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So I both hate and admire this one.", "url": "https://scientistseessquirrel.wordpress.com/2025/09/23/i-dont-understand-graphical-abstracts-so-i-both-hate-and-admire-this-one/", "published_at": "2025-09-23T12:00:58+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dd62-f419-7269-8054-cc8933c3ada8", "title": "Wonderful Latin Names: Karpatiosorbus admonitor", "url": "https://scientistseessquirrel.wordpress.com/2025/09/16/wonderful-latin-names-karpatiosorbus-admonitor/", "published_at": "2025-09-16T12:00:01+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dd6d-5060-7065-bef5-45031d6483d7", "title": "The big assumption behind loud opposition to “AI” writing tools – and its two flavours", "url": "https://scientistseessquirrel.wordpress.com/2025/09/09/the-big-assumption-behind-loud-opposition-to-ai-writing-tools-and-its-two-flavours/", "published_at": "2025-09-09T12:00:19+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dd6d-5060-7065-bef5-45031dd6677c", "title": "Owls, blurbs, and a cover – oh my! “Teaching and Mentoring Writers in the Sciences” is getting close", 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"01a0dd6d-5060-7065-bef5-4503206d6fcb", "title": "Wonderful Latin Names: Friendship in plant naming", "url": "https://scientistseessquirrel.wordpress.com/2025/08/05/wonderful-latin-names-friendship-in-plant-naming/", "published_at": "2025-08-05T12:00:09+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dd6d-5060-7065-bef5-4503212b9446", "title": "Mentoring beyond the academic career", "url": "https://scientistseessquirrel.wordpress.com/2025/07/29/mentoring-beyond-the-academic-career/", "published_at": "2025-07-29T12:00:20+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dd6d-5060-7065-bef5-4503216fd3c8", "title": "What your Results section isn’t", "url": "https://scientistseessquirrel.wordpress.com/2025/07/22/what-your-results-section-isnt/", "published_at": "2025-07-22T12:00:33+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dd6d-5060-7065-bef5-450321e43759", "title": "“It must be nice to have your summers off” – and other things we don’t know about each other", "url": "https://scientistseessquirrel.wordpress.com/2025/07/15/it-must-be-nice-to-have-your-summers-off-and-other-things-we-dont-know-about-each-other/", "published_at": "2025-07-15T12:00:40+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dd6d-5060-7065-bef5-450322d1b33c", "title": "Making ChatGPT write badly (for use in teaching): an example, and lessons", "url": "https://scientistseessquirrel.wordpress.com/2025/07/08/making-chatgpt-write-badly-for-use-in-teaching-an-example-and-lessons/", "published_at": "2025-07-08T12:00:18+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dd7b-8ccf-7224-a333-03a81c6fd0fe", "title": "The implausibility of things I’ve already done", "url": "https://scientistseessquirrel.wordpress.com/2025/07/01/the-implausibility-of-things-ive-already-done/", "published_at": "2025-07-01T12:00:17+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dd7b-8ccf-7224-a333-03a81cf130f6", "title": "I complained there aren’t enough novels about scientists – so Madhur Anand wrote one", "url": "https://scientistseessquirrel.wordpress.com/2025/06/24/i-complained-there-arent-enough-novels-about-scientists-so-madhur-anand-wrote-one/", "published_at": "2025-06-24T12:00:07+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dd7b-8cd0-703e-bed1-1917a0b4c2ba", "title": "Upcoming talk on mentoring scientific writing – Thriving PI Summit", "url": "https://scientistseessquirrel.wordpress.com/2025/06/20/upcoming-talk-on-mentoring-scientific-writing-thriving-pi-summit/", "published_at": "2025-06-20T15:38:03+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dd7b-8cd0-703e-bed1-1917a1372f45", "title": "Time in the forest, and what we know and also don’t know", "url": "https://scientistseessquirrel.wordpress.com/2025/06/17/time-in-the-forest-and-what-we-know-and-also-dont-know/", "published_at": "2025-06-17T12:00:48+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dd7b-8cd0-703e-bed1-1917a18c2cee", "title": "On