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Our Ecosystems
- Single Large or Several Small? The Ongoing Debate in Nature Preserve Design
- Moving away from monoculture in aquaculture
- Some people just love plants (as long as they can afford them...)
- Life on the Edge: 3 Important Ways that Habitat Edges Affect Forests
- Are we running out of invasives?
- Ask your food for its DNA ID
- Finding wildfire’s niche in the Anthropocene
- The Earth is a blue marble (and the world is green)
- Four Unexpected Ways that Living in Cities Affects Wildlife
- 'Tis the Season for Citizen Science
- Fish are friends AND food
- Building with Microbes (In Mind)
- A thorny, venomous creature is terrorizing coral reefs
- Walking through Transitions
- How are forest insect outbreaks like wildfires?
- Sharing the ecosystem with wildlife - why getting outside is more important than ever
- The Mercurial Path of Mercury to Aquatic Ecosystems
- Nicotine Dreams - Baby Birds Protected by Cigarettes
- Drinking from the rivers and eating from the forests
- 4 ways humans harm the environment (when they are trying to help)
- Fishing Towards Conservation
- Marvel at Larval - An Appreciation for Young and Developing Fish
- Some Australians consider kangaroos to be pests. Surprised? So was I.
- A World without Birdsong
- It's Standing Room Only At The Equator
How It Works
- The Price of Pigment on Your Immune System
- Midnight Snacks Could Be the Death of You
- Lobster Fight Club
- Making a Murderer - A Matter of Biology?
- Got Lactase? Breaking Down the Enzyme
- Why Do I Shiver When It’s Cold?
- Crap you didn’t really need to know
- You Can't Observe A Lot Just By Watching
- What Do You Do When It's Too Hot to Move?
- 5 Fun Facts about Hormones
- Death stinks - literally
- Why the sea salt fad could be very bad
- Henry's Pockets: A Poem
- Henry's Pockets: A Poem
- Biology Superpowers: X-Ray Vision
- How to Expand Your Senses by Reading a Blog Post
- What's up with bat echolocation?
- Seeing is Believing - How Can We Visualize Tiny Colorless Bacteria?
- Water balance in a man-made world
- Why Does Mopsy Eat Her Own Poop?
- Should I say sex or gender? Pt. 2
- Should I say sex or gender? Pt. 1
- How To Catch Hard-to-Catch Fish?
- Finding the Perfect Partner
- Mind over microbe
- Why Do Mothers Mother?
- GMO! The Places You'll Go!
- Really Old Fossils, Really Strong Predators, and Cool New Tech
- A Brief History of Evolutionary Thought, part III
- Saving face: transplanting our most distinctive features
- A Brief History of Evolutionary Thought, part II
- DNA - Nature’s Hard Drive
- Mitochondria: The Underrated Organelles
- Pollination 101
- You May Say I’m Biased, But I’m Not the Only One
- The Path of Least Resistance: Our Relationship with Antibiotics
- Estimating the Age of Life Long-Gone
- Know Your Limb-its
- Your Dog is a GMO Wolf
- Better Safe Than Sorry: The Pesticide Industry is Getting a Revamp
- The Bizarre Shopping List of a Determined Scientist
- Insects Get Sick Too: The Study of Insect Pathology
- Employee of the Month - Hire a Microbe to Do Your Work
- A Brief History of Evolutionary Thought - Part I
- Artificial Islands
- To B(PA) Or To Not B(PA): Regulating Endocrine Disruptors
- Fireflies of the Ocean: Lighting up the Dark with Science
- Charity cases in nature - when are animals more likely to be altruistic?
- Being selfish means staying alive
- Penguins and other strange things we study from space
- Pseudoreplication and the Art of Biological Statistics
- Why did orange prices increase?
- The Wonders of Fecal Transplants
- Calling the Shots - Discussing Vaccines
- 3D Printing for Fun and Science
- What is Phytopathology?
- Medical Mysteries Still Surrounding Zika Virus
Grad School Diaries
- Secrets of the Soil: Searching for Stories from a Warming Climate
- A Fishtastic Journey Abroad
- Greetings from Michigan: American Ornithology Conference 2017
- What do cockroaches, power tools, and pollinator gardens have in common?
- Grad Students Meet Girl Scouts Part 2: Conserving Local Bee Habitats, One Person at a Time!
