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They merely become embarrassing.", "url": "https://dynamicecology.wordpress.com/2026/05/01/friday-linkfests-never-die-they-merely-become-embarrassing/", "published_at": "2026-05-01T12:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c53a-6341-73b2-b306-4542c469d7c1", "title": "Evolutionary biology vs. Obi-Wan Kenobi", "url": "https://dynamicecology.wordpress.com/2026/04/29/evolutionary-biology-vs-obi-wan-kenobi/", "published_at": "2026-04-29T12:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c53a-6341-73b2-b306-4542c54d6f85", "title": "Hot potatoes", "url": "https://dynamicecology.wordpress.com/2026/04/27/hot-potatoes/", "published_at": "2026-04-27T10:53:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c53a-6341-73b2-b306-4542c5c628b6", "title": "I have seen the future of science. It is ruled by Friday linkfests.", "url": "https://dynamicecology.wordpress.com/2026/04/24/i-have-seen-the-future-of-science-it-is-ruled-by-friday-linkfests/", "published_at": "2026-04-24T12:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c53a-6341-73b2-b306-4542c627ba5e", "title": "Which US colleges and universities hire the most ecologists and evolutionary biologists? Which hire the most relative to their enrollment? (UPDATED with additional results)", "url": "https://dynamicecology.wordpress.com/2026/04/22/which-us-colleges-and-universities-hire-the-most-ecologists-and-evolutionary-biologists-which-hire-the-most-relative-to-the-size-of-the-institution/", "published_at": "2026-04-22T12:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c543-a3d2-725c-a681-d159a6cf624a", "title": "You’re not being unfair if you treat mentees differently", "url": "https://dynamicecology.wordpress.com/2026/04/20/youre-not-being-unfair-if-you-treat-mentees-differently/", "published_at": "2026-04-20T10:49:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c543-a3d2-725c-a681-d159a70f072e", "title": "Laziness, impatience, and hubris, the basis of good Friday linkfests", "url": "https://dynamicecology.wordpress.com/2026/04/17/laziness-impatience-and-hubris-the-basis-of-good-friday-linkfests/", "published_at": "2026-04-17T12:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c543-a3d2-725c-a681-d159a7ed812e", "title": "I’m much less sure about where to submit my papers than I used to be", "url": "https://dynamicecology.wordpress.com/2026/04/15/im-much-less-sure-about-where-to-submit-my-papers-than-i-used-to-be/", "published_at": "2026-04-15T12:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c543-a3d2-725c-a681-d159a8ec589d", "title": "Backing in to experimental design: how to design experiments (and other studies) in the face of constraints", "url": "https://dynamicecology.wordpress.com/2026/04/13/backing-in-to-experimental-design-how-to-design-experiments-and-other-studies-in-the-face-of-constraints/", "published_at": "2026-04-13T10:48:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c543-a3d2-725c-a681-d159a95807a4", "title": "Confusing the normal Friday linkfest for the exceptional", "url": "https://dynamicecology.wordpress.com/2026/04/10/confusing-the-normal-friday-linkfest-for-the-exceptional/", "published_at": "2026-04-10T12:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c543-a3d2-725c-a681-d159a96ba635", "title": "How often, and how far, do N. American ecologists typically move before landing a TT job? (UPDATED with new data and analyses)", "url": "https://dynamicecology.wordpress.com/2026/04/08/how-often-and-how-far-do-n-american-tt-ecologists-typically-move-before-landing-a-tt-job/", "published_at": "2026-04-08T12:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c543-a3d2-725c-a681-d159aa19e4e9", "title": "Just for fun: share your highly specific teaching tips", "url": "https://dynamicecology.wordpress.com/2026/04/06/just-for-fun-share-your-highly-specific-teaching-tips/", "published_at": "2026-04-06T10:40:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c543-a3d2-725c-a681-d159aa8d2024", "title": "Friday linkfests