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December 14, 2013
#MyGenderGap
A recent trend amongst the scientists I follow on twitter is to calculate our gender gaps in authorship (see #MyGenderGap). This interesting trend is in response to a recent article in Nature, and a challenge for each of us to calculate our own data and turn our glare on our own house. I decided to…
October 24, 2013
Travel, travel, travel
It’s been a very busy fall, for me and for the lab. The fall has been a period of building up the lab. In August we welcomed our first grad student, Eric Williams, into the lab. And then in October, Juliane Liberto joined the lab to help us sort through fossils. Finally, Kaitlin Maguire will…
August 30, 2013
Summer is coming to an end
Whew. It’s been a busy summer! Classes started this week and it seemed like a good opportunity to reflect a bit on what I was up to over the summer. I started out by visiting the Smithsonian for a working group meeting. Read more about my visit and thoughts on working groups in general here….
August 2, 2013
Check out the Science podcast about our recent paper
The podcast can be found here. My part runs from about 13:48 to 22:12.
August 1, 2013
New paper out today in Science!
I’ve got a new paper out today! This paper is a review on the influence of climate change on biotic interactions, focusing on past, present, and future episodes of climatic and ecological change. This paper was done in collaboration with Phoebe Zarnetske, Matt Fitzpatrick, and Seth Finnegan– a diverse group of folks spanning the spectrum from deep-time paleo (Seth) to…