On the Benefits of Skill Share Workshops

As avid followers of my website (if such folks exist) may have noted, I have moved from the University of Florida to the University of Copenhagen, but I am still hard at work trying to understand biogeographic and evolutionary patterns using large, natural-history-collection-centric data. However, I took a break from R this week to attend a workshop by Julia Heinen, a PhD student here at the Center for Macroecology, Evolution, and Climate, on how to communicate science through video. It had been a while since I had given it a try, and it's pretty darn impressive what you can do with a cell phone and iMovie in an afternoon these days. I present to you the result: