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It is a tremendous irony that my present work in MedComms is closer to how I pictured an academic career than academia itself turned out to be.

It is a tremendous irony that my present work in MedComms is closer to how I pictured an academic career than academia itself turned out to be.

Daniel Blumstein recently sat in a Colorado meadow waiting for yellow-bellied marmots to appear, as the ecologist and evolutionary biologist had done many times before, the New York Times reported. Bu...

Starving the NIH through ineptitude, bitterness, and thirst for revenge

ChatGPT and other AIs use a flood of facts, and the occasional lie, to persuade humans

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Should there be a kind of “jury service” for young faculty on grant funding panels?

One of the most enduringly popular postings – or rather, series of postings – on Total Internal Reflection is “Great scientists, great moustaches”. Posted every November, an…

OeAW - Discovering the futureThe Gregor Mendel Institute of Molecular Plant Biology (GMI), part of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (OeAW), is seeking to appoint a visionary Scientific Director to lea

The World Health Organization (WHO) has issued major updates to its leishmaniasis treatment guidelines, introducing a new regimen for visceral leishmaniasis (VL/kala-azar) in eastern Africa and severa...

Original artwork by Oliver Hoeller With the summer holidays looming, here’s a selection of fiction & nonfiction books I’ve been reading recently, with a strong anti-fascism flavour – see if the…

Original artwork by Oliver Hoeller With the summer holidays looming, here’s a selection of fiction & nonfiction books I’ve been reading recently, with a strong anti-fascism flavour – see if the…

EMBO Reports - US federal policies to establish a ‘gold standard science’ threaten to undermine academic freedom. Individual scientists and institutions must re-articulate why the...

Students reach molecular biology from a variety of sources, but what if we started them off from it instead?

Students reach molecular biology from a variety of sources, but what if we started them off from it instead?

Just over a year ago, I wrote about the “chainsaw massacre” being perpetrated by Elon Musk and his acolytes at DOGE. At the time, these were the most visible elements – the most visible outrages – …

A survey finds that academic supervisors can have a huge impact on their students’ mental health.

Antibodies are essential and ubiquitous tools in biology, but their unguarded usage can easily lead to error. Here’s how to validate their specificity, and ensure that they’re hitting the rig…

From a Soviet-era sanatorium to a floating market in Bangladesh, this year's World Food Photography Awards capture the many ways food shapes daily life around the world.

Just over a year ago, I wrote about the “chainsaw massacre” being perpetrated by Elon Musk and his acolytes at DOGE. At the time, these were the most visible elements – the most visible outrages – …