Now on the Guest Blog: Unlikely Grad!

Please welcome our newest tenure on the guest blog, Unlikely Grad! She brings a really new and interesting perspective to academia, and I think she’s going to bring something cool to our guest blog, too! Head over and say hello!

Read more
Follow my eyes carefully…and vote for me!

Think of a political candidate you like. Maybe you agree with their politics. Maybe they have a very open and honest demeanor. Maybe they have lots of qualities that you think would make them a good leader. You would follow them if they led…but would you follow them if they looked? (Source) Liuzza et al. […]

Read more
On Networking: A rant.

It never fails. Every professional development seminar I go to, one of the big bullet points is “NETWORK!”. I see seminars on “Networking: let us maximize your LinkedIn Potential!”. I just read a post on women succeeding in science and one of the bullet points was “network, network, network!”. What. IS. “Network”. From what I […]

Read more
Repost: The Lab your Lab could BE LIKE.

Sci has been running the protocol from hell for the last two days. I only just got home from the lab, and I’ve got no cool new science for you today. And so Sci will be a terrible person and present you with this repost. Because I’m lame. And because soon, I will be asleep. […]

Read more
Word of the week: transcription

Today’s word of the week is transcription, in the biological sense. Not the process of converting speech into a written document (though I know a lot of science writers who spend a lot of time doing that, so I suppose it could count as part of the biological definition), but the part of the central […]

Read more
Friday Weird Science: Millipedes "talking" dirty

This paper is one of those papers that gives official science manuscript writing a bad name. It’s not that the paper is badly written, nor is it that the science is bad (in fact it’s pretty cool). No, it’s the JARGON. “…posterior surface of the posterior telopod, which is actively moved over a field of […]

Read more
Major Depressive Disorder and…Hypotension?

I got a reader question in my inbox recently which caused me to go on an instant pubmed hunt: is there a link between hypotension and major depressive disorder, and if so, does increasing blood pressure help? And the more I dug, the more I realized that the answer is both very complicated…and pretty unknown. […]

Read more
Gum Chewing for Weight Loss, Does Chewing Help?

As preparation for this post and in the interests of full disclosure, I felt the need to pop in a piece of gum while writing. Never mind that the only gum I could find was caffeinated. That gives this post a little extra…zest. Anyway, in talking with several friends over the years about methods of […]

Read more