Over the weekend I submitted a grant proposal, wrote a quippy tweet, and read a paper. The paper was Dr. Christopher Lynn’s ‘Family and the field: Expectations of a field- based research career
Family and the Field
Posted October 31, 2018 by
Early Career
Summer Reading (Part 2)
Posted September 13, 2018 by
Last week I wrote about my favorite new papers on mountains and phenology after a summer of scientific reading. In the second half of my top ten list, I’m highlighting some plant mysteries and best
Pikas Meet Cute: Two Subspecies, One National Park
Posted August 29, 2018 by
The National Park Service is wrapping up celebrations on its 102nd anniversary this August. I’m unabashedly biased towards park science: my dissertation and my postdoc research are both Acadia-based, while cleaning out old papers last week
Academia & Parenthood: Advocating for Child-friendly Conferences
Posted March 22, 2018 by
top image from PNAS: With childcare accommodations seemingly elusive, many parents make a calculated decision to forego conference attendance and suffer the career consequences. Image courtesy of Dave Cutler (artist). I’m currently navigating the stormy and
525,600 minutes, 365 papers, and 100 articles every ecologist should read
Posted December 29, 2017 by
Last month, Nature Ecology & Evolution published Courchamp and Bradshaw’s ‘100 articles every ecologist should read.’ Here, Courchamp and Bradshaw attempt to compile a list of seminal papers as a foundational reading list for ecology
The Lab Bench in Stereo: Science and Science Podcasts
Posted July 31, 2017 by
I started listening to podcasts sometime in 2009. But I practically became addicted some time during 2010 when I was in graduate school. Podcasts filled a void for me. I had to drive a lot
Collaboration and Undergraduate Research Highlight Brazilian Ichthyological Research
Posted February 6, 2017 by
Science transcends borders, breaks down barriers, and provides new understanding regardless of language. This, anyway, is the ideal. In reality however, it’s often the case that the pressures of funding, teaching, and fieldwork…or simply the
The Importance of Storytelling in Science
Posted December 30, 2016 by
“We owe it to each other to tell stories.” – Neil Gaiman Scientific writing is often belied as dry, stale; a block of indomitable, indecipherable text buttressed with vague language, passive voice, countless equations,
Wild Thoughts on the Wild
Posted December 15, 2016 by
A guest post from Dr. Anita George, a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Queensland Museum in Brisbane Australia People love learning about animals. It’s true. In PLOS blogs alone, animal posts have been very popular–including
Publish-or-Perish in Context: New research in publication rates says publish more, but is that the best answer for science?
Posted September 29, 2016 by
If you’ve worked around academics you are surely familiar with the phrase publish-or-perish, the idea that publication rate, above all else, is the key to advancement as an academic. Plenty of ink has certainly been