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Grad School Diaries
- When does order matter when listing the sexes? Always
- What is a post bac? My experience in PREP
- Musings of a Hobby Mushroom Hunter
- Storytelling in Science
- My bonsai journey part 2
- Mentoring Musings
- Three Minute Thesis…But Make It Virtual
- Nurturing and celebrating our offline selves
- Three things STEM undergrads might not know (that you can teach them!)
- Sleeping in a Pandemic
- Wildlife and Protected Areas During the Pandemic
- A Basic Guide to Mentoring Undergraduates in STEM
- A Guide to Graduate School Interviews
- How to Join a Lab
- My Bonsai Journey Part 1
- 10 Life Science Films You Can't Miss
- Protein Perspectives from the Protein Data Bank
- Managing Up
- The Traveling Field Biologist
- More Tales from Trails
- Is Science for Women?
- Tales from Trails: Field Dispatches from Africa
- So Many Choices… The Challenge of Selecting Trees for the Urban Environment
- Should I Apply to Graduate School?
- The Tale of A Conspicuous Invader and Inconspicuous Field Sites
- A Day - and Night - in the Life of a Bat Biologist
- Diversity in the Forest
- Standing on the shoulders of giants
- Tails from the Field: Studying Lemurs in Southwestern Madagascar
- Frankenstein: A ghost-story about scientific ethics and work-life balance
- Scottish Summer Surprises - Part 2!
- Lessons from My First Conference
- Scottish Summer Surprises (Part 1)!
- The Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting
- How Many Botanists Does it Take to ID an Orchid?
- A Baby Photo Book – For Fish!
- From Bill Nye to the ‘Average Joe’: The changing face of science communication
- Research Highlight - Making Brain Cells
- Extract DNA from any living thing
- Celebrity Sightings while Science-ing
- Breaks on Campus
- Awe-inspiring, but relatable – the goal of any science communication effort
- 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
Earth's Organisms
- Thriving in Deadly Environments: Could Mushrooms be our Ticket to Colonizing Space?
- Freshwater Mussels are Declining: Why Should You Care, and What Can You Do?
- The Story of Chestnuts in North America: How a Forest Giant Disappeared from American Forests and Culture
- Friendships, Betrayals, and Reputations in the Animal Kingdom
- Why Don't Apes Have Tails?
- Giant Bacteria, Giant Genomes
- 'Til the Yeasts Come Home? - Domesticating Microbes
- Built Different
- COVID-19 Stinks!
- How do microbes help animals adapt?
- What's the world's largest virus?
- How Monkeys and Apes Fight Climate Change by Eating Fruit
- Sound the Alarm! One Unique Way Primates Avoid Being Eaten
- The Drama of Barotrauma: Blobfish, Rockfish, and More
- Why are some primate infants brightly colored?
- Technological Advancements…. Thanks to Ferrets?
- Are palm trees really trees?
- The Eastern Spotted Newt: A Wandering Teenage Identity Crisis
- Survival by Aposematism and Mimicry: The Evolution of Bright Color Patterns
- Sifak-huh?
- You are a fish
- Things That Glow Pink in the Night: Why do some animals have fluorescent coloration under ultraviolet light?
- When You Call a Fish a Frog
- Who’s Got the Biggest Genome of Them All?
- The Biology of Booze ft. Tequila
- Dying Tomatoes, Healthy Kittens, and the EMP500: Why you should care about the International Society for Microbial Ecology
- The Purebred Poodle Problem
- Let It Glow
- I’m Likin’ That Lichen
- Celebrate the Holidays with a Decorative Parasite
- Sleeping One Hemisphere at a Time
- Through the Mycologist's Hand Lens: Deceptive Decomposers
- Life Science in Outer Space!
- 5 Things You Didn’t Know About Rats
- Watermelon Snow
- Critter Candid Cam
- Three Cool Plants in Hot Places
- A parasite only a moth could love
- Telling tales of plants and their names
- The Colorful World of Primate Hair
- Where do fish go in winter?
