Recording field data while in Cubadak, Sumatra, Indonesia
A site for my occasional musings on academia, science and marine biology (and baseball in season).
Current Posts:
An open letter to my students (election day redux)
Columbia’s Women in Science Symposium
Fight or Flee? Ecological community responses to climate change
SIPA Environmental Leadership Delegation visits the Coral Reef of Eilat, Israel
Older Posts:
Shifting Baselines and Why We Got a Paper Wrong
Why you should get a Master’s first
Reaching out to communicators pt. 1
Gender influences in conference participation
Staying positive while busy (e.g. news in the Drew Lab)
What Childhood Should Sound Like
On sexual assault and invisibility
This summer’s research and tweeting an expedition
Back from Fiji – quick thoughts
#ICCB 2013 Highlights: Nautiluses, Deep Reef Endemics and New Twitter paper
The Worst Part is not.. (Guest Blog)
A new way to see… Mantis shrimp
Science in the City: Guest Post by Allison Roth
10 reasons why you should read (non-scientific) literature – Guest Post by Amy Wray
Science in the city: Guest post by Erin Eastwood (link to her site)
Focus on MA research- Surgeonfish and microbes by Molly McCargar
Science in the City: From South Africa to New York
Research Blog: Hummingbird health
Ms. Roth and her fighting monkeys
Research Blog: The Phylogenetics of Community Assembly
Science in the city – Ethnobotany style
Science (outside) the city. Natalie Bray goes upstate
How soil rebounds from disturbance by Natalie Bray
On New York and Carbonara by Amy McDermott
Science (slightly outside) the City: Going to Museums by Amy McDermott
Fighting Sexism while on Spring Break
The importance of understanding territoriality in conservation – Allison Roth
Social Justice and Conservation in New York City by Cynthia Malone
Quiz: How much of a vampire bat are you? by Amy Wray
The Global Turtle Trade Hits Home by Amanda Sigouin
Environmental impacts on mice gut microflora by Erin Dimech
On doing science in zoos by Erin Dimech
Science in the city – Birding and Citizen Science in NYC by Amanda Sigouin
Evaluating our broader impacts
Guest Post: Trailing spouses, gendered norms and leaking pipelines of support
Phenotypic Plasticity in Plants. Guest blog by Eric Yee
Building a collection with bird sweaters
Genomics of Darwin’s Finches by Luke Musher
The story behind the story: Community assembly in PNG reef fish
New paper – The use of historical ecology in marine conservation
Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Fisheries Management
Critical reading about extinction….
Grad School Essay Writing Tips
Diversity and Digitization in Museum Collections
A year of diving into the literature. My review of #365papers
Guest blog post over at Environment and Society on the Paris Conference of Parties and political agency in a Fijian village
Cross post: Traditional Ecological Knowledge by Stephanie Sardelis
Cross post: The value of pre-peer review by Stephanie Sardelis
5 ways to make your classroom more inclusive for LGTBQ students
Active Learning via debates in marine conservation ecology
Cross post: From Corporations to Conservation by MA student Lu Gao
A year of diving into the literature. My review of #365papers
Guest blog post over at Environment and Society on the Paris Conference of Parties and political agency in a Fijian village
The Drew Lab at Columbia University 