We are very proud to have our own jazzsinger in the Oikos Editorial Board. I'm talking about our Subject Editor Lonnie Aarssen, Queen University, Kingston Canada. When not holding the microphone in his hand, Lonnie is doing research within the field of Plant Ecology...
Sarcozona's last (?) ESA interview is up. She chats with Colin Kremer , a grad student in the Klausmeier-Litchman lab at Michigan State. It's an audiofile, and well worth a listen. It's wide-ranging, touching on everything from why the ESA meeting is awesome (which it...
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2 February 2012
Sarcozona resumes her series of interviews from last year's ESA Meeting (better late than never!) with a chat with plant population ecologist Julian Mulroy from the ESA Historical Records Committee.
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8 November 2011
Just found Science of Blogging , a blog about scientific blogging. Includes interviews with scientists who blog and use other forms of social media, discussions of interesting issues like blogging as a form of post-publication peer review, and links to blog posts of...
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29 October 2011
Just found Mousetrap , a very interesting blog about the history and philosophy of ecology and evolution. Lots of thought-provoking tidbits based on close reading of people who nowadays we (and that "we" includes me) mostly know only through textbook caricatures:...
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29 October 2011
For new readers who found there way here from Evolving Thoughts , welcome! Obviously, I recommend you read our entire archives (less than 200 posts!), but if that proves infeasible, I recommend: Philosophical posts: 'Synthesizing ecology': revisiting an Oikos classic...
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28 October 2011
If you like the Oikos blog, especially my attempts to use philosophy to help think about ecology, you'll like the excellent Evolving Thoughts blog by philosopher John Wilkins, which takes the same approach to evolution. Recommended.
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26 September 2011
Sarcozona's interview with yours truly now up . Thanks again to her for offering me the opportunity, it was flattering to be asked and fun to do. In the interview I reveal the ecology paper that most impressed me. Many folks who know me are likely to find my choice...
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14 September 2011
This blog's been going for a while now and has built up a lot of content. I've heard from a few folks who've found the blog fairly recently and like it a lot, but who don't have time to dig through all the old content. If that describes you, here are a few of my...
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29 August 2011
Wiley did a couple of short (2 min.) video interviews with me at the ESA meeting; the videos are now online here and here . The first one is about the ESA meeting. In retrospect, if I'd known the video wouldn't be up until after the meeting, I'd have suggested...
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