Critical thinking in biology- Experiments as the gold standard for research: A new twist June 18, 2019
- Vaccination is in the news again (original posting of April 12, 2019, updated with new information on June 4, 2019) April 12, 2019
- Becoming an ecologist: A detour makes a difference March 17, 2018
- Why I worry about climate change March 16, 2018
- On climate science, the New York Times blows it May 8, 2017
- “This is a sad day for the children of the U.S.” April 19, 2017
- Monarch butterflies, milkweed, and migration: The law of unintended consequences February 3, 2017
- Medical use of marijuana revisited January 11, 2017
- Storytelling in science: What can we learn about critical thinking from stories about mountain lions and sea otters? July 23, 2016
- Careful readers are a writer’s best friends March 8, 2016
Category Archives: Ecology
Monarch butterflies, milkweed, and migration: The law of unintended consequences
I described the magic of migration by monarch butterflies in Chapter 1 of Tools for Critical Thinking in Biology. These tiny animals fly from breeding areas in the northern US and Canada to overwintering sites in high-elevation forests in central … Continue reading
Posted in Causation, Citizen Science, Conservation, Ecology, Migration, Observations
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Storytelling in science: What can we learn about critical thinking from stories about mountain lions and sea otters?
Tools for Critical Thinking in Biology is a book of stories about doing science. Most of these stories are incomplete because science is a work in progress, therefore one of my great pleasures is learning about new research that extends … Continue reading
Careful readers are a writer’s best friends
Writing for publication entails many drafts and many reviews of these drafts by friends, colleagues, copyeditors, and critics. The credibility of science depends on peer review, as explained by Frederick Grinnell in The Everyday Practice of Science and by me … Continue reading
Posted in Causation, Correlation & Causation, Ecology, Ethics, Evaluating evidence, Evolution, General material, Probability & Statistics, Twins
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