Policy analyst Bryan Kelley is reporting on a bill in West Virginia – Senate Bill 619 – that would legalize the teaching of intelligent de...

In the novel Passion Play , author Sean Stewart has a rant about Sherlock Holmes.  It’s one of Doyle’s famous scenes where Holmes says, with...

Today may be the day that signals the end of Twitter for me. I initially had a good day on Twitter. I live-tweeted a great presentation . I ...

On a bit of a whim, I proposed an event for the 10th anniversary events around the Declaration of Research Assessment (DORA). And they said...

Matt Hodgkinson drew my attention of that fact that one of my articles on authorship has been ripped off and turned into mush by someone in ...

You know, sometimes you have plans for a project. Big plans. And sometimes those pan out. And sometimes, you are pleased that at least somet...

Last week, a couple of websites reported that a couple of departments at  Zhejiang Gongshang University were not going to count publication...

In 1986, a key paper on the nervous system of the nematode worm Caenorhabditis elegans appeared. It was a fairly complete description of th...

Here we go again. Ken Hayworth is mad that more neuroscientists aren’t working on the problem of immortality . (I)t is still really bugging ...

 Ooh, it’s been a while since I’ve used the “personality quizzes” label on here... Yes, I am a day behind on Dalek Day, the 59th anniversary...

Times Higher Education and other news venues is reporting on changes to doctoral programs in India , one of which is not requiring doctoral...

Back in October, I recorded a podcast interview with three University of Ottawa students about my papers about crayfish in the aquarium tra...

A paper I helped with on the Czech aquarium trade (Novák et al. 2022) has gotten a little write-up in the German aquarium magazine, Aquarist...

Last week, science Twitter was abuzz with an announcement from the journal eLife that they don’t “accept” papers any more. Lots of people ...

I have a new entry in my list of German words I like: “Schlimmbesserung.” According to Holly Tuten ,  it means, “Something that was meant to...

I did not want this to be a blog post.  Below is an article I first wrote back at the end of June. I thought this was important, and I subm...

I wrote the bulk of this post this post five years ago, back in 2017. Ten years ago, a paper came out in Nature that claimed to predict......

The fall semester is underway at almost all universities now, so this is as good a time as any to give some advice to students.  Write short...

From time to time, I see people say that some group of animals have nociceptirs or "pain receptors" amd then use to to say this pr...

A lot of arguments about science, and particularly scientific publication, seem based around an underlying difference of opinion about what ...