I always attend the Ecological Society of America’s Annual Meeting. The last ESA I missed was the 1992 Hawaii meeting (“the meeting without graduate students”) because I was in the middle of moving from Florida to Illinois with a pregnant wife (“you are not leaving for Hawaii right now!”). I’ve not moved jobs since then…
The next issue of Journal of Ecology will be published online soon. We are really pleased to announce that the Editor’s Choice article from issue 101:3 is “Specialist species of wood-inhabiting fungi struggle while generalists thrive in fragmented boreal forests” by Nordén et al. Read a commentary on the paper below, written by Journal of Ecology Associate Editor…
We know ecologists end up with some interesting stories doing field work, as well as lab work. In many of our interviews I have asked ecologists to share their stories. I compiled the stories collected so far in a video. Enjoy! Subscribe to our YouTube posts by pressing the Subscribe button on the YouTube page…
Joe Mudge wrote a guest post for the blog here in March of this year. The post dealt with our use of α=0.05 for hypothesis testing. The following is another guest post by Joe Mudge in which he presents evidence of the benefit of using the optimal alpha level approach. Please chime in with your thoughts.
UPDATE: You can listen/download the interview with Amber over at iTunes. Get it here, or search for “Journal of Ecology” in the iTunes store. Listen to Journal of Ecology’s first podcast NOW! In this podcast blog editor Scott Chamberlain interviews Amber Budden from DataONE. This interview took place at ESA 2012. As always let us…
I hosted a discussion today on the topic of post-publication commentary on scientific research with Carl Boettiger and Jarrett Byrnes. We covered the different options for post-publication commentary, and their pros and cons. Join in on the discussion in the comments section below, in the comments section on YouTube, or on Twitter (tweet to me…
We have a number of options for post-publication commentary on papers: peer-reviewed comments on the original paper, long format blog posts, and shorter format comments on social networking sites (Twitter, Google+, etc.). In addition, we discuss and comment on published papers in the halls and during lunch breaks. We will host a discussion about post-publication…
The following is an invited guest post by Dr. Matthew Chew. The bias in research commentary in Nature by Daniel Sarewitz has attracted a lot of comments on the Nature site and Ecolog*. We felt that the issue deserves more discussion. Here, Dr. Chew presents his take on the issue. Matthew K. Chew, Ph.D. Arizona…
The following is a guest post by Joseph Mudge, who published a paper with colleagues recently arguing for a different approach to setting α values. Joseph has written a summary of the argument below. Please chime in with your thoughts. Do you agree/disagree?
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