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April 22, 2013

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12:04 PM | Overhead rates on grants and prize money of the Royal Navy in the Napoleonic Wars
Yeah, you read that title right. You know this isn’t going to be a short read. People who aren’t used to writing and running federal grants aren’t probably that familiar with how overhead works. For every dollar you bring in to do work with your grant, your institution gets an additional percentage from the federal [...]
Small Pond Science
Academic Life | Ecology
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8:49 AM | Developmental trait evolution in Trilobites
Fusco et al. Evolution 66(2): 314-329. DOI:10.1111/j.1558-5646.2011.01447.x. Developmental trait evolution in Trilobites This is a guest post with Tim Astrop. Below, we give our first impressions of this article. Please comment below, or tweet Tim,  Will or Lynsey (maybe use #pegejc). Think of this as a journal club discussion group! This paper is a wonderful example of how innovative thinking [...]
PEGE Journal Club
Evolution | Ecology
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3:28 AM | A Moment in the Sun for Biomimicry
Already inspired by botany, solar panels imitate photosynthesizing plants with t...

Dang, X., Yi, H., Ham, M., Qi, J., Yun, D., Ladewski, R., Strano, M., Hammond, P. & Belcher, A. (2011). Virus-templated self-assembled single-walled carbon nanotubes for highly efficient electron collection in photovoltaic devices., Nature Nanotechnology, 6 377-384. DOI:

Barr, M., Rowehl, J., Lunt, R., Xu, J., Wang, A., Boyce, C., Im, S., Bulović, V. & Gleason, K. (2011). Direct monolithic integration of organic photovoltaic circuits on unmodified paper., Advanced Materials, 23 3500-3505. DOI:

Shockley, W. & Queisser, H. (1961). Detailed balance limit of efficiency of p-n junction solar cells., Journal of Applied Physics, 32 510. DOI:

King, R., Law, D., Edmondson, K., Fetzer, C., Kinsey, G., Yoon, H., Sherif, R. & Karam, N. (2007). 40% efficient metamorphic GaInP∕GaInAs∕Ge multijunction solar cells., Applied Physics Letters, 90 183516. DOI:

Krogstrup, P., Jørgensen, H., Heiss, M., Demichel, O., Holm, J., Aagesen, M., Nygard, J. & Fontcuberta i Morral, A. (2013). Single-nanowire solar cells beyond the Shockley–Queisser limit., Nature Photonics, 7 306-310. DOI:

Green Screen
Ecology | Environment
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Editor's Pick
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1:57 AM | The secret (and ancient) lives of houseplants
Today we have a guest post by Laura Jane Martin, a participant in the upcoming meeting on indoor evolution at the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center in June. Laura is a writer and PhD candidate at Cornell University, where she researches the ecology and conservation of wetland plants. Follow her new blog: https://sedges.wordpress.com/ My local coffee shop is populated with potted plants. The four closest to my favorite table are Zanzibar gem, bamboo palm, jade, and pothos – species from […]
Your Wild Life
Ecology | Microbiology

April 21, 2013

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5:41 PM | Friday Roundup: This Week's Wildlife Links (April 19th, 2013)
Awesome camera trap shots of Coyotes in the western United States. Do they look different than the Coyotes we have out east to you too? Or the midwest? How a bottom-dwelling ocean fish was found with birds in its stomach. With pics! An account of how fishing practices and regulations designed to reduce sea turtle mortality affect not only sea turtles, but small-scale commercial fisherpeople in
Living Alongside Wildlife
Conservation | Ecology
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1:00 PM | Windows with a Biodiversity View
Three books inspire me greatly.  They are (a) ‘Biophilia’ by E.O. Wilson, (b) ‘Sustaining Life: How Human Health Depends on Biodiversity’ by Eric Chivian and Aaron Bernstein, and (c) ‘Biophilic Cities’ by Tim Beatley. Written almost thirty years ago, the … Continue reading →
The Nature of Cities
Ecology | Environment
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1:00 PM | Birdbooker Report 267 | @GrrlScientist
Compiled by an ardent bibliophile, this weekly report includes The Natural History of Canadian Mammals; Traveling the 38th Parallel: A Water Line Around the World; The Raptors of Iowa: Paintings by James F. Landenberger; and Handbook of Agricultural Entomology; all of which were recently published in North America and the UKBooks to the ceiling, Books to the sky,My pile of books is a mile high.How I love them! How I need them!I'll have a long beard by the time I read them. ~ Arnold Lobel […]
GrrlScientist
Ecology | Evolution
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1:48 AM | The Inaugural Friday Link Dump: Flump (on Saturday)
Welcome to our first Flump! Starting today and continuing every Friday, we at BioDV will highlight some recent papers that . . .
BioDiverse Perspectives
Biology | Ecology

