Category Archives: Sacramento

18Mar / 2020

Collecting some of my comments about Sacramento County’s poor response to COVID19

Posted this rant on March 9

And then another rant
And this one
And then Placer and Yolo County came out with their somewhat more aggressive plan
And more
And this
And another And this And another And another

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This is from the "Tree of Life Blog" of Jonathan Eisen, an evolutionary biologist and Open Access advocate at the University of California, Davis. For short updates, follow me on Twitter.
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Posted by in Covid19, Sacramento

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15Dec / 2019

Birding while ill …

OK so am pretty sick with bronchitis and such.  But I had to get out.  So I went for a brief birding outing, mostly in my car (I walked around a bit here and there).  I went to Yolo Bypass and then drove briefly around rural Davis on the way home.

I posted some of the pics to iNaturalist.

See https://www.inaturalist.org/calendar/phylogenomics/2019/12/15

Posted the best pics to Smugmug.  See here





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This is from the "Tree of Life Blog" of Jonathan Eisen, an evolutionary biologist and Open Access advocate at the University of California, Davis. For short updates, follow me on Twitter.
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Posted by in birds, iNaturalist, Sacramento, wildlife, Yolo Bypass

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26May / 2019

My observations for the City Nature Challenge 2019 – Sacramento #iNaturalist

So - last week I participated in the City Nature Challenge 2019 Sacramento Area effort.  See https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/city-nature-challenge-2019-sacramento-region for more details on the challenge.

My colleague Laci Gerhart-Barley was one of the co-organizers for our region and I saw some posts from her in the run up to the event and, as I have gotten more and more into iNaturalist I decided to participate.  Fortunately in a way, I got a nasty bug with fever and chills and such and this meant (1) I did not want to go to work and (2) I wanted to avoid people.  This gave me some extra time to go around.  The vent ran from Friday to Monday April 26-29.  And I tooled around UC Davis campus a few times and Sac State Campus once (on Saturday where my daughter had a concert) and around Yolo County and also my yard a bit.  And I took a lot of pictures and posted as many as seemed interesting to iNaturalist.  And the most amazing thing was the community of people that Laci and others had gathered together did an incredible job of helping ID many many many of my posts.

So here are some more details

Day 1. Link to observations.  Screen capture below.






Day 2. Link to observations


Day 3. Link to observations



Day 4. Link to observations.



Some of my favorite observations from these days are below;


And many many more.

Thanks to all the people who helped ID many of my pics and thanks to Laci and the other coorganizers for running the show.  It was a great experience.




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This is from the "Tree of Life Blog" of Jonathan Eisen, an evolutionary biologist and Open Access advocate at the University of California, Davis. For short updates, follow me on Twitter.
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Posted by in birds, City Nature Challenge, iNaturalist, Sacramento, Yolo Bypass

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06Feb / 2013

Amazing opportunity: California Science and Technology Policy Fellowship

This is a great opportunity for anyone who wants to mix science and technology with policy: California Science and Technology Policy Fellowship.  This Fellowship is basically a modified version of the well known AAAS Fellowships.  But it is better because, well, it is in California.  The first PhD student to finish from my lab did this a few years ago and is now working at the White House.  More information about the program is available here: PROGRAM DESCRIPTION.

To be eligible one must possess a PhD or equivalent degree or an MS in an engineering discipline plus at least three years post degree work experience.

Instructions for applying are available here.  Some FAQs about eligibility and the program are here. 

Previous Fellows are listed here:

Applications are due Feb 28, 2013.

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This is from the "Tree of Life Blog" of Jonathan Eisen, an evolutionary biologist and Open Access advocate at the University of California, Davis. For short updates, follow me on Twitter.
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Posted by in California, Moore Foundation, policy, Sacramento, science

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