Sometimes the best part of reading a scientific paper is an unexpected moment of recognition — not in the science, but in…
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New Research The Hidden Gems of Data Accessibility Statements
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Biodiversity Snapshots of Change and The PhenoCam Network: What Are 130 Cameras Telling Us About Our Changing Planet?
As flowers began to bloom and leaves slowly emerge in the northern hemisphere this time of year, most people are thinking about…
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Biodiversity Urban Forestry In the Schoolyard: Trees and Student Performance
Research into how nature impacts our well-being has shown that being outside makes us feel better. Images of nature alone have been…
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Collaboration Conservations Genetics, Non-academic Coauthors & Erdős Numbers
I spent a week in Washington DC about two weeks before the government shutdown. Part of my conservation science postdoc fellowship involves…
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Biodiversity The Birds That Start Fires: Using Indigenous Ecological Knowledge to Understand Animal Behavior
I don’t remember too much from the eighties–other than Nintendo, Sonic, and how cool the Ghostbusters were. But I do clearly remember…
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Biodiversity The most talked about research of 2017
While citations to academic papers are easy to track (see Google Scholar, World of Science), it’s quite informative to see what research…
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Conservation Fungal Disease Threatens U.S. Snakes — And Could Be a Global Problem
Over the last few decades, fungal diseases have decimated populations of animals such as amphibians and bats. Now, a new study sounds…
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Conservation Hyenas Among Humans
Increasingly, animals have to share their space with human activities and infrastructure, even in protected nature reserves. Although human activity can often…
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Biodiversity Museums Are Strong Partners in Biodiversity Education
I love museums. A lot. And I am not alone. According to the American Alliance of Museums, there are approximately 850 million…
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Conservation Are we playing (or hiking or skiing or climbing) too hard? Recreation, Ecology, and Recreation Ecology
In two consecutive years of my PhD, I spent the weekend before Thanksgiving 300 miles away from my family, fighting with temperature…
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Conservation CRISPR for Conservation? Not So Fast!
Scientists are urging caution in the use of new genetic technologies for conservation purposes. In an article in PLOS Biology, Kevin Esvelt…
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Biodiversity Biodiversity Patterns in Melanesian Coral Reef Fish: New Research with Old Naturalists
Old naturalists are my jam. I dedicated my PhD dissertation to a 19th century botanist who had spent her childhood following Thoreau…