Science and Perspective

Politics is about changing someone’s vote. Advocacy is about changing someone’s mind. Activism is about changing someone’s life. -Leno 4/29/2017 Ancilleno Davis, PhD. Candidate Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Biology- Miami University, Oxford Ohio

Today, Miami shared student work on how faculty diversity has increased over the past ten years. With new regulations making it difficult to recruit and keep international faculty, it will be interesting to see how the follow up to this project looks a year from now. Source: Increased diversity of Oxford faculty

Dear Leo, I will try my best to teach you to talk your way out of most problems, but at some point you will probably have to fight. These are some basic thoughts to consider. 1: is there no other option? A physical fight should always be the last option. 2: when it goes down,…

Today’s politicians are asking you to marry them. They promise they will bathe regularly, once you consummate the marriage, without evidence they have ever taken a bath in their lives. – Ancilleno O. Davis April, 20th 2017 Ancilleno Davis, PhD. Candidate Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Biology- Miami University, Oxford Ohio

So, I fell asleep with Leo for an afternoon nap after eating a bowl of oatmeal with cranberries and almonds… then this. I walked down the hall of the old RND cinemas, the smell of popcorn was strong. As I turned between the concession stand and the wall of the theater, the excitement built as…