There's a proposed law in the US to prohibit researchers paid with public money to, well, make the results available to the public. T...

The title in this recent paper in PLoS One says it all, really: Effectiveness of Biosecurity Measures in Preventing Badger Visits to Farm ...

OIST — Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology — is looking for PhD candidates for next year. Briefly, OIST is a new, graduate-level...

The title in this recent paper in PLoS One says it all, really: Effectiveness of Biosecurity Measures in Preventing Badger Visits to Farm ...

Here's a question for people doing data analysis and programming. I'm looking for a tool that I don't know if it exists: I oft...

We often talk about emotional trouble as painful. We feel hurt by rejection, we smart from hurtful remarks, We get burned by a bad relatio...

I love doing science. But some things I love doing less than others. Rewriting papers is one of them. Editing and resubmitting a paper is...

We scientists mostly suck at communicating with the public. Many of us don't even try to do any real outreach to the non-science public....

"Reference Management Software." Just listen to that noun; it's dull and dry as a bone. But, for those of you who don't k...

What OS is actually used in computational neuroscience? A recent paper in Frontiers in Neuroinformatics (let's hear it for Open ...

Why would you want to have a pseudonymous identity online? How about this reason: you and your family get threats from chronic fatigue ...

Rewire Your Brain For Fun And Profit! Susan Greenfield, a supposedly actual scientist — somebody who really, really should know better — ig...

I've been working on a paper off and on for most of this year, and last week we finally managed to submit it. Now we wait — we wait for ...

Marc Hauser has resigned from Harvard, following the discovery that he falsified experimental data in at least three papers. He is going t...

Ever hear about " the singularity "? It's the vague idea that technological advancement and machine intelligence is exponentia...

Time for some bellyaching. I have a collection of RSS feeds from various research journals that show me recently published papers I might b...

I was going to write something else before the weekend, but I just stumbled on this absolutely genius instructional video on how differentia...

I'm still working on The Paper That Will Not Die, and it's draining my enthusiasm for any other kind of writing. Actually, it's ...

So, your research project is on a tight deadline. You're scrambling to put together a paper and push it out to some journal in time for ...

Here's a treat for you: An hour-long television program on statistics . Wait! Don't run away! First, it's a BBC production: exce...