Sometimes Buster tries to scratch with his non-existent back leg and I find it so funny. I've only managed to capture it on video once though. You're welcome.

I declined a review today, and, for the first time, there was no option to recommend other potential reviewers? I always do, because I feel bad about declining, but this was new for me.

Another rotifer just spinning around.

Asplanchna!

Has anyone hired an illustrator for a conceptual figure for a paper? Unfortunately, art is not one of my talents ... @tessgrainger.bsky.social You hired someone for the figure in the Theory for Empiricists paper, right?

I'm just a pond water account now.

My students and I found some colonial rotifers today.

Buster by the apartment fan today. We survived the heat wave!

Just finished my poster for the Unifying Ecology Across Scales Gordon Research Conference! I'm very excited to show some new work (very new!) about predator adaptation to varying prey densities and the emergence of macroecological scaling laws!

Found this mite today and couldn't help myself.

Students and I have been struggling to keep paramecium alive from the campus pond. Today we looked at the conductivity and it is 15x higher than other local ponds. Nearly 1ppt salinity!

Want to think about ecology differently this summer? Still some spots at the 2026 Unifying Ecology Across Scales GRC. www.grc.org/unifying-eco...

Y'all better watch out. I have access to the college's high performance computing cluster now.

Just had a minor panic attack because I thought I screwed up the units in a paper I published. Luckily, I didn't. But, wow, how do people fabricate data?

Biannual Buster shaved pic.

I was so jealous as I went to work this morning of how cozy Buster was ...

What a weird guy.

Just registered for my favorite conference -- the Unifying Ecology Across Scales Gordon Research Conference (www.grc.org/unifying-eco...). Can't wait for a week of some best ecology discussions you will find anywhere!

Long cat.

My first east coast nudibranch!

Another gem when screening papers this evening: doi.org/10.1111/eth....

Just came across this paper in the journal "Insects" that is mostly about birds eating isopods (which are not insects): www.mdpi.com/2075-4450/16.... Apparently, the journal "Insects" has a section called "Other Arthropods and General Topics." More reasons to distrust MDPI ...

I'm covering disease ecology in class tomorrow, and I'm pretty sure I'm going to trigger everyone's COVID PTSD with all this talk of R_0's and transmission rates and what not. Luckily we will wrap up with a discussion of this fun disease ecology paper: doi.org/10.1890/08-2...

I have written my first R-package for feeding experiments! BayesFR allows fitting functional responses by providing dynamical prediction models for use in #brms. Includes models for classical type 2 and type 3 responses, and also prey mortality or predator interference (more to come) #Rstats (1/3)

GitHub - benjamin-rosenbaum/BayesFR: Fitting functional responses in 1 and 2-prey systems

Fitting functional responses in 1 and 2-prey systems - benjamin-rosenbaum/BayesFR

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I sure do love putting questionably relevant images into my problem sets ...

It's resource-based competition week! Going to unleash ZNGIs and consumption and supply vectors on the students.

Probably a stretch, but I'm looking for deep-well projection slides. Picture attached. Carolina used to make these, but it looks like they don't sell them anymore? Maybe not surprising since they were made to use with slide projectors ... I'd be happy for any leads.

Like most cliches, that adage about not truly understanding something until you have to teach it sure is true. I'm covering some classic life history models this week (not my forte), and my previous understanding really was surface level ...

Hey #PopGen #EEB #PUI friends! Do you have a cool paper demonstrating the power 💪 of "modern" PopGen that would be exciting to upper-level undergrads? I feel like students leave the PopGen unit thinking it's some kind of dead science b/c we're limited to introducing simple models in Evol classes. 😢

three peas in a pod with faces on them are sitting on a table and saying `` peas & thank you '' .

Alt: three smiling peas in a pod with faces on them are sitting on a table and saying `` peas & thank you '' .

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As a biologist, I love that I can be looking at a bunch of pictures of sea turtles in my office and that's just totally normal.