KABT BioBlog

George Pisani and Bill Busby are looking for help.  You, your students and other interested parties can help expand the knowledge of two Eastern Kansas snakes:  Red-bellied and Smooth Earth Snakes.  Note that these are some of the earliest snakes to show up in the spring (March).  Spread the word to others in your community.  [...]

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A post just came through the KS-Bird list about an interesting Cornell Citizen science program:
The Rusty Blackbird Blitz
Rusty Blackbirds are in decline and Kansas is part of their winter range.  This “blitz”/survey is set up for the first two weeks of Feb.  Check out the link for protocols.  If you decide to get out and [...]

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At the NABT Conference in Atlanta in the fall of 2007, Brad Williamson talked me and a few others who were loitering around to come to a workshop presentation on Avida-Ed software as a means of fostering inquiry of evolutionary processes.  After the presentation, Brad suggested that I write a post about the experience.  At the time, I [...]

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Before the weekend, I received an e-mail from a colleague asking “Do you know of a good place I can go gather termites… anywhere woody?”
I responded with my suggestions, and because I was intrigued, I replied with a question of my own, “What do you plan to do with them?”
Well, after a making my own way through [...]

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Those of you who have followed this blog probably know of my long time fascination with antlions.  If you have a ready source of them, they make a great organism to inspire student generated research.  Today, I’ve run across two excellent photo resources on antlions.  Alex Wild’s Mymercos Blog has exceptional images of an antlion [...]

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While learning about those involved in developing the Synthetic Biology survey that some of you may have taken (June 8th post), I serendipitously navigated to a page at Davidson College that made me aware of the Microarrays MediaBook educational website.  Here is what I read, including the link that I chose to follow…
Another of Malcolm Campbell’s efforts, [...]

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A Collaborative Learning Space for Science
www.nature.com/scitable
As I paged my way through the most recent issue of Nature, I was intrigued by a Nature advertisement claiming “There’s new life in science education…  Online.”  A few minutes later, I navigated to the website advertised.  Here is what I found after a few minutes of surfing.

As noted at this new Nature website, [...]

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eBird Home Page
Saturday morning, I got up early and headed over to a program presented by Chris Wood, sponsored by the Topeka Audobon folks and hosted by Janeen Walters at Washburn Rural Middle School.   Now I am a geek but the topic had to have a lot of promise for me to give up my [...]

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An easy way to Keep Current with Bioscience Research

I imagine that many of you are familiar with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and the quality educational resources that they develop to help us “teach ahead of the textbook”.  These resouces range from their Biointeractive virtual labs and animations to their annual Holiday Lecture series.
But if you haven’t taken the [...]

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I’ve been cleaning up one of my old web pages and I ran across this instructional page my students constructed several years ago after completing a lab on onion root tip mitosis. Thought it might be of use since I’ll be closing out the old web page, soon. I’ll be updating this lab [...]

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