephalopods...

I was filling in recommendation forms for students today, and was gobsmacked by this question: English Competency : For students whose first...

 Spotted on Twitter this morning (hat tip to Michael Hendricks ): We got sick of complaining about how broken higher education is. So we de...

Thanks Namnezia ! Poor ol' Zen Faulkes,  the mob confused him for Guy Fawkes.  Said "You got the wrong guy, I study crayfish!"...

Wow, it’s been far too long since I’ve had a new paper with my name on it. I got an email out of the blue asking if I would be interested in...

This article about crises in American evangelical churches resonates with crises we see in science communication. The churches’ problems? P...

Ben Collins’s Twitter thread about how misinformation about medication to get worms out of horses has become the cause du jour for many. ...

This is Bruce.  Bruce has been making the news rounds because of a new paper demonstrating that he uses pebbles to groom. Bruce is a kea, a...

Sometimes, I hate being right. Ni and colleagues have an important new paper on authorship conflicts that confirms something I sort of pre...

A “chalk talk” is an unscripted presentation that allows a job candidate to outline something “on the spot,” live. In many departments, this...

One of academia’s evergreen topics, anonymity in peer review, has cropped up again on Twitter.  This is something I’ve changed my mind abou...

Just briefly wanted to follow up on my appearance last week at ComSciCon. The storytelling panel I was part of was excellent (despite my pre...

 I used to tell students, “Your publications are gold. Peer reviewed journal articles are the currency of science.” I don’t think I’m going ...

I’m excited to be presenting at ComSciCon 2021 ! I’ll be part of a panel and workshop on creative storytelling on 5 August 2021 It’s a bit...

Terry McGlynn tweeted (in reply to an article I couldn’t see):  Want more people to accept and understand evolution?   Your mission, should...

One of the things I was most proud of doing in my time at The University of Texas-Pan American was chairing the search committee that recomm...

 A routine case of a bad paper attracting a lot of criticism and then getting retracted .  The one thing that I wanted to comment on was one...

In two days, two insightful pieces of writing have dropped that feel like bookends to each other. Both deal with the effects of social media...

One of the most puzzling trends in scientific publishing for the last couple of years has been the status of the open access publisher MDPI....