not being a naturalist – but being one anyway", "url": "https://scientistseessquirrel.wordpress.com/2025/06/10/on-not-being-a-naturalist-but-being-one-anyway/", "published_at": "2025-06-10T12:00:13+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dd7b-8cd0-703e-bed1-1917a268a054", "title": "What your Methods section isn’t", "url": "https://scientistseessquirrel.wordpress.com/2025/06/03/what-your-methods-section-isnt/", "published_at": "2025-06-03T11:30:12+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dd7b-8cd0-703e-bed1-1917a2f214bf", "title": "Wonderful Latin Names: Hitchhiker’s Guide in a pair of protozoa", "url": "https://scientistseessquirrel.wordpress.com/2025/05/27/wonderful-latin-names-hitchhikers-guide-in-a-pair-of-protozoa/", "published_at": "2025-05-27T12:00:34+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dd7b-8cd0-703e-bed1-1917a3576dfc", "title": "No, the plagiarism machine isn’t burning down the planet (redux)", "url": "https://scientistseessquirrel.wordpress.com/2025/05/20/no-the-plagiarism-machine-isnt-burning-down-the-planet-redux/", "published_at": "2025-05-20T12:00:31+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dd7b-8cd0-703e-bed1-1917a3b89461", "title": "A jackdaw, and the excitement of understanding the world", "url": "https://scientistseessquirrel.wordpress.com/2025/05/13/a-jackdaw-and-the-excitement-of-understanding-the-world/", "published_at": "2025-05-13T12:00:43+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dd7b-8cd0-703e-bed1-1917a4b0f69a", "title": "Where do post ideas come from?", "url": "https://scientistseessquirrel.wordpress.com/2025/05/06/where-do-post-ideas-come-from/", "published_at": "2025-05-06T12:00:32+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dd8e-dc2f-736c-869f-4473e966bdf0", "title": "“This changes everything”: hyperbole, and its place in writing", "url": "https://scientistseessquirrel.wordpress.com/2025/04/29/this-changes-everything-hyperbole-and-its-place-in-writing/", "published_at": "2025-04-29T12:00:52+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dd8e-dc2f-736c-869f-4473e9fea2b3", "title": "In love with the library", "url": "https://scientistseessquirrel.wordpress.com/2025/04/23/in-love-with-the-library/", "published_at": "2025-04-23T12:00:43+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dd8e-dc2f-736c-869f-4473ea6a3870", "title": "On defining your own metrics of success", "url": "https://scientistseessquirrel.wordpress.com/2025/04/15/on-defining-your-own-metrics-of-success/", "published_at": "2025-04-15T12:00:01+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dd8e-dc2f-736c-869f-4473eac1441a", "title": "The most important part of your revision isn’t your revision", "url": "https://scientistseessquirrel.wordpress.com/2025/04/08/the-most-important-part-of-your-revision-isnt-your-revision/", "published_at": "2025-04-08T12:00:12+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dd8e-dc2f-736c-869f-4473eb3f1903", "title": "No, the plagiarism machine isn’t burning down the planet (new AI energy-use estimates)", "url": "https://scientistseessquirrel.wordpress.com/2025/04/02/no-the-plagiarism-machine-isnt-burning-down-the-planet-new-ai-energy-use-estimates/", "published_at": "2025-04-02T12:00:50+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dd8e-dc2f-736c-869f-4473eb49368b", "title": "Sauronaradus: the best etymology (for a Latin name) I’ve seen in a long time", "url": "https://scientistseessquirrel.wordpress.com/2025/03/25/sauronaradus-the-best-etymology-for-a-latin-name-ive-seen-in-a-long-time/", "published_at": "2025-03-25T12:00:59+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dd8e-dc2f-736c-869f-4473ebb6a749", "title": "Writing advice from the Comte de Buffon", "url": "https://scientistseessquirrel.wordpress.com/2025/03/18/writing-advice-from-the-comte-de-buffon/", "published_at": "2025-03-18T12:00:30+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dd8e-dc2f-736c-869f-4473ec095343", "title": "“Teaching