Archive for September, 2011
ESA Interviews: Jeremy Fox
I interviewed awesome ecologists at the 2011 Ecological Society of America meeting in exchange for reader donations, which paid for my conference attendance. This is one in a series of posts about those interviews. After a lazy Sunday morning spent reading Middle World over buckwheat pancakes and strawberries, I poured myself another cup of coffee, […]
Pretty Things
What’s a neuroscientist doing at ESA?
Every year at ESA, I meet awesome new people. This year, one of the very most awesome was Zen Faulkes of NeuroDojo. He’s a neuroscientist studying crayfish nervous systems – not exactly who you’d expect at an ecology meeting! But it turns out that the crayfish he’s studying is a new invasive species with some […]
Why our political discussions don’t go anywhere
I normally delete comments that merely sling insults and don’t contain any substantive contribution/critique. But I had to leave this comment by Dave Koch from Prescott up on my post poking fun at the poor writing skills of of AZ Representative Paul Gosar (or his staff). I left the comment up partly because it (amusingly) […]
ESA Interviews: Jean Burns
I interviewed awesome ecologists at the 2011 Ecological Society of America meeting in exchange for reader donations, which paid for my conference attendance. This is one in a series of posts about those interviews. Jean Burns is an ecologist at Case Western Reserve University in Ohio. She’s interested in community assembly and using invasive species to […]
Sunday Song
Crepes in Austin
The best restaurant I visited while at ESA in Austin was Le Café Crêpe. Look how happy it made these other ecologists: