A recent conversation* on twitter made me think about academic customs. The conversation centered on PhD comprehensive exams (PhD candidacy

Update, 02 September 2017: An article came out today in a well-known semi-journalistic website, for which I was interviewed. I’

You know the spam from fake conferences and predatory journals? Wouldn’t it be interesting if someone collected those emails

Since I started submitting papers (around the turn of the century) editorial practices have evolved. Here’s a quick guide:

I’m writing this post because I have been thinking about my career goals and how they have changed since

I’ve made a point to not mention this over the last several months, because I try to keep this

Scientists drink more coffee than anybody else. (At least, according to those dubious pop-culture listicles.) I didn’t drink coffee

Have you thought of collecting real, publishable, data as a part of lab that you’ve taught? Specifically, is it

What the heck do they put in denatured ethanol, and how and why did they start doing this? “The little-told

There are different kinds of mystery. Subatomic particles are almost illogically tiny, so we can only figure out what’s