Bringing you another week of discoveries… Expiscor is here!
- Perhaps the best entomology story of last week is… the insects with gears in its legs by Ed Yong
- That being said, a close runner-up is this one: sometimes poop happens if you are persistent.
- Don’t believe me? Well here’s a photo from that blog post (reproduced here, with permission)
(photo copyright C. Ernst)
- Arachnophobic Entomologists. Yup, it’s true! Entomology today reports…
- Sea spiders! Nope – not arachnids… but rather Pycnogonids! These are really fascinating animals – here’s a nice paper about them, from Matthew Cobb.
- Speaking of oceans and arthropods, check out this neat post over at Why Evolution is True. Twitter is at its best with these kinds of science discussions.
- We know so little. A mystery about mites with feathery legs.
- Great looking paper about forest tent caterpillars in eastern Canada, by Chris MacQuarrie & coauthors.
- On the relationship between the pacific ‘garbage patch’ and insects. (thanks Cay!)
- Entomological methods: Derek Hennen explains Berlese funnels.
- The path of least resistance. A wonderful post about evolution, from Malcolm Campbell. I love this quote: “Evolution shows us that, contingent on the forces that shape them, paths of least resistance can lead to stunning innovation“
- Ok, I know you are now ready for a spider photograph, courtesy of Thomas Shahan (reproduced here, with permission)
Jumping spiders are the best.
- Travel to the Galapagos…. with Google Street View.
- On writing well – terrific post by Sarah Boon (something I missed in last week’s Expiscor – oops!)
- For ecologists… A conversation with Bob Paine. Amazing!
- Navigating personal-professional boundaries in science.
- And the tweet of the week is courtesy of Meghan Drrns:
- Speaking of twitter – please follow along with my field biology class! Tweets starting this week, watch for #ENVB222
- On the topic of teaching – do students learn more from non-Tenure-track staff?
- Attention undergraduate students: Some thoughts about emailing your Profs
- Are we too busy and overworked to think creatively? Terry McGlynn offers a perspective on this.
- How Chris McCandless died – a more scientific take on some of the mystery surrounding his death in Alaska.
- In praise of Buddleia – the butterfly bush names in honour of the Reverend Adam Buddle. I must see if I’m related to this botanist!
- And a spidery video to finish things off. So awesome:
Arthropod Ecology 