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Early Blooming Case in Point: Trout Lily
In January, a PLoS ONE article announced the earliest flowering times in recorded history happened in 2010 and 2012 for dozens of spring-flowering species in Wisconsin and Massachussetts. Radically...
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ESA 2014, Monday talks
As usual for a big conference, there are more interesting talks offered than I could possibly attend in one day. On Monday, I delved back to the Triassic and then into the future: Bruce Byers, an...
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ESA 2014, Tuesday talks
As usual, I went to some great talks and missed some great talks. Here are summaries of the ones I caught: Thomas Newsome of Oregon State University talked about his work with William Ripple on a...
View ArticleSummary of the Panel Discussion: “Is Anybody Out There Listening? Measuring...
The panel discussion at ESA 2014, organized by Liza Lester and myself, was well attended (~50 people) and fostered a dynamic conversation. When we put together the panel, Liza and I were conscious...
View ArticleThis Week’s Good Reads: Bad Statistics, Changes in Media, and Continued...
1) The controversy over the paper by Williams and Ceci on gender bias in academic hiring (or the lack thereof) that I mentioned last week and the week before continues: Science Careers published a...
View ArticleLast 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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