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Time stress and temperature explain continental variation in damselfly body...
This is part of a series of short lay summaries that describe the technical publications I have authored. This paper, entitled “Time stress and temperature explain continental variation in damselfly...
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Why has the blog been so busy recently…?
For the two or three people who actually pay any attention to what I get up to here, you might have noticed a bit of a theme over the past couple of months: large numbers of posts (an anomaly in...
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Ecology and Evolution PhD Opportunities at the University of Leeds
I’m delighted to announce a suite of additional PhD projects in the School of Biology at the University of Leeds (scheme details are here). These are in addition to the dozen or so...
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Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it’s a monk!
I am fascinated by the field of “biomimetics” – attempting to find solutions to problems by looking to the natural world. Sometimes this involves buildings that work like termite nests, swimsuits that...
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Making my research more open using Kudos
I’ve always tried to make sure that my academic work wasn’t tucked away on a dusty shelf (or paywalled in an obscure academic journal, which is the equivalent in the digital age) and that has meant...
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The Fishy Business of Brexit
Before you start to feel bad for the fishermen (fisherpeople?) on the Thames, here are some facts: 1) Quotas are important. If we fish all the fish, there are no more fish. The fishing industry has...
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A hat-full of academic how-tos
Dipping in and out of the stream of tweets, there are always fascinating links to excellent resources for academics at all stages of their careers. I just spotted another, and thought it might be about...
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Community Collaborative Science (CoCoSci) as an alternative model for...
G.Mannaerts, CC BY-SA 4.0, http://bit.ly/2dT3gK4 I went to a fascinating talk by a colleague at Leeds, Dr Mark Davis, a few weeks ago. Mark works on Alternative Finance (“altfin”), which involves a...
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One quick trick to increase visibility and citations of research papers
Since I’m “young” (whatever that means) I sometimes get asked to advise on how to disseminate research outputs through new-fangled doohickies like “the social media” (like writing click-baity...
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What works in higher education: active learning
When I advocate for pedagogical research (an area in which I try to maintain an active interest), I am often told by colleagues that the quality of the research is poor. As a result, it is difficult to...
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