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https://neurodojo.blogspot.com/2011/11/seen-on-campus-way-cool-science-stuff.html NeuroDojo: Seen on campus: Way cool science stuff I have no idea why this should be plastered on the disused pay phone that sits outside my building. But I love it anyway. seen on cool science campus way stuff https://neurodojo.blogspot.com/2024/11/the-cat-that-fooled-google-scholar.html NeuroDojo: The cat that fooled Google Scholar, the newest hoax in my collection I finally got a chance to update my collection of academic hoaxes ! I am now up to 42 academic hoaxes, which is triple the number that I sta... the cat google scholar https://neurodojo.blogspot.com/2016/05/research-underemployment.html NeuroDojo: Research underemployment In general, people in science get doctoral degrees because they want to do science. But the opportunities to do so after grad school and po... research underemployment https://neurodojo.blogspot.com/2008/10/hard-lessons.html NeuroDojo: Hard lessons Nobody reads the rule book. hard lessons https://neurodojo.blogspot.com/2010/06/tuesday-crustie-beach-circles.html NeuroDojo: Tuesday Crustie: Beach circles Imagine walking along a beach, and coming across something like this: Beautiful little designs, radiating outward. A closer inspection re... tuesday beach circles https://neurodojo.blogspot.com/2010/03/research-with-undergrads.html?showComment=1269552912898 NeuroDojo: Research with undergrads Last week, I was at an undergrad research meeting in Washington, D.C. On the whole, the trip was not highly useful, but I did get a lovely v... research undergrads https://neurodojo.blogspot.com/2008/07/battle-begins-for-texas-science.html NeuroDojo: The battle begins for Texas science standards The Austin Chronicle has an article discussing the start of the revision of Texas K-12 science standards. I thought those were going to be... the battle begins texas science standards https://neurodojo.blogspot.com/2004/06/president-bambi-our-new-president.html NeuroDojo President Bambi Our new president-designate, Blandina Cardenas , also goes by the name (nickname? dimuntive?) of Bambi. [Pause.] I kid y... https://neurodojo.blogspot.com/2013/01/ NeuroDojo: January 2013 Brains, behaviour, and evolution. january https://neurodojo.blogspot.com/2007/12/texas-education-agency-and-chris-comer.html NeuroDojo: Texas Education Agency and Chris Comer, Part 3 The Texas Freedom Network has a clear political bent. Their logo on their webpage announces, "A mainstream voice to counter the religious ri... texas education agency chris comer part https://neurodojo.blogspot.com/2008/07/ NeuroDojo: July 2008 Brains, behaviour, and evolution. july https://neurodojo.blogspot.com/2026/04/ NeuroDojo: April 2026 Brains, behaviour, and evolution. april https://neurodojo.blogspot.com/2010/04/crustacean-nociception-comparative.html NeuroDojo: Crustacean nociception: Comparative One of the things I like about our new PLoS ONE paper is that it lengthens my list of species for I have published original research by 2... crustacean nociception comparative https://neurodojo.blogspot.com/2010/11/ NeuroDojo: November 2010 Brains, behaviour, and evolution. november https://neurodojo.blogspot.com/2013/08/riding-rollercoasters.html NeuroDojo: Riding rollercoasters I blame Foghorn Leghorn. When I lived in Australia, I visited Movie World . One of their rides is a rollercoaster called the Wild West Fal... riding rollercoasters https://neurodojo.blogspot.com/2015/05/tuesday-crustie-cha-ching.html NeuroDojo: Tuesday Crustie: Cha-ching! The ancient so revered crustaceans that they put them on their money! According to the caption: Coin from the city of Priapos, Mysia, ... tuesday cha ching https://neurodojo.blogspot.com/2005/11/more-annoyance-came-in-this-morning-to.html NeuroDojo: More annoyance Came in this morning to find another rejection email from the National Science Foundation over one of my grants. I don't think the ulcer in... annoyance https://neurodojo.blogspot.com/2024/01/ NeuroDojo: January 2024 Brains, behaviour, and