"The promise of the Internet-as-Alexandria is more than the rolling plenitude of information. It’s the ability of individuals to chor...

We all want our work to be discovered, read and cited. There is little doubt that closed access systems hamper this - a paywall to an articl...

A new paper on the Torosaurus  / Triceratops issue was just published in PLoS ONE , bringing some additional analysis to the table. I won...

These can be depressing times for a paleontologist - funding is poor for most, the job market is dim for many talented friends and colleague...

Big commercial publishers - especially Elsevier - have been getting a lot of flack lately. There's the usual background noise about hig...

Back before the new year, I reviewed all 17 of the new fossil taxa that were published in PLoS ONE during 2011. Here, I look at the genera...

My thoughts on Days 2 and 3 of ScienceOnline2012 are found elsewhere - here I sum up some other impressions. Twitter at ScienceOnline...