Our commenters are still the best! If you haven't been reading our comment threads recently, you missed: Rich Lenski on why his famous Long-Term Evolution Experiment hasn't inspired many imitators (although it has inspired a few). Erik Pedersen on how to run a lab exercise in which you have lab members read and discuss a…

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11.09.2025

Who are the top science influencers on YouTube, TikTok, and podcasts? And are any of them scientists? | Dynamic Ecology

Way back in 2021, I asked who or what is the "public face" of ecology. What defines "ecology" in the minds of the largest mass of people? University courses that cover ecology aren't the right answer. Most people don't take them, because most people either don't go to university, or go but don't take any…

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13.09.2025

Why Spanish Friday linkfests rarely start with F | Dynamic Ecology

This week: best math video ever, ecology book blogging, against averaging, how everything everywhere is going, and more. This is the greatest math (and abstract art) explainer video I've ever seen. I know it's an hour long, but drop whatever you're doing and watch it. So well done in terms the script, the narrative flow,…

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16.09.2025

Are recent TT ecology hires at “elite” R1 universities different in any measurable way from recent hires at “non-elite” R1s? | Dynamic Ecology

For many years, I had a side project in which I tried to identify every ecologist newly hired into a tenure-track (TT) assistant professor position in North America. You can find summaries of the results, links to the posts, and a paper summarizing much of the data here. I think and hope that the data…

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Who are the top science influencers on YouTube, TikTok, and podcasts? And are any of them scientists? | Dynamic Ecology

Why Spanish Friday linkfests rarely start with F | Dynamic Ecology

Are recent TT ecology hires at “elite” R1 universities different in any measurable way from recent hires at “non-elite” R1s? | Dynamic Ecology

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