Dynamic Ecology
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Welcome to Dynamic Ecology. I’m Jeremy Fox, a Professor at the University of Calgary. I’m broadly interested in population, community, and evolutionary ecology–those bits of ecology that–in my view, anyway!–have population dynamics at their core. We post ideas, opinions, commentary, advice, and humor that we think might be of interest to our fellow academic ecologists and ecology..
Dynamic Ecology
10h ago
Also this week: Data Colada vs. Francesca Gino, CW Mills vs. blogs, Stephen Heard vs. your graduate students, remembering the guy who was in the thing, and more. Lots of good stuff this week! From Jeremy: Ooh, this is both ..read more
Dynamic Ecology
3d ago
I just started Dan Davies’ new book, The Unaccountability Machine. His last book, on financial fraud, was both interesting in its own right and had surprising lessons for academic scientists. So I’m hoping for the same from Davies’ new book ..read more
Dynamic Ecology
3d ago
Meghan, Brian, and I remain too busy to crank out lots of meaty posts right now. So why not check out some highlights from recent comment threads? Our commenters are the best. ? JC Cahill suggests that the ESA meeting ..read more
Dynamic Ecology
1w ago
Also this week: Philip Ball interview, game of telephone (biodiversity and Indigenous lands edition), Dynamic Ecology vs. LinkedIn, Jeremy attempts to dispel a false but amusing rumor, and more. From Jeremy: No, 80% of the world’s biodiversity is not found ..read more
Dynamic Ecology
1w ago
As most of you know, I recently completed a draft of my book. But I’m still struggling to come up with a title. Commenters on the linked post had some good advice and suggestions. But I didn’t come away with ..read more
Dynamic Ecology
1w ago
A while back, when thinking about student mental health, I first learned that we are all ducks. The idea is that, when we look at others, we see the equivalent of the part of a duck that is above the ..read more
Dynamic Ecology
1w ago
Also this week: meet the new boss con artist, same as the old boss con artist, breaking up (with the ESA) is hard to do, Wildlife Photographer of the Year, fox vs. problem, and more. I’m not sure why I ..read more
Dynamic Ecology
2w ago
Semester starting soon, too busy to write real posts at the moment. So here’s a compilation of some of the best lines from past DE posts, where “best” is operationally defined as “my personal favorites, that I was able to ..read more
Dynamic Ecology
3w ago
Also this week: syllabus bloat, higher standards vs. LLMs, and more. From Jeremy: A thorough and fascinating data-driven post on the long-term decline in writing about progress. Interesting that the decline in writing about progress seems to date from sometime ..read more
Dynamic Ecology
3w ago
Note from Jeremy: recently we invited guest posts on doing ecology around the world, to add to a series we began a few years ago. It’s a great series, you should totally go back and read the previous posts in ..read more