are hard, and people, scientists or not, like to avoid hard things", "url": "https://dynamicecology.wordpress.com/2026/04/03/friday-linkfests-are-hard-and-people-scientists-or-not-like-to-avoid-hard-things/", "published_at": "2026-04-03T12:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c543-a3d2-725c-a681-d159ab3a5695", "title": "The art of teaching is learning how to selectively lie", "url": "https://dynamicecology.wordpress.com/2026/03/30/the-art-of-teaching-is-learning-how-to-selectively-lie/", "published_at": "2026-03-30T10:30:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c543-a3d2-725c-a681-d159ab94878c", "title": "Friday linkfests are akin to life forms from another planet", "url": "https://dynamicecology.wordpress.com/2026/03/27/friday-linkfests-are-akin-to-life-forms-from-another-planet/", "published_at": "2026-03-27T12:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c54c-6d4f-7039-9d51-e4a84cfae6f0", "title": "The geography of US EEB faculty job applications, take 4: everyone wants to work at my alma mater, apparently. And also hates crab cakes and cheese steaks, apparently. (UPDATEDx2 with additional analysis and a very minor correction)", "url": "https://dynamicecology.wordpress.com/2026/03/25/the-geography-of-us-eeb-faculty-job-applications-take-4-everyone-wants-to-work-at-my-alma-mater-apparently/", "published_at": "2026-03-25T12:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c54c-6d4f-7039-9d51-e4a84d6b4fe8", "title": "It’s okay to try things again that have failed in the past", "url": "https://dynamicecology.wordpress.com/2026/03/23/its-okay-to-try-things-again-that-have-failed-in-the-past/", "published_at": "2026-03-23T11:08:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c54c-6d4f-7039-9d51-e4a84e5e7495", "title": "Friday links: RIP Paul Ehrlich and Robert Trivers (UPDATEDx2)", "url": "https://dynamicecology.wordpress.com/2026/03/20/friday-links-rip-paul-ehrlich-and-robert-trivers/", "published_at": "2026-03-20T12:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c54c-6d4f-7039-9d51-e4a84f3af1d3", "title": "The majority of new TT ecology hires in N. America have master’s degrees–with one exception", "url": "https://dynamicecology.wordpress.com/2026/03/18/the-majority-of-new-tt-ecology-hires-in-n-america-have-masters-degrees-with-one-exception/", "published_at": "2026-03-18T12:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c54c-6d4f-7039-9d51-e4a84f6fe662", "title": "On re-evaluating sabbatical goals and doing sabbatical wrong", "url": "https://dynamicecology.wordpress.com/2026/03/16/on-re-evaluating-sabbatical-goals-and-doing-sabbatical-wrong/", "published_at": "2026-03-16T11:02:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c54c-6d4f-7039-9d51-e4a84fb53eb5", "title": "This Friday linkfest is not LLM-friendly, but arguably it should be", "url": "https://dynamicecology.wordpress.com/2026/03/13/this-friday-linkfest-is-not-llm-friendly-but-arguably-it-should-be/", "published_at": "2026-03-13T11:27:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c54c-6d4f-7039-9d51-e4a850048f92", "title": "“If you keep your mind too open, your brain falls out”: interview with theoretical ecologist Chuliang Song", "url": "https://dynamicecology.wordpress.com/2026/03/11/if-you-keep-your-mind-too-open-your-brain-falls-out-interview-with-chuliang-song/", "published_at": "2026-03-11T12:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c54c-6d4f-7039-9d51-e4a850754087", "title": "What’s the best example of ecological research that’s of both great fundamental interest AND has direct applications?", "url": "https://dynamicecology.wordpress.com/2026/03/09/whats-the-best-example-of-ecological-research-thats-of-both-great-fundamental-interest-and-has-direct-applications/", "published_at": "2026-03-09T12:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c54c-6d4f-7039-9d51-e4a850f888b7", "title": "Large parts of the surviving Friday linkfest corpus are