Did you know that some times scientists make mistakes? Yep, I know it might be shocking, but they’re not always right, despite…
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post A case of Mesozoic misidentificationRead more
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post National Fossil Day 2018: Art Contest Theme Announced “The Age of Reptiles—More than Just Dinosaurs”Read more
National Fossil Day is still a few months away (October 17, 2018), but as I have mentioned before, now is the time…
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post No two brain injuries are identical: The future of fMRI for assessment of traumatic brain injury By Ekaterina DobryakovaRead more
Brain imaging is an important tool for clinicians in diagnosing patients who have suffered from traumatic brain injury (TBI). Brain imaging techniques…
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post Book review: ‘A Crack in Creation.’ Jennifer Doudna’s journey of discoveryRead more
Famed CRISPR researcher Jennifer Doudna, along with a past student Samuel Sternberg (starting his own lab in at Columbia University), wrote an…
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post Shell Shock! Can morphometrics distinguish fossil turtle species?Read more
A big component of paleontological work revolves around identifying morphological characters that diagnose distinct species in the fossil record. But therein lies…
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post Open science: Sharing is caring, but is privacy theft? by David Mehler and Kevin WeinerRead more
Open Science (OS) is a movement toward increased sharing among scientists of their data, their materials, their computer code, their papers, and…
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post Snakes. Why did it have to be giant snakes?Read more
Snakes are beautiful and bizarre animals. Limbless vertebrates, they have been around for more than 150 million years, and occupy almost every…
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post Reaching the Masses: #MuseumSelfieDay, National Fossil Day 2018, and Social MediaRead more
Today is #MuseumSelfieDay, a hashtag event on Twitter that encourages people to visit their local museums, be it art, history, or natural…
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post Can we trust statistics in fMRI studies?Read more
Functional MRI (fMRI) is one of the most celebrated tools in neuroscience. Because of their unique ability to peer directly into the…
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post Australian Students Grapple with Citizen ScienceRead more
Tis the season for student projects! As a postdoc I’m not teaching this year and I’m not pining for a pile…
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post My first time as an iGEM judgeRead more
The 2017 iGEM competition had over 5,000 student participants who all worked for months to design, build, and test their own synthetic biology…
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post Top 10 Open Access Fossil Taxa of 2017: Gondwanagaricites magnificusRead more
Continuing our march through the Top 10 Open Access Fossil Taxa of 2017… We’re now in the top five, as determined by…