It’s friday, free picks:

My gather this week:

• Food security is hard & Food security is not about scarcity

• These bugs rock! & New Peacock Spider Video! . These spiders rock!

• The Range of Lotus & Indian Lotus Flower

• Elk of the Pennsylvania Wilds – Part 1

• The midwest anting season is imminent

• Today’s lab – water ferns. More Salvinia…

• Pictures Considered #2. The E. coli Chromosome Caught in the Act of Replicating & A Tree of Life

• Bird of the Day: Malabar Parakeet (Nagarhole National Park, Karnataka)

• Sabah, Borneo

Academia (but still worthwile!):

• Ecologists need to do a better job of prediction – Part IV – quantifying prediction quality. Just go read the whole series, there are points worth!

• Lab meetings: the publication process