evolution. january https://neurodojo.blogspot.com/2017/04/ NeuroDojo: April 2017 Brains, behaviour, and evolution. april https://neurodojo.blogspot.com/2025/09/ NeuroDojo: September 2025 Brains, behaviour, and evolution. september https://neurodojo.blogspot.com/2014/09/tuesday-crusite-en-garde.html NeuroDojo: Tuesday Crustie: En garde! There is a horror movie trope about the scientist who is far too curious for his own good, particularly where new animals are. It usually... tuesday en garde https://neurodojo.blogspot.com/2011/03/arsenic-life-four-months-later-pay-no.html?showComment=1306457712526 NeuroDojo: Arsenic life, four months later: pay no attention to the internet To recap: In early December, NASA holds a press conference relevant to astrobiology, wherein Felisa Wolfe-Simon announces a paper on a very... pay no attention four months https://neurodojo.blogspot.com/2009/02/muscle-innervation-is-not-connectome.html NeuroDojo: Muscle innervation is not a connectome Since the word "genome" entered the lexicon, mainly on the heels of the Human Genome Project, there has been no shortage of people trying to... not a muscle connectome https://neurodojo.blogspot.com/2011/02/carnivals-for-february-2011.html NeuroDojo: Carnivals for February 2011 Encephalon #83 is at Providentia . Carnival of Evolution #32 is available at Denim and Tweed . Finally, Circus of the Spineless #59 is h... carnivals february https://neurodojo.blogspot.com/2010/03/one-degree-of-separation-between-fellow.html NeuroDojo: One degree of separation between fellow nerds I had never met Carin Bondar until I followed her on Twitter . Only after that did I learn that we have several colleagues in common, so t... one degree separation fellow nerds https://neurodojo.blogspot.com/2008/03/texas-education-agency-and-chris-comer.html NeuroDojo: Texas Education Agency and Chris Comer, Part 29 It's been almost two months since the position for the Director of Science curriculum of the Texas Education Agency closed. This used to b... texas education agency chris comer part https://neurodojo.blogspot.com/2014/02/how-is-denovo-doing.html?showComment=1392393452899 NeuroDojo: How is DeNovo doing? One year ago, I predicted the new journal DeNovo would never have a second issue. You may recall that the journal published a single a... denovo https://neurodojo.blogspot.com/2017/01/asking-scientific-societies-to-show.html NeuroDojo: Asking scientific societies to show some backbone In light of the EPA freeze , I spent a chunk of today writing emails and filling out contact forms to pretty much every scientific society ... scientific societies asking show backbone https://neurodojo.blogspot.com/2012/03/overselling-connectome.html?showComment=1331228578261 NeuroDojo: Overselling the connectome In the last few years, there has been much discussion about the prospect of tracking the neural connections of mammalian, and particularly h... overselling connectome https://neurodojo.blogspot.com/2013/09/zune-journals.html NeuroDojo: Zune journals Remember the Zune? Apple changes how people listen to music with the iPod, makes a lot of money. Microsoft tries to get in on the action... zune journals https://neurodojo.blogspot.com/2006/09/i-wish-i-was-surprised.html NeuroDojo: I wish I was surprised... ...When I ran into my colleague Anita on the walkway, fuming. As I've mentioned previously , she was lead on a successful equipment grant we... i wish surprised https://neurodojo.blogspot.com/2011/03/ NeuroDojo: March 2011 Brains, behaviour, and evolution. march https://neurodojo.blogspot.com/2012/08/how-cow-got-its-spots.html?showComment=1344065878547 NeuroDojo: How the cow got its spots Why do some mammals have spots, stripes, or other sorts of markings on their fur? Usually, this has been chalked up to camouflage or because... the cow got spots https://neurodojo.blogspot.com/2012/09/why-i-published-paper-on-my-blog.html?showComment=1347028793989 NeuroDojo: Why I published a paper on my blog instead of a journal TL;DR : I had a research project that has been sitting for more than a