Earlier this week I completed my Twelve Days of 2019 Ecology Literature challenge. I read the last paper on my list, drained…

Spotify just told me that Superfruit was my artist of the year. “You discovered 265 new artists this year, but you really…

Last November, Binghamton Unversity-SUNY’s WHRW station shared this message as part of their program ‘Broadcasting World Literature’: “Today, since it’s Thanksgiving…

What is a drought? I know I don’t know — I live in the temperate northeastern United States and my field site…

“In science, I concluded, even in fields as apparently apolitical as ichthyology and glaciology, the story always involves more than a fish…

This post is a short attempt to peel back the curtain on my “bad at pollen” process. Since my very first pollen…

There is something magical about reading a well-written, remarkable paper from outside of your sub-discipline — the echoes of familiarity in methodology…

There are many ways to communicate science, but few as expedient and direct as social media. But while Twitter and Instagram have…

How to Write About the Science You (and Others) Did. I bought Stephen B. Heard’s The Scientist’s Guide to Writing at ESA…

I remember feeling a spark of urgent curiosity when I found a copy of All I Really Need to Know I Learned…

This is a deep dive into my own research — the backstory behind a single line in a recently published paper and…

Happy Valentine’s Day! A shortlist of loves. I loved this episode of Major Revisions podcast— PLoS Ecology Community Editor Jeff Atkins interviews Rob Nowicki…