Dynamic Ecology
Large parts of the surviving Friday linkfest corpus are neglected
Posts I haven’t written (yet), and posts I never will
Is the peer review system going to melt down? If so, when?
What shape do you think of when you think of Friday linkfests?
The geography of North American EEB faculty job applications (take 3)
How to make a living writing Friday linkfests
The reviews are in on The Ecology of Ecologists! (well, one review anyway)
The value of close replications and how to get more of them: interview with Kate Laskowski
You can get an extension on reading this Friday linkfest if you’re competing in the Olympics
Visiting assistant professor positions in the US and Canada hardly ever convert into tenure-track positions
Introduction section hot takes
A Friday linkfest is not a thing but an aggregation of billions of decisions, each made on the basis of incentives, opportunities and desires
How often should scientific results to be ‘marked to market’?
How the Friday linkfest became list slop
How to make your sample size sound more impressive than it actually is
Friday linkfests will eat themselves
Survey on number of applicants to tenure-track ecology faculty positions advertised in N. America over the last five years
A great conference to go to this summer – who could oppose unifying ecology on multiple scales?
The long slow decline of this blog (which can’t be blamed on the pandemic)
Friday linkfests are tools with collaborator-like affordances
Confirmed: science (all of it) really did peak in 2021
Science (all of it) peaked in 2021
Do you use generative AI to help identify literature you missed? If so, how?
This Friday linkfest will teach you how much you should suffer
There’s an Easter egg in my new book
A statistical summary of the teaching experience of ecologists hired into TT faculty positions in N. America during the 2024-25 job season
Spread the word about The Ecology of Ecologists and get a free signed bookplate! (UPDATED)
The man who mistook his Friday linkfest for the truth
Happy Hogswatch!
In case you didn’t know: tenure-track faculty positions in North America ordinarily start with an initial fixed-term contract
Everything I need to know I learned in Friday linkfests
Is it true that you can’t get hired as a TT prof at a purely teaching-focused undergraduate college if you’ve published too much research?
Data on the career paths of newly hired TT ecologists who took more than six years post-PhD before landing a TT job in N. America
It’s hard for tenured profs to move to a different TT job. But if you want to try, here’s some advice.
This Friday linkfest is a Christmas movie
I just got my copy of The Ecology of Ecologists, now get yours–for 30% off!
Weird PhD defense rules are fine
People believe in Friday linkfests and are willing to pay for them
Students: here are protips for meeting one-on-one with visiting speakers
Black Friday linkfest
Long-term trends in the number of ecology PhDs awarded in the US
No need to publish this Friday linkfest
Should scientific papers be written more like blog posts?
Are R^2 values declining in every scholarly field? And if so, what could or should be done about that?
Would 2004 me get hired in today’s ecology faculty job market?
This is where Friday linkfests are produced and sustained
How many people are on the North American ecology faculty job market at any one time?
The 2024-25 North American ecology faculty job market: same as it ever was
What in the actual hell is going on with this Friday linkfest?
Don’t try to follow-up a faculty interview by providing a better answer to a question you flubbed
Did I just make one of the most impressive forecasts in ecological history, only to bury that fact in a paper that’s not even about forecasting? (includes poll)
Friday linkfests are more important than ever
Who would you nominate for the 2027 Crafoord Prize?
Your carefully crafted Friday linkfest? The primary reviewer read it thoroughly. The other two panelists skimmed it. Everyone else glanced at the summary.
All of our awesome interviews, now in one place!
Interview: Robin Snyder on modern coexistence theory, how to write a gripping introduction section, R as a quilting aid, and more
Have our Friday linkfests become pathological?
Why don’t ecologists predict probability distribution shape more often?
This Friday linkfest has achieved the goals of both political tribes simultaneously, without any of the ideological warfare
You heard it here first: sample sizes of ecological correlation coefficients are declining
Poll results: geographically restricted job searches by people on the North American ecology faculty job market
Replacing Friday linkfests with AI is harder than it seems (UPDATED)
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
Poll on geographically restricted job searches by people previously or currently on the North American ecology faculty job market
What would you like to know about the North American ecology faculty job market, that my previous data doesn’t address?
Belated perfect pop song of the week
This Friday linkfest is performance art
Transparency vs. trust
Yawn: when “best practices” become standard practice
The desperation of Friday linkfests in ecology
What’s the core of ecology?