ROCKFORD, IL—Toilet paper rolls hanging limply at their sides as they stood astonished in front of the home, local teens observed this weekend that their math teacher’s duplex was too depressing to TP...

If you're the president I guess blatant insider trading is quasi-legal now?

Some things don’t ever get old, and I can tell you that publication day for one of your books is one of those things. Today is that day: the new 3rd edition of The Scientist’s Guide to Writing is o…

An awful lot of folks are okay with bribing Donald Trump, his family, and his administration. What will the reckoning look like -- or will it happen at all?

I, too, have received death threats. I, too, have endured attacks from those who feel threatened by science. Yet we cannot submit to the forces of politics and profit. The stakes are too high.

NEW & NOTEWORTHY In a recent editorial, Erica Wehrwein warns that there is a shortage of people well prepared to teach in the disciplines of anatomy (A) and systems physiology (P). Here I elaborate on...

As someone who recently published an essay called "An exam is a moral document," I've been reading various takes on the Brown University cheating-with-AI situation, but I haven't seen many people poin...

Jun 13-19 - a long time coming

The White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has proposed sweeping rule changes to federal research funding, whose devastating consequences are predicted in a new editorial in the journal …