You may have noticed our PLOS Blogs Network has a fresh new look. What’s changed? A cleaner design, better user experience and…
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Open Science The PLOS Blogs Network: Fascinating Perspectives from Independent Writers and Staff ContributorsRead more
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COVID-19 A Time for Scientists to Give Voice to the FactsRead more
A guest post by Meredith Drosback, Becky Hazen, & Rick Weiss The COVID-19 pandemic has vastly increased journalists’ demand for access to…
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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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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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Citizen Science Scientists Who Selfie: Building Public Trust Through Social MediaRead more
There are many ways to communicate science, but few as expedient and direct as social media. But while Twitter and Instagram have…
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Biodiversity Looking for Human-Nature Connections in Seasonal Wikipedia SearchesRead more
Recently, I was wrapping up some revisions on a phenology paper and to comply with the journal’s style for taxonomy, I needed…
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Climate Change National Parks are Hot SpotsRead more
In this space, I’ve often shared my love for National Park-based research. I count myself among the researchers devoting time and energy…
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Ecology For Love of EcologyRead more
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…
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Conferences On Story TellingRead more
Last Monday night I took the mic at a Toronto bar. The whole second floor was full of conservation scientists in…
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Collaboration Science Twitter and the Secretly Super-rare SaxifragaceaeRead more
Top Image: a figure from “The hidden Heuchera: How science Twitter uncovered a globally imperiled species in Pennsylvania, USA” During one of…
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Climate Change Carbon Dioxide, an Autobiography: #CO2andMeRead more
September, 1975 My parents are married by a Justice of the Peace in Davidson County, North Carolina. My dad is working…