April 20, 2013

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1:09 PM | Of mites and men
[This post is by Thomas Cameron; I am just putting it up.  -B. ]Those that observe ecological dynamics have always stated that evolution plays a role, but it is only relatively recently that there has been a fever of interest in quantifying what that role might be. It is not the case that there was ever a lack of interest; it was just generally assumed that as evolution occurs on very long timescales, it will have little influence on contemporary ecological dynamics – certainly on the […]
Eco-Evo Evo-Eco
Ecology | Evolution

April 19, 2013

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9:50 PM | Separating the grains from the chaff, and all the pests that move with it
Contributed by Melanie Bateman, CABI Switzerland, and Roger Day, CABI Africa While responding to a food crisis in Tanzania in the 1970s, evidence indicates that the larger grain borer (Prostephanus truncatus) was inadvertently introduced into Africa through an infested food aid shipment[1]. Following this introduction and a later introduction in West Africa, the larger grain borer [...]
The Plantwise Blog
Biology | Ecology
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9:30 PM | ESA Policy News: April 19
Here are some highlights from the latest ESA Policy News by Science Policy Analyst Terence Houston.  Read the full Policy News here. BUDGET: SCIENCE RECEIVES HIGH PRIORTY IN WHITE HOUSE FY 2014 PROPOSAL On April 10, the White House released its Fiscal Year (FY) 2014 budget proposal, which includes significant increases for scientific research. The proposal [...]
EcoTone
Ecology | General Science
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8:35 PM | Study: Peer-to-peer training can improve safety, knowledge among Hispanic construction workers
Eric Rodriguez and his colleagues at the Latino Union of Chicago quite literally meet workers where they're at — on the city's street corners. Many of the day laborers who gather there are hired to work construction at residential housing sites. Work arrangements are hardly formal and day laborers are frequently subjected to unnecessary and illegal dangers on the job. Unfortunately, worker safety is often kicked to the curb in the street corner marketplace.
The Pump Handle
Ecology | Public Health
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3:10 PM | Call me coral
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SeaMonster
Ecology | Marine Biology
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2:58 PM | Petri Net Programming (Part 3)
guest post by David Tanzer The role of differential equations Last time we looked at stochastic Petri nets, which use a random event model for the reactions. Individual entities are represented by tokens that flow through the network. When the token counts get large, we observed that they can be approximated by continuous quantities, which […]
Azimuth
Ecology | Physics
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2:04 PM | Oregon Spotted Frog Update: Breeding Baby Frogs Up on the Rooftop
Vancouver Aquarium staff take us on a tour of the greenhouses where lots of baby frogs are being born!
Wild Wire
Ecology | Environment
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1:51 PM | Expiscor (19 April 2013)
Here’s  Expiscor -some discoveries I stumbled upon this week… (past versions can be found here) Why not eat insects?  This was a theme over the past week.  I learned that a group of McGill MBA students are up for the prestigious Hult Prize for a project about feeding the world, one cricket at a time!  And [...]
Arthropod Ecology
Academic Life | Ecology
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1:05 PM | Thanksgiving; a state of the blog report
It’s now the 10-week mark since the launch of this site. I wasn’t sure to what expect when I started, but I’m pleased at the early, and evolving, outcome. I want to thank the scores of you that have helped out one way or another, as well as consistent readers, especially those of you who [...]
Small Pond Science
Academic Life | Ecology
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1:00 PM | What we’re reading: Coelocanth genomics, barcoded pollen, and publication priorities
As we head into the weekend, here’s a few things we’ve noticed that might be worth your screen-time. In the journals Amemiya, C.T., Alföldi, J., Lee, A.P., Fan, S., Philippe, H., MacCallum, I., et al. 2013. The African coelacanth genome … Continue reading →
The Molecular Ecologist
Ecology | Evolution
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12:05 PM | Research in community colleges?
The base teaching load at community colleges is typically five lecture courses per semester. They teach nearly as much as K-12 teachers (who have the most challenging and most important job ever). Faculty in community colleges aren’t expected to do research. That doesn’t stop some community college faculty members from doing some research. Heck, there’s [...]
Small Pond Science
Academic Life | Ecology
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11:01 AM | Climate Change and Marine Communities 2: What is climate change?
This is the second installment of my serialization of a new book chapter on  “Climate Change and Marine Communities” written with Chris Harley and Mike Burrows. It is for a new book “Marine Community Ecology and Conservation” that I’m co-editing with Mark Bertness, Brian Silliman, and Jay Stachowicz.  The book is more or less a followup to the best-selling [...]
SeaMonster
Ecology | Marine Biology

