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• Science + Music = Productivity

  

  A take on a small section of my recent book, The Effective Scientist, about the importance of music in science.—I don’t know any scientists who don’t love music... Read more

  Posted on 17 May 2018 ENVIRONMENT

• A Life of Fragmentation

  

  What do you say to a man whose list of conservation awards reads like a Star Wars film intro, who has introduced terms like the ‘hyperdynamism hypothesis’ to th... Read more

  Posted on 09 May 2018 ENVIRONMENT

• Why Do They Take So Long?

  This is probably more of an act of self-therapy on a Friday afternoon to alleviate some frustration, but it is an important issue all the same. Read more

  Posted on 04 May 2018 ENVIRONMENT

• Cartoon Guide to Biodiversity Loss XLVIII

  

  The third set of six biodiversity cartoons for 2018. See full stock of previous ‘Cartoon guide to biodiversity loss’ compendia here. Read more

  Posted on 26 April 2018 ENVIRONMENT

• Prioritising Your Academic Tasks

  

  The following is an abridged version of one of the chapters in my recent book, The Effective Scientist, regarding how to prioritise your tasks in academia. For ... Read more

  Posted on 18 April 2018 ENVIRONMENT

• My Interview with Conservation Careers

  

  The online job-search engine and careers magazine for conservation professionals — Conservation Careers — recently published an interview with me written by Mar... Read more

  Posted on 10 April 2018 ENVIRONMENT

• Why Populations Can’t Be Saved by a Single Breeding Pair

  

  © Reuters/Thomas MukoyaI published this last week on The Conversation, and now reproducing it here for CB.com readers.— Two days ago, the last male northern... Read more

  Posted on 03 April 2018 ENVIRONMENT

• Predicting Sustainable Shark Harvests When Stock Assessments Are Lacking

  

  © Andrew FoxI love it when a good collaboration bears fruit, and our latest paper is a good demonstration of that principle.It all started a few years ago with... Read more

  Posted on 26 March 2018 ENVIRONMENT

• The Effective Scientist

  

  What is an effective scientist? The more I have tried to answer this question, the more it has eluded me. Before I even venture an attempt, it is necessary to... Read more

  Posted on 22 March 2018 ENVIRONMENT

• Penguins Cheated by Ecosystem Change

  

  Jorge Drexler sings “… I was committed not to see what I saw, but sometimes life is more complex than what it looks like …”*. This excerpt by the Oscar-winning... Read more

  Posted on 12 March 2018 ENVIRONMENT

• Cartoon Guide to Biodiversity Loss XLVII

  

  The next set of six biodiversity cartoons for 2018. See full stock of previous ‘Cartoon guide to biodiversity loss’ compendia here. Read more

  Posted on 07 March 2018 ENVIRONMENT

• Our Global System-of-systems

  

  I’ve just read an excellent paper that succinctly, eloquently, and wisely summarised the current predicament of our highly interconnected, global, complex... Read more

  Posted on 28 February 2018 ENVIRONMENT

• Offshore Energy & Marine Spatial Planning

  

  I have the pleasure (and relief) of announcing a new book that’s nearly ready to buy, and I think many readers of CB.com might be interested in what it... Read more

  Posted on 22 February 2018 ENVIRONMENT

• Bring It Back

  

  Protea compacta in fynbos, a form of shrubland at Soetanysberg, South Africa. Photo: Brian van WilgenRestoration of lost habitats and ecosystems hits all the... Read more

  Posted on 13 February 2018 ENVIRONMENT

• Throwing the Nuclear Baby out with the Fossil-fuel Bathwater

  

  A really important paper was just published in Science Advances by Elizabeth Anderson colleagues.The team’s paper, Fragmentation of Andes-to-Amazon... Read more

  Posted on 06 February 2018 ENVIRONMENT

• Drivers of Protected-area Effectiveness in Africa

  

  Subtropical and Tropical Moist Broadleaf Forest of Africa with 224 parks surrounded by a 10-km buffer area. © 2016 Society for Conservation Biology. Read more

  Posted on 31 January 2018 ENVIRONMENT

• Cartoon Guide to Biodiversity Loss XLVI

  

  The first set of biodiversity cartoons for 2018. See full stock of previous ‘Cartoon guide to biodiversity loss’ compendia here. Read more

  Posted on 24 January 2018 ENVIRONMENT

• When Devils and Thylacines Went Extinct

  

  We’ve just published an analysis of new radiocarbon dates showing that thylacines (Tasmanian ‘tigers’, Thylacinus cynocephalus) and Tasmanian devils (Sarcophilu... Read more

  Posted on 17 January 2018 ENVIRONMENT

• To Share, Or Not to Share, is No Longer the Question

  

  An edited version of a snippet from my upcoming book, The Effective Scientist (due out in March 2018).—I tend to assume tacitly that my collaborators are... Read more

  Posted on 07 January 2018 ENVIRONMENT

• Influential Conservation Ecology Papers of 2017

  

  As I have done for the last four years (2016, 2015, 2014, 2013), here’s another retrospective list of the top 20 influential conservation papers of 2017 as... Read more

  Posted on 26 December 2017 ENVIRONMENT