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Reproducible Science Workshop at iDigBio

5 minute read

Cross-posted from the iDigBio blog. Reproducibility is one of the corner stones of the scientific process. Readers should be able to figure out how you gen...

2014

2013

What I read in 2013

1 minute read

Here is a list of the favorite articles I read this year. Our Silver-Coated Future, Robin Marantz Henig How nano-technology is slowly becoming ubiquitous i...

The sea cucumbers from Guam

2 minute read

Maybe more than any other island in the tropical Pacific, Guam has been the site of many studies about its sea cucumbers. For instance, Guam is the type loca...

What do crown-of-thorns do to an ecosystem?

1 minute read

Crown-of-thorns (Acanthaster planci) are sea stars living on coral reefs. They can grow very large (more than 50cm/1.5ft in diameter) and they feed on corals...

Palm trees across Wallace’s line

2 minute read

Alfred Russel Wallace was a British naturalist who lived at the same time as Darwin. His travels to the Amazonian forest and the Malay archipelago led him to...

2012

2011

Offlineimap 6.4.1 and nested labels in Gmail

less than 1 minute read

I just upgraded to offlineimap 6.4.1 and I was getting the following error message: “ERROR: INFINITE FOLDER CREATION DETECTED! Folder ‘.foo’ (repository ‘gma...

Happy Halloween – Hibana gracilis

less than 1 minute read

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The éclair sea cucumber in Okinawa

less than 1 minute read

A new paper with our Japanese colleagues was recently published in the Biological Magazine of Okinawa. It’s the first record of Holothuria nigralutea after i...

Evolution 3 and offlineimap

2 minute read

I use offlineimap to fetch my emails from my Gmail account. I use labels as folders, some are nested, and some contains a dot in their names. I have about 12...

2010

Photos: Heron & Egret

less than 1 minute read

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Photos: Thanksgiving birding

less than 1 minute read

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Photos: Millipedes

less than 1 minute read

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Sea cucumber workshop in Guam

2 minute read

Part of the lab is currently in Guam because of sea cucumbers. In the context of the PEET project, we brought together 15 sea cucumber specialists and stude...

Sea cucumber workshop

less than 1 minute read

I’m in Guam for the sea cucumber workshop. We are gathering experts and students to share the latest knowledge on the biology, ecology and taxonomic status o...

Invertebrates in the News #5 (follow up)

less than 1 minute read

Last week, I told you that Terry Gosliner was blogging about his field trip in the Philippines where he is looking for nudibranchs (sea slugs). Today, there ...

Invertebrates in the News #5

less than 1 minute read

Currently, the New York Times is hosting a blog series entitled “Scientists at work, notes from the field”. Today, Terry Gosliner from the California Academy...

Ubuntu color palette for OpenOffice

less than 1 minute read

I like the colors chosen by Ubuntu and I tend to use them for my presentations and posters. So, I created a palette that can be imported in OpenOffice. H...

2009

Tonna perdix eating Stichopus sp.

1 minute read

Not many animals are known to eat sea cucumbers. There is a good reason. Most of them have chemicals in their body, which probably doesn’t taste too good but...

Garli 0.96b8 patched to be compiled in Ubuntu

less than 1 minute read

Since Hardy, Ubuntu includes gcc 4.3 which makes the compilation of Garli 0.96 to fail. Derrick Zwickl provides a solution to fix the problem on the Garli FA...

Stichopus herrmanni releasing gametes

less than 1 minute read

Have a look at this video showing Stichopus herrmanni releasing its gametes. This event was captured by Emmanuel Tardy in New Caledonia. ...

Down-under

less than 1 minute read

I started the year in summer as I was in the southern hemisphere. First, I participated to the 13th International Echinoderm Conference in Hobart, Tasmania. ...

2008

Community phylogenetics seminar

less than 1 minute read

This Fall, I organized with Ben Bolker a seminar on community phylogenetics. You can see the paper we read here.

Summer activities

2 minute read

Since I came back from my field trip in the Indian Ocean, I have been busy. First, I went to the 11th International Coral Reef Symposium (ICRS) in Fort Laude...

Trip to the Indian Ocean

less than 1 minute read

Tim Werner (University of Boston) wrote a blog for our recent expedition in Nosy Bé (Madagascar). After this trip to Madagascar, Arthur Anker and I spent two...

Morphbank workshop

less than 1 minute read

On May 1st and 2nd, I participated to the MorphBank usability workshop. It took place at FSU in Tallahassee. It was the occasion to interact with the develop...

My website is launched

less than 1 minute read

I decided to start a website to talk about my research and about the organisms I study for my PhD: the sea cucumbers. In addition of the things usually found...