• Finishing this up? Another late-night SBIR blog.

    9:23 p.m. In a minor miracle, two out four of my children are asleep right now. That means I can start pounding away on this application much earlier than I… Read More

  • Let’s do another late-night grant-writing blog!

    Let’s do another late-night grant-writing blog!

    Over the past month or so, we here at Dawn Chorus have been going full steam getting a proposal together for an NIH SBIR. No matter the outcome, we’ve learned… Read More

  • Design Thinking and Community-Based Research

    Design Thinking and Community-Based Research

    The NJHI project is wrapping up. As I put together the final report, I spread out all the data sources and artifacts that we’ve collected over the last few years…. Read More

  • New Paper by Dr. Guhlincozzi

    New Paper by Dr. Guhlincozzi

    Our friend and colleague just published a new paper on the importance of recruiting and supporting diverse sources in geosciences. Check out the full text (hooray for open access!) below!… Read More

  • Oh, and here’s our black metal logo

    It’s the spookiest of months, so it’s the time to break out our black metal logo. I’m not as comfortable putting this up front anymore, but we should still celebrate… Read More

  • The reason to work with Dawn Chorus

    The reason to work with Dawn Chorus

    Before we begin, please press play on the following video to accompany your reading. Our friend and colleague David Zimmerman pointed us to a just published study on the impact… Read More

  • Cross-country Promoting with Envest

    Cross-country Promoting with Envest

    Last Friday, I had the pleasure of meeting up with James Osborn, founder of Envest Asset Management. Envest handles all of Dawn Chorus investing and retirement planning. Envest is also,… Read More

  • Exciting news for open access research data

    Exciting news for open access research data

    We welcome a guest post from our colleague Rebecca Sax! The scientific research community is notoriously siloed and competitive. Even after the rapid, global collaboration resulting in the COVID-19 vaccine… Read More

  • Tenure Track Academic Salaries at the University of Alaska: Anchorage

    Can you believe that some HR departments don’t share salary information? Anyway, instead of working on actual work, I played around with this data that was shared on the Community… Read More

  • Getting to Know: Allison Herb

    Dawn Chorus employee #2 (or possibly #1) recently told her story to the Alvernian. Read all about her journey at the link below!

  • Did we submit to Y Combinator? We did.

    Imposter syndrome is a funny thing. Lots of really successful people have it, so that should make it normative. But it’s not. I still worry that we could be doing… Read More

  • SCRA career chat featuring Jon

    Hey all! Fifteen years ago I didn’t know what evaluation or community psychology were. Now, I feel like I’ve found a professional home that allows me to think, be creative,… Read More