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2025
23 May 2025
The problem with actually existing Friday linkfests is that they have little internal varietyoriginal ↗
9 May 2025
6 May 2025
Two-year fixed term teaching faculty position at the University of Calgary for intro-level biology courses including ecology. Please apply!original ↗
30 Apr 2025
The best time to integrate mathematical modeling into ecology was a century ago. The second best time is right now. (updated)original ↗
16 Apr 2025
11 Apr 2025
Forget about whether ecologists argue with each other about ecology any more. Do they even talk about ecology with each other any more?original ↗
7 Apr 2025
The question isn’t the quality of this Friday linkfest, it’s what depending on this Friday linkfest does to us (UPDATEDx2)original ↗
28 Mar 2025
Here are some of the best lines from my forthcoming book, The Ecology of Ecologists, in my totally biased opinion :-)original ↗
17 Mar 2025
On which ecological topics is the consensus opinion most likely to be dubious, overstated, or just plain wrong?original ↗
3 Mar 2025
But how is this Friday linkfest – which so far must seem to you more like a curious sort of “literary” journal – used in intellectual production?original ↗
28 Feb 2025
26 Feb 2025
Are chaotic population dynamics common after all? Interview with Tanya Rogers and Stephan Munchoriginal ↗
24 Feb 2025
The problem, for detractors, is that this Friday linkfest is not analytic or detached or cynical or knowing.original ↗
21 Feb 2025
Are you planning to attend the 2025 ESA meeting in Baltimore? If not, why not? Take our short poll! (UPDATE: poll now closed)original ↗
19 Feb 2025
18 Feb 2025
10 Feb 2025
People claim to care about this Friday linkfest. But people claim to care about a lot of things.original ↗
31 Jan 2025
27 Jan 2025
Is sublinear growth the skeleton key to all of ecology? Or even all of biology? Interview with Ian Hatton.original ↗
20 Jan 2025
14 Jan 2025
13 Jan 2025
9 Jan 2025
New feature: interviews with authors of really interesting papers! This week: Shaw et al. (2024) on the different “personas” you can adopt as a theoretician.original ↗
7 Jan 2025
2024
21 Dec 2024
For the first time, we have non-human, non-intelligent Friday linkfests, that can generatively enact ritual at high speed and industrial scaleoriginal ↗
13 Dec 2024
As a prof, why did you take on an administrative or leadership role? How did it go? What lessons did you learn? Please share your stories!original ↗
2 Dec 2024
Did the pandemic reduce the number of EEB faculty job seekers? Or reduce the number of faculty positions a typical job seeker applies for? Or both? Or what? (UPDATED with an additional year’s worth of data)original ↗
13 Nov 2024
Friday links: in case you’re just joining us (#pruittdata edition), ChatGPT vs. Nickleback, and moreoriginal ↗
8 Nov 2024
As an ecology faculty job applicant, is it worth applying for a position in the same department that didn’t hire you last year?original ↗
7 Nov 2024
No one has ever torn down a scientific Tower of Babel by writing a review paper (so are you sure you should bother trying?) (UPDATED)original ↗
6 Nov 2024
As an ecology faculty job applicant in North America, should you ever provide the search committee with additional materials, besides those requested in the ad?original ↗
21 Oct 2024
18 Oct 2024
16 Oct 2024
11 Oct 2024
Tenure-track asst. professor position in data-driven modelling for ecology and water conservation, University of Calgaryoriginal ↗
8 Oct 2024
As a ecology faculty job seeker, don’t apply only to the jobs you think you’re “competitive” fororiginal ↗
2 Oct 2024
Friday links: the best ecological novelist you’ve never heard of (?), pandemics vs. preprints, and moreoriginal ↗
27 Sept 2024
As an ecology faculty job applicant, can you tell if the search to which you’re applying “failed” last year? And should you care if it did?original ↗
25 Sept 2024
How to interpret an ecology faculty job ad that says the department is “particularly” interested in candidates in a specific subfieldoriginal ↗
23 Sept 2024
Friday links: evidence vs. scientific reforms, p-values vs. speed limits, Delft Daphnia, and more (UPDATED)original ↗
20 Sept 2024
18 Sept 2024
17 Sept 2024
Friday links: infinite anatomy, taking joke courses seriously, time series guessing game, and more (UPDATEDx2)original ↗
13 Sept 2024
3 Sept 2024