Scientist Sees Squirrel

Whatever happened to MOOCs? – and why education doesn’t need revolutionizing

Cover reveal: the 3rd edition ‘Scientist’s Guide to Writing’ is getting closer!

Adapting mentoring to, and with, the developing writer

How to lead a journal club you won’t be embarrassed by later

Three stages of manuscript development – and why they matter to you as a mentor

It’s publication day! “Teaching and Mentoring Writers in the Sciences”

Latin Names for Gardeners, Part 4: Four major themes for plant names

Latin Names for Gardeners, Part 3: Who gives a plant its name?

Latin Names for Gardeners, Part 2: Latin names aren’t really Latin (they’re much more interesting than that)

Latin Names for Gardeners, Part 1: Why Latin names?

My far-too-late discovery of “science studies”

Our book is SHIPPING NOW! Here’s an easy stocking stuffer + 5 ideas for what to write on the gift tag ✨

What your Introduction section isn’t

How should you pick a PhD research topic?

“This changes everything” redux: opinions about “pathological pedantry”

Are my academic and non-academic writing styles converging? And would that be good?

The third edition of “The Scientist’s Guide to Writing” is coming your way!

Does this really change *everything*?

All the things I was never trained to do

Close encounters of the extinct kind

There’s no “I” in “peer review” – or is there?

What your Discussion section isn’t

I don’t understand graphical abstracts. So I both hate and admire this one.

Wonderful Latin Names: Karpatiosorbus admonitor

The big assumption behind loud opposition to “AI” writing tools – and its two flavours

Owls, blurbs, and a cover – oh my! “Teaching and Mentoring Writers in the Sciences” is getting close

“Ferns”: the most beautiful book I’ve held in a while

My summer of writing books – in song

Sometimes, I love to lose an argument

Wonderful Latin Names: Friendship in plant naming

Mentoring beyond the academic career