Author: jonathanslaght

• Email Auto-Replies: Bring Your ‘A’ Game

  Yesterday, Tim Herrera of the New York Times posted an article about email auto replies which, after soliciting submissions, included a number of reader entries. That this simple article elicited…

• The Fragility of Field Plans

  When our truck broke through the ice of the Funtovka River, it nearly sank the 2012 field season. The river wasn’t particularly deep, maybe four feet at that spot, but…

• An Undesirable Nest

  This post first appeared on Scientific American as part of my East of Siberia series. Years ago I conducted songbird research at the Sikhote-Alin Biosphere Reserve: summers of sweat, field…