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Auriel M.V Fournier – Marshbird Migration Ecology, Bird Conservation and Wetland Management
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Auriel M.V Fournier. Marshbird Migration Ecology, Bird Conservation and Wetland Management. MORails 2016 (all time) by the numbers. 2016 numbers followed by (all time project total). Migratory Connectivity of Sora, Virginia Rail and Yellow Rail at NAOC. Presented one of my dissertation chapters at the North American Ornithological Conference this past week. Using species distribution models from marshbird monitoring data to inform bayesian assignment of migratory rails during autumn migration. New Paper ...
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Arthro-Pod: December 2015
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The home for Arthro-Pod,the podcast that teaches you about the weird and wonderful world of insects! Friday, December 18, 2015. Arthro-Pod Episode 17: The Entomology Society Awakens! Today we will be featuring some awesome and quick interviews that occurred at the 2015 national Entomological Society of America meeting in Minneapolis, MN! I was lucky enough to meet up with 24 different scientists who all had a great story to tell! On Six Legs podcast with Tom Turpin. Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT).
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Terry McGlynn | Small Pond Science
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Research, teaching, and mentorship in the sciences. Small Pond summer recap. Now that the academic year is starting back up, what did you miss over the summer from Small Pond? Here are selected highlights:. Amy Dalal provided some great advice for department chairs. I argued that religious scientists are a component of diversity in STEM. And observed that too often we do things that unnecessarily disrespect our colleagues. I explained what limits productivity in teaching institutions. In 10 years, Harvey...
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Recommended reads #56 | Small Pond Science
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Research, teaching, and mentorship in the sciences. Some fundamental lessons from ten years of sciencing. You know you want to look at this church shaped like a chicken. A meth lab at the National Institutes of Standards and Technology exploded. I imagine more news will be forthcoming. I don’t know what is driving NIST employees in exurban Maryland to operate a meth lab. Everybody else is doing it. Workaholism isn’t a valid requirement for advancing in science. List that came out in. Is noticeably less h...
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A departmental retreat from another dimension | Small Pond Science
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Research, teaching, and mentorship in the sciences. A departmental retreat from another dimension. I once participated in a departmental retreat from the Twilight Zone. Or it might have taken place in an alternate-universe wormhole. Details are fuzzy, but when I searched my google calendar, I found it still sitting there, way back from Spring 2006. There I remember a few things with uncommon clarity, on account of the weirdness. For most of the retreat, we discussed pedagogical challenges and the particu...
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Outreach Fund | ESEB
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European Society for Evolutionary Biology. Ecology and Evolution Journal. PRIZES & FUNDING. Equal Opportunities Initiative Fund. Congress Attendance Aid Grant. Godfrey Hewitt Mobility Award. John Maynard Smith Prize. Stearns Graduate Student Prize. PRIZES & FUNDING. Will be accepted twice yearly (deadlines March 15, September 15) and should be submitted by email to Ute Friedrich (Email: office@eseb.org; Subject: Outreach). The applications will be evaluated by the Outreach Initiative Committee:. And will...
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site grants | Small Pond Science
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Research, teaching, and mentorship in the sciences. Using a grant writer. This entry was tagged funding. The folly of expecting institutionalized funding. When a child is raised, we provide them with a home, food, education, love and encouragement. Within a couple decades, give or take, the kid grows up and is expected to care for itself. You can’t really expect the same of federally funded ventures. If an agency wants something, then they can fund it. But when they stop funding it, then they’r...Blog at...
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awards | Small Pond Science
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Research, teaching, and mentorship in the sciences. NSF’s Water Man award. When I was a tween, a cutsey feel-good book was a bestseller:. All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten. If we learn to solve problems as kids, that should help us solve similar problems as adults. Let’s do a kindergarten-level exercise in math and pattern recognition. Can you figure out what shape comes next? Let’s do another one. What shape do you expect to find next? Let’s look for another pattern:. If an agency want...
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Do all of your undergrads know what grad school is? | Small Pond Science
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Research, teaching, and mentorship in the sciences. Do all of your undergrads know what grad school is? How many undergrads in your department want to go to grad school? Do all of them know what grad school is about? Are there any students who might benefit greatly from grad school but aren’t even aware of the option? Other students don’t have any specific professional goals, and might be interested in grad school if they knew what it is. Undergraduates typically don’t know what happens in grad sch...
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Job seeking | Small Pond Science
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Research, teaching, and mentorship in the sciences. This is a list of posts from this site designed to advise and inform those who are applying for positions at teaching-centered institutions. What kind of faculty job do you want? Teaching universities as the farm league. If you’re thinking of taking a job at an institution mostly with the hope or thought of leaving for somewhere else later on). It’s not easier, just different. Also on the same topic, Teaching is for people who have imposter syndrome?
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