My recent poll didn't get many responses, but among the respondents so far it seems like there's some interest in data on the geographic mobility of ecology faculty job seekers. So let's start to compile a bit of data on that. If you're currently on, or have ever been on, the market for tenure-track ecology…

Dynamic Ecology

03.10.2025

I updated my crude analysis asking whether the pandemic reduced the number of EEB faculty job seekers and/or the number of jobs they’re applying for | Dynamic Ecology

Last year I used data from ecoevojobs.net to do an admittedly crude analysis asking whether the pandemic reduced the number of EEB faculty job seekers and/or the number of jobs the typical job seeker applies for in a year. I've now updated the post with an additional year's worth of data, from the 2024-25 ecoevojobs.net…

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04.10.2025

Replacing Friday linkfests with AI is harder than it seems (UPDATED) | Dynamic Ecology

This week: the beatings cattle prods will continue until morale theoretical physics improves, LLMs vs. reproducibility, good annoyance, the past degrowth is never dead; it's not even past; accidental inventions, and more. How common is accidental invention? I was surprised that there seem to be some patterns here. Accidents are (somewhat) predictable! An important part…

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07.10.2025

Poll results: geographically restricted job searches by people on the North American ecology faculty job market | Dynamic Ecology

Recently I polled current and former ecology faculty job seekers in North America, asking some questions about whether, and how, their searches were geographically restricted. The results were very interesting! Here they are. Sample size and demographics: We got 134 respondents--thanks to everyone who responded! Obviously not a perfectly random or totally representative sample of…

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Poll on geographically restricted job searches by people previously or currently on the North American ecology faculty job market | Dynamic Ecology

I updated my crude analysis asking whether the pandemic reduced the number of EEB faculty job seekers and/or the number of jobs they’re applying for | Dynamic Ecology

Replacing Friday linkfests with AI is harder than it seems (UPDATED) | Dynamic Ecology

Poll results: geographically restricted job searches by people on the North American ecology faculty job market | Dynamic Ecology

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