Rainbow Research: All Colours of Pride

Post provided by Gawain Antell

To celebrate UK Pride Month, the British Ecological Society journal blogs are posting a ‘Rainbow Research’ series, which aims to promote visibility of STEM researchers from the LGBTQ+ community. Each post will be connected to a theme represented by one of the colours shown in the Progress Pride flag. In this post, Gawain Antell describes the process of sewing a Progress Pride flag with science-themed fabric, while stitching together the identities of being an aromantic asexual palaeobiologist.

Chloe V. RobinsonJune 28, 2021February 9, 20241 Comment

LGBTQ+

Rainbow Research: Transgender Pride

Post provided by Daniel Trotter

To celebrate UK Pride Month, the British Ecological Society journal blogs are posting a ‘Rainbow Research’ series, which aims to promote visibility of STEM researchers from the LGBTQ+ community. Each post will be connected to a theme represented by one of the colours shown in the Progress Pride flag. In this post, Daniel Trotter discusses his research on physics and computational neuroscience under the Progress Pride flag theme of ‘Transgender Pride’.

Ben WhittakerJune 15, 2021June 15, 2021Leave a comment

MEEin3

MEEin3 – Our New Podcast Launches Today!

We are very excited to announce the launch of our new podcast! Listen to MEEin3 to hear the latest methods in ecology and evolution in just three minutes.

Got three minutes to spare? Listen now to the pilot episode, in which Dr Chloe Robinson tells us about her method for preserving benthic arthropods for DNA metabarcoding.

India StephensonJune 4, 2021September 15, 2022Leave a comment

LGBTQ+

Rainbow Research: Harmony

Post provided by Adrian Monthony

To celebrate UK Pride Month, the British Ecological Society journal blogs are posting a ‘Rainbow Research’ series, which aims to promote visibility of STEM researchers from the LGBTQ+ community. Each post will be connected to a theme represented by one of the colours shown in the Progress Pride flag. In this post, Adrian Monthony discusses his Cannabis tissue culture research under the Progress Pride flag theme of ‘Harmony’.

Ben WhittakerJune 3, 2021June 3, 20212 Comments

Journal Issues

June Issue Out Now!

The sixth issue of the year of Methods in Ecology and Evolution is out now! This issue features four Applications and one Practical Tools article, as well as methods for standardising biologging data, marking mosquitoes, calculating heterogeneity indices and much more. And scroll down to find out the story behind the sleepy seal on this month’s cover! Featured Articles Distance sampling of high-density species Line-transect … Continue reading June Issue Out Now!

India StephensonJune 2, 2021June 2, 2021Leave a comment

LGBTQ+

Rainbow Research: Nature

Post provided by Natalie Yoh

To celebrate UK Pride Month, the British Ecological Society journal blogs are posting a ‘Rainbow Research’ series, which aims to promote visibility of STEM researchers from the LGBTQ+ community. Each post will be connected to a theme represented by one of the colours shown in the Progress Pride flag. In this post, Natalie Yoh discusses their bat conservation research under the flag theme of ‘Nature’.

streamdnaJune 1, 2021Leave a comment

LGBTQ+

Rainbow Research: Contribute to our Pride Month Blog Series!

We are inviting contributions from LGBTQ+ ecologists and evolutionary biologists for a series of blog posts across the British Ecological Society journals for UK Pride Month, which takes place in June. The series, called Rainbow Research, aims to promote visibility and inclusion of researchers from the LGBTQ+ community with posts promoting them and their research. Each post will be connected to a theme represented by one … Continue reading Rainbow Research: Contribute to our Pride Month Blog Series!

India StephensonMay 11, 2021May 11, 2021Leave a comment

Journal Issues

May Issue Out Now

The May Issue of Methods in Ecology and Evolution is now online! This issue includes five Featured Articles selected by our Senior Editor Aaron Ellison, highlighting methods for identifying flow modules in ecological networks, detecting rare terrestrial mammals, assessing functional diversity in plants and more! We also have 12 articles, including one Practical Tools and two Applications, which are completely free to read. Find out … Continue reading May Issue Out Now

India StephensonMay 5, 2021Leave a comment

Conservation and management, Ecology, Field Methods, Practical Tools

Flora Incognita – more than just a plant identification app

Post provided by Michael Rzanny & Jana Wäldchen

Species identification is an essential tool for recording biodiversity, especially in an era of habitat loss and climate change. Developing skills to correctly identify plants to a species or even a genus level can take many years of training, but a new app called Flora Incognita aims to empower citizens with botanical expertise while also collecting data for scientific analysis.

In this blog post, Michael Rzanny and Jana Wäldchen reveal the inspiration behind this new app and discuss highlights from their new paper “The Flora Incognita app – interactive plant species identification” recently published in Methods in Ecology & Evolution.

Ben WhittakerApril 29, 2021April 28, 20211 Comment

Conservation and management, Lab Methods, Robert May Prize

Ultrasound for trees? Using focused ultrasound technology as a new method of DNA extraction

Post provided by Hal Holmes

Each year Methods in Ecology and Evolution awards the Robert May Prize to the best paper in the journal by an author at the start of their career. Hal Homes has been shortlisted for their article ‘Focused ultrasound extraction (FUSE) for the rapid extraction of DNA from tissue matrices’. In this blog, Hal discusses how their paper came to be and the future applications of FUSE technology.

Ben WhittakerApril 28, 2021April 28, 20211 Comment