The key step in the planning of any good field course is to spend some time at the field site observing and asking questions. What is the ha...

Last week was the second annual meeting of the Evolutionary Demography Society . It was fabulous. Close to 100 people, over three days, at S...

Isaac Asimov's essays have been favorites of mine since I was a teenager, and while I can't claim to have read them all (he was the ...

Yesterday, two students came to my office. They asked me to help them organize a BioBlitz , a rapid assessment of what species are present, ...

My three year old has already learned that she can insult us in Danish with relative impunity.   Recently, when angry, she shouts "J...

Once you start making them , it is hard to stop.

Getting a paper rejection from a journal is always frustrating. So much time, effort and care goes into a paper that to have anonymous stran...

I have decided to share with you one of the big points of baby raising that Iris and I learned by hard experience. ...

This spring I taught a field course in terrestrial zoology at Svanninge Bjerge, a nature area owned and operated by the Bikuben Foundation...

Lightly-salted peanut wrapped in a sweetened dried cranberry, then covered in dark (>75%) chocolate.

A good university science education should give students the opportunity to engage in scientific research. This is widely agreed upon, and m...

It was only 45 minutes until dinner and my girl was antsy. We decided to head out into the woods and see what we could see. We got on a bike...

I keep a running list of papers to write on my whiteboard. This list currently has 15 entries. Two of these ha...

I'm preparing a manuscript to submit to Nature. In addition to a low acceptance rate (8%), they have severe word limits. The 'main t...

Hedgehog! We have a hedgehog picking up the seed under our feeder every night at 11. The feeder is just outside our bathroom window so whe...

"Many different processes are commonly referred to as asexual reproduction and numerous authorities have set out syst...

I love field courses. I loved taking them, love teaching them and even enjoy the logistics of preparing for them. What could be better than ...

"Please tell us why you have declined to review this article" I am afraid I am unable to decipher the meaning of even the title ...

A few examples: Censorship- Grading, examining "Will this class require external censorship?" Confrontation Hours- The time a...

"Modal age at death" means the age at which the largest number of individual deaths occur. The modal age at death is determined by...