Funky Monkey

A rhesus macaque monkey that has been on the loose in Florida for more than a year has reached such heights of popularity among us human folk that it has more than 56,000 Facebook fans.

Cell Invasion Biology

The Center for Embedded and Networked Sensing (CENS) has come up with a cool way to use smartphones to quickly and easily link GPS data to photos and store that data so that it can be mapped. The National Park Service is now using the technology to record locations of invasive plants in the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area.

Twittering

You might have noticed the recent addition of yet another widget to the ISW's front page: a Twitter badge. Sometimes there is breaking invasive species news that happens hours before I can give it the full-post treatment. Other times there are invasive species stories that don't merit a full post. From now on instead of just waiting or passing stories over, I'll push the best of them out through Twitter. You can see the latest four posts on this website, go directly to the ISW's Twitter page, subscribe to the feed, or sign up for Twitter and get the latest in invasive species "tweets" sent directly to your cell phone or instant message client...because when the emerald ash borer arrives in your state, you should be the first to know! :-)