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

In 1953, ichthyologist Kay Lawrence joined a research expedition searching for fossils in the Amazon Basin. This was the same year that…

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…

I’ve written before about my aspirational, if mercurial, commitment to #365papers — the social media challenge to read one peer-reviewed paper a…

Over the weekend I submitted a grant proposal, wrote a quippy tweet, and read a paper. The paper was Dr…

Last week I wrote about my favorite new papers on mountains and phenology after a summer of scientific reading. In the second…

The National Park Service is wrapping up celebrations on its 102nd anniversary this August. I’m unabashedly biased towards park science: my dissertation and…

top image from PNAS: With childcare accommodations seemingly elusive, many parents make a calculated decision to forego conference attendance and suffer the career…

Last month, Nature Ecology & Evolution published Courchamp and Bradshaw’s ‘100 articles every ecologist should read.’ Here, Courchamp and Bradshaw attempt to…