- Responding to anti-Black racism in our academic communities
- Five common writing mistakes new scientists make
- Women in the interim: thoughts on International Women’s Day, 2018
- Asking for feedback on job applications: attitudes and practices
- Poll: where do you stand on asking for feedback on unsuccessful job applications? — Scientist Sees Squirrel
- How do weirwood trees work? The answer may lie beneath
- Science for everyone: my #RallyforScience remarks
- Live in fragments no longer.
- Winter is coming: climate change and biodiversity beyond the Wall
- Creative conservation: thinking outside the box to protect species in a warming world
- Solidarity, #CSUStrike
- Over-proved, but fantastic flavor: The Great British Baking Show as a model for writing reviews
- Thinking in mammoth time
- Ten easy ways you can support diversity in academia
- Academic resolutions and improvement as a moving target
- Let’s feed the trolls…science!
- In defense of information by, of, and for the people
- ESA turns 100, and I turn 10: reflections on an ecological birthday
- Show me the money: A new PI’s guide to putting together a startup request
- Taking a long view of conservation: should we protect the actors or the stage?
- Urgent: Please reply! Can you get a bad reputation from poor academic etiquette?
- Care to elucidate? The vocabulary of grant applications
- Why are there so few ice age megafaunal kill sites?
- Are you practicing safe science?
- Doing science sitting down, and other thoughts about universal design
- An open letter to Gov. Scott Walker: stop perpetuating the myth of the lazy professor
- Crowd-funded science: thoughts after 185 people gave us $10,733 for research
- One shirt, two shirt, red shirt, #scishirt! Or, when life hands you sexism in science, make a hashtag.
- What is #scishirt?
- To tweet or not to tweet…at conferences
- What do Darwin, penguins, poop, fire, and sheep have in common? A crowd-funding quest(ion)
- When words fail: women, science, and women-in-science
- Richard Dawkins doesn’t speak for me…so, who does?
- What causes an ice age? The many scales of climate change, part 2: Orbital cycles
- Stuck in the Pleistocene: The science of the La Brea tarpits
- What’s your Post-PhD story? Announcing a Blog Carnival!
- Can we please stop calling wild horses invasive?
- O Best Beloved: Just-so stories in ecology and evolution
- Motivating the Elephant: Advice from a recent dissertator
- New research: Bison dung, prairie plants, and mammoth inferences
- The Megatooth Shark: Megalodon
- Is pollen analysis dead? Paleoecology in the era of Big Data
- The many scales of climate change, part 1: Tectonic timescales
- Academia doesn’t have a PhD problem, it has an attitude problem
- When the language distracts from the science: Reviewing, NES, and NoNES
- How fast can trees migrate?
- So, you want to go to grad school? Nail the inquiry email
- Pollen and the science of failed plant sex
- Taking responsibility for our academic community: a response to sexism in the ESA’s list-serv
- An unruly calculus: doing, funding, and communicating science
- ScienceOnline Interviews: Heidi K. Smith, Behavioral Ecologist & Conservationist
- ScienceOnline Interviews: Melanie Tannenbaum, Social Psychologist
- ScienceOnline Interviews: Jessica Morrison, Science Journalist and Crystallographer
- ScienceOnline Interviews: Anthony Salvagno, open science biophysicist
- ScienceOnline Interviews: Amy Freitag, marine conservationist
- Crowd-sourcing the 50 most pressing questions in pal(a)eoecology
- Six ways to use Google + Hangouts for academic productivity
- Crowd-sourced advice for writing your #firstgrant
- Happy Ada Lovelace Day! Honoring Dr. Evelyn Chrystalla Pielou
- Honor Ada Lovelace Day with a contribution to a science classroom in need
- Retractions and academic misconduct: Coming soon to a discipline near you?
- What are the 50 most important questions in paleoecology?
- Have you hugged your postdoc today?
- Sheep spit and avocados: Two weeks of guest blogigng at Scientopia on plant-herbivore interactions
- 5 letters in PNAS this week respond to a recent YD Impact Hypothesis paper
- Blogging ESA: Species Traits and Community Assembly
- Greetings from the Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting!
- My Academic Independence Day
- Building a Shadow CV
- A very contemplative mammoth, indeed.
- Inside NSF-DEB’s New Pre-Proposals: A Panelist’s Perspective
- How I cured my imposter syndrome
- Social Darwinism, the survival of the fittest, and the intersection of science and politics: A BlogHer guest post
- How can scientists actively engage with the media?
- Fire in the American West: A long-term perspective
- Contemplating an ice age squirrel’s forgotten snack
- On Reading Old Things
- A paper published, a story told: Understanding the impacts of the loss of ice-age herbivores
- “So, what’s next?”
- Farewell 2011, welcome 2012!
- Can you help me get to ScienceOnline2012?
- How to argue with a scientist: A guide
- Guest Post: The Only Six Objections to “Womanspace” You Haven’t Seen Yet
- How to get a faculty job in 20 not-so-easy steps
- #PhD2012 FTW
- 2011 Blogging Scholarship Update- New voting, new rules!
- Womanspace: Responses to Rybicki’s display of male privilege on NPG
- Why did I start blogging?
- Climate AND humans? A new study using ancient DNA, fossils, & models contributes to a classic problem in paleoecology
- Florida anthropologists respond to Gov. Rick Scott (jargon and all)
- 2011 Donors Choose Science Bloggers for Students Drive Wrap-Up
- No pollen grains were harmed in the writing of this dissertation.
- Early domesticated dogs may have shared mammoth meals
- Happy Ada Lovelace Day! Honoring Eminent Ecologist E. Lucy Braun
- 2011 Science Bloggers for Students Challenge at Donors Choose
- Thoughts on Math Anxiety and University Science Education
- ESA 2011: Tuesday – A guest post by Chad Zirbel
- Ecological Society of America 2011: Monday
- How to pack for a conference
- Why I was not one of the 141 scientists who objected to Davis et al.’s invasives comment in Nature
- I still play in the mud.
The Contemplative Mammoth 
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