- A graduate student in elementary school
- Minding my Moth and Meandering in Malaysia
- Distilling Complexity in Three Minutes - The UMass 3MT Competition
- All My Friends Are Dead - A Day in the Museum Basement
- A Day In the Life of a Bird Nerd
- Salameandering – Searching the Southern Appalachians for Gummy Lizards
- You Are What You Eat – Measuring the Impact of Diet on Jaw Bone Growth in Fish, part I
- Spooky Science: When Nightmares Become Reality
- Spooky Science: When Nightmares Become Reality
- What I wish I had known: advice about graduate school (and life) to my younger self
- Trickle-Down Academics - Facing the Loss of the NSF DDIG in Biology
- Science for the Public – A Panel Discussion Hosted by TLS and OPD
- Chasing Fire - One Scientist’s Mission to Photograph Her Study Organism
- Field station memories
- An Office in the Great Outdoors: The joys and challenges of being an aquatic ecologist
- Is Milk Bad for Me? Finding Scientific Truths in the "Post-Truth" Era
- Sketch-noting the Society for Integrative & Comparative Biology 2017 Meeting
- Sketch-noting the Society for Integrative & Comparative Biology 2017 Meeting
- Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Science Cafe
- Art for Science - Science communication through art
- The Birds and the Beetles: Research Highlights from UMass Grad Students
- An American Graduate Student in France
- Science - A Universal Language
- I Get Knocked Down But I Get Up Again
- Science Outreach: “Inspiring all girls to be strong, smart & bold” with Plant Science!
- Why I chose to be a field ecologist
- Five Sentence Emails
- Life in the balance
- Welcome To That's Life [Science]
- Unexpected Encounters of the Human Kind
Earth's Organisms
- Life, the universe, and everything: Dreams of being a biophysicist
- Bug Sleuth – One Entomologist’s Mission to ID a Mysterious Swarm of Wasps
- Horny and Hungry: The Dilemma of Sexual Cannibalism
- Who’s who? The elusive difference between butterflies and moths
- Tuberculosis - A Romantic Disease?
- Ode to a Few Arachnids
- Monotropa uniflora - This wildflower is pretty wild
- Eavesdropping in the Animal Kingdom: Sneaky Creatures Just Trying to Get Ahead
- Trypanosomes - A Weird Pathogen You Haven't Heard Of
- A Beautiful 9/11 Tribute, but a Fiasco for Migratory Birds
- Cats can have AIDS, too.
- Part 2: Does catching Pidgeys help you notice Pigeons? Interviews with Pokémon Go Researchers
- Biodiversity in my Backyard: Encounters with Pidgeys and Dratinis, Part 1
- Fins, Limbs, Rays, and Digits – A Beginner’s Guide to Terrestrial Living
- Fins, Limbs, Rays, and Digits – A Beginner's Guide to Terrestrial Living
- Five things that really stink about the Brown Marmorated Stink Bug
- Tricks but no Treats - An Orchid’s Guide to Making a Fool of Your Pollinator
- Tracking the lost years - where do baby sea turtles grow?
- Posing as a Bird Mama: the adventures of a researcher-turned-bird-parent
- When Boys Become Men By Dancing
- The hungry caterpillar in real life
- Mantis Shrimp Vision - Seeing in Secret Code
- When It Comes to Bird Beaks - Size Matters
- Mind over microbe
- When a Wall is just a Wall
- May the Bees Be With You: Maintaining the Sweet Balance in Life
- Nematodes: The super microscopic animal!
- How Pistol Shrimp Kill with Bubbles
- Who needs males after all?
- Opposition Research on My Garden’s Greatest Nemesis
- Watching Your Every Move
- Slimed and Consumed - The Blob is Real!
- Lion in Sheep's Clothing
- Struggling to be Heard - Competition in a Complex Soundscape
- Invasive Species and Invasion: Part 1
- When, and how, terror birds invade
- 8 Reasons Plants Are Amazing
- How our obsession with cleanliness might be hurting our health
- Stop, evaluate, and listen - serotonin surges when a female is present
- No Teeth, Long Tongue, No Problem - Adaptations for Ant-eating
- The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly - Predators, Parasitoids, and Parasites
- If you don't care for your microbiome, you might want to start
- Culturing the Least Cultured Members of Society
- Hit the Road Jack
- What Happened to Your Nose?
- Building better plants - Norman Borlaug and the Green Revolution
- Love Songs for Nobody - Birdsong in Winter
- The Evolution of Virulence
- The Unseen World – On Cheese?
- Find Me Where the Wild Things Are
- You won’t believe this simple trick to tell if your coral is healthy or not
- Cryptic Species Hide in Plain Sight
- Creature Feature - Pseudoscorpions
- World Fish Migration Day 2016!
- Walking With Giant Anteaters
- When A Sea Turtle Balanced Earth