April 18, 2013

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9:17 PM | US industrial sand production increases dramatically, yet industry says worker protection too costly
Since the White House Office of Management and Budget’s (OMB) Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) began reviewing the Labor Department’s proposed rule to reduce by one-half the permissible workplace exposure to respirable crystalline silica more than two year ago, the US has seen a dramatic increase in industrial sand mining, a major route of workers’ exposure to silica dust. Industry groups claim the more-protective standard would be too expensive.
The Pump Handle
Ecology | Public Health
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8:28 PM | SPACE!
As many of you know, a Canadian is currently in space, in charge of the International Space Station. His name is Commander Chris Hadfield, and not only is he up there right now, but is letting us tiny Earthlings know about it!Hadfield is also tweeting from space, sharing glorious photos from a viewpoint that many of us will never have the opportunity to see.If you look here, you can see all the wondrous photos he has taken of every continent and make yourself feel simultaneously very small and […]
The Definitive Host
Biology | Ecology
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7:09 PM | Lessons from Boston about the role of community preparedness
Saving Boston victims' lives and limbs required a well-coordinated response from emergency medical teams, the city's emergency command center, and hospital staff. Such coordination requires ongoing planning, and planning requires funding.
The Pump Handle
Ecology | Public Health
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6:01 PM | Who is an author?
When you write a manuscript in any field in academic science, you have to determine who will be an author.  (There is also the question of who is the first and corresponding author, but let’s ignore that for now.) Many a collaborative group has been tripped up by disagreements about this.  It can be a [...]
SeaMonster
Ecology | Marine Biology
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5:41 PM | Spotted wing drosophila monitoring recommendations for 2013
Spotted wing drosophila traps in strawberry plots at the Horticultural Crops Research Station, Clayton, NC. Photo: HJBStrawberries are just beginning to ripen in central North Carolina, so last week, we placed spotted wing drosophila (SWD, Drosophila suzukii) traps in our research plots at the Horticultural Crops Research Station in Clayton, NC.  Eagle eyed observers will noticed some differences in the traps in the photo above and those we placed in our SWD plots a few years ago. […]
NC Small Fruit & Specialty Crop IPM
Biology | Ecology
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4:30 PM | The Ruminant Podcast episode 19: Does the concept of “GMO” advance sustainable agriculture?
My interview with Jordan at the Ruminant. Does the concept of “#GMO” advance sustainable agriculture? http://theruminant.ca/2013/04/17/ruminant-podcast-episode-19-pam-ronald-genetic-engineering-plant-breeding/ The Ruminant Podcast episode 19: Pam Ronald on Genetic Engineering in Plant Breeding | the ruminant…sharing good ideas for farming and gardening.
Tomorrow's Table
Ecology | Policy
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3:00 PM | How to apply a concept from ant ecology to other disciplines…. or a post about organismal fidelity
By Jane Zelikova I love it when things come together. This is exactly what happened to me just the other day. To start at the beginning, I took an Organization for Tropical Studies (OTS) graduate tropical biology course in 2003. … Continue reading →
Early Career Ecologists
Academic Life | Ecology
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2:27 PM | Get your bags packed! You could be off to Churchill!
Winners of the Whale, Trails, and Polar Bear Tales Contest will be off to Churchill, Manitoba for some fossil hunting, polar bear spotting and so much more. Check out this awesome prize!
Wild Wire
Ecology | Environment
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12:27 PM | Efficient teaching: ungraded quizzes
One principle in teaching is that students need consistent feedback on their performance. They need to know how they’re doing, and use these data to adjust how, and how much, they are studying for a course. The obvious drawback is that frequent assessments take plenty of your time as the instructor — whether in the [...]
Small Pond Science
Academic Life | Ecology
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11:32 AM | Climate Change and Marine Communities 1
My co-authors Chris Harley and Mike Burrows and I recently turned in a book chapter to the editor on “Climate Change and Marine Communities”.  It is for a new book “Marine Community Ecology and Conservation” that I’m co-editing with Mark Bertness, Brian Silliman, and Jay Stachowicz.  The book is more or less a followup to [...]
SeaMonster
Ecology | Marine Biology
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