decade without finding a home in a scientific journal, so I decided t... published a paper on my blog https://neurodojo.blogspot.com/2004/12/not-scary-fast-but-still-pretty-fast-i.html NeuroDojo: Not scary fast, but still pretty fast I got the announcement for the spring semester competition for an internal Faculty Development Grant about 3:11 pm on Friday. I just finishe... not scary fast still pretty https://neurodojo.blogspot.com/2012/08/how-cow-got-its-spots.html?showComment=1344083946338 NeuroDojo: How the cow got its spots Why do some mammals have spots, stripes, or other sorts of markings on their fur? Usually, this has been chalked up to camouflage or because... the cow got spots https://neurodojo.blogspot.com/2012/06/zen-of-presentations-part-55-script.html NeuroDojo: The Zen of Presentations, Part 55: Script doctoring When I am giving a talk, I do not read from a script. But I often write a script or notes when I am preparing for a talk. I learn a lot by... the zen presentations part script doctoring https://neurodojo.blogspot.com/2011/02/analysis-of-extreme-meterological-even.html NeuroDojo: Analysis of an extreme meterological even in South Texas If you visit out university website, you will be informed that things are bad. Very bad. Mother Nature has it out for us and is going to try... analysis extreme even south texas https://neurodojo.blogspot.com/2004/08/barracking-go-dees.html NeuroDojo: Barracking https://neurodojo.blogspot.com/2016/06/evolution-2016-day-4.html NeuroDojo: Evolution 2016, Day 4 Yes, I saw some cool science, yesterday, including some cool and contradictory results on how predators shape brain evolution (big brai... evolution day https://neurodojo.blogspot.com/2012/06/genius-myth.html NeuroDojo: The genius myth This post by Dererk Lowe bugs me. And I might have let it slide, but then it got picked up by Discover Magazine , and I was annoyed all ove... the genius myth https://neurodojo.blogspot.com/2006/04/beautiful-white-elephant-ive-written.html NeuroDojo: A beautiful white elephant? I've written from time to time about the RAHC (pronounced "rack," like the instrument of torture). Construction is pretty much done now (top... beautiful white elephant https://neurodojo.blogspot.com/2011/06/noble-artist-and-crane.html NeuroDojo: The noble, the artist, and the crane A rich noble once commissioned a famous artist to paint him a picture of a crane. The artist agreed, though he set a rather steep price, eve... the noble artist crane https://neurodojo.blogspot.com/2008/03/ignorance-and-trust.html NeuroDojo: Ignorance and trust The reliably fascinating Science Show had some interesting comments about how people evaluate things that they know nothing about. In this ... ignorance trust https://neurodojo.blogspot.com/2012/06/group-selection-therapy.html NeuroDojo: Group (selection) therapy Can natural selection act on groups of individuals? This is a decades-old argument in evolutionary theory that many thought was settle lat... group selection therapy https://neurodojo.blogspot.com/2012/08/famous-for-space-but-down-to-earth.html NeuroDojo: Famous for space, but down to earth The news just broke that Neil Armstrong has died. Earlier this year, a series of interviews with Armstrong appeared here , which I watch... famous for space earth https://neurodojo.blogspot.com/2002/07/ NeuroDojo: July 2002 Brains, behaviour, and evolution. july https://neurodojo.blogspot.com/2008/04/nine-days-to-go.html NeuroDojo: Texas Higher Education and Creation Research, Part 18 Only nine days to go until the Institute for Creation Research's application to grant Master's degrees in science education is taken up by t... higher education creation research texas part https://neurodojo.blogspot.com/2012/09/academic-astrology.html?showComment=1348528606691 NeuroDojo: Academic astrology Last week, I published a little post about my predicted h-index scores over the next 10 years. There has been more discussion that I think w... academic astrology https://neurodojo.blogspot.com/2015/05/fix-journals-you-have-before-you-make.html