New Island for Alaskan Toads
I completely forgot to post this range extension for Bufo (= Anxyrus) boreas when it came out a few months ago in Herpetological Review. With only five species of herps […]
Julian Date vs Day of the Year
Julian day and Day of Year (DOY) are NOT the same thing I recently wrote a paper looking at how frog breeding timing is impacted by climate change. So, I’ve […]
How to avoid giving terrible presentations
Recently, I gave a presentation to a class of Yale Masters students about how to give better scientific presentations. This is a topic I think about a lot, coming from […]
A Paper A Day
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 […]
Do we need an Ethic of Road Ecology?
Yesterday, I gave a presentation titled, “Do we need an Ethic of Road Ecology?” at the 10th International Conference on Ecology and Transportation (ICOET) The talk was well received (in […]
Evolution of Intrinsic Rates at the Evolution Conference 2019
At this year’s Evolution Conference in Providence Road island, the organizers managed to recruit volunteers to film most of the talks. This is such a great opportunity for folks who […]
Create a radial, mirrored barplot with GGplot
Among other topics, my lab studies the relationship between forest obligate frogs and urbanization. During a seminar, I once heard my advisor mention that Connecticut is the perfect state […]
The REAL problem of unpaid internships is us
A few weeks ago I wrote a post about a questionable internship proposal by the Northeast branch of Partners in Amphibian and Reptile Conservation (NEPARC). In the interim, I’ve had […]
How to build a better rattrap with population genetics
A team I worked with just published a population genetics study looking at the effectiveness of rat eradication programs in Salvador, Brazil. Rats have traveled around the globe alongside humans. […]
The problem with unpaid pseudo-internships
UPDATE: Be sure to read PARC’s response to my concerns in my most recent post. A few weeks ago, Northeast Partners in Amphibian and Reptile Conservation (NEPARC) sent out a […]