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24.03.2024
When I started my postdoc in 1998, I think it is safe to say that the Holy Grail (or maybe Rosetta Stone) for many evolutionary biologists w...
29.02.2024
(posted by Andrew on behalf of Marius Roesti) Another year is in full swing. What will 2024 hold for us? Nostradamus, the infamous French a...
21.02.2024
"There are two kinds of readers. Those who have read the Lord of the Rings. And those who are going to." There are two kinds of biologists...
10.11.2023
I recently published a paper titled Prediction in Ecology and Evolution in BioScience . I was pretty sure the paper would get a lot of atte...
08.07.2023
Analogies can be useful ways of explaining complicated ideas - but they can also be problematic. Reviewers of a recent paper were having tro...
17.05.2023
Retrospection - by Prof. Tom Reimchen (University of Victoria, BC, Canada) I was a second year undergraduate student at the University of A...
01.04.2023
When a colleague and friend passes on, those of us left behind wish to honor them with some of our favorite memories. With Ole Kristian Berg...
27.12.2022
For the final week of Cuentos/Contos , I present Dr. Bryan Juarez, Dr. Stepfanie Aguillon, Dr. Raul Diaz, Kiersten Formoso and a special int...
17.12.2022
In week 2 of the Cuentos/Contos , I am pleased to share the cuentos of Daisy Flores, Eduardo Tassoni Tsuchida, Alonso Delgado and Maya Yane...
13.12.2022
In the Fall of 2021, I sought out to highlight the stories of Latino/a/x researchers generally in "Ecology and Evolution". With the suppor...
05.12.2022
I was recently surprised to learn from my students (I really appreciate that they spoke up about it) that some phrases I had been using were...
02.12.2022
Once upon a time, I did my PhD with Andrew Hendry at McGill. My PhD involved writing individual-based evolutionary models of various sorts,...
29.11.2022
There’s a widely held view in biology that one dataset should equal one paper. Using the same data in two papers is often viewed with susp...
What will conferences be like when COVID is in the rear-view mirror*? Just over a year ago, the three co-editors of this blog, Kiyoko Gotand...
Guest post from Pim Edelaar: Publish or perish ... You have probably heard this “advice” before. And while there are many alternative ways...
The art of the pivot or, when abandoning a beloved experiment leads somewhere better Guest post by Amanda Hund Perseverance is central to ...
Susan Foster of Clark University passed away recently. Here we collate and compile memories of some Susan's contributions to science, educat...
The cases for and against archiving code by, Bob Montgomerie (Queen’s University) Data Editor—The American Naturalist As of the beginn...
Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) initiatives are important everywhere, including in STEMM fields. They can be especially important t...
The following is a guest post by Dr. Alli Cramer, at the University of Washington. @AlliNCramer How do NSF postdoc proposals work, anyways?...
Guest Post by Wolf Blanckenhorn, Evolutionary Biology & Environmental Studies, University of Zürich, Parting Editor-in-Chief of the Jour...
The following is a guest post by Ken Thompson. Recently I took the unusual step of publicly posting a technical comment about my own first...
This is a joint post co-written equally by: Daniel Bolnick (daniel.bolnick@uconn.edu) David Fisher (david.fisher@abdn.ac.uk) Maurine Neima...
It is common now in talks or social media posts about our trainees to “claim” or “tag” the students as ours. “Congratulations to my former s...
A decade ago, The American Naturalist and a few other journals instituted Data Archiving policies, coincinding with the start of DataDryad ....
By Dan Bolnick This past month, The American Naturalist published what I hope is the final step in the Editorial Board's evaluation of work ...
Becoming a new professor is exciting. You are at last the captain of your own research. You pick who you want to work with, what you want t...
Collaboration: a how-to guide Authors: Dan Bolnick (University of Connecticut) Stacy Krueger-Hadfield (University of Alabama at Birmingham...
This story is at the confluence of two beginnings. The first beginning was the purchase – in 1975 – by my uncle, Paul Hooker, of the Corral ...
In my roles as supervisor, collaborator, reviewer, and editor, I read many scientific papers in draft (pre-publication) form. When reading, ...
In ecology and evolution, we often keep doing what we have always done – not the least because we really value long-term datasets and detail...
The following is a cross-post from the Editor's blog of The American Naturalist, developed with input from various volunteers (credited belo...
There is a lot of excellent discussion these days about how we diversify our organismal biology community (ecology, evolution, behavior, etc...
A sure sign of adulting is finally deciding to write a legal Will to designate how your assets should be handled in the event of your death...
Prologue: The subject of scientific retraction has been very much on my mind in the past year, as an editor, a co-author, and a member of th...
How an first-year undergrad drove more than 15,000 km to brave mosquitoes and forest fires en route to photographing, fin clipping, and rele...
Many institutions encourage the use of an Individual Development Plan (IDP) to guide conversations between faculty and their lab members (po...