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Future impact: Predicting scientific success

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12 September 2012
Cool Nature paper on how to predict success. http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v489/n7415/full/489201a.html

Lots of equations=few citations?

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5 September 2012
In the July issue of PNAS, Fawcett and Higginson argue, based on statistical analysis of citation rates, that a high density of equations will increase citation by theoreticians, but reduce citations by nontheoreticians even more. They advocate putting a minimum of...

Per Brink award lecture in the September issue

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28 August 2012
Each year, at the Oikos meeting, Oikos and Wiley/Blackwell together with the Per Brink Foundation, awards the Per Brink Oikos award in honor of Professor Per Brink. This year's laureate, Prof. Tim Coulson from Imperial College London gives you below a short version of...

Being a Subject Editor...

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19 August 2012
Why being a Subject Editor at Oikos? And what does it really mean? Wim van der Putten, who has been Subject Editor at Oikos for many years, and for several other journals as well, gives you his answers: Why would you submit your research papers to Oikos and what would...

The information economy and data sharing in ecology. ESA 2012 interview Stephanie Hampton

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17 August 2012
Here is a superb interview with Stephanie Hampton. She is the Deputy Director of NCEAS and one of the PIs on the DataOne project. Her talk at the esa 2012 meeting was very well received so I nabbed her for a chat. The interview also includes suggestions for Oikos and...

Vibrant data: another example of novel synthesis

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17 August 2012
This project is cool, vibrantdata.org . Eric Berlow is one of the founders and is an ecologist with publications on food webs, interactions, alpine meadows, and the marine intertidal. This new project is bring together big data, designers, and Intel researchers to...

Ocean Health Index

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16 August 2012
This is definitely novel synthesis. Here is the link to a really fascinating index that integrates both human and environmental condition estimates to provide a composite score of ocean health. It is also organized by public goals such as food provision, carbon storage...

Data samples & data abstracts alongside Oikos papers

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11 August 2012
I was wondering what ecofolks thought of this: http://bit.ly/cjlortie2 . Oikos publishing a small data sample alongside each paper (when authors provide). This could be as simple as a small txt file or flat sheet showing the data structure with a few reps. Of course,...

DataUp interview with Carly Strasser at ESA2012

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9 August 2012
Here's a quick interview about DataUp and how authors and journals can participate. [wpvideo 57AeZ0gf]

Opensci interview at ESA2012

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9 August 2012
Here's a great interview from today at the esa about the open sci initiatives in eeb. [wpvideo b4MRRiu0]

Meet Oikos at ISBE in Lund in August!

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7 August 2012
The 14th International Behavioral Ecology Congress is held in Lund on August 12-17 2012. Oikos is represented at Wiley's stand, and I will be around from time to time. http://www.isbe2012lund.org/ If you have questions about Oikos or issues you'd like to discuss with...

Inspiration from Tallinn

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31 July 2012
A couple of weeks ago, the Oikos Editorial Office attended the conference "Editing in the Digital World", organized by EASE (European Association for Science Editors) in Tallinn. Apart form giving us the opportunity to explore the midevial Estonian capital, it provided...

Oikos' own jazzsinger

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19 July 2012
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...

I am leaving the Oikos Blog and starting my own blog

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11 July 2012
I have an announcement to make: I am leaving the Oikos Blog and starting my own blog, Dynamic Ecology . This was a difficult decision for me, and not one I took lightly. To understand my reasons for making this decision, you first need to know something about the...

Evolution 2012: Tuesday notes

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10 July 2012
Evolution 2012 is over for me, couldn't stay for the final afternoon. Highlight of the morning was watching my students talk, of course. They all did the Fox lab proud. I enjoyed the meeting, and got out of it what I wanted to get out of it. I wasn't blown away by the...

Evolution 2012: Monday highlights

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10 July 2012
Susan Bailey's discovery of synonymous beneficial mutations continues to be the talk of the meeting, or at least that portion of the meeting that I hear about. Another good day for conversations. Had a good chat with Carl Simpson, a paleontologist who's using Price...

Evolution 2012: Sunday notes

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9 July 2012
Fairly short tonight , I'm exhausted and I need to go to bed. Indeed, my exhaustion today caused me to embarrass myself when Elisabeth Pennisi, who writes for Science , asked me some questions about the meeting. I know who she is, I read her work every week, but I was...

Evolution 2012: Saturday notes (UPDATED)

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8 July 2012
Greetings from Evolution 2012 in delightfully summery Ottawa. My hometown of Calgary experienced an intense hailstorm centered on my house the day before I left for the meeting. I took this as an indication that it was a good time to get out of town for a few days. The...

Evolution 2012: Protest against Canadian government suppression of scientific evidence

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3 July 2012
A Canadian colleague has alerted me to a protest in Ottawa against the Canadian government's suppression of scientific evidence, planned to coincide with the final day of Evolution 2012. Previously I've noted with dismay the government's decision to cease funding the...

Evolution 2012: facilitated networking

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3 July 2012
I've talked in the past about how to network at scientific conferences --how to overcome any shyness you might have in order to talk to the people you'd like to talk to. The Evolution 2012 meeting is trying an interesting experiment on this. Poster presenters have been...

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