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26 September 2011
Claude Shannon invented information theory in 1948, and it quickly became a bandwagon; a summary of the relevant history is here . A big bandwagon is probably impossible to stop single-handed--but the editorial by Elias (1958) came pretty close (or so I understand; I'm...
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26 September 2011
Sarcozona's interview with yours truly now up . Thanks again to her for offering me the opportunity, it was flattering to be asked and fun to do. In the interview I reveal the ecology paper that most impressed me. Many folks who know me are likely to find my choice...
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22 September 2011
A local radio station in Davis, CA recently interviewed mathematical ecologist Alan Hastings and his graduate student Carl Boettiger (who just won the award for best student talk in theoretical ecology at the Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting). You can hear...
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22 September 2011
Anyone know any good ecologist jokes? Theoretical ecologist and demographer Joel Cohen once published a book of science jokes, Absolute Zero Gravity . He tells a couple of jokes from the book, including one involving an ecologist, in this video (warning: a little NSFW...
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19 September 2011
Why yes, I am procrastinating this morning--why do you ask? Created with this free online tool . Procrastinating readers are encouraged to create and send in their own ecology- or evolution-related mock motivational posters (not necessarily involving zombies). If you...
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14 September 2011
Physicist Sean Carroll has a terrific post up on why we do--and should--trust the opinions of expert physicists rather than our own opinions, but not the opinions of expert social scientists. Economics blog Noahpinion offers some smart follow-up remarks. Go read them,...
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12 September 2011
Now up at Sarcozona .
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7 September 2011
Thanks in large part to the influence of NCEAS , more and more ecologists are involved in collaborative research networks these days. Via email, Jason Fridley asks: are these networks making us too nice to each other? You'll naturally be reluctant to tell your...
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1 September 2011
This week's issue of Nature has contrasting stories from two successful biomedical researchers, one of whom works well over 100 hours/week and expects his students and postdocs to do the same, and the other of whom advocates a much more balanced approach based on...
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1 September 2011
If you like my posts for the Oikos blog, you'll like these posters . Especially this one , which is like a highly-distilled version of half my posts.
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