My blogging pace has slackened recently, but I promise it’s not because I’m not doing stuff. On the contrary, I’m doing so much stuff that I haven’t had time to post anything here. So here are a couple of quick updates: in the last couple of weeks, I’ve been working on processing and analyzing the [...]

If the idea of a couple hundred thousand termites pouring out of a rotting stump distresses you, then read no further. In May, I was scouting field sites in Miami, trying to find some good places for one of my anole experiments. In one park (A. D. Barnes Park), I encountered something completely unexpected: a [...]

The American Ornithologists Union just released a new Supplement to the Check-list of North American Birds, an event that has birders scurrying to update their lists as species, genera, and sometimes higher taxa are split, combined, and reorganized based on the latest scientific data. But what kind of data convinces the authorities at the AOU [...]

I spent Saturday through Tuesday at the 95th Annual Ecological Society of America (ESA) meeting in Pittsburgh, PA. On Sunday, along with co-organizers Molly Mehling and Dror Yaron, I co-instructed a full-day workshop on photography for ecologists: “Visual Communication of Ecological Knowledge: Photography as a Tool of Style and Substance.” Our goals were (1) to [...]