Now up at Mousetrap . Includes a contribution from yours truly. Now you know what to read on the plane to Ottawa.
It's almost here: the biggest (~2400 attendees) evolution conference ever! I'm excited. I've only ever attended the evolution meeting once before, in 2009 in Idaho when it was much smaller because there were fewer societies involved. Evolution 2009 was the best...
Presenters at Evolution 2012 know about this, but I'm not sure if all attendees do: there's a slick app for making your personal schedule. You can access if from any browser-equipped device. Its fully searchable as well as browsable, it auto-updates if there are...
FINAL UPDATE: The snark in this post is out of line, and for that I apologize to Howard Rundle and the other Evolution 2012 organizers. It was and remains true that I'm personally skeptical of the need for the chimes, based on my own experience over many years at an...
Press release: The academic jungle: ecosystem modelling reveals why women are driven out of research. DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2012.20601.x A large proportion of women and a growing number of men wish to work part-time in order to balance the demands of family and work...
I just tried to visit the Ecological Society of America website, and Google gave me this: What the hell?! The diagnostic page says that over the past 90 days, a bunch of pages from esa.org resulted in malicious software being downloaded without user consent, including...
The Ecological Society of America is encouraging bloggers to blog the ESA meeting. If you do a post on any aspect of the meeting, they'll create a post on their EcoTone blog with your post title, an excerpt, and a link back to the full post on your blog. Details here...
Elinor Ostrom , the first woman ever awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics, has died. Ecologists, including me, mostly don't know her work (I only know of it). But we should. She did hugely important work on the management of common pool resources, and argued that...
Now up at the world's most popular evolutionary blog, Pharyngula . Check it out.
The Canadian federal government recently announced that it will no longer fund the renowned Experimental Lakes Area . There is now an effort underway to save ELA: go here for info.
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