Berry Go Round #21 at Beetles in the Bush

Ted MacRae has a fine round-up* for the 21st monthly Berry Go Round, the bontanical blog carnival. And he notes that BGR needs a badge. Must … resist … urge … to spend afternoon futzing with Inkscape.


Photo by jby.

*Including a set of nested footnotes that would make David Foster Wallace blush.

Nature blogging from the ivory tower

Over at the Nature Blogging Network, N8 discusses the network’s “academic” category, with examples including a very nice nod to D&T.

I thought the addition of the category made a lot of sense — when I joined NBN in March, the best match I could find was “ecosystems,” which is fine, but maybe not as fitting as it might be. I think of D&T not so much as a blog about nature as a blog by someone who studies nature, which lets me post about pretty much whatever catches my attention, not just peer-reviewed research or photos from my latest hike. Also, to be honest, some of the appeal in switching to the “academic” category is that it’s a smaller pond — albeit a pond I share with Greg Laden.