Last and This Week’s Good Reads: Shaming Journalists, Hyping Research, and...
Only a few from last week, but they’re too good not to mention: 1) I’m so glad someone collected the evidence to show that most ecology grad students feel ill-prepared in mathematics and statistics for...
View ArticleThis Week’s Good Reads: The Elusive Source of Ebola, the Natural History of...
1) Seeking the Source of Ebola, National Geographic, David Quammen 2) “Most people would think it’s a bad thing to be a lightning rod, and I cannot say I enjoy it,” [Oreskes] said. “But remember, the...
View ArticleThis Week’s Good Reads: Long-Term Experiments, Symbioses, and Turtle Shells
1) Jeremy Fox did a great Q & A with Richard Lenski, who is best known for his Long-Term Evolution Experiment following colonies of E. coli since 1988. Lenski lends insight into the art of asking...
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This Week’s Good Reads: Evolution 2015, Lost Carbon Sink, and New Pew Data
1) Climate Change: Weighing the World’s Trees, Nature News Feature, Gabriel Popkin 2) New info on what social factors predict people’s choices about controversial science issues. Take home message:...
View ArticleWeekly Good Reads: Blind Experiments, Broadest Impacts, and Writing Explainers
1) Evidence of Experimental Bias in the Life Sciences: Why We Need Blind Data Recording, PLoS Biology, Luke Holman et al. 2) Carl Zimmer’s Brief Guide to Writing Explainers, The Open Notebook, Carl...
View ArticleLast Two Weeks’ Good Reads: Pooping in the Field, Scientists in the...
1) Ecologists share their favorite sightings while going to the bathroom in the wilds of their fieldwork: What’s the Best Bird You’ve Seen While on the Toilet?, Living Alongside Wildlife, Rebecca...
View ArticleThis Week’s Good Reads: Fieldwork Fails, Cecil the Lion, and Salamander Disease
1) For some laughs and some camaraderie, check out #Fieldworkfail stories, which are so great that I wrote a full post about it. Some sightings while pooping in the field, shared last week, also would...
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Debriefing after the Ecological Society of America’s Centennial Meeting
In lieu of my weekly reading list, I am summarizing the broad take-home messages I picked up at the centennial meeting of the Ecological Society of America last week in Baltimore. You can check out...
View ArticleCommunicating Science Across the Divide: Lessons from the Climate Change &...
I recently spoke at Emory & Henry College about topics debated in the public sphere that are not debated among scientists, and what those debates teach us about science communication. You can view...
View ArticleHere Be Dragons: Narratives, Metaphors, & Climate Change Communication
In October 2018, I gave a talk on climate change communication at Salisbury University. I focused on the power of narratives, metaphors, and dialogue. The timing of the talk serendipitously coincided...
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