and Mentoring Writers in the Sciences” is available for pre-order!", "url": "https://scientistseessquirrel.wordpress.com/2025/03/11/teaching-and-mentoring-writers-in-the-sciences-is-available-for-pre-order/", "published_at": "2025-03-11T12:00:05+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dd8e-dc2f-736c-869f-4473ecfc5627", "title": "What kind of nerd am I? (And, no two people read the same book)", "url": "https://scientistseessquirrel.wordpress.com/2025/03/04/what-kind-of-nerd-am-i-and-no-two-people-read-the-same-book/", "published_at": "2025-03-04T13:00:40+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dd8e-dc2f-736c-869f-4473ed314bd2", "title": "If our tacit requirement in science for English mastery went away, would that be bad?", "url": "https://scientistseessquirrel.wordpress.com/2025/02/25/if-our-tacit-requirement-in-science-for-english-mastery-went-away-would-that-be-bad/", "published_at": "2025-02-25T13:00:43+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dd9c-84a6-70ea-9208-fe47f6806474", "title": "Two new species named from The Lord Of The Rings – sort of", "url": "https://scientistseessquirrel.wordpress.com/2025/02/18/two-new-species-named-from-the-lord-of-the-rings-sort-of/", "published_at": "2025-02-18T13:00:42+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dd9c-84a6-70ea-9208-fe47f6faac72", "title": "Three books to sum up where we’re at with “AI” tools for writing", "url": "https://scientistseessquirrel.wordpress.com/2025/02/11/three-books-to-sum-up-where-were-at-with-ai-tools-for-writing/", "published_at": "2025-02-11T13:00:11+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dd9c-84a6-70ea-9208-fe47f771e0bc", "title": "Toni Morrison, paying it forward, and the power of small deeds", "url": "https://scientistseessquirrel.wordpress.com/2025/02/04/toni-morrison-paying-it-forward-and-the-power-of-small-deeds/", "published_at": "2025-02-04T13:00:01+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dd9c-84a6-70ea-9208-fe47f7bc8bcb", "title": "Wonderful Latin names: The vowel-loving whale Mesoplodon eueu", "url": "https://scientistseessquirrel.wordpress.com/2025/01/28/wonderful-latin-names-the-vowel-loving-whale-mesoplodon-eueu/", "published_at": "2025-01-28T13:00:44+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dd9c-84a6-70ea-9208-fe47f7be3848", "title": "Adventures in the history of science: a trivial rabbithole that turned out to be fun", "url": "https://scientistseessquirrel.wordpress.com/2025/01/21/adventures-in-the-history-of-science-a-trivial-rabbithole-that-turned-out-to-be-fun/", "published_at": "2025-01-21T13:00:50+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dd9c-84a6-70ea-9208-fe47f89f7000", "title": "Being told “you can do it if you try” is really discouraging", "url": "https://scientistseessquirrel.wordpress.com/2025/01/14/being-told-you-can-do-it-if-you-try-is-really-discouraging/", "published_at": "2025-01-14T13:00:48+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dd9c-84a6-70ea-9208-fe47f92796d1", "title": "Look, Ma, I have a framework!", "url": "https://scientistseessquirrel.wordpress.com/2025/01/07/look-ma-i-have-a-framework/", "published_at": "2025-01-07T13:00:05+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dd9c-84a6-70ea-9208-fe47f99fe11a", "title": "Ten years of blogging (that’s a lot of squirrels)", "url": "https://scientistseessquirrel.wordpress.com/2025/01/03/ten-years-of-blogging-thats-a-lot-of-squirrels/", "published_at": "2025-01-03T13:00:59+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dd9c-84a6-70ea-9208-fe47fa5cc367", "title": "Lightening up the lecture", "url": "https://scientistseessquirrel.wordpress.com/2024/12/23/lightening-up-the-lecture/", "published_at": "2024-12-23T13:00:13+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dd9c-84a6-70ea-9208-fe47fad5bd34", "title": "What would you like to see in a 3rd edition of ‘The Scientist’s Guide to Writing’?", "url": "https://scientistseessquirrel.wordpress.com/2024/12/17/what-would-you-like-to-see-in-a-3rd-edition-of-the-scientists-guide-to-writing/", "published_at": "2024-12-17T13:00:03+00:00" } ] posts Claim your blog
