Front cover of our book (with Gordon Burghardt and Sean Doody, foreword by Gordon Schuett, front cover photo by Udayan Rao Pawar), to be published next year by Johns Hopkins. Pre-order here.


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Русскоязычные знакомые и читатели периодически спрашивают меня, правда ли, что нынешний вирус только чуть-чуть хуже гриппа, а все происходящее - глупая паника, раскрученная СМИ ( Read more... )

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I keep running into people who call themselves naturalists but are still profoundly ignorant about the ongoing climate meltdown. Let me summarize the current situation so that in the future I can simply send them to this post ( Read more... )

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Lava fountains from Fissure 8, Kilauea Volcano, Hawaii (turn on the sound). The bigger one is ~60 m high, but while I was watching there was an earthquake and the lava shot up to ~200 m; the sound almost busted my eardrums. The fountains are fairly safe to watch from about 100 m, but I took photos and videos from farther away to make the fountains ( Read more... )

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I am reading the diary of A. J. Mounteney Jephson from Stanley's 1887-9 Emin Pasha relief expedition (if you don't know this fascinating story, look it up). The expedition used waterproof tents; each housed up to ten people and could be easily carried by one porter. At the end of the grueling 3-year ordeal, the tents were stored in London. In 1953 ( Read more... )

I am reading a book about animal languages by Zhanna Reznikova. She did some very clever experiments with red wood ants where scouts had to find food in a bifurcating labyrinth, return to the nest, and tell their personal teams of foragers what sequence of turns to use to get straight to the food. So the scout had to transmit (through antennal ( Read more... )

My paper on Zenkerella insignis is now available online. PDF provided upon request.
Вышла моя статья про невиданную зверушку.