Do you ever just wish your kids would listen to you? “Don’t hit your sister.” “Practice for your piano recital.” “Don’t stick your finger th...

Whoa, not that fast! Last week I challenged you to come up with a new phrase for the acronym HPLC to replace H igh P erformance L iquid C...

KEY CHAIN GIVEAWAY!! My life has become focused around my HPLC = High Performance Liquid Chromatography. the HPLC, in all its glory It...

Happy Saint Patrick’s Day to you! My mom’s side of the family is 100% Irish (OK, Irish-American, from Chicago) so I have a lot of Irish pri...

What do you think of when you hear “crab apple”? This? I grew up with a crab apple tree in my front yard, but this picture was taken in ...

My animal physiology (Biol 310) class studied osmoregulation in lyre crabs Hyas lyratus (last semester… I know I’m a little late talking ab...

A while back my friends and I were talking about crab parasites. We got to this topic when clarifying that the crabs I study are Chionoecete...