This post is a short attempt to peel back the curtain on my “bad at pollen” process. Since my very first pollen clinic in the BEAST Lab at University of Maine I’ve been instructed to
Drawn to Learning
Posted July 10, 2019 by
Early Career
Learn Again
Posted June 19, 2019 by
I’m in the middle — the frustrating, slow, and muddy middle — of learning how to be bad at science. How to be bad at one very specific part of a subdiscipline of a scientific
An ornithologist and an entomologist go into the kīpuka…
Posted June 2, 2019 by
There is something magical about reading a well-written, remarkable paper from outside of your sub-discipline — the echoes of familiarity in methodology, the unpredictable overlaps, the serendipity of finding the research in the first place.
Book Review: The Lady from the Black Lagoon
Posted May 15, 2019 by
In 1953, ichthyologist Kay Lawrence joined a research expedition searching for fossils in the Amazon Basin. This was the same year that Rosalind Franklin left King’s College in London, after she created the X-ray diffraction
Scientists Who Selfie: Building Public Trust Through Social Media
Posted May 10, 2019 by
There are many ways to communicate science, but few as expedient and direct as social media. But while Twitter and Instagram have given scientists unprecedented, unfiltered reach to new audiences, there has been a desire
All I Really Need to Know I Learned From Peer-Reviewed Papers (Part 2)
Posted April 30, 2019 by
How to Write About the Science You (and Others) Did. I bought Stephen B. Heard’s The Scientist’s Guide to Writing at ESA in 2016. I was a soon-to-be sixth year PhD student with one publication
All I Really Need to Know I Learned From Peer-Reviewed Papers (Part 1)
Posted April 20, 2019 by
I remember feeling a spark of urgent curiosity when I found a copy of All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten on a shelf in the guest bedroom. I was 11. And
Hiking with Reviewer 2
Posted March 14, 2019 by
This is a deep dive into my own research — the backstory behind a single line in a recently published paper and the data-driven trip down memory lane that was spurred by an innocent question
Early Career Researchers Talk #365papers
Posted February 28, 2019 by
I’ve written before about my aspirational, if mercurial, commitment to #365papers — the social media challenge to read one peer-reviewed paper a day. I first attempted the #365papers reading habit three years ago, when I
Family and the Field
Posted October 31, 2018 by
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