I really enjoy giving invited seminars, for all the usual reasons. It's very flattering to be invited, even if it's a friend inviting you. You get to meet new people and see a new place. You get to spend a couple of days basically doing nothing but talking about science and academia. You get taken…

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19.02.2025

There’s no such thing as a Friday linkfest | Dynamic Ecology

This week: against overfitting (but probably not in the way you're thinking), new ecology group blog, absurd trolley problems, museum of internet artifacts, and more. The Aggregate is a new agroecology group blog to which anyone is welcome to submit a post. The mini-revival of the ecology blogosphere continues apace. The British Ecological Society is…

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19.02.2025

How to earn authorship on many authored papers? | Dynamic Ecology

The existence of what I jokingly call MAPs (Massively-Authored-Papers) has been a reality in ecology for a few decades now. They are primarily the results of working and synthesis groups. A group of 10-30 people meet up a few times, build consensus, and produce a paper often with 10-30 authors. Love it or hate, this…

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20.02.2025

Are you planning to attend the 2025 ESA meeting in Baltimore? If not, why not? Take our short poll! | Dynamic Ecology

At last year's ESA meeting, I wondered "Where is everybody?" We had a good discussion in the comments of some people's reasons for no longer attending the ESA meeting. But it'd be nice to have a bigger sample. With the abstract deadline for ESA 2025 fast approaching, I thought I'd do a quick poll. Are…

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Yet another sign that I’ve gotten old: I don’t get invited to give seminars any more | Dynamic Ecology

There’s no such thing as a Friday linkfest | Dynamic Ecology

How to earn authorship on many authored papers? | Dynamic Ecology

Are you planning to attend the 2025 ESA meeting in Baltimore? If not, why not? Take our short poll! | Dynamic Ecology

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