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Dr. Bette Loiselle and I teach a class called “Fundraising for Tropical Conservation & Development Professionals”, and one of our assignments is for students to explore the costs and benefits of crowdfunding by running a project of their own.

Hi all, We will be having a discussion with Herton Escobar about how he became a science journalist, how he gets ideas for stories, how he approaches writing and reporting, etc.

For lab meeting next week you should read through these papers. I suggest reading them in order (you can Skim Michener and Strasser et al. - both detail rich, but for lab meeting Borer et al.

The paper a group of students and I wrote in which we evaluate the gender composition of 10 editorial boards in environmental biology has just been published in the open access journal PeerJ.

I started posting data from papers to Dryad and elsewhere a while back, but I finally made a commitment too start posting the code used to manipulate, analyze, and plot the data as well.

I just wanted to give a shout out to a great open-access journal that fills a much needed empty niche for field biologists – lists of biological inventories and notes on the geographic distribution of any taxon.

Image: “Pen and Paper”, by Orin Zabest.  This semester I taught a 1-unit workshop on scientific publication for graduate students. As part of the workshop we studied how bias – geographic, institutional, gender, etc.

I hate our university’s course management system and have migrated to worpdress for courses. It does have one or two handy features, however, one of which is that students can upload assignments to it directly so you no longer have to collect them in class or ask they be submitted via email.

For a number of reasons not worth going into I dislike using our university course management system (CMS). I therefore decided to follow the suggestions in this great post by Ryan Cordell from the Chronicle’s awesome ProfHacker blog and start using Wordpress as a CMS.