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Posts under ‘Blogging’
Belize, and a short break
The oddly contradictory activity of nature blogging means there are times when I actually have to leave the keyboard and go find some nature. This is one of those times! We’ll be off in the warm jungles of Belize for the next week or so holding BugShot’s first tropical insect photography workshop. Internet access will [...]
Bug Girl takes a break
If you follow insect blogging, you surely recognize the pseudonymous “Bug Girl” as the pioneer of our little bug-blogging genre. So it’s a shock to see her crawling into a cocoon and putting her site on hold: Eight years ago there were no bug blogs. Hell, there weren’t that many nature-related blogs. But today? There [...]
Back from Uganda, Off to Florida
Although I wish I could regale you with spellbinding tales of courage, blood, and African ants, I’m on a tight turnaround as I prepare for the BugShot photo workshop in Florida next week. Thus, Myrmecos will remain slow until afterwards. For those of you attending the workshop, I am looking forward to meeting you soon! [...]
Ant Course in Uganda (and a blog break)
Tomorrow morning I and other ant researchers head to the famous annual Ant Course, held this year at the Makerere University Biological Field Station in Kibale, Uganda. It’s been a few years since my last participation at Ant Course. I’ve never been to that part of the world before, and I’m excited to see some old friends. [...]
Meanwhile, out in blogland…
Eric Michael Johnson takes a look at the interminable kin vs. group selection debate and decides the argument is more ego and semantics than right vs. wrong: So is that what this fight is really all about, the objection over a name change? On a superficial level, yes, but there are larger stakes involved. Consider [...]
When Science Media Becomes a Parody of Itself
The actual first sentence of an actual science news story at treehugger: Gizmodo points us to an interesting post at Chem.info about a study that indicates that the increased levels of nitrogen in the air due to the burning of fossil fuels is dramatically altering the behavior of some carnivorous plants. At this point in the [...]
Over on Compound Eye…
…two new posts: Ant Science in Brazil: A Photo Essay The Color of Honey
Announcements
A couple announcements. First, BugShot 2012 is sold out! We are thinking of opening a second event for later in the year, in a different location, as we were taken aback by just how popular the workshop seems to be. Stay tuned for details. Second, I am giving two talks this week at the University [...]
Is blogging dead?
A handy chart of search activity on “blogs” and “social media”: At first glance, Google Trends appear to indicate blogging is on the way out. Ye olde webbe logge is so 2004, after all. But I don’t think a wholesale abandonment of blogging is underway. Instead, prior to 2008 people used blogging software as a [...]
A personal blog by Illinois-based biologist and photographer Alex Wild.
