drupaladmin
20 December 2011
Meaning that they get worse rather than better with age. That's the conclusion of a long-term longitudinal study of peer reviewers in medicine, discussed over at The Scholarly Kitchen . I'm not inclined to compare the results to my own personal experience, simply...
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16 December 2011
Cross Validated is a question and answer site for statistics, similar to Stack Overflow for programmers. It's free, anyone can post a question, and the answers come from professional statisticians and data miners and seem to be of generally high quality. Lots of the...
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7 December 2011
This is old but I missed it at the time. An Australian start-up company called Kaggle is offering cash prizes (hundreds to millions of dollars) to get modelers to compete against one another to solve prediction problems. Some recent competitions have been broadly...
drupaladmin
6 December 2011
Nothing in the Carnival from Oikos blog this month, but don't let that stop you from checking out this month's linkfest of evolutionary writing, and from making your own Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy jokes.
drupaladmin
18 October 2011
Readers interested in evolution will want to check out the new group blog Nothing in Biology Makes Sense (the name is taken from Dobzhansky's famous remark that nothing in biology makes sense except in light of evolution). The contributors are a mixture of experienced...
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22 September 2011
Evolutionary geneticist Sally Otto of the University of British Columbia has been awarded a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship (colloquially known as a 'genius grant'). She does important and wonderfully incisive work on the evolution of sexual reproduction, and also...
drupaladmin
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...
drupaladmin
3 September 2011
The Carnival of Evolution is a monthly compilation of blog posts about all things evolutionary, hosted by a different volunteer each month. The September Carnival is now up, with an overview post written by the host, Henry Gee, a science writer for Nature . A whole...
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18 August 2011
NSF has made radical changes to their submission process, in order to cut down on the number of full proposals requiring external review. For summary and discussion of the changes see Jabberwocky Ecology and The Spandrel Shop . Early response to the changes seems to be...
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12 August 2011
Colin Kremer did not disappoint, giving a very nice talk in which he compiled a massive dataset on the thermal optima and tolerance ranges of different marine phytoplankton, showed that species that like it warmer live in warmer places and that species with wider...
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