Blog posts

Climate change visualizations & warming stripes in the wild!

I study the effects of temperature on disease transmission, so I’m always looking out for good ways to illustrate and communicate the impact of climate change.

Some of the best visualizations are made by Ed Hawkins’s project The Climate Lab Book (also on Twitter).

One of his creations that you’ve probably seen around is warming stripes,...

Daphnia SciArt - Part 2

The most important part of a scientific presentation is the science itself, but nice aesthetics can go a long way toward keeping your audience engaged and leaving a good impression.

While revising a presentation recently, I rediscovered some gorgeous Daphnia SciArt by scientific illustrator and artist Julia Ferguson that my former PhD labmate Dr. Jessica Hite commissioned for...

Daphnia SciArt - Part 1

I’m a huge fan of #SciArt as a way for scientists to express their creativity and engage in science communication with a general audience.

During my PhD studying Daphnia freshwater zooplankton hosts infected by a fungal pathogen, we would often talk about the idea of glassworm midge (Chaoborus) larvae as “predator spreaders” in our host-parasite system. Chaoborus are really messy...