I am nurturing a new idea of an insect-education exhibition. The first exhibition I worked on was at the American Museum of Natural History, as David Grimaldi’s assistant for “Amber: Window to the Past.” The last exhibition I worked on as with Steve Goddard/Spencer Museum of Art and our students, “39 Trails: Research in the Peruvian…
Month: September 2015
An Epiphany: learning science from fiction writing
Scientists are extra alert to the way science and scientists are presented in the mass media, fiction and film. We are hyper-critical of representations of labs (are the machines appropriate), questions and evidence (are the bugs found on the dead girl correct for that place and season?), is a scenario really feasible (can a spider-bite lead…
South American Subsocial Beetles
Some manuscripts take a long time to gestate, some go fast. A Short Communication is even faster to write when it comes on the tail of a bigger synthesis. After Chaboo et al. (2015), my colleagues were all on alert to look for more subsocial cassys (subsocial= adult caring for one brood). Within a few…