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Tree restoration potential, Q&A
When the journal Science published our paper on the global tree restoration potential in 2019, it grabbed headlines. We found that outside of urban and agricultural areas, there’s 0.9 billion hectar...
Towards a Global Community Ecology
By Daniel Maynard Ecology is heading towards a crossroads. The past century of ecological research has provided amazing insight the into inner working of natural ecosystems, with much of this knowledg...
The elevator pitch: communicating science in under 3 minutes
By Constantin Zohner and Thomas Crowther One year.This is the average amount of time a scientist spends working on an individual paper. Six months.This is the average length of the process spanning form submitting the paper to a scientific journal to it being published, given the paper is neither rejected nor sent back with major comments...…
To protect our species, we need to know they exist.
External link » https://natureecoevocommunity.nature.com/posts/48014-to-protect-our-species-we-need-to-know-they-exist
The impostor epidemic in academia and how to beat it
By Sabiha Majumder Why academia? What is its appeal? For me – and I guess for most people working in academia – the answer is quite straightforward: I genuinely enjoy the process of making new discoveries, the flexibility of working on things that excite me, and the luxury of working whenever and wherever I like....…
The importance of mentors: a life-changing encounter pt 2.
By Thomas Crowther I had started my first year at Cardiff University poorly. I was skipping classes, investing my energy into sports and my social life rather than concentrating on my studies. By the ...
The importance of mentors: A life-changing encounter pt. 1
By Thomas Crowther I have always been obsessed with the magic of life. Mathematically, its existence makes no sense. Indeed, science lacks even a most basic understanding of the reason for the biodive...
Global warming - fact vs fiction
By Tom Elliott In 1896, Svante Arrhenius, a Swedish chemist and future Nobel laureate, deduced that the combustion of coal and petroleum could raise global temperatures. In 1939, a British steam engin...
Tom's Top Tips for...Writing a Paper
By Thomas Crowther Writing papers is arguably the biggest stumbling blocks for academics. Many brilliant people never make it in academia because they were unable to effectively communicate their mess...
Conferences, Casinos and Crowther Lab Bonding
Monaco is finally over. It has been the trip we have all been waiting for and it exceeded expectations. With the Lab numbers increasing rapidly, we accepted that there would be a few bumps along the w...