neglected", "url": "https://dynamicecology.wordpress.com/2026/03/06/large-parts-of-the-surviving-friday-linkfest-corpus-are-neglected/", "published_at": "2026-03-06T13:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c54c-6d4f-7039-9d51-e4a8516e170c", "title": "Posts I haven’t written (yet), and posts I never will", "url": "https://dynamicecology.wordpress.com/2026/03/04/posts-well-probably-never-write/", "published_at": "2026-03-04T13:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c554-d77a-70db-9a14-8caec767efac", "title": "Is the peer review system going to melt down? If so, when?", "url": "https://dynamicecology.wordpress.com/2026/03/02/is-the-peer-review-system-going-to-melt-down-if-so-when/", "published_at": "2026-03-02T13:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c554-d77a-70db-9a14-8caec7b9c2da", "title": "What shape do you think of when you think of Friday linkfests?", "url": "https://dynamicecology.wordpress.com/2026/02/27/what-shape-do-you-think-of-when-you-think-of-friday-linkfests/", "published_at": "2026-02-27T13:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c554-d77a-70db-9a14-8caec83b35c9", "title": "The geography of North American EEB faculty job applications (take 3)", "url": "https://dynamicecology.wordpress.com/2026/02/23/the-geography-of-north-american-eeb-faculty-job-applications-take-3/", "published_at": "2026-02-23T13:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c554-d77a-70db-9a14-8caec8dcbf5e", "title": "How to make a living writing Friday linkfests", "url": "https://dynamicecology.wordpress.com/2026/02/20/how-to-make-a-living-writing-friday-linkfests/", "published_at": "2026-02-20T13:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c554-d77a-70db-9a14-8caec9831a0c", "title": "The reviews are in on The Ecology of Ecologists! (well, one review anyway)", "url": "https://dynamicecology.wordpress.com/2026/02/18/the-reviews-are-in-on-the-ecology-of-ecologists-well-one-review-anyway/", "published_at": "2026-02-18T13:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c554-d77a-70db-9a14-8caeca7ec450", "title": "The value of close replications and how to get more of them: interview with Kate Laskowski", "url": "https://dynamicecology.wordpress.com/2026/02/17/the-value-of-close-replications-and-how-to-get-more-of-them-interview-with-kate-laskowski/", "published_at": "2026-02-17T13:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c554-d77a-70db-9a14-8caecaedca6b", "title": "You can get an extension on reading this Friday linkfest if you’re competing in the Olympics", "url": "https://dynamicecology.wordpress.com/2026/02/13/you-can-get-an-extension-on-reading-this-friday-linkfest-if-youre-competing-in-the-olympics/", "published_at": "2026-02-13T13:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c554-d77a-70db-9a14-8caecaf53b7e", "title": "Visiting assistant professor positions in the US and Canada hardly ever convert into tenure-track positions", "url": "https://dynamicecology.wordpress.com/2026/02/12/visiting-assistant-professor-positions-in-the-us-and-canada-hardly-ever-convert-into-tenure-track-positions-or-get-even-get-extended-beyond-the-contract-length-stated-in-the-job-ad/", "published_at": "2026-02-12T13:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c554-d77a-70db-9a14-8caecb7f6a8d", "title": "Introduction section hot takes", "url": "https://dynamicecology.wordpress.com/2026/02/10/introduction-section-hot-takes/", "published_at": "2026-02-10T13:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c554-d77a-70db-9a14-8caecbfa198c", "title": "A Friday linkfest is not a thing but an aggregation of billions of decisions, each made on the basis of incentives, opportunities and desires", "url": "https://dynamicecology.wordpress.com/2026/02/06/a-friday-linkfest-is-not-a-thing-but-an-aggregation-of-billions-of-decisions-each-made-on-the-basis-of-incentives-opportunities-and-desires/", "published_at": "2026-02-06T13:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c55d-317c-7014-997a-77d59c08f4ff", "title": "How often should scientific results to be ‘marked to