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Attack of the Dream Stealers!

We need Oddballs not Lunatics

Flipping through back issues of BioScience to see what’s now free access, I found an interesting editorial, Oddball Science: Why Studies of Unusual Evolutionary Phenomena Are Crucial. Science funding decisions are...

Easy macro for your cameraphone

Easy macro for your cameraphone

Want to get up close to plants with your cameraphone, but don’t have a macro lens? Jessica Budke has news of a cheap add-on lens that gets surprisingly good results.

Carnivora Gardinum

Carnivora Gardinum

Carnivora Gardinum from chris field on Vimeo.
A nice time-lapse video of carnivorous plants by Chris Field.

Note taking tips from PhD students

Note taking tips from PhD students

Don’t don’t have to be taking a PhD to need to take notes, but PhD students have a lot of experience of what works for them and what does not. You can see what they found at Quora.

Ecology beyond the yakjam

Ecology beyond the yakjam

Corey Bradshaw has a post on his trip to see the ecology of the Tibetan plateau. Away from high population pressures, the plateau has incredible diversity among its plants.