URGENT ACTION FOR NSF GRANTEES.

For current & recent (since 2020) awards, archive your award history this afternoon/tonight. Screenshot/download/print your work in research.gov & alert your partners.

We have credible threats to integrity of awards tracking systems (via @jeremymberg.bsky.social)

This paper is longer than my dissertation, and definitely has more references. This was a passion project made possible by COVID lockdowns, my first sabbatical, and 10 intrepid co-authors. I'm so excited to be able, finally, to share it with you.

Eastern Red-Backed Salamanders: A Comprehensive Review of an Undervalued Model in Evolution, Ecology, and Behavior Abstract. What makes a model organism? Identifying the qualities of a model organism has been given a great deal of attention in the biomolecular sciences, but less so in the fields of evolution, ecol...

...AND make the argument that red-backs are not only the most well-studied salamander in ecology and evolutionary biology, but should be elevated to model species status, our paper is officially published.

Available open access: meridian.allenpress.com/herpetologic...

You may have heard me mention my "big paper" or "lit review" over the last few years. Well, roughly 4.5 years after I convinced my coauthors (6 of whom were undergraduates then) that we could indeed write a literature review on everything published on red-backed salamanders in the last 20+ years...

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Finally made the jump from that other site...