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Undergraduate research in my lab? Sure! Here’s how it works.

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Originally posted on The Waterthrush Blog:
I spend a lot of time bragging about the 15 graduate students who’ve worked in my lab but this post is inspired by the 28 undergraduates I’ve had the good fortune to mentor in…

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Some perspective on peak abundance of Passenger Pigeon

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Originally posted on The Waterthrush Blog:
You’ve heard the story before, and it’s sobering: Once perhaps the most abundant vertebrate on the planet, a combination of unremitting exploitation and habitat loss reduced the Passenger Pigeon (Ectopistes migratorius) from billions to…

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Dear Christian Legislator,

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Originally posted on The Waterthrush Blog:
Look, I get it. You’ve been raised and educated in a society that values faith foremost. The stronger your faith the closer you are to God, and there is no better way to demonstrate…

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Where to publish ornithology and wildlife ecology? The impact of impact factor.

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Originally posted on The Waterthrush Blog:
Update June 2019: New rankings for Journal Impact Factors have just been released, and that makes for a good opportunity to update this post from 2015. There have been some big changes, notably the…

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5 November 2018 – a pile of feathers and fruits

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Originally posted on Bird-Window Collisions at OK State:
In a corner of the main north entrance to the Noble Research Center, I encountered this mystery today: And I’m all like: So let’s get to work on this. First, this wasn’t…

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A conversation about grad school

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Originally posted on The Waterthrush Blog:
I can’t tell you how many times I’ve had this conversation. I plan to keep having it, too. But if this example can help answer some questions pre-emptively, I reckon this will have been…

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Why are ecological niches important?

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Originally posted on A Feathered Reptile:
? An example of a niche model. ?Horseshoe Crab eggs require a convergence of environmental conditions in which to incubate (source: http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/pdf/10.2307/1541193). ? Last week, I talked about the decline in aerial insectivores, which…

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