Last week, I had a post about the nuts and bolts (and emotions!) of responding to reviewers. In it, I talk about how my initial reaction to constructive criticism of my manuscripts is for my brain to fall out, leaving me unable to process anything for a while. I still think of myself as someone…

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26.04.2024

On the joy of field work–and lab work | Dynamic Ecology

Chris Mantegna has a nice piece in Nature on the joys of field work, and the importance giving students from historically underrepresented groups opportunities to experience field work themselves. The piece resonates with the growing literature on positive field experiences as key to attracting and retaining students from historically underrepresented groups into ecology (e.g., Race…

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27.04.2024

Friday links: RIP Daniel Dennett, rewilding the internet, and more | Dynamic Ecology

Also this week: reviving cybernetics, Spinoza vs. Meghan, no one buys books (because they don't want to), no one buys future onions (because they're not allowed to), McSweeney's makes fun of Jeremy, and much, much more. Oh, and 1957 called, it wants its panic about public trust in science back. From Jeremy: Public trust in…

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29.04.2024

The state of academic publishing in 3 graphs, 6 trends, and 4 thoughts | Dynamic Ecology

Eleven years ago I shared a fairly heavily researched summary of the state of academic publishing. I mostly argued that OA (aka author pays) was a red herring and that we should really pay attention to the profit motives (or not) of the publisher. I would argue that analysis mostly still holds, but a lot…

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Live peer review, leadership roles, and handling hard better | Dynamic Ecology

On the joy of field work–and lab work | Dynamic Ecology

Friday links: RIP Daniel Dennett, rewilding the internet, and more | Dynamic Ecology

The state of academic publishing in 3 graphs, 6 trends, and 4 thoughts | Dynamic Ecology

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