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Advice to the early-career scientist.
Here is the second part of the interview with Rosemary Grant. As with Rosie, we spoke about how she was mentored, some of her biggest personal challenges, and advice to the young. Me: Tell me about...
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Making a career out of innovation: Part I of my interview with Dr. Angela...
“In the ocean, it took organisms 50 million years to perfect their systems. We’re doing it in a few weeks.” Dr. Angela Belcher I first heard about Dr. Angela Belcher, one day, when on a coffee break, I...
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Getting a fantastic mentor is the key to success – Part 2 of my interview...
I feel very fortunate to have had a chance to talk with women from a wide range of scientific areas with such different backgrounds. I felt this most strongly in my interview with Dr. Angela Belcher,...
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Videocast for the Wheat et al paper
We published a fascinating paper on the genetics of life history adaptation in a butterfly metapopulations back in May, and the authors very kindly put together a Q&A videocast about their work....
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Science in our society – Part I. An interview with Dr. Jane Lubchenco
In early July, Dr. Lubchenco was kind enough to spend some time with me over the telephone talking a little bit about her life as the under secretary of commerce for oceans and atmosphere and...
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Stretching in new directions – Part II: Interview with Jane Lubchenco
On May 7, NOAA Administrator Jane Lubchenco received an aerial tour of coastal Louisiana with Nancy Sutley, chair of the White House Counsel on Environmental Quality. NOAA Corps CAPT Michele Finn...
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Q&A: Stacey Dunn chases pronghorn fawns up Bateman’s slope
A pronghorn buck watches over his harem. Photo courtesy Stacey Dunn. Stacey Dunn is, objectively, pretty amazing. She started grad school at the Univeristy of Idaho a year before I did, studying sexual...
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Q&A: Yannick Wurm wrangles RADseq to learn why some fire ants bow to more...
Fire ants, Solenopsis invicta. Photo by Flickr user HankPlank. Yannick Wurm grew up in Redwood City, California, and his initial plan was to design interfaces for Apple. But he went to university at...
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Q&A: Julian Catchen helps us dig into STACKS
Ready to dig into STACKS? Julian Catchen is a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Oregon, where he uses computational solutions to facilitate the analysis of next-generation sequencing data....
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Q&A: Julian Catchen helps us dig into STACKS – Part II
As promised, below is part II of our interview with Julian Catchen. These questions focus more on the specifics of using stacks (i.e., user-related questions). Please see the first post if you are...
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People behind the Science: Loren Rieseberg
The first in a series of monthly interviews on the Molecular Ecologist was a logical choice: Dr. Loren Rieseberg, the Chief Editor of our parent journal Molecular Ecology. Dr. Rieseberg is both a...
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People behind the Science: Dr. Ruth Shaw
In the second interview for the Molecular Ecologist, we feature Dr. Ruth Shaw from the University of Minnesota (full disclosure, Dr. Shaw was my PhD adviser). Dr. Shaw is currently the Editor-in-Chief...
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People behind the Science: Dr. Richard Lenski
A winter break special interview with Dr. Richard Lenski from Michigan State University! Dr. Lenski is probably best known for his amazingly long-long-term experimental evolution with E. coli that has...
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People behind the Science: Dr. Pleuni Pennings
For the first Molecular Ecologist Q&A feature of 2014, I’m excited to present Dr. Pleuni Pennings. Dr. Pennings is a postdoc with Dmitri Petrov at Standord University, where she’s studying the...
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People behind the Science: Dr. Charles Goodnight
This month, we touch on the always-exciting topic of multilevel selection in our Q&A feature with Dr. Charles Goodnight of the University of Vermont. In addition to his work on multi-level...
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People behind the Science: Dr. Montgomery Slatkin
To honor his recent election to the National Academy of Sciences, we’re featuring Dr. Montgomery Slatkin of the University of California, Berkeley. Dr. Slatkin is known for his work in theoretical...
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Haldane’s Sieve
This week we have a guest post by Graham Coop and Joe Pickrell. Here, Graham [GC] and Joe [JKP] answer a few questions we had about the development and future of their blog, Haldane’s Sieve. If you’re...
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New faces: Arun Sethuraman
New contributor Arun Sethuraman This week we’re pleased to welcome a big group of new contributors to the blog. By way of introduction, I asked each of them to answer a few quick questions about him-...
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New faces: Rob Denton
New contributor Rob Denton This week we’re pleased to welcome a big group of new contributors to the blog. By way of introduction, I asked each of them to answer a few quick questions about him- or...
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New faces: Stacy Krueger-Hadfield
New contributor Stacy A. Krueger-Hadfield This week we’re pleased to welcome a big group of new contributors to the blog. By way of introduction, I asked each of them to answer a few quick questions...
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