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This week: the banality of evil civilizational collapse, peak racehorse, AI vs. forecasting, Fat Bear week, and more. Includes a preview of coming attractions! Why I love AI. Easily the best thing I read this week. Here’s a Parliamentary standing … Continue reading →
Back when this blog was middle-aged (it’s old now, in blog years), Brian, Meghan, and I tried all sorts of things to drum up more comments. Not that we were totally lacking for comments (most of our posts draw comments). … Continue reading →
I have just heard about a new journal, Systems Ecology. It has some notable features: Here’s the abstract of the founding editorial laying out the vision for the journal: Systems ecology seeks to understand how interactions among ecological components generate … Continue reading →
This week: pandas are terrible, subatomic physics vs. the platoon advantage, doomers vs. doomers, Daniel Dennett vs. AI, and more. Welcome to what’s become an occasional feature around these parts, the Totally Random Rant That Probably Should’ve Been A Standalone … Continue reading →
Negatively frequency-dependent selection is when the relative fitness of a genotype or phenotype decreases as its frequency increases in the population. That is, rare types have an advantage. It can arise for many underlying reasons. Perhaps the most famous example … Continue reading →
I’m late to this, but here’s a video of Jordan Rosenfeld’s talk on zombie ideas about hypoxia thresholds in marine ecology. tl;dw: He pulls together a bunch of data to argue that the conventional threshold oxygen concentration in water used … Continue reading →
This week: RIP Wendell Berry, correlation = causation (?), which data repository should you use, forget the h-index here’s the S-index, replicating fake studies, the nature of improvisation, songs about Kalamazoo (or the lack thereof), cybernetics vs. burritos, and more. … Continue reading →
A few months ago I presented a bit of data on how far recent N. American TT ecology hires moved to take up their TT positions. I’ve updated that post with additional data and analyses that now cover 334 TT … Continue reading →
Recently, I polled readers on their views as editors (or would-be editors) on sending revised mss back out for review. Here are the results! tl;dr: Interesting range of views out there, though the disagreements among respondents are mostly a matter … Continue reading →
In his classic “Modest advice to graduate students,” Steve Stearns advises PhD students (emphasis added): When you first arrive, read and think widely and exhaustively for a year. Assume that everything you read is bullshit until the author manages to … Continue reading →
This week: modeling analyst degrees of freedom, making cod great again, universities vs. research evidence, graphing reviewer 2, 18th century superforcaster, Tony Ives’ old apartment (I assume), worst table of contents ever, and more. Jeremy is traveling; content moderation will … Continue reading →
Previously, I’ve used various datasets and analytical approaches to show that, since Donald Trump was first elected President, TT ecology faculty job ads in politically conservative (“red”) states have gotten fewer applicants than those in politically liberal (“blue”) or moderate … Continue reading →
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