"We need a shared vision for fixing the climate problem" really thoughtful piece by Stephen Porder of the need for bipartisan work realclearenergy.org/articles/2024/…

If you have a background in ecology + good CV + might be interested in a PhD involving meta-analysis and modelling for marine protected areas, please email me CV + short statement of interest asap.

Elisabeth Bik One of my PhD students got her first ChatGPT generated peer review last month. Soon we'll just have ai papers getting ai peer reviews!

2 ways of showing Bayesian uncertainty. Left is the posterior distribution with the mean line in bold, and the thinner lines 100 random HMC draws. The right is the same, but with semitransparent fill for each of the 100 draws. Thoughts? [solomon.quarto.pub/sr2rstan/12.ht…] #RStats #rstan

It's absolutely bonkers to me how often I read a truly transformative, cross-cutting paper in ecology and scroll down to find out it was a NCