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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 […]
Hello from ESA 2011!
I’m at ESA in Austin, Texas – thanks to you! I’m melting from the heat, but so happy and excited to be here. I’ve already run into lots of old friends and interviewed my first awesome ecologist. Awesome ecologist posts will likely be up late this week or sometime next week. Until then, have a […]
Floating
Dreams from the Malaria Pills (Turner) Forward Operating Base Eagle, Iraq This time it’s beautiful. He’s in the kelp beds somewhere off the California coast, floating where green leaves touch the sun, as if he’s disentangled from thought itself, as if the mind has come this far, up from the depths to release him to […]
Big City Pride
The Pride Festivals I attended before this weekend were literally walled off events. The festival would rent part of a city park and surround it with chain link fence, then plaster the fence with signs. You couldn’t see in or out. These events were trying to carve out a safe space and do a little […]
Comments Housekeeping
I’ve switched to Disqus for comment management here. Until all the comments originally made in the old system finish importing into Disqus, comments on old posts may not be visible. Give it a day or two before you start emailing me about problems with comments showing up.