I’m delighted to announce two improvements to my blog “Fred’s Ecology and Environmental Tales: AKA The FEET”. (fredsingerecology.com). These changes should make it more accessible to instructors and students. First, I have a section entitled “Teaching with the FEET” that gives several ideas of how to use this blog in the classroom. Second, I now have a table of contents, so if your class is discussing, for example, “Evolutionary ecology” or “Disease ecology”, you can see what is listed under those topics, and click on any title that sounds appealing.
For the few (thousands) of you who don’t know about my blog, it is designed for people who want to learn about how ecologists and environmental scientists do their work. Every week (during the academic year – two weeks during the summer) or so, I post a true and riveting tale about ecology and the environment. Each tale has a humanistic component that underlies a very science-y story. I talk about where scientists come up with their ideas, how they investigate them, and what types of conclusions they come to. There are always data. Recent articles from the journals Ecology and Conservation Biology are the basis of these tales. All of my posts have at least one graph or table taken directly from the original article (with the permission of the journals and the authors). Conversations with people also come into play, as I always ask authors how they got interested in their projects, and whether they were surprised by their findings. So please check it out at fredsingerecology.com. I should point out that I am a very different person from the notorious climate change denier who shares my name. If you like what you see please share with your colleagues. Fred Singer fredsingerecology.com [email protected]
