Archive for 2011
Why company ‘likes’ and reviews are bullshit
ESA Interviews: Aaron Berdanier
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. I almost missed my first interview at ESA. After 14 hours door-to-door to get to my hotel in Austin with no […]
Sunday Song
One Umbrella – Eintrocinc
ESA Interviews – Coming Soon
As promised, I interviewed a bunch of really cool ecologists at ESA this year. While I really enjoyed the talks at the conference and catching up with old friends, the interviews ended up being my favorite part of ESA! I’ll start writing those up and posting them soon, but the arrival of my stuff and […]
Home again!
I’m finally home after a thrilling, but exhausting ESA meeting. The trip home was a little more exciting and a lot longer than I expected due to a flock of birds attacking my plane. There were no winners in this interaction, but the birds definitely got the worst of it. I’m still pretty tired, but […]
A new kind of talk at ESA
I think the annual Ecological Society of America meeting needs some new talk types. I know, I know – there are already lots of different kinds of sessions – workshops, organized oral, contributed oral, symposia, special, and posters. But I think ESA would be better with some ‘overview’ talks and lectures for the general public. […]
Interview sneak peak: What’s an inquiline?
One of the people I’m interviewing this week thinks a lot about a specific system of inquilines. To prep you for reading about his work, I thought a little background on inquilines was in order. So what exactly is an inquiline? An inquiline is an animal (including bugs!) that lives inside a structure – like […]