The Wild Life of Columbus
The untold story of the species that stowed away on Columbus’s ship and how they have since changed the world. Columbus sailed to the Caribbean [...]
Announcement: 6 to 100 Hires in Public Science
[Positions listed at the end of this post] By the time the potato murrain arrived in Ireland scholars had already begun to explain its cause: a blight, a water mold. [...]
Life at the Margins
Some discoveries and innovations come from big labs funded incredibly well by governments in affluent countries. They come from those in the mainstream, freighters plowing [...]
Tracking Turtles with Juliana Thomas
“We were tracking turtles today!” Juliana Thomas immediately and enthusiastically tells me after I asked her how her day was going; “We’ve never tracked them [...]
The True and Deadly Story Behind My National Geographic Article on the Gulf of St. Lawrence
Four years ago I went to the Gulf of St. Lawrence to write the story of a place, a giant body of water in which [...]
Arthropod Photo Shoot… in Belize!
Lauren Nichols recently attended the BugShot Insect Photography Course in Belize this past September and came home with some spectacular photographs (and stories). She was [...]
Are there bark beetles in your backyard?
This past week we reconnected with Jiri Hulcr, resident Forest Entomologist at the University of Florida (and Dunn lab alum) who has just recently launched [...]
Meet the Worker Bees: Mack Pridgen of Tar Heel Ants
Our lab has a wonderful habit of keeping people around that like to keep their noses down… and we mean this in a good way! [...]
Meet the Worker Bees: Q & A with Mary Vincent
Our lab has been buzzing with research activity this summer. We thought it would be fun to sit down with a few of the worker [...]
How Many Ants Live in New York City?
by Rob Dunn Every so often for the last ten years, one of my collaborators, students or I could be seen standing in a median [...]
Meet the Worker Bees: Q & A with Shelby Anderson
Our lab has been buzzing with research activity this summer. We thought it would be fun to sit down with a few of the worker [...]
Nature in Your Backyard: Five-lined skinks!
Lately, I’ve been thinking about the nature that we observe in our basements, backyards, and neighborhoods. It started with a poem from Anna Zuiker, a [...]
#KidsDoScience reprise
School may be out for the summer, but that doesn’t mean you can’t be thinking about next year’s science fair project. Today, Adam Hochberg reported [...]
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 [...]
Let Me Introduce You to Your Tiny Neighbors
**Today we have a guest post from the one and only, Dr. Eleanor Spicer Rice, author of the NEW eBook, Dr. Eleanor’s Book of Common [...]