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Grad School is stressful. Being a faculty member is stressful. Being part of the staff that makes it possible for faculty and students to do what they do is stressful.

Is there a book (or website) that has data, code for analysis, & example of how to report results for common ecological analyses? — Meghan Duffy (@duffy_ma) July 21, 2017 In sum: not really.

NB: position filled, but leaving up for the lab archive. We are seeking a highly motivated Ph.D. student to start at the University of Florida in Fall 2017. This student will work as part of a

[caption id=“attachment_10359” align=“aligncenter” width=“770”] Marston Science Library (Photo by Random McRandomhead, CC BY 2.0)[/caption] A little over a year ago, Christine Fruin (UF Scholarly Communications Librarian) put together a task force to try and assess the needs across campus with respect to scholarly communications issues (e.

in 2015 the American Society of Naturalists, Society of Systematic Biologists, and Society for the Study of Evolution had their joint meeting in Brazil - the first time this meeting was held in the tropics.

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.

The University of Florida has just pushed a press release about a paper by our Ph.D. student Ernane Vieira Neto [website]. Congratulations Ernane!   UF student’s research shines a light on Brazilian ecosystems [caption id=“attachment_9368” align=“alignright” width=“500”] Road cutting through a mixture of natural areas and agriculture in Brazil’s Cerrado (Photo by Emilio Bruna).

A few weeks ago I participated in an event and I was asked by the organizers to estimate the “value of my participation” – specifically the time spent preparing and delivering the presentation – so they could report this to the granting agency and use it in future grant proposals.

This semester our lab meeting will be partially dedicated to people sharing tools they use in the field, doing analyses, in lab, in life….whatever. These can be to increase efficiency, make fieldwork simpler, tame their email, etc.