The University of Cape Town (UCT) in South Africa is in a prime location to conduct oceanographic research and features a wealth of scientific expertise. However, as…
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Diversity, Equity and Inclusion The Ocean Womxn program – supporting a new generation of black oceanographersRead more
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Early Career Editor’s tips for passing journal checksRead more
You’ve painstakingly mapped out your research goal: to answer that unanswered question. You’ve conducted your experiments, analyzed the results and written your…
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Collaboration Show your work. Peer-Reviewed ProtocolsRead more
To support increased sharing of open research methodologies -- and in an exciting extension to our partnership with protocols.io -- we are announcing two new peer-reviewed article types in PLOS ONE in…
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Conservation This is The EndRead more
Earlier this week I completed my Twelve Days of 2019 Ecology Literature challenge. I read the last paper on my list, drained…
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Early Career Wrapped and Read: A Reading Advent UpdateRead more
Spotify just told me that Superfruit was my artist of the year. “You discovered 265 new artists this year, but you really…
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Early Career She’s Making a List…Read more
It occurred to me in November that my #ToReadPile was beyond overflowing. One of my friends* had recently published a very cool…
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Climate Change Reading & Listening to Cape CodRead more
Cape Cod does not appear on my CV. I study alpine plant ecology — my postdoc research is literally founded on carrying…
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Early Career Writing and Publishing: Mentos, Manatees, and SinkholesRead more
I’ve been reflecting on my own writing. Today, I picked up three bound booklets from my local copy shop. These are the…
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Early Career Drawn to LearningRead more
This post is a short attempt to peel back the curtain on my “bad at pollen” process. Since my very first pollen…
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Early Career Learn AgainRead more
I’m in the middle — the frustrating, slow, and muddy middle — of learning how to be bad at science. How to…
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Collaboration An ornithologist and an entomologist go into the kīpuka…Read more
There is something magical about reading a well-written, remarkable paper from outside of your sub-discipline — the echoes of familiarity in methodology…
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Early Career Book Review: The Lady from the Black LagoonRead more
In 1953, ichthyologist Kay Lawrence joined a research expedition searching for fossils in the Amazon Basin. This was the same year that…