Over the next couple weeks, my show is going on the road! Tour dates: * 18 Oct 2013 – Boulder * 28 Oct

As an antidote to last weeks challenges to teaching ecology, here I’ve collected all the responses to the question:

What is the purpose of an invited seminar? Everybody wants to give a great seminar. But when the speaker gives

This post is mostly inside baseball among blog people, but it’s an important topic that I don’t want

My favorite new comic is BuzzHootRoar. It’s brand new, with two new comics that have come out this week.

Class needs to end when it is supposed to end. If you did not plan adequately, it is not acceptable

My department would be so much better off if it was possible for us to be accredited. But no accreditation

Alan Townsend has a remarkably frank post about how departments and individuals handle tenure decisions, and how plenty of people

With the understanding that we are social animals and that principles of behavioral ecology for social groups can apply to

My department is hiring two biologists. What field of biology? You name it! The department has a broad variety of