- You Scratch My Back and I’ll Scratch Yours
- Alien Microbes: How studying hyperthermophiles can help us discover life on other planets
- 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
Our Ecosystems
- Does Climate Change Impact Infectious Diseases?
- La Belle et La Boeuf (NOT!) How do human meat preferences impact climate change?
- Artificial Selection: From Tiny Fish to Empty Dish
- A breath of fresh air: How the great oxygenation event changed life on Earth forever
- The Women Behind the Gun vs. The Women Behind the Bird
- How Community-based Conservation Helps Lemurs
- How Botanical Sexism is Making Your Allergies Worse
- The Pandemic That Changed The World: Many Questions and a Few Answers
- The Biology of Booze ft. Gin & Tonic
- Climate Disaster? Humans Will Pass Point of No Return Sooner Than We Think
- Living below sea level (Part 2): Learning to live with water
- Living below sea level: Dutch engineering marvels
- How Climate Change Affects Your Seafood
- Money Doesn’t Grow on Monsteras: The Economics of Indoor Plants
- Climate change impacts on our health and safety
- Mangroves: at your service
- Pleistocene Rewilding: A Controversial Idea in Conservation Biology
- Mangroves: where blue meets green, brown, and every other color under the sun
- 3 Reasons Why What You Grow in Your Garden Matters
- How a cattle vaccine helped save giraffes
- Do we have all the data needed to make safe choices about seafood?
- Is it possible to eat too much fish?
- Single Large or Several Small? The Ongoing Debate in Nature Preserve Design
- Moving away from monoculture in aquaculture
How It Works
- How the Microbiome May Solve the Mystery of Peanut Allergies
- CRISPR technology may be a promising tool to combat multidrug resistant fungus C. auris
- How the search for a universal gene forever changed biology: the story of Carl Woese and 16S sequencing
- Quarantine Blues? The Effects of Social Isolation in the Brain
- The Lovebug Effect
- CRISPR: Careful When Running with Genetic Scissors
- Bacteria: The Solution to Our Plastic Waste Problem?
- Maps are the ultimate scientific tool
- Why does it is Taste like that? - How Saccharomyces Yeast Makes Beer
- Inherited Trauma
- WEIRD Science
- Hug an Oyster for Wildlife Conservation
- The Big Data Revolution
- Bang! 'Ouch' *Grab*
- Interview with Dr. Matthew Moore - Viral Perspectives
- Why are Parka Ruffs Made with Wolverine Fur?
- Why Don’t We Keep Resolutions?
- Genetic Diversity and Its Impact on Disease Treatment
- How Rat Fur can Help Diabetics Heal Wounds
- Fat is Good for Your Brain
- Why Wash Your Hands?
- A Unique Case of Arthropod Vision
- How does your clock tick?
- Expand Your Mind
- Going on Autopilot? Thank Your Place Cells
- Immunohistochemistry: One man’s illness is another man’s experimental verification method
- The Power of Fear: Four Ways Being Scared Affects Wildlife
- The crime-fighting field of forensic palynology
- Bioremediation - One Species’ Trash, Another’s Treasure?
- Brain Surgery… It’s Not Rocket Science!
- Changing the climate change conversation
- Why does alcohol make you dizzy?
- It’s Not Science Fiction, Chimeras Are Real
- A Peanut A Day Keeps the Allergist Away
- The Rise of Sourdough and Mason Jar Ecosystems
- Radioactive Bananas, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and Greenhouse Gases, OH MY!
- Uncharted Intellectual Territory: Science Isn’t Linear
- It’s a Trap! How Looks Can Be Deceiving in Habitat Selection
- The Feelings that Linger: Good vs. Bad
- Go With Your Gut...
- Image Hosting Test Post
- Live Fast, Die Young: Why Some Animals Die After Mating
- New Culture, New Microbiome, New Problems
- If Only There Were a U.S. Census Question About Biodiversity…
- How An Invasive Plant Helped Fuel The Largest Wildfire You’ve Never Heard Of
- Human Eye Structure Makes No Sense…Or Does It?
- The Price of Pigment on Your Immune System
- Midnight Snacks Could Be the Death of You
- Lobster Fight Club