NeuroDojo: Fix journals you have before you make new ones In an editorial , Society for Neuroscience president Steve Hyman takes on issues of replication and rigor. Near the end, he writes: With t... fix journals make new ones https://neurodojo.blogspot.com/2012/09/why-i-published-paper-on-my-blog.html?showComment=1347030289834 NeuroDojo: Why I published a paper on my blog instead of a journal TL;DR : I had a research project that has been sitting for more than a decade without finding a home in a scientific journal, so I decided t... published a paper on my blog https://neurodojo.blogspot.com/2003/09/coolest-thing-in-universe-no-its-not.html NeuroDojo The Coolest Thing in the Universe No, it's not an MP3 player. (Though those gizmos are pretty darn cool.) No, it's not Chow Yun-Fat. (Th... https://neurodojo.blogspot.com/2004/11/chills-another-thing-i-forgot-to.html NeuroDojo: Chills Another thing I forgot to mention about Tuesday: autumn arrived! It was the first day that I stepped outside the door and thought I might ac... chills https://neurodojo.blogspot.com/2009/02/why-online-teaching-hasnt-taken-over.html NeuroDojo: Why online teaching hasn't taken over education I use the web for teaching a lot. Pretty much have since I started in my current gig. But I've never done a completely online course, for a ... why online taken over teaching education https://neurodojo.blogspot.com/2007/06/go-jerry-jerry-coyne-co-author-of.html NeuroDojo: Go Jerry! Jerry Coyne, co-author of an excellent book on speciation (rather unimaginatively, alas, titled Speciation ), takes on the appalling demonst... go jerry https://neurodojo.blogspot.com/2011/02/local-storm-in-teacup-over-evolution.html NeuroDojo: Local storm in a teacup over evolution, continued Previously, around Darwin Day, I learned about a local exhibition that attracted controversy in part because it featured evolution. Now, the... storm in a teacup local evolution continued https://neurodojo.blogspot.com/2016/05/no-mystery-how-invaders-cross-oceans.html NeuroDojo: No mystery how invaders cross oceans I hate it when news organizations act boggled when there is no reason to be. Man-Eating Nile Crocodiles Found In Florida, And No One K... mystery invaders cross oceans https://neurodojo.blogspot.com/2009/01/hiding-in-plain-sight-caterpillar.html NeuroDojo: Hiding in plain sight: The caterpillar masquerade A short paper in Science offers a new take on camouflage. Usually, we think of camouflage as making an animal hard to detect in the first p... hiding in plain sight the caterpillar masquerade https://neurodojo.blogspot.com/2010/12/indie-spirit.html NeuroDojo: Indie spirit A lot has been written about the second Rock Stars of Science campaign. Chris Mooney is keeping tabs: One , two , three , three and a half ... indie spirit https://neurodojo.blogspot.com/2011/10/ NeuroDojo: October 2011 Brains, behaviour, and evolution. october https://neurodojo.blogspot.com/2010/08/just-one-great-talk.html NeuroDojo: Just one great talk Suzanne Cory is an esteemed Australian scientist, and in an extensive interview in The Age , she described how all it took was a couple of ... just one great talk https://neurodojo.blogspot.com/2012/06/ NeuroDojo: June 2012 Brains, behaviour, and evolution. june https://neurodojo.blogspot.com/2010/07/texas-higher-education-and-creation.html NeuroDojo: Texas Higher Education and Creation Research, Part 37 Pharyngula blog points out the newest dodge the Institute for Creation Research is using to get around the lack of accreditation for the Ma... higher education creation research texas part https://neurodojo.blogspot.com/2011/04/circus-of-spineless-61-legs.html NeuroDojo: Circus of the Spineless #61: Legs! Welcome to the 61 st edition of the monthly celebration of the little (and occasionally not so little) animals that run the world! When h... of the circus spineless legs https://neurodojo.blogspot.com/2012/11/publishers-need-better-defenders.html?showComment=1353624218949 NeuroDojo: Academic publishers need better defenders A new article by Alexander Brown in The