Leaving the Dream
I have never not wanted to be a scientist. As a kid, I would copy down—by hand—the entirety of encyclopedia entries about animals. In fifth grade, I was regularly running […]
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Species range maps with GGplot
The other day, I wanted to tweet out a map showing the distribution of some wood frog tissue samples compared to the entire range of the species. I’m not much […]
Chasing Arctic Frogs
A short recipe for adventurous field science Take me to the photos! Step 1: Come up with a hair-brained scheme. My labmate Yara and I had been dreaming up the […]
Pulitzer Challenge
I’ve always been enamored with books, but when I started my PhD, I was worried that I would fall out of the habit of reading for fun. So, I set […]
The Anatomy of Data Viz
When I first started in communications, data viz was hard. You basically had to have a serious knowledge of Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop. At that time, “New Media” was just […]
Julian Date vs Day of the Year
Julian day and Day of Year (DOY) are NOT the same thing I recently wrote a paper looking at how frog breeding timing is impacted by climate change. So, I’ve […]
How to avoid giving terrible presentations
Recently, I gave a presentation to a class of Yale Masters students about how to give better scientific presentations. This is a topic I think about a lot, coming from […]
A Paper A Day
FYI, the featured image for this post is a collage titled Numenius arquata on The village clerk by Albert Ankera by @birds_dont_cry At the beginning of my PhD, I had […]
The REAL problem of unpaid internships is us
A few weeks ago I wrote a post about a questionable internship proposal by the Northeast branch of Partners in Amphibian and Reptile Conservation (NEPARC). In the interim, I’ve had […]
Quals
Qualifying exams are the written and oral tests PhD students must take to prove that they are experts in their field before embarking on a dissertation. And they are one […]