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12 August 2011
Spent the morning in the symposium on the ecological consequences of intraspecific variation. An amazing lineup of speakers--the ones I saw (Dave Vasseur, Steve Ellner, Rick Lankau, Lauren Ancel Myers, Seb Schreiber, and Dan Bolnick) were all really excellent, full of...
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11 August 2011
This is going to be very short, because it's very late. Another excellent day of talks. Chi Yuan, Jon Shurin, and George Livingston lived up to my high expectations, and Carl Boettiger was so good he made my high expectations look like some sort of insult. Amy Downing...
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10 August 2011
What. A. Day. Best day of talks I've had at the ESA in years . And lots of them were from students and postdocs. I won't attempt much in the way of summaries (you can read the abstracts, which for the most part were accurate summaries of what was actually said). But I...
Here . Will post some comments once I've had time to read it.
I won't be (I'll probably blog it). But if you will be, I just got an email indicating that the hashtag for the meeting is #ESA11. And because the meeting theme is "Earth stewardship", the ESA is bribing people to tweet about that topic using the hashtag #earthsteward...
Here . I'm flattered! Wonder if it's going to be on the exam?
As reported in Science this week, the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis ( NCEAS ) will be winding down within a year or so (at least in its current form), as its NSF funding reaches its long-planned end. Approximately half of NCEAS funding (about $3...
The UK House of Commons Science and Technology Committee is conducting an inquiry into the scientific peer review system. You can read the inquiry's terms of reference, see video of their hearing, and read the written evidence (including the submission Owen Petchey and...
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