Meet Your Mites: Family Style
Over the last few months, our first cohort of Students Discover Kenan Fellows have been busy in their classrooms piloting and refining the citizen science [...]
Cat Tracker Launches Down Under
We’re pleased to announce that Cat Tracker has landed in Oz! Last week, our colleague Philip Roetman and team from the Discovery Circle, a citizen [...]
Why We #CitSci
Your Wild Life is relocating to the West Coast this week to participate in the inaugural meeting of the Citizen Science Association in San Jose, [...]
A Heart-to-Heart with Rob Dunn
We're excited for the upcoming release of Rob Dunn's new book, The Man Who Touched His Own Heart, on February 3! After taking on the [...]
ICYMI: Holiday Break Edition
Happy New Year! Classes are back in swing today here at NC State and we’re slowly but surely digging ourselves out from under the pile [...]
Meet the Cleanup Crew
Last week, you heard A LOT about the important role arthropods (particularly ants) play in removing food waste from the street medians and parks of [...]
Navel-gazing Newsflash
A few quick updates on Belly Button Biodiversity and related projects: Azeen Ghorayhshi recently wrote a short bit for Wired Magazine UK recently about Belly [...]
Navel-gazing in NYC
We’re headed back to the Big Apple this week – this time, not in search of ants, but BELLY BUTTONS. We’re launching a new research [...]
Happy National Cat Day!
Apparently, cat fanciers love celebrating their feline friends with official holidays. A few months ago we were celebrating World Cat Day (August 8, 2014). And [...]
Belly Button Portraits – An Opportunity to Create Art through Science!
We’d like to think that over the course of the last few years, our Belly Button Biodiversity project has inspired quite a few things. We’re [...]
Buzz Kill
One of the joys of being the resident entomologist in my family and circle of friends is that I frequently receive “What’s this bug?” texts [...]
Urban Cicada Safari
On September 2, as the 9-5ers emptied out of downtown Raleigh, we gathered near the State Legislature Building to embark on an urban insect adventure. [...]
Citizen Scientists Make Important Discovery about Camel Crickets
Grad Student Too Busy, Annoyed to Care about Giant Bugs in Basement In graduate school, I rented a house with a few fellow students on [...]
Looking at the Past to Understand the Future
No question, our planet is heating up. So what impact will global climate change have on biodiversity and ecosystems? This BIG question, as you’ve undoubtedly [...]
Good News: We’ve all got mites!
Over the last year and a half, hundreds of you volunteered to have your faces scraped for science. In looking at the contents of your [...]