May 8, 2019 By Nicholas Deason Field Trials Mosquito buffet May 8, 2019 By Nicholas Deason Field Trials It takes a special sort of researcher to sit perfectly still while a hungry insect sucks blood from your leg.
February 5, 2019 By Andrew Katsis Field Trials My favourite bird February 5, 2019 By Andrew Katsis Field Trials Scientific objectivity goes out the window when an ecologist is caught out in the rain with a small songbird.
January 21, 2019 By Dominique Potvin Ethograms A tale of tails January 21, 2019 By Dominique Potvin Ethograms James Barr is studying caudal autotomy, the ability of some reptiles to drop and regrow their tail in response to a predator threat.
December 17, 2018 By Andrew Katsis Ethograms In living colour December 17, 2018 By Andrew Katsis Ethograms By subjecting triggerfish to vision tests, Naomi Green is helping us understand why coral reefs are such colourful places.
November 8, 2018 By Diana Crow Paradigms A germ of an idea November 8, 2018 By Diana Crow Paradigms Microbiome hype is relatively new, but the idea that some microbial ecosystems help, not hinder us, is much older than many people realise.
October 8, 2018 By Diana Crow Paradigms And still the galaxies turn October 8, 2018 By Diana Crow Paradigms The search for dark matter and clues to its identity has reached epic proportions, but is dark matter a satisfying paradigm?
August 23, 2018 By Diana Crow Paradigms A catastrophic hypothesis August 23, 2018 By Diana Crow Paradigms Two paleontology outsiders, a father and a son, changed the narrative around mass extinctions. But did they remake paleontology?
August 8, 2018 By Johanne Martens Ethograms How to think without a brain August 8, 2018 By Johanne Martens Ethograms Jules Smith-Ferguson is exploring how even a unicellular organism can form memories and make complex decisions.