drupaladmin
3 November 2011
One thing I've been struck by, in the responses to my repeated attacks on the zombie ideas that comprise the core of the intermediate disturbance hypothesis, is that nobody's come forward with a full-on defense of those ideas--direct counterarguments to any of my...
drupaladmin
28 October 2011
In the previous post I asked readers if a post of mine had changed their minds about whether the intermediate disturbance hypothesis is true or even useful. I was gratified to see I did completely change a few minds, and caused many others to at least doubt their...
drupaladmin
24 October 2011
My post on how the intermediate disturbance hypothesis is a zombie idea has garnered more pageviews and generated more discussion than anything else I’ve written for this blog. But of course, blog comments, and the emails I’ve received, are a highly non-random sample...
drupaladmin
18 October 2011
Wonder if I've jumped the shark with the whole zombie ideas thing...Nah! ;-)
drupaladmin
12 October 2011
What are your favorite movies with ecological or evolutionary themes? Fiction, not documentaries. There are a lot of films with conservation or environmentalist themes (think Wall-E or FernGully: The Last Rainforest ), and lots of sci-fi that's loosely about "evolution...
drupaladmin
5 October 2011
A further belated thought on Lindenmayer & Likens' complaint that ecology is losing its culture of place-based, empirical natural history in favor of (among other things) mathematics. My thought was that they're actually more right than they know. In fact,...
drupaladmin
1 October 2011
Someone found the Oikos blog by searching on "gonzo ideas in ecology". Sorry, but the Oikos blog is the home of zombie ideas in ecology . For "gonzo" ideas in ecology, go here .
drupaladmin
29 September 2011
Maybe we should leave ecology (and stats) humor to non-ecologists; they're very good at it .
drupaladmin
29 September 2011
Continuing with the recent "humor in science" theme, a study of citation rates in psychology concluded that papers with funny titles get fewer citations. This finding reduces my motivation to try to demonstrate chaotic population dynamics in the amoeba Chaos chaos (yes...
drupaladmin
27 September 2011
You don't have to be funny to give a great talk, but if you are, you can give a great and funny talk. So what's the funniest scientific talk you've ever heard? Or the funniest joke or line? Probably the funniest joke I've heard in a talk involved a bit of physical...
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