This week: the scientist who wasn't there, an ecological history of religion, preregistrations in psychology aren't improving, can you be daunted retroactively, tortoise vs. Excel, and more. American. An ecological history of religion in what is now the US over the last 11,000 years. Preregistrations in psychology often lack methodological detail, deviations from the preregistered…

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09.07.2025

Get to the point | Dynamic Ecology

Over the years, I've found myself getting bored and even impatient with the introduction sections of many of the papers I read and talks I see. I want authors and presenters to get to the point. I don't want to read or hear background information I already know. Nor do I want to read or…

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11.07.2025

No, not everyone can be a hunter-gatherer. But should we consider the possibility anyway? | Dynamic Ecology

Back in college, I took a class on "Human Ecology" from an anthropology prof. One of our assignments was to evaluate a manifesto from a small group of US environmental activists in the late 1960s or 1970s (I don't recall exactly). They announced that they were going to live off the land as hunter-gatherers in…

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12.07.2025

Friday linkfests haven’t changed in 20 years | Dynamic Ecology

This week: geology murder, unfortunately-relevant history, sphere packing record, and more. The history of US civil-military relations. Everything new is old again. Record-breaking sphere packing. Geology murder. :-)

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