Guardian tries to argue that scientific publishers do add value to research manuscripts. But Brown... academic publishers need better defenders https://neurodojo.blogspot.com/2012/11/temporal-harassment.html?showComment=1353939959245 NeuroDojo: Temporal harassment A few other people were writing about career and training practices at the end of last week. First, I want to shine a light on something t... temporal harassment https://neurodojo.blogspot.com/2026/04/national-academies-workshop-on.html NeuroDojo: National Academies workshop on scientific integrity I spent most of the day in a (probably ill-advised) attempt to provide a service to the online science community. I followed as much of day ... national academies workshop scientific integrity https://neurodojo.blogspot.com/2009/04/what-are-you-analyzing.html NeuroDojo: What are you analyzing? The Open Laboratory anthology series successfully brought science blogging to a new audience and showed a growing level of maturity and wri... are you analyzing https://neurodojo.blogspot.com/2015/03/can-civil-servants-defuse-bomb-irish.html NeuroDojo: Can civil servants defuse a bomb? An Irish crayfish problem There are papers you write for your self . There are papers you write for your colleagues . I wrote my latest paper for civil servant... civil servants defuse https://neurodojo.blogspot.com/2010/05/tuesday-crustie-shellhead.html NeuroDojo: Tuesday Crustie: Shellhead The town of Cromer, England is apparently very fond of its ties to the sea, and particularly to lobsters. For it is in Cromer that this was... tuesday https://neurodojo.blogspot.com/2007/12/then-as-now.html NeuroDojo: Then as now One of my students asked me today what high school was like for me. I said, "Nothing's changed." "You were a geek?" Yup. Frighteningly, ther... https://neurodojo.blogspot.com/2010/01/goal-for-year.html NeuroDojo: Goal for the year for the goal year https://neurodojo.blogspot.com/2006/04/ NeuroDojo: April 2006 Brains, behaviour, and evolution. april https://neurodojo.blogspot.com/2012/01/tuesday-crustie-ode-to-sand-crab.html NeuroDojo: Tuesday Crustie: Ode to a sand crab With two presentations on sand crabs this month (including one over the weekend, which went very well), sand crabs have been on my brain. A... tuesday ode sand crab https://neurodojo.blogspot.com/2012/03/prepare-yourself.html NeuroDojo: Prepare yourself If you are a researcher, you have only until the end of this week to sign up for round 2 of the #SciFund Challenge! Go here to sign up !... prepare https://neurodojo.blogspot.com/2008/02/ NeuroDojo: February 2008 Brains, behaviour, and evolution. february https://neurodojo.blogspot.com/2007/09/ NeuroDojo: September 2007 Brains, behaviour, and evolution. september https://neurodojo.blogspot.com/2007/03/ NeuroDojo: March 2007 Brains, behaviour, and evolution. march https://neurodojo.blogspot.com/2010/05/do-octopuses-feel-pain-as-deeply-as.html NeuroDojo: Do octopuses feel pain as deeply as mammals? The Everything Octopus blog provides, via People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, an example of the low bar for scientific evidence in... octopuses feel pain deeply mammals https://neurodojo.blogspot.com/2010/06/tuesday-crustie-terminal.html NeuroDojo: Tuesday Crustie: Terminal A close up of the very last appendages of a stomatopod, the uropods of Hemisquilla californiensis . Stompatopods can probably appreciate m... tuesday terminal https://neurodojo.blogspot.com/2004/09/give-it-back-spent-most-of-today.html NeuroDojo: Give it back! Spent most of today trying to undo the damage that was foisted upon me by having my file munched by computer or software. Ran into a new pro... give it back https://neurodojo.blogspot.com/2013/03/one-vote-down-one-to-go.html NeuroDojo: One vote down, one to go The Texas Senate passed bill SB 24 to create a new University of Texas institution in the Rio Grande Valley, as reported here , by a wide m... vote down one go https://neurodojo.blogspot.com/2006/06/beautiful-evidence-reviewed-edward.html NeuroDojo: Beautiful Evidence reviewed