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2026

Expensive solutions to cheap problemsoriginal ↗
22 Sept 2026
Why I don’t use LLMs in writing my booksoriginal ↗
15 Sept 2026
A thesis defence that was a milestone for me, toooriginal ↗
8 Sept 2026
You don’t have time NOT to read a writing bookoriginal ↗
1 Sept 2026
New species from the rainforest vs. new species from museum drawersoriginal ↗
25 Aug 2026
The Easter egg in ‘The Scientist’s Guide to Writing’original ↗
18 Aug 2026
Here I go again: I’m writing a fourth book!original ↗
11 Aug 2026
It’s publication day! “The Scientist’s Guide to Writing”, 3rd editionoriginal ↗
4 Aug 2026
The foolishness of “doing more with less”original ↗
28 Jul 2026
Wonderful Latin Names: Zupaysaurus rougiereioriginal ↗
21 Jul 2026
On humour in scientific talks – and how to use your privilegeoriginal ↗
14 Jul 2026
Your BASE for mentoring scientific writersoriginal ↗
7 Jul 2026
It’s not enough to make a paper existoriginal ↗
30 Jun 2026
Stop buying my book! (Because the third edition is nearly out)original ↗
23 Jun 2026
Things I’ve made that are beautifuloriginal ↗
16 Jun 2026
The excellent writing advice that I can’t quite get behindoriginal ↗
9 Jun 2026
The Sagrada Familia, and good science I don’t likeoriginal ↗
2 Jun 2026
Good teaching is 15% straight-up entertainment – and that’s OKoriginal ↗
26 May 2026
I haven’t written the ‘Principia’original ↗
19 May 2026
Culture in scientific namingoriginal ↗
12 May 2026
Everyone else’s kitchen is tidier than mine – and writing is hard.original ↗
5 May 2026
Dark taxa, species naming, and inclusivity in scienceoriginal ↗
28 Apr 2026
Broadening our writing, and mentoring, BASEoriginal ↗
21 Apr 2026
We are all “developing writers”original ↗
14 Apr 2026
I’d cheerfully double my taxes to have a well-funded societyoriginal ↗
7 Apr 2026
Formalizing and deformalizing academic writing – with and without AI toolsoriginal ↗
31 Mar 2026
Friday Link: Marlene Zuk on scientists as writersoriginal ↗
27 Mar 2026
The curious case of the self-publishing scientistoriginal ↗
24 Mar 2026
Friday Link: How to do good scienceoriginal ↗
20 Mar 2026
The OTHER kind of review that really gets my goatoriginal ↗
17 Mar 2026
Four kinds of writing “errors”, and how you might respond when you spot themoriginal ↗
10 Mar 2026
The piece of writing that just won’t dieoriginal ↗
3 Mar 2026
The #1 translatable science superpower: knowing what you don’t knoworiginal ↗
24 Feb 2026
‘The Ecology of Ecologists’: what, if anything, is ecology? (book review)original ↗
17 Feb 2026
On a two-word scientific paper, and a fascinating (heated) exchangeoriginal ↗
10 Feb 2026
Wonderful Latin names: Jynx torquillaoriginal ↗
3 Feb 2026
Whatever happened to MOOCs? – and why education doesn’t need revolutionizingoriginal ↗
27 Jan 2026
Cover reveal: the 3rd edition ‘Scientist’s Guide to Writing’ is getting closer!original ↗
26 Jan 2026
Adapting mentoring to, and with, the developing writeroriginal ↗
20 Jan 2026
How to lead a journal club you won’t be embarrassed by lateroriginal ↗
13 Jan 2026
Three stages of manuscript development – and why they matter to you as a mentororiginal ↗
6 Jan 2026

2025

It’s publication day! “Teaching and Mentoring Writers in the Sciences”original ↗
31 Dec 2025
Latin Names for Gardeners, Part 4: Four major themes for plant namesoriginal ↗
30 Dec 2025
Latin Names for Gardeners, Part 3: Who gives a plant its name?original ↗
29 Dec 2025
Latin Names for Gardeners, Part 2: Latin names aren’t really Latin (they’re much more interesting than that)original ↗
23 Dec 2025
Latin Names for Gardeners, Part 1: Why Latin names?original ↗
22 Dec 2025
My far-too-late discovery of “science studies”original ↗
16 Dec 2025
Our book is SHIPPING NOW! Here’s an easy stocking stuffer + 5 ideas for what to write on the gift tag ✨original ↗
9 Dec 2025
What your Introduction section isn’toriginal ↗
2 Dec 2025
