At Canadian Girl Postdoc in America, I offer suggestions on how to deal with a workplace bully. Oddly, I had just been listening to a radio show about that topic only a couple of hours earlier. Conversation Matters talks about long-term...

Octopuses using coconut shells has been all over the web the last couple of days due to the publication today of a new paper by Finn and colleagues. The title is helping generate the attention: tool use. This is a cool finding, but it is not as...

Triops longicaudatus. “Triops is well known to paleontologists as one of the oldest known genera, with fossils from the Triassic that are barely distinguishable from modern day species.” – David Grimaldi Photo by threefingeredlord on Flickr,...

In our previous installment, commenter Sproglet mentioned some very common advice: Tell them what you’re going to tell them. Tell them. Tell them what you just told them. I’ve never been crazy about that advice, particularly for a...

The walk into work this morning. I love the way things fade in the distance.