Edward Tufte's three previous books -- The Visual Display of Quantitative Information , Envisioning Information , and Visual Explantions -... beautiful evidence reviewed https://neurodojo.blogspot.com/2011/07/ground-squirrel-manor.html NeuroDojo: Ground squirrel manor Saw these cute little juveniles walking into work this morning. ground squirrel manor https://neurodojo.blogspot.com/2016/01/ NeuroDojo: January 2016 Brains, behaviour, and evolution. january https://neurodojo.blogspot.com/2004/11/waiting-still-no-news-on-teaching.html NeuroDojo: Waiting Still no news on the teaching award. I notice that it's listed on the agenda for the upcoming faculty council meeting for Wednesday, so mayb... waiting https://neurodojo.blogspot.com/2010/03/only-matter-of-time-before-this-showed.html NeuroDojo: Only a matter of time before this showed up Your results: You are Jean-Luc Picard Jean-Luc Picard 70% James T. Kirk (Captain) 65% Will Riker 60% Uhura 60% Data 58% Spoc... only a matter of time showed https://neurodojo.blogspot.com/2011/07/walking-out.html NeuroDojo: Walking out I just walked out of a meeting. I was mightily aggravated by an individual first calling for dialogue, then some time late making a statem... walking https://neurodojo.blogspot.com/2006/09/thunderous-for-second-time-in-as-many.html NeuroDojo: Thunderous For the second time in as many weeks, we've had horror movie thunderstorms. Flashes of light followed by huge, explosive cracks, sheeting ra... thunderous https://neurodojo.blogspot.com/2003/07/ NeuroDojo: July 2003 Brains, behaviour, and evolution. july https://neurodojo.blogspot.com/2018/08/ NeuroDojo: August 2018 Brains, behaviour, and evolution. august https://neurodojo.blogspot.com/2009/04/downsides-of-twitter.html NeuroDojo: The downsides of Twitter Recently, The Island of Doubt blog put up a list that I think will generate a lot of RTs ("re-tweets"): Why Twitter is evil . A small sample... downsides twitter https://neurodojo.blogspot.com/2011/06/super-villain-team-up.html NeuroDojo: Super villain team-up Yesterday , I described the return of my old nemesis, the ice machine. Now it has been joined by another enemy from my past: the Manuscript ... super villain team https://neurodojo.blogspot.com/2009/02/blog-swarm.html NeuroDojo: Blog swarm! I have never heard of the concept of a blog swarm before, but I'm in! The Blog For Darwin project caught my attention, and I'm planning on ... blog swarm https://neurodojo.blogspot.com/2025/11/shame-on-philosophical-transactions-b.html NeuroDojo: Shame on Philosophical Transactions B for using slop covers Hat tip to Natalia Jagielska for pointing out that the latest cover of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B is ChatGPT genera... shame philosophical transactions b using https://neurodojo.blogspot.com/2004/09/proof-of-paper-is-in-correcting-its.html NeuroDojo: The proof of the paper is in the correcting It's still mid-morning, but today is already a good day. I received the proofs for my latest (short) article that is forthcoming in Journal ... the proof is in paper correcting https://neurodojo.blogspot.com/2004/09/mysterious-deaths-7-day-work-weeks-and.html NeuroDojo: Mysterious deaths, 7 day work weeks, and other reasons for cheer I drove out to the Coastal Studies Lab last week, and brought back many animals. Some hermit crabs, ghost shrimp, sand crabs, and tunicates.... mysterious deaths https://neurodojo.blogspot.com/2011/12/sand-crab-shrinkage.html NeuroDojo: Sand crab shrinkage? I spent the day in my office working on two talks I have to give next month. One is for the Subtropical Biology meeting we are hosting (13 ... sand crab shrinkage https://neurodojo.blogspot.com/2004/12/something-wonderful.html NeuroDojo: Something wonderful Brains, behaviour, and evolution. something wonderful https://neurodojo.blogspot.com/2011/08/esa-2011-day-2.html?showComment=1312985819207 NeuroDojo: ESA 2011, Day 2 Today, I learned how to tell mink poop from otter poop. I also learned that there are about 100,000 beavers at Tierra del Fuego at the sou... esa day