Kyle E. Coblentz
@kecoblentz
Lifelong student of ecology and evolution. Assistant Professor in Population Ecology at Colby College. For more:
Apparently, to my students, it looked like a tiny little person with really long arms in space. Here is my rendition.
Yet another rotifer. I'm so impressed with the diversity of forms that rotifers take ...
I was so jealous as I went to work this morning of how cozy Buster was ...
Another gem when screening papers this evening: doi.org/10.1111/eth....
The paper features Chaoborus! These phantom midge larvae use modified antennae like the raptorial arms of praying mantises to catch prey! And are `sloppy eaters' that help maintain disease epidemics in Daphnia. Photocredit to Viridiflavus/Wikimedia Commons.
My students last summer also were inspired by a paper we read on yuccas and yucca moths to create this Pokemon coevolution series. We sent their ideas to the authors of the paper, and they were thrilled!
I sure do love putting questionably relevant images into my problem sets ...
It's resource-based competition week! Going to unleash ZNGIs and consumption and supply vectors on the students.
Probably a stretch, but I'm looking for deep-well projection slides. Picture attached. Carolina used to make these, but it looks like they don't sell them anymore? Maybe not surprising since they were made to use with slide projectors ... I'd be happy for any leads.
Just start putting them into papers and fight with the editors about it. One of my favorites from math.
I had a great time today introducing my Honor's thesis advisee to Bayesian statistics and implementing a hierarchical model for phenological changes.
