Scicurious asks a question about "networking" at scientific conferences: HOW do you DO IT? (emphasis in original) Good question! But I can't tell you the answer, because that would involve teaching you the secret handshake which is taught only to Faculty and which we...
This might be the best thing I've ever written for the Oikos blog.
One of the things I'm proudest of about the Oikos Blog so far is the quality of our comments section. Our community comprises a relatively small number of regular commenters (many of whom are folks with blogs of their own), and a larger number of folks who comment less...
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14 February 2012
My fellow editor Mark Vellend just emailed me with the fruits of his research on how to formally cite blog posts. While standards are still evolving and many ecology journals have no official policy, you can find guidance here and here . (UPDATE: second link fixed) The...
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12 February 2012
Joan Strassman has a nice post at Sociobiology about how to choose a PhD program. I agree with most but not all of what she has to say. I don't agree that you just avoid M.Sc. programs if you think you might want a PhD. Unless you're sure you want a PhD, doing an MSc...
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6 February 2012
The Buell and Braun awards respectively to the best student talk and poster at the Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting. They're nice awards: besides the prestige, you get $500 plus travel reimbursement to the following year's meeting. To win the awards, the...
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2 February 2012
Over at NeuroDojo, Zen Faulkes has been doing a lengthy series of posts on how to give a good presentation. The latest one, on the need to avoid "shortcuts to credibility" (like trying to talk differently than you usually talk), is here . The whole series is...
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31 January 2012
Nice post from Joan Strassman at Sociobiology on the art of seeing the big picture, the forest for the trees. The way to do that is to have "blurry vision", so that you can't see individual trees at all. Read the whole thing. Joan's thoughts were prompted by attending...
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17 January 2012
It's not actually a response to my post asking if even the best lectures are bad, but it might as well have been: Joan Strassman at Sociobiology has a nice post arguing that lectures absolutely have their place. Includes some tips on how to make your own lectures...
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13 January 2012
SciCurious has a poll up asking readers how many papers they read per week, and whether they think they read enough (so far, most respondents don't think they do). Which prompted this rather peeved reaction from DrugMonkey, about how the number of papers one reads is...
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