Photorhabdus: a tale of contrasting interactions

A Tale of Two Stories: Contrasting Views of Patient Safety

A Tale of Two Cultures: Contrasting Quantitative and Qualitative Research

The quantitative and qualitative research traditions can be thought of as distinct cultures marked by different values, beliefs, and norms. In this essay, we adopt this metaphor toward the end of contrasting these research traditions across 10 areas: (1) approaches to explanation, (2) conceptions of causation, (3) multivariate explanations, (4) equifinality, (5) scope and causal generalization,...

Digital Necrosis: A Hoarder’s Tale

A tale of two genomes: contrasting patterns of phylogeographic structure in a widely distributed bat.

One of the most widely distributed bats in the New World, the big brown bat (Eptesicus fuscus) exhibits well-documented geographic variation in morphology and life history traits, suggesting the potential for significant phylogeographic structure as well as adaptive differentiation among populations. In a pattern broadly consistent with morphologically defined subspecies, we found deeply diverg...

A tale of two phylogenies: comparative analyses of ecological interactions.

The evolution of traits involved in ecological interactions such as predator-prey, host-parasite, and plant-pollinator interactions, are likely to be shaped by the phylogenetic history of both parties. We develop generalized linear mixed-effects models (GLMM) that estimate the effect of both parties' phylogenetic history on trait evolution, both in isolation but also in terms of how the two his...