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I loved loved loved this article by Sridhar, Chanam, and Hariharan in The American Naturalist that takes an oral history approach to key papers in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology to demonstrate the various ways that natural history underlies the origin a…

It's hard to imagine that you're a subscriber of Science For Everyone and not know about the proposed OMB rule that will wholly corrupt the foundation of our scientific funding infrastructure.

Research universities are referred to as such because they prioritize research.

This post is a month overdue.

My 1-year term as Chair of Academic Senate is winding to a close.

Hi folks, it's been a while, so I've been selective about the interesting reads.

The federal funding landscape is evolving rapidly.

I tend to avoid looking at the analytics for this site.

I was having a conversation with a buddy who was recruiting a grad student.

So this year NSF is rejecting graduate fellowship applications without review a bunch – more in biology?

It's been a while since the last missive.

It's a trope – and yet true to my lived experience – that email auto-replies from European collaborators are like, "I'm on holiday for five weeks, I'll write back when I get back to work.

It feels like university teaching is getting harder and harder.

Hi folks.

I used to teach a Behavioral Ecology class.