Posts under ‘Blogging’

Slow Blogging Ahead

Dec 2nd, 2011

Winter descends again on Illinois, bringing insect season to a close. Time to head for the tropics! Mrs. Myrmecos and I will be spending much of December in Australia, visiting her family and photographing the continent’s bizarre ants. In particular, I’m hoping to capture images of weaver ants weaving- a behavior that has thus far [...]

So you want to be a bug blogger.

Nov 9th, 2011

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The inimitable Bug Girl, who founded perhaps the longest running and most successful insect blog in the history of the medium, has shared her upcoming presentation on blogging for the Entomological Society meetings. If you blog, or are thinking about blogging, the best 20 minutes you can spend this morning will be watching Bug Girl’s [...]

Blogging will affect your career…

Nov 3rd, 2011

by myrmecos.

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…so sayeth Bug Girl: It isn’t hard to find examples where science bloggers that use their real names–and that have known employers–have had disgruntled readers contact their boss. It isn’t hard to find examples where a decision has been made by the higher ups that silence is better than controversy, even if the information provided online [...]

Steve Jobs, 1955-2011: Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish

Oct 5th, 2011

by myrmecos.

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I don’t own an Apple product. Here I am, typing away on a Windows machine. Still, the news of Steve Jobs’ death is heavy. His creativity and dogged adherence to principle has altered our culture, and for the better. I have no trouble imagining he’ll be remembered along with the likes of Thomas Edison as [...]

Google+

Oct 5th, 2011

by myrmecos.

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You may find me- and some of my photographs- over at Google+: gplus.to/myrmecos Apparently, I now exist only as a probability sphere distributed among social networks.

New Posts on Compound Eye

Aug 25th, 2011

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From my Scientific American blog: The Python’s Shape Thrifty Thursday: Insect Wings on a Cheap Scanner

Weekend Bug Links

Aug 21st, 2011

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I’m off to give a short chat on South American beekeeping to the Central Illinois Beekeeper’s Association. In the meantime, here’s what the internet has to say about bugs: Bug Eric on the Cross Spider Ted MacRae photographs an adorable mangrove isopod DragonFly Woman has 5 edible insects Rick Lieder’s Magic Midge Antweb’s Ant Blog [...]