drupaladmin
7 December 2011
From...wait for it...Ryan Gosling (?!) Here . I note with interest that Ryan Gosling appears to be a frequentist rather than a Bayesian. HT Sarcozona
drupaladmin
2 December 2011
According to The Onion . The accompanying food web diagram is very funny, and also rather uncomfortably close to the truth when it comes to how the links in food webs often are defined. Related documentary evidence here and here . Apparently the recent Oikos special...
drupaladmin
28 November 2011
In my continuing quest to make the world safe for scientific papers which use humor, and even satire, to make a point, here are three more examples, all from the medical literature. It's actually surprisingly easy to write an apparently objective but actually...
drupaladmin
25 November 2011
Someone just found the Oikos blog by searching on "frivolous contrarianism". This is certainly the place to come for contrarianism . And sometimes for frivolity too. But I hope there's no frivolous contrarianism to be found here...
drupaladmin
19 November 2011
Evolutionary humor from The Onion .
drupaladmin
17 November 2011
Ace evolutionary biologist and blogger Jeremy Yoder pops up in the comments on my post taking down "Spandrels of San Marco," pointing us to a 1983 paper by Norman Ellstrand that makes the same point as Gould and Lewontin, but in a much funnier and more subtle way. I...
drupaladmin
10 November 2011
Just found this old post from statistician Andrew Gelman, wonderfully articulating what it's like when you have a hypothesis, have some data relevant to that hypothesis ("not enough, never enough!"), and try to analyze the data so as to test the hypothesis. This is...
drupaladmin
9 November 2011
Loyal Oikos blog reader and theoretical ecologist Robin Snyder emailed me with a question, which I'm hoping other readers can answer: "I'm talking to some undergraduates soon about how I got where I am, what it means to do science, etc. and need to give them something...
drupaladmin
7 November 2011
Here .
drupaladmin
4 November 2011
At least, I assume no one who writes for The Onion is an ecologist. ;-)
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