How should you pick a PhD research topic?original ↗
25 Nov 2025
“This changes everything” redux: opinions about “pathological pedantry”original ↗
18 Nov 2025
Are my academic and non-academic writing styles converging? And would that be good?original ↗
12 Nov 2025
The third edition of “The Scientist’s Guide to Writing” is coming your way!original ↗
4 Nov 2025
Does this really change *everything*?original ↗
28 Oct 2025
All the things I was never trained to dooriginal ↗
21 Oct 2025
Close encounters of the extinct kindoriginal ↗
14 Oct 2025
There’s no “I” in “peer review” – or is there?original ↗
7 Oct 2025
What your Discussion section isn’toriginal ↗
30 Sept 2025
I don’t understand graphical abstracts. So I both hate and admire this one.original ↗
23 Sept 2025
Wonderful Latin Names: Karpatiosorbus admonitororiginal ↗
16 Sept 2025
The big assumption behind loud opposition to “AI” writing tools – and its two flavoursoriginal ↗
9 Sept 2025
Owls, blurbs, and a cover – oh my! “Teaching and Mentoring Writers in the Sciences” is getting closeoriginal ↗
3 Sept 2025
“Ferns”: the most beautiful book I’ve held in a whileoriginal ↗
26 Aug 2025
My summer of writing books – in songoriginal ↗
19 Aug 2025
Sometimes, I love to lose an argumentoriginal ↗
12 Aug 2025
Wonderful Latin Names: Friendship in plant namingoriginal ↗
5 Aug 2025
Mentoring beyond the academic careeroriginal ↗
29 Jul 2025
What your Results section isn’toriginal ↗
22 Jul 2025
“It must be nice to have your summers off” – and other things we don’t know about each otheroriginal ↗
15 Jul 2025
Making ChatGPT write badly (for use in teaching): an example, and lessonsoriginal ↗
8 Jul 2025
The implausibility of things I’ve already doneoriginal ↗
1 Jul 2025
I complained there aren’t enough novels about scientists – so Madhur Anand wrote oneoriginal ↗
24 Jun 2025
Upcoming talk on mentoring scientific writing – Thriving PI Summitoriginal ↗
20 Jun 2025
Time in the forest, and what we know and also don’t knoworiginal ↗
17 Jun 2025
On not being a naturalist – but being one anywayoriginal ↗
10 Jun 2025
What your Methods section isn’toriginal ↗
3 Jun 2025
Wonderful Latin Names: Hitchhiker’s Guide in a pair of protozoaoriginal ↗
27 May 2025
No, the plagiarism machine isn’t burning down the planet (redux)original ↗
20 May 2025
A jackdaw, and the excitement of understanding the worldoriginal ↗
13 May 2025
Where do post ideas come from?original ↗
6 May 2025
“This changes everything”: hyperbole, and its place in writingoriginal ↗
29 Apr 2025
In love with the libraryoriginal ↗
23 Apr 2025
On defining your own metrics of successoriginal ↗
15 Apr 2025
The most important part of your revision isn’t your revisionoriginal ↗
8 Apr 2025
No, the plagiarism machine isn’t burning down the planet (new AI energy-use estimates)original ↗
2 Apr 2025
Sauronaradus: the best etymology (for a Latin name) I’ve seen in a long timeoriginal ↗
25 Mar 2025
Writing advice from the Comte de Buffonoriginal ↗
18 Mar 2025
“Teaching and Mentoring Writers in the Sciences” is available for pre-order!original ↗
11 Mar 2025
What kind of nerd am I? (And, no two people read the same book)original ↗
4 Mar 2025
If our tacit requirement in science for English mastery went away, would that be bad?original ↗
25 Feb 2025
Two new species named from The Lord Of The Rings – sort oforiginal ↗
18 Feb 2025
Three books to sum up where we’re at with “AI” tools for writingoriginal ↗
11 Feb 2025
Toni Morrison, paying it forward, and the power of small deedsoriginal ↗
4 Feb 2025
Wonderful Latin names: The vowel-loving whale Mesoplodon eueuoriginal ↗
28 Jan 2025
Adventures in the history of science: a trivial rabbithole that turned out to be funoriginal ↗
21 Jan 2025
Being told “you can do it if you try” is really discouragingoriginal ↗
14 Jan 2025
Look, Ma, I have a framework!original ↗
7 Jan 2025
Ten years of blogging (that’s a lot of squirrels)original ↗
3 Jan 2025

2024

Lightening up the lectureoriginal ↗
23 Dec 2024
What would you like to see in a 3rd edition of ‘The Scientist’s Guide to Writing’?original ↗
17 Dec 2024