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This week: a new review of The Ecology of Ecologists, house elf misinformation, the largest tweetable number, Stephen Heard is at it again, and more. UPDATE: Oh, ha, I wrote this post forgetting that I already had a linkfest post Continue reading
This week: stand by your man fraudster, incentives are for losers, and more. Better late than never: Ecology Letters has retracted Dixson, Munday, Jones 2010 because the data were deliberately faked and all three authors continue to insist that Continue reading
This week: doing less with less, which AI to use and how, classicist (no, not that one) vs. Christopher Nolan, new carnivorous plant, inverse seminar, forecasts vs. pants, art history guessing game, and more. There s a new review of my Continue reading
Recently, I polled y all on your views on up front reference letters for faculty positions (i.e. reference letters that must be supplied by the application deadline, before the applicants have been evaluated or filtered in any way). I have no Continue reading
Last week I attended the ESA 2026 annual meeting in Salt Lake City. Here are some reflections on the meeting. It was a small meeting by ESA standards, but not as small as I feared it would be. It was Continue reading
In all honesty, my main reason for attending the ESA meeting this year is that I m hoping people will come up to me and tell me what they thought of my book. 🙂 So come find me! If you do Continue reading
This week: two new reviews of The Ecology of Ecologists, Emily Wilson vs. Christopher Nolan, Nobel Prizes that Don t Exist But Should, this week in LLMs vs. mathematics, and more. Paul Ganderton reviewed my new book, The Ecology of Ecologists, Continue reading
A Friday linkfest a little while back linked to a Dan Davies piece on the politics of unrealistic numbers. Davies piece critiques the British government s claim that a few tweaks to bank regulations could prompt up to 80 billion pounds Continue reading
You don t have to read the EEB faculty job board ecoevojobs.net for long before you encounter complaints about faculty jobs that require reference letters up front (i.e. require reference letters for all applicants, by the application deadline). However, it s often Continue reading
This week: a new case of apparent data duplication in a leading ecology journal (now with UPDATE), regression to the mean vs. solar wind, Puritanism vs. LLMs, and more. A PubPeer comment identifies substantial apparent data duplications in the data Continue reading