The Canadian federal government is going to cease funding the Experimental Lakes Area . Since the late 1960s, the ELA and its 58 small lakes have been doing amazing long-term monitoring and experiments on whole lakes, including groundbreaking studies of eutrophication...
Biostatistician Robert Sokal died on April 9. Like most ecologists, I knew Sokal primarily through his canonical statistical textbook with Jim Rohlf, Biometry . But he was of course much more than the author of a classic textbook. In his research, he was a pioneer of...
In the past few weeks the Oikos blog has been getting visits from a Moodle site associated with the undergraduate Plant Ecology course offered by Berea College . I assume this means that one or more posts are being used as course material. I tried to contact the...
This month's compilation of the best in evolutionary blogging is now up at Evolving Thoughts . Lots of good stuff as usual. One post that caught my eye talks about how Steven J. Gould was wrong to claim that Cope's Rule applies only to living organisms, not inanimate...
A new guest post by Ayco Tack and colleagues , discussing the background and implications of their interesting new Oikos paper , is now up. But due to a quirk in the way WordPress schedules posts, the post appears further down the page, inserted between two older posts...
The movie version of The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists! comes out later this month. I can't wait!
The best of last month's evolution blogging, here . Lots of stuff on human evolution and sociality this month.
Or if they do, they remain unconvinced by my arguments for the value of fundamental research .
For the fourth week in a row, the Oikos blog just had it's biggest week ever. And what a week it was! Thanks to some very interesting and popular posts by Chris on peer review, we got 3,956 non-syndicated views last week. Add in the syndicated views and we probably got...
A while back I posted on a cool new nonparametric method, which goes by the acronym "MINE", for detecting associations between variables in multivariate datasets. The method can detect even nonlinear (and non-monotonic!) relationships between pairs of variables, and it...
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