Also this week: climate change and Seneca Falls, book reviews galore, enshittification as a strategy, and more. Stephen Heard on how ChatGPT has become Nickleback. Great post, because it brings data to the party, not just a spot-on analogy. Athene Donald passes on the story of Eunice Foote, an unsung pioneer of both women's suffrage…

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15.11.2024

Did the pandemic reduce the number of EEB faculty job seekers? Or reduce the number of faculty positions a typical job seeker applies for? Or both? Or what? | Dynamic Ecology

I'm not sure, but I think it's both? Here's a bit of data, tell me what you think. I went back to the ecoevojobs.net spreadsheets from past job years for which the spreadsheet is still in good shape. That turned out to be every year from 2018-19 to 2023-24. I downloaded the counts of number…

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16.11.2024

Friday links: statistical inference vs. bridges, AI vs. time wasting, and more | Dynamic Ecology

Also this week: the phylogenetics of geometry, and more. Only a few links this week, but the average quality is higher than usual. Jessica Hullman points us to an old paper by Tukey and Cornfield on "the two spans of statistical inference." This is a very good metaphor for the role of statistics in solving…

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19.11.2024

The (political?) geography of EEB job applications | Dynamic Ecology

A few years ago, I compiled data on the number of applicants for tenure-track ecology faculty positions in North America, and had some fun building an exploratory statistical model that predicted which jobs would get more applications. I did this just out of curiosity. The answer was basically that jobs at R1 unis, jobs in…

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Friday links: in case you’re just joining us (#pruittdata edition), ChatGPT vs. Nickleback, and more | Dynamic Ecology

Did the pandemic reduce the number of EEB faculty job seekers? Or reduce the number of faculty positions a typical job seeker applies for? Or both? Or what? | Dynamic Ecology

Friday links: statistical inference vs. bridges, AI vs. time wasting, and more | Dynamic Ecology

The (political?) geography of EEB job applications | Dynamic Ecology

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