Time Scavengers: How well do stable isotopes really work?
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I wrote a paper with a frequently collaborator Chris Lowery about how oxygen isotopes work in planktic foraminifera. This post was explaining how it works for a general audience.
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Building and Establishing the Tilly Edinger Travel Grant
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A description of how we set up a fund to support students and avocational scientists attending science meetings. Importantly, this grant is set up to act during registration, rather than as a reimbursement, like one would get from a University. The problems with that are fairly obvious!
Time Scavengers: Anxiety in Academia
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I was diagnosed with Generalized Anxiety Disorder and Social Anxiety Disorder about a decade ago. I have had my ups and downs with them, though they’re certainly always with me. I went through a period of abnormally high anxiety, culminating in seeking help from therapists again. I wrote this post as a way to begin processing both the past and current situation as it is filtered through the disorders. It also has a few suggestions at the end about what to do (Seek help!) if you too struggle with these disorders.
Time Scavengers: How fast can life recover after a mass extinction?
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I didn’t write this one. Adriane Lam summarized a paper that Chris Lowery published in Nature Ecology & Evolution.
Cabot Institute: Cancer and climate change
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My dad is a radiation physicist who works on cancer treatment. I’m a climate scientist who uses a fossil group that can be used to find oil reserves. There’s an interesting duality to both those types of science; both can be used for positive or negative. This post for the Cabot Institute explores that duality.