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23.11.2024

Friday links: 1986 called, it wants its data mining Easter egg back, and more | Dynamic Ecology

Also this week: changing gender balance of US undergrads in math-intensive majors, brown bears vs. insurance fraud, LLMs vs. electricity demand, LLMs vs. signalling theory, against writing advice, the reverse population bomb, and more. Writing in Science, Cimpian and King use a giant near-census dataset to show that the gender balance of physics, engineering, and…

Dynamic Ecology

27.11.2024

The subject areas of EEB jobs haven’t really changed over the past 10 years | Dynamic Ecology

Way back when I was first on the EEB faculty job market, I used to notice trends in the subject areas of ecology faculty jobs. I especially tended to notice trends relevant to me personally. I'd think to myself stuff like, "Hooray, seems like it's a good year for community ecology jobs compared to last…

Dynamic Ecology

30.11.2024

Friday links: just make it stop (scientific research edition), and more | Dynamic Ecology

Also this week: scientific content on social media has been nerfed, wizards vs. prophets, memes vs. reproducibility, and more. I'm a bit late to this, but here's Dorothy Bishop's excellent post on what it takes to make a line of scientific research stop. Totally agree as to a part of the problem: when a scientific…

Dynamic Ecology

03.12.2024

As a prof, why did you take on an administrative or leadership role? How did it go? What lessons did you learn? Please share your stories! | Dynamic Ecology

Over the years, this blog has done a fair number of advice posts aimed primarily at graduate students and postdocs. Whether about candidacy exams, or the ecology faculty job market, or whatever. We've done many fewer advice posts aimed at mid-career and senior faculty. We'd like to change that, not least because a decent fraction…

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