Commenting on the previous post, Jim Bouldin notes that people often choose, or justify, their methods on the basis that those methods have been used by many others in the past. As Jim points out, there is a problem with this: You should choose well-justified methods,...
The summer conference season is upon us. I'll be at Evolution 2012 in Ottawa and the ESA Annual Meeting in Portland, Oregon (where I'm talking on Thursday afternoon...sigh).* Closer to the meetings, I'll have meeting previews highlighting talks I'm especially looking...
I find it a little challenging and often distasteful that the top hits for some ecological journals, including Oikos, are the publisher's page of it. Often, I want to get right to the journal, imagine that, and it is tough to navigate through the publisher standard...
Don't tell me none of your collaborations are like this .
Just discovered The Thesis Whisperer , a blog by Inger Mewburn, who studies research student experiences. It looks to be quite honest, thoughtful, and funny, and has quite the following (most posts get dozens of comments, which puts this blog in the shade). Worth...
The comments on a previous post indicated some understandable confusion on the part of some commenters as to the relationship (or lack thereof!) between various measures of "stability" in ecology. The term "stability" is infamous for meaning different things to...
Lots of terms in ecology are only loosely defined, or can have somewhat different meanings depending on the context. Which can make it difficult to measure those things, because different measures often will behave at least slightly differently. "Diversity" is a good...
Grad school can be daunting, especially for new grad students. It's a totally different experience than undergrad, and it's easy to feel like you don't belong, like you have no idea what you're doing, that you somehow fooled everyone to even get this far. In short, it'...
Following up on my post on how to network at scientific conferences, it occurred to me that I left unstated why one might want to "network" at scientific conferences. I guess I thought it was obvious, but perusing the comments over at the original post by Scicurious...
It's the time of year when many first year graduate students are preparing their research proposals. So now seems like a good time to repost my advice on how not to choose your research project. One point I'd add to that post is that it's always a bad idea to try to...
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