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10 August 2011
What. A. Day. Best day of talks I've had at the ESA in years . And lots of them were from students and postdocs. I won't attempt much in the way of summaries (you can read the abstracts, which for the most part were accurate summaries of what was actually said). But I...
The highlight of Sunday was the big party out at Mathew Leibold's ranch, "Rancho Relaxo". Mathew invited a whole bunch of his friends out to his place for an evening of eating, drinking, conversation, and sweating (OMG it's hot here!) It occurred to me that this is...
Want to know what proportion of the presentations concern plants vs. animals vs. microbes, and other fun facts? Biological Posteriors has crunched the numbers.
Someone just found the Oikos blog by searching on "last ideas in ecology". I don't think there will ever be a "last" idea in ecology. But if someone ever does come up with an idea so powerful and all-encompassing that ecology as a field can just pack up and go home, I...
Thought I'd share the final question I was asked during my doctoral candidacy exam: if you could have dinner with any three deceased ecologists, who would they be and why? I named Darwin, for obvious reasons, and Gause, for reasons I've previously described . Can't...
I won't be (I'll probably blog it). But if you will be, I just got an email indicating that the hashtag for the meeting is #ESA11. And because the meeting theme is "Earth stewardship", the ESA is bribing people to tweet about that topic using the hashtag #earthsteward...
Unlike these researchers , I rarely have to worry about my study organisms breaking into my lab and trying to eat me.
This is a common job interview question in academia, but it's also fun just to think about, at least once you've published more than a couple of papers. Often, the papers of which we're proudest aren't the ones that are most cited, because our pride reflects features...
Wordpress tells you what search engine terms people have used to find your blog. Earlier today someone found the Oikos blog by searching for "an old blog". Wow, from brand new to "old" in less than four months! This makes folks like Jeremy Yoder , Marc Cadotte , Ethan...
Probably a lot of you already know about this (I first saw it quoted in an old paper of Simon Levin's ), but for those of you who don't, the following passage is from Dr. Seuss ' On Beyond Zebra : And NUH is the letter I use to spell Nutches Who live in small caves,...
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