Sorry about the technical glitch just now, which resulted in the last post being published nine times. Wordpress provides various buttons on its various screens that one can click to write a new post. For the last post, I used a new button that Wordpress recently added...
drupaladmin
3 November 2011
Recent news about unusually serious scientific misconduct by psychologist Diederik Stapel (he made up the data in more than 30 papers; see coverage here and here ) got me thinking about scientific misconduct, or the apparent lack thereof, in ecology and evolutionary...
drupaladmin
6 October 2011
One reason why zombie ideas are hard to kill is that many folks aren't familiar with, or don't understand, the non-zombie alternatives. For instance, I think many ecologists don't fully understand Peter Chesson's idea of the storage effect. They either mistakenly think...
My blog posts for Oikos are an attempt to do interesting "armchair ecology", a form which Oikos has a long and honorable history of supporting. Basically, any ideas I have that I think are worth sharing, but that, for whatever reason, aren't really suited for...
