- 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…
- What’s the use of wetlands?
- Four reasons to publish during your PhD, and how to go about it
- Gardens and roofs as nature reserves in cities
- Dead ducks, homosexual necrophilia, and the importance of anecdotes
- The absurdity of research grant writing
- League tables and “Rate Your Lecturer”
- The first female entomologist: Maria Sibylla Merian
- Blended Learning Techniques: Audio and video feedback
- Species with a chemical defence (but not a chemical offence) live longer
- BREAKING NEWS: Correactology can no longer cure cancer!!
- Blended Learning Techniques: Online office hours
- Blended Learning Techniques: Blogs
- A nice review of the demands of open science
- Our Skeptical Inquirer article has been published!
- Blended Learning Techniques: Using Google Forms for in-class quizzes
- Three simple reasons why MOOCs are a good thing
- Green space is good for your health (also, Pope is Catholic)
- If you ever wondered why New Zealand has such strict immigration laws…
- Leeds Big Data Week (big data for conservation biology)
- Beetles on flowers
- Launch of a new project: the West Yorkshire Ponds Project (WYPP)
- While we wait for the open access revolution, self-archive!
- 52 Weeks of Photography: Week 6 (York Minster)
- 52 Weeks of Photography: Week 5 (Meanwood Valley Urban Farm)
- My PhD thesis in the ten hundred most used words
- 52 Weeks of Photography: Week 4 (Dave the spider)
- 52 Weeks of Photography: Week 3 (Insect Graveyards)
- How much of an academic paper can you post online? Most of it!!
- The (current) limits of open access and #PDFtribute
- 52 Weeks of Photography: Week 2 (An Early Morning)
- What to do if someone threatens/attacks you with a knife
- Sexism is a (horrible and depressing) fact
- 52 Weeks of Photography: Week 1 (Tropical World)
- 52 weeks of photography
- Open Education III: How to post lectures/talks online
- Open Education II: Does posting online lectures/notes break copyright laws?
- 2012 in review
- Open Education I: Why is open access to education important?
- Climate change denial: advice for skeptical projects
- Climate change denial: my experience with the media
- Sexist skeptics? Here’s how to find out
- Climate change denial: a response to some criticism
- Climate change denial: my part in its downfall
- “The UK is 25% non-religious”: what does that mean…?
- PhD opportunities for UK/EU/International students at the University of Leeds
- Why does breast cancer research receive more research funding than prostate cancer?
- Streaming view of Hurricane Sandy in New York
- Do all species age?
- Dragonfly intestines: nature’s Swiss Army knife
- Does the contraceptive pill affect female mate choice in humans?
- I have an Erdos number of 5!
- Why I love Creative Commons and the Open Source movement (and my attempt to give something back)
- Is Correactology just chiropractic in a funny hat?
- A new paper
- A skeptical take on allergy testing
- Journal dedicates entire issue to replicating previous studies
- What’s so funny about peace, love and World of Warcraft?
- Is water fluoridation safe and/or effective?
- Is religion good for the environment?
- I’ve been nominated for an award (along with everyone else!)
- New Ben Goldacre book on clinical trials and academic misconduct
- From the Dojo to the Classroom: teaching in martial arts
- Why are there imperfect mimics?
- Best. Email. Ever.
- Carleton University is being too honest on its Wikipedia page
- Scientific publishing – what a con…
- I get email
- The difference between men and women
- Clever little Keas…
- The PhD’s Job Crisis
- Opening up my science!
- Hume, the self, and morals
- LEGO Friends: toy or tool of the mysognists?
- How to make the world more awesome
- Licensing and legitimacy in alternative medicine
- Pure Med Naturopathic Centre, Ottawa: Logical fallacies and unproven treatments
- International variation in IQ – the role of parasites
- The limitations of clinical trials
- Odonate of the week: Ischnura elegans
- Mantids!
- Nail him to the nearest tree
- The value of scientific hoaxes
- If you go down to the stormwater management facility today, you’re sure of a big surprise!
- Odonate of the week: Anax imperator
- Climate relicts
- Correactology – a very Canadian woo
- Debunking the drug store: Oscillococcinum and Homeocoksinum
- Odonate of the week: Pseudolestes mirabilis
- Debunking the drug store: Stodal
- Rubber bands on Groupon – Redux
- Debunking the drug store: Introduction
- Caterpillar eyespots
- Negative ions and health (a review)
- More expensive rubber bands
- How cryptozoology could actually do some good
- Odonate of the week: Libellula pulchella
- Homeopathic elephants…
- “Harmony bands”, bovine excrement on Groupon…
- Dragonflies vs. damselflies
- The weird and wonderful world of katydids
- Odonate of the week: Pyrrhosoma nymphula
- A trip to Pink Lake, Gatineau Park
- Debunking Chris Hassall
- Evolution of superstition
- Project pigeon
- Odonate of the week: Sympetrum obtrusum
- In search of the Chupacabra
- The problem of hierarchical problems
- Odonate of the week: Coenagrion puella
- A Canadian perspective on clinical trial registration
- In search of Nessy
- Ants: predators and prey
- Science meets science fiction (and fans)
- Odonate of the week: Celithemis eponina
- In search of Sasquatch
- REPOST: Homeopathy and the NHS
- Hello (again) world!
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