- ELISA analysis in R
- “The New Education” by Cathy Davidson
- What works in higher education: active learning
- Overassessment, stress, and university education
- An example of progressive peer-review in a scientific journal
- One quick trick to increase visibility and citations of research papers
- Tweeting over the Great Firewall
- Update on Community Collaborative Impact
- The power of stories (a call for arts-science collaboration)
- Help us understand mimicry!
- “Noble nature”…?
- Perceptions of wetlands: why so negative?
- My run of luck
- Who are “Adjacent Government”?
- Can you recognise individual dragonflies from their faces?
- Community Collaborative Science (CoCoSci) as an alternative model for scientific collaboration?
- Imposter syndrome and a note of thanks
- “In Conversation” – science communication goes semi-pro!
- To bee or not to bee – why some insects pretend to be dangerous
- A hat-full of academic how-tos
- Messing about in boats
- Why I am voting “Remain”
- The Fishy Business of Brexit
- The man who played with dinosaurs
- Keeping them engaged – tech solutions for in-class quizzes
- Avoiding Attack! (a classroom kit)
- Making my research more open using Kudos
- Academic hiring, REF, and the Sports Illustrated curse
- A recommitment to blogging!
- The lost art of foraging
- Is battling biodiversity decline like tackling terrorism?
- How to write a scientific paper
- Dragonfly mind control?
- PhD funding for biological research at the University of Leeds
- Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it’s a monk!
- Pedagogy and a Pint
- Ecology and Evolution PhD Opportunities at the University of Leeds
- Do dragonflies give birth to live young?
- Why has the blog been so busy recently…?
- How big is a damselfly, and why?
- More toxic frogs live longer, but more venomous snakes do not
- One simple way to increase visibility of your scientific publications
- The psychology of animal camouflage
- Invasive damselflies get bigger as they move through the UK
- Some hoverflies look like stinging wasps and bees – some even act the part!
- How helpful are urban ponds for biodiversity?
- Damselflies change the colour of their wings when other species are around
- Rain, not temperature, seems to have driven fossil mammal diversity in North America
- Bradford’s ponds aren’t reaching their potential, and we think we know why
- Urban ponds can contain as many species as ponds outside of cities
- Damselfly wings change shape in harsher habitats
- The impact of environmental warming on Odonata – a review [paper summary]
- Damselflies change shape under climate change, only if they are close to their limits
- Damselflies develop “spotty wings” when it gets cold
- Damselflies change shape as they move north
- Climate change interferes with our use of animals to judge water quality
- Massively Online Open Courses (MOOCs) in Higher Education
- Blood-sucking mites are worse in mid-summer for damselflies
- Dragonflies get old, just like us!
- Online computer programming courses
- Citizen science needs fancy statistics to detect the impacts of climate change
- Twitter in teaching
- Computer models can predict where rare species might be found
- Website design in teaching
- Student blogging
- Lots of damselflies age, especially when males compete for territories
- Damselfly sex doesn’t always produce children, and that’s a problem for evolutionary biologists!
- It’s hard to predict how many species a pond might contain…
- Ponds are dynamic habitats, which makes it tough to conserve biodiversity…
- Drones and quadcopters in conservation
- Less common species tend to have more parasites
- Leopard dive bomb
- A defense of “denial” and “debate” on climate change
- Yet another post about gender and academic conferences
- British dragonflies are emerging earlier in the year under climate change
- Who would win in a fight between a rhino and a tiger?
- Why I blog (occasionally!)
- Study design and mark recapture estimates of dispersal [paper summary]
- My first preprint submission
- Be sensible about open access, but it’s still a good thing!
- iPad apps for academics (Part 2)
- Flipping the classroom – how to make lectures engaging and interactive
- iPad apps for academics (Part 1)
- Funding for academic outreach in biology (and other sciences)
- The Science of the Sunday Assembly
- Peer instruction – interactive teaching in a large lecture class
- “Data from above” – quadcopters and thermal imaging in ecology
- Clayton Woods and Woodside Quarry
- Good mimics have the costumes and the acting skills
- I did a map!
- PhD opportunities in ecology and evolution
- Arbitrary round number alert!
- Communicating camouflage and mimicry: chocolate, hover flies and Teddy Roosevelt
- PubMed Commons is a huge leap forward
- “Camouflage on the edge” – a new paper on concealing colouration
- A new MOOC from Leeds: “Fairness and Nature: When Worlds Collide”
- The perils of predictability
- Using R to look at engagement with Twitter at scientific conferences
- Six tips for biologists starting out on Twitter
- Do Power Balance wrist bands work? Of course they don’t…
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