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Her speech, The Path and Progress of American Women Ecologists, was published in the ESA Bulletin the following December. In the introduction, she wrote: “For my address to the Society, it seemed ...
Mairead Brogan studied under Peckarsky at RMBL for six years, starting when she graduated from high school in 2018. Now a PhD student at Northern Arizona University, Brogan finds the number of women ...
Dr. Carolin Dittrich, behavior ecologist at the University of Veterinary ... A new study shows that some female frogs will play dead to avoid mating. CAROLIN DITTRICH: Usually, they are laying ...
Female bonobos maintain power by forming alliances to suppress male aggression. “Male dominance is not evolutionarily inevitable,” said Harvard behavioral ecologist Martin Surbeck, who worked ...
Conspicuously absent is a gender equality and women’s rights analysis, save a cursory reference to women’s food and nutrition ...
Ensuring women have equal rights to inheritance and property ownership is key to tackling climate breakdown. Securing these reforms would help women break the cycle of poverty, benefiting them, their ...
Children on fieldwork: how two scientist mothers made it happen As a cisgender male glaciologist and cis female ecologist, we undertook extensive and demanding fieldwork in pursuit of our PhDs and ...
A trio of biologists from Universidade de São Paulo, Red Ecoacústica Colombia and the University of Missouri System has found that researchers conduct only a fraction of studies of female frog calls ...
“A native of Sri Lanka and one of two women of color who have tenure in the ecology and evolution department, she has previously accused the university of discrimination for repeatedly denying her ...