Betteridge's Law of Headlines applies.* For details that I'm guessing most of you don't need, but that perhaps a few of you might find useful, read on. At the end there's a short postscript on whether it's ever savvy to "read between the lines" of a faculty job ad. As an ecology faculty job applicant,…

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24.10.2024

13 ways of looking at my forthcoming book | Dynamic Ecology

My forthcoming book was officially approved for publication by UChicago Press earlier this fall. I just finished revising the text on Oct. 22. So it's definitely starting to feel real! I'm very excited about it, and I hope you are too. The one-sentence elevator pitch for the book is that it's about harnessing diversity of…

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26.10.2024

Friday links: the purpose of statistics, 30 years of notebooks, and more | Dynamic Ecology

Also this week: variance-mean scaling (tennis edition), mean scaling (pumpkin edition), and more From Jeremy: A good post on the history and purpose of statistical null hypothesis testing. Key line: Statisticians and philosophers spend far too much time close-reading Fisher and Neyman and far too little reading Bradford Hill. Statistician and polymath Cosma Shalizi has…

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29.10.2024

What are your favorite campus novels? | Dynamic Ecology

So, what are your favorite campus novels? Novels centered on academics and academia? Here are my suggestions, looking forward to yours. Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis is the classic of the genre. I've read it, I enjoyed it, although of course it's of its time. My personal favorite campus novels--which include some of my favorite…

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As an ecology faculty job applicant in North America, should you ever provide the search committee with additional materials, besides those requested in the ad? | Dynamic Ecology

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