Dynamic Ecology

Previously, I’ve used various datasets and analytical approaches to show that, since Donald Trump was first elected President, TT ecology faculty job ads in politically conservative (“red”) states have gotten fewer applicants than those in politically lib…

This week: RIP Wendell Berry, correlation = causation (?)

Recently, I polled readers on their views as editors (or would-be editors) on sending revised mss back out for review.

This week: great science and nature pics, the end of OSF, casinos vs. probability theory, memecoins vs. marmots, Kurt Gödel life advice, and more.

Universities have been around for almost a millenium, so it is not surprising they have changed repeatedly in fundamental ways through time.

“Publication bias”, aka the “file drawer problem,” refers to results of scientific studies going unpublished non-randomly with respect to some study feature(s).

This week: stripped-down ecoevojobs.net, Steamboat Ladies vs.

As a journal editor (first at Oikos, now at Am Nat), I rarely send revised mss back to the original reviewers for a second round of review.* No, not even if the revisions are really extensive.

A while back, I announced that there’s an Easter egg in my new book, gave a couple of hints about it, and offered a small prize to the first person to find it.

This week: a new review of The Ecology of Ecologists, house elf misinformation, the largest tweetable number, Stephen Heard is at it again, and more.