market’?", "url": "https://dynamicecology.wordpress.com/2026/02/04/how-often-should-scientific-results-to-be-marked-to-market/", "published_at": "2026-02-04T13:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c55d-317c-7014-997a-77d59c8235e5", "title": "How the Friday linkfest became list slop", "url": "https://dynamicecology.wordpress.com/2026/01/30/how-the-friday-linkfest-became-list-slop/", "published_at": "2026-01-30T13:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c55d-317c-7014-997a-77d59cf45b90", "title": "How to make your sample size sound more impressive than it actually is", "url": "https://dynamicecology.wordpress.com/2026/01/28/how-to-make-your-sample-size-sound-much-more-impressive-than-it-actually-is/", "published_at": "2026-01-28T13:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c55d-317c-7014-997a-77d59dd96479", "title": "Friday linkfests will eat themselves", "url": "https://dynamicecology.wordpress.com/2026/01/23/friday-links-326/", "published_at": "2026-01-23T13:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c55d-317c-7014-997a-77d59e49b226", "title": "Survey on number of applicants to tenure-track ecology faculty positions advertised in N. America over the last five years", "url": "https://dynamicecology.wordpress.com/2026/01/22/survey-on-number-of-applicants-to-tenure-track-ecology-faculty-positions-advertised-in-n-america-over-the-last-five-years/", "published_at": "2026-01-22T13:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c55d-317c-7014-997a-77d59ef29d73", "title": "A great conference to go to this summer – who could oppose unifying ecology on multiple scales?", "url": "https://dynamicecology.wordpress.com/2026/01/21/a-great-conference-to-go-to-this-summer/", "published_at": "2026-01-21T13:40:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c55d-317d-7289-9045-1c23edabed55", "title": "The long slow decline of this blog (which can’t be blamed on the pandemic)", "url": "https://dynamicecology.wordpress.com/2026/01/19/the-long-slow-decline-of-this-blog-which-cant-be-blamed-on-the-pandemic/", "published_at": "2026-01-19T13:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c55d-317d-7289-9045-1c23edca9776", "title": "Friday linkfests are tools with collaborator-like affordances", "url": "https://dynamicecology.wordpress.com/2026/01/16/is-practice-downstream-of-friday-linkfests/", "published_at": "2026-01-16T13:00:00+00:00" } ] posts Claim your blog
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2026

Great moments in overthinking it, blog commenting editionoriginal ↗
23 Sept 2026
Is there negative frequency dependence in science?original ↗
22 Sept 2026
Zombie ideas about hypoxia thresholds in ecology?original ↗
21 Sept 2026
Stop trying to rehabilitate the reputation of Friday linkfestsoriginal ↗
18 Sept 2026
More data on how far N. American TT ecology hires move to take up their TT jobsoriginal ↗
15 Sept 2026
Did you start your PhD by reading and thinking widely and exhaustively for a year?original ↗
14 Sept 2026
This is the most bullshit Friday linkfest you’ve ever seen. You’ll be actively angry it exists.original ↗
11 Sept 2026
The political geography of TT ecology faculty hires in the US post-Trumporiginal ↗
8 Sept 2026
Diversity is variance, and Friday linkfests are built to minimize varianceoriginal ↗
4 Sept 2026
Poll results on sending revised mss back out for revieworiginal ↗
31 Aug 2026
Friday linkfests are mostly fineoriginal ↗
28 Aug 2026
The corporatization of universities in both mission and governanceoriginal ↗
25 Aug 2026
What if publication bias isn’t that? At least not always?original ↗
24 Aug 2026
One of the most prominent Friday linkfest items might be wrongoriginal ↗
21 Aug 2026
As an editor, do you send revised mss back to the reviewers? (includes short poll)original ↗
20 Aug 2026
Spoiler: the Easter egg in my new bookoriginal ↗
19 Aug 2026
A wind-powered herd of beach animals merge into a Friday linkfest (UPDATED)original ↗
14 Aug 2026
Neither the publisher nor the editor has confidence in this Friday linkfestoriginal ↗
14 Aug 2026
Jeremy decided normal Friday linkfests would not cut itoriginal ↗
7 Aug 2026
Poll results on up front reference letters for faculty positions: almost everybody dislikes them, but the people who dislike them most are the people who don’t have to write themoriginal ↗
6 Aug 2026
ESA 2026 reflectionsoriginal ↗
4 Aug 2026
Come find me at the ESA meeting to tell me what you thought of my book, and I’ll give you a signed bookplate!original ↗
25 Jul 2026
This is a very normal Friday linkfest which is not drawing any special attention to itself whatsoeveroriginal ↗
24 Jul 2026
On unrealistic extreme scenarios in ecologyoriginal ↗
22 Jul 2026
Poll on up front reference letters for faculty positionsoriginal ↗
20 Jul 2026
The decline of Friday linkfests (UPDATED)original ↗
17 Jul 2026
Friday linkfests look bad every 50 years or sooriginal ↗
10 Jul 2026
Where to eat and drink (and run and bike) in Salt Lake City for the 2026 ESA meetingoriginal ↗
8 Jul 2026
‘Then a miracle occurs’: share your creative ways to relieve student anxiety about exams and other assignmentsoriginal ↗
6 Jul 2026
Where to find the Friday linkfests your screen can’t show youoriginal ↗
3 Jul 2026
Rachel Germain reviews The Ecology of Ecologists in BioScienceoriginal ↗
30 Jun 2026
Poll results: acknowledgements in scientific papers are the least controversial topic in the worldoriginal ↗
29 Jun 2026
I beg you to read this Friday linkfest, even if you will be rude to me in the commentsoriginal ↗
26 Jun 2026
How many recent TT ecology hires in N. America got their bachelor’s and PhD degrees at the same place?original ↗
24 Jun 2026
The first citation of The Ecology of Ecologists! And some new reviews!original ↗
22 Jun 2026
Friday links: RIP Stephen Fretwell, and moreoriginal ↗
19 Jun 2026
When is it inappropriate to acknowledge people and organizations in a scientific paper, if ever? Take our poll!original ↗
17 Jun 2026
How I use Claudeoriginal ↗
15 Jun 2026
Friday links: RIP Peter Klopfer, and moreoriginal ↗
12 Jun 2026
Robert Ricklefs – in memoriamoriginal ↗
11 Jun 2026
“I’ve come to see the lack of model validation in ecology as shocking and embarrassing”: interview with Peter Adler on applying modern coexistence theoryoriginal ↗
10 Jun 2026
Scientific answers vs. doing scienceoriginal ↗
9 Jun 2026
Defining preregistration downoriginal ↗
8 Jun 2026
Friday linkfests are 15% straight-up entertainment, and that’s OKoriginal ↗
5 Jun 2026
I used to think that I could tell which TT jobs I had a really good shot at, and which TT jobs were longshots for me. I was wrong every time.original ↗
3 Jun 2026
Is there any such (one) thing as disturbance ecology any more?original ↗
1 Jun 2026
The fall of the Friday linkfest economyoriginal ↗
29 May 2026
Are academic labs kind of like baseball teams?original ↗
26 May 2026
It’s hard to see how all the social structures that support Friday linkfests will avoid major disruption over the next few yearsoriginal ↗
22 May 2026
Even microcosm experiments can be difficult to replicateoriginal ↗
20 May 2026
A striking retraction from Ecology Lettersoriginal ↗
19 May 2026
“Designing a statistics project to show that we ecologists are doing something wrong is not my idea of fun”: interview with Scott Peacor on meta-analysis in ecologyoriginal ↗
18 May 2026
Why did it take so long to invent Friday linkfests?original ↗
15 May 2026
On rejection and ways academia is like baseballoriginal ↗
13 May 2026
AI and robustness checksoriginal ↗
11 May 2026
The greatest lie that textbooks teach is that the hard part is coming up with a Friday linkfest. No, the hard part is usually coming up with a worthwhile title.original ↗
8 May 2026
On Venn diagrams of knowledgeoriginal ↗
4 May 2026
Friday linkfests never die. They merely become embarrassing.original ↗
1 May 2026
Evolutionary biology vs. Obi-Wan Kenobioriginal ↗
29 Apr 2026
Hot potatoesoriginal ↗
27 Apr 2026
I have seen the future of science. It is ruled by Friday linkfests.original ↗
24 Apr 2026
Which US colleges and universities hire the most ecologists and evolutionary biologists? Which hire the most relative to their enrollment? (UPDATED with additional results)original ↗
22 Apr 2026
You’re not being unfair if you treat mentees differentlyoriginal ↗
20 Apr 2026
Laziness, impatience, and hubris, the basis of good Friday linkfestsoriginal ↗
17 Apr 2026
I’m much less sure about where to submit my papers than I used to beoriginal ↗
15 Apr 2026
Backing in to experimental design: how to design experiments (and other studies) in the face of constraintsoriginal ↗
13 Apr 2026
Confusing the normal Friday linkfest for the exceptionaloriginal ↗
10 Apr 2026
How often, and how far, do N. American ecologists typically move before landing a TT job? (UPDATED with new data and analyses)original ↗
8 Apr 2026
Just for fun: share your highly specific teaching tipsoriginal ↗
6 Apr 2026
Friday linkfests are hard, and people, scientists or not, like to avoid hard thingsoriginal ↗
3 Apr 2026
The art of teaching is learning how to selectively lieoriginal ↗
30 Mar 2026
Friday linkfests are akin to life forms from another planetoriginal ↗
27 Mar 2026
The geography of US EEB faculty job applications, take 4: everyone wants to work at my alma mater, apparently. And also hates crab cakes and cheese steaks, apparently. (UPDATEDx2 with additional analysis and a very minor correction)original ↗
25 Mar 2026
It’s okay to try things again that have failed in the pastoriginal ↗
23 Mar 2026
Friday links: RIP Paul Ehrlich and Robert Trivers (UPDATEDx2)original ↗
20 Mar 2026
The majority of new TT ecology hires in N. America have master’s degrees–with one exceptionoriginal ↗
18 Mar 2026
On re-evaluating sabbatical goals and doing sabbatical wrongoriginal ↗
16 Mar 2026
This Friday linkfest is not LLM-friendly, but arguably it should beoriginal ↗
13 Mar 2026
“If you keep your mind too open, your brain falls out”: interview with theoretical ecologist Chuliang Songoriginal ↗
11 Mar 2026
What’s the best example of ecological research that’s of both great fundamental interest AND has direct applications?original ↗
9 Mar 2026
Large parts of the surviving Friday linkfest corpus are neglectedoriginal ↗
6 Mar 2026
Posts I haven’t written (yet), and posts I never willoriginal ↗
4 Mar 2026
Is the peer review system going to melt down? If so, when?original ↗
2 Mar 2026
What shape do you think of when you think of Friday linkfests?original ↗
27 Feb 2026
The geography of North American EEB faculty job applications (take 3)original ↗
23 Feb 2026
How to make a living writing Friday linkfestsoriginal ↗
20 Feb 2026
The reviews are in on The Ecology of Ecologists! (well, one review anyway)original ↗
18 Feb 2026
The value of close replications and how to get more of them: interview with Kate Laskowskioriginal ↗
17 Feb 2026
You can get an extension on reading this Friday linkfest if you’re competing in the Olympicsoriginal ↗
13 Feb 2026
Visiting assistant professor positions in the US and Canada hardly ever convert into tenure-track positionsoriginal ↗
12 Feb 2026
Introduction section hot takesoriginal ↗
10 Feb 2026
A Friday linkfest is not a thing but an aggregation of billions of decisions, each made on the basis of incentives, opportunities and desiresoriginal ↗
6 Feb 2026
How often should scientific results to be ‘marked to market’?original ↗
4 Feb 2026
How the Friday linkfest became list sloporiginal ↗
30 Jan 2026
How to make your sample size sound more impressive than it actually isoriginal ↗
28 Jan 2026
Friday linkfests will eat themselvesoriginal ↗
23 Jan 2026
Survey on number of applicants to tenure-track ecology faculty positions advertised in N. America over the last five yearsoriginal ↗
22 Jan 2026
A great conference to go to this summer – who could oppose unifying ecology on multiple scales?original ↗
21 Jan 2026
The long slow decline of this blog (which can’t be blamed on the pandemic)original ↗
19 Jan 2026
Friday linkfests are tools with collaborator-like affordancesoriginal ↗
16 Jan 2026
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