1. You may have noticed I've only posted a couple items- both Thrifty Thursdays- since the blog launch earlier in the month. The slowness has reason. I am currently teaching a compressed summer session class on beekeeping with two lab sections a week. The prep time is such that I'm stretched rather thin for full-ahead blogging.
The class ends August 6th, however, after which Compound Eye will resume full speed.
On the other hand, I'm getting a lot of bee photos:
2. An open comments policy is coming, we swear. The tech folks are stretched thin integrating the previous SciAm blogs with the new network. Once that's done, we're told, they'll get to work implementing a better commenting system.
Carry on,
Alex
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR(S)
Alex Wild is Curator of Entomology at the University of Texas at Austin, where he studies the evolutionary history of ants. In 2003 he founded a photography business as an aesthetic complement to his scientific work, and his natural history photographs appear in numerous museums, books and media outlets.
