NCEAS officially closed its doors earlier this week with an invitation-only symposium this week held an invitation-only symposium to mark the end of its NSF funding, though apparently it has secured some other funding sources and will be continuing on in some form. If...
WordPress has started providing country-by-country data on where our (non-syndicated) page views come from. Here are of the data, which only cover the last few days: We've had views from 89 countries in just the past few days! Top 10 countries: USA (2506 views), Canada...
Your monthly compendium of evolutionary writing is here . Includes my discussion of how to use a children's card game to teach the concept of random drift (which I refer to, somewhat imprecisely, as "neutral drift", but I have another post making clear that "neutral"...
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24 February 2012
MATTER is an interesting start-up, looking to create a home for something increasingly rare: high quality, long-form commissioned science journalism. The people behind it are experienced professional journalists who've written for publications like New Scientist and...
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20 February 2012
Last week was the biggest week ever for the Oikos blog. No surprise, since I did a bunch of posting. But still: 3972 views, including 1124 syndicated views! That's 567 views/day for those of you scoring at home. It was also the biggest week ever just counting non-...
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2 February 2012
The best of last month's online evolutionary writings, here . Get 'em while they're hot!
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1 February 2012
Ace philosopher of science and statistics Deborah Mayo has moved her blog. It's now here (and now looks much sharper).
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23 January 2012
Following on from previous posts on reforming peer review (see here , here , and here ), I wanted to note a new peer review service, Peerage of Science . PoS is a private company founded by a trio of Finnish scientists, which combines several proposed peer review...
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4 January 2012
At the EEB and Flow . Lots of good stuff, as always.
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4 January 2012
The Oikos Blog began in March, so while we're not yet one year old the start of the new year seems like an appropriate time to look back at how we've grown. We wrote 170 posts and got just over 58,000 views in 2011. Note that that doesn't count syndicated views and so...
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