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Monthly Archives: March 2017
Friday Action Item: The budget proposal
*On Fridays [while the current administration is in office](http://www.molecularecologist.com/2016/11/road-ahead/) we’re posting small, concrete things you can do to help make things better. Got a suggestion for an Action Item? [E-mail us](jbyoder+tme_action@gmail.com)!* If you so much as glanced at Science Twitter … Continue reading
Deep in the meadow, under the … seagrass, a bed of temporally stable diversity?
Genetically diverse populations are often more stable and productive. For habitat-forming organisms, such as seagrasses, this results in increased habitat complexity and more abundant associated communities (e.g., Hughes and Stachowicz 2004, Reusch et al. 2005). Spatial patterns of genetic diversity … Continue reading
Dishing out Art: “Soiling” our microbiology curriculum
Sarah Adkins wrote this post as a final project for Stacy Krueger-Hadfield’s Science Communication course at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. She is a MS student working with Dr. Jeffrey Morris at UAB. They are looking at how microbes (i.e., phytoplankton and E. … Continue reading
Posted in blogging, Coevolution, evolution, methods, microbiology, natural history, selection
Tagged Blogging, microbiology, PetriDishArt, Science and Art, Science Communication, teaching
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Friday Action Item: Tell Congress to protect environmental science funding
*On Fridays [while the current administration is in office](http://www.molecularecologist.com/2016/11/road-ahead/) we’re posting small, concrete things you can do to help make things better. Got a suggestion for an Action Item? [E-mail us](jbyoder+tme_action@gmail.com)!* In the last week, supporters of science have seen … Continue reading
Have we got the power?
Sabrina Heiser wrote this post as a final project for Stacy Krueger-Hadfield’s Science Communication course at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Sabrina grew up in Germany, completed a BSc (Hons) in Marine Biology at Plymouth University (UK) and then lived … Continue reading
I think we’re NOT alone now
Finding new and engaging ways to communicate science is of paramount importance. But, how many opportunities are there to practice the art of communication? When can we try out different methods of distilling science? It seems that these chances are … Continue reading
Posted in blogging, career, community, interview, science publishing
Tagged career, Friends of Joe's Big Idea, networking, scicomm, Science Communication, students
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Why science cannot help but be political
What does it mean to say that science is political? I’ve been contemplating that question since long before November 9, 2016, but it’s gained a great deal more urgency in the light of the current U.S. presidential administration. It’s also … Continue reading
An Update on the Great BAMM Controversy
Update, 01 August 2016, 2:50PM. This post has been updated to include information contained in the supplemental material of Rabosky et al. 2017, and clarify the difference between branch-specific and tree-wide rate variation. Back in August, I summarized the main … Continue reading
Posted in blogging, evolution, methods, phylogenetics, science publishing, software, speciation
Tagged BAMM, diversification, extinction, macroevolution
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