FYI, the featured image for this post is a collage titled Numenius arquata on The village clerk by Albert Ankera by @birds_dont_cry
At the beginning of my PhD, I had TOO MUCH time to read, but TOO LITTLE focus to know what I needed to read. Now that I have a few experiments behind me and multiple, ongoing analyses and manuscripts in front of me, I have TONS of papers I want to read, but NO time to read them.
To make matters worse, I chase references like a dog chases squirrels. I can sit down with the best intentions of reading through a paper and find myself an hour later down five other rabbit holes with 50 new tabs on my browser all with new papers I certainly won’t ever read.
In an effort to make a consistent practice of winnowing away my ever-growing pile of “really important papers that I definitely want to cite in my dissertation,” I’m starting the #APaperADay challenge. My goal is to read a new paper each workday and write a quick synopsis. I have no roadmap or themes, so reader beware–these paper will be all over the place!
Be sure to check out the whole comment thread for the entire synopsis:
Attention: Dragons are what they eat… kinda.
Here’s my #APaperADay synopsis of @BethanColquhoun @lsweyrich N. Kent & @c_frere ‘s recent paper in @molecology about potentially adaptive shifts in the microbiomes of urban water dragons. 1/7
— A. Z. Andis Arietta (@azandisarietta) November 12, 2019
I love #wilderness, so my #APaperADay summarises @m_dimarco et al.'s assessment in @nature of the impact of human land-use and habitat protection on #extinction risks, in the thread below. 1/6https://t.co/xVM2FjlzAy
— A. Z. Andis Arietta (@azandisarietta) October 21, 2019
Today's #APaperADay is a newly accepted @molecology metropolitan meta-anlysis by @lindsay_s_miles @urbanevol @evoecolab et al that wrangles the explosion of studies to test the effect of urbanization on wildlife. They ask: how do cities help or hinder gene flow (and drift). 1/5
— A. Z. Andis Arietta (@azandisarietta) September 15, 2019
Can bees dance their way to a healthier diet when stuck in a sea of junk food? Nürnberger et al.'s new paper in @molecology suggests so.
Check out my #APaperADay thread below for details. 1/8 #HoneyBee #WaggleDance #Ecology #bees https://t.co/QqvFrzS36z— A. Z. Andis Arietta (@azandisarietta) August 15, 2019
Has citylife caused adaptive evolution in wood frogs?
To test this, @Jared_Homola et al. (2019) found 4 pairs of frog ponds where one was situated in a rural setting and the other next to a town and then looked for signatures of parallel genetic differentiation. 1/6#APaperADay https://t.co/Rg2b0ICTGk
— A. Z. Andis Arietta (@azandisarietta) July 16, 2019
Pond temps matter a lot to ectotherms like frogs. Mueller et al. (2019)
found that temps experienced at different lifestages impacts frogs’ development and physiology, but the carry-over effect across stages is inconsistent. #APaperADay https://t.co/02AKgI4os7— A. Z. Andis Arietta (@azandisarietta) July 8, 2019
Pašukonis et al. (2019), found that dart frog dads travel farther than needed when dispersing tadpoles by strapping tiny GPS-transmitters to their backs. #APaperADay https://t.co/G7SGSzbBHR
— A. Z. Andis Arietta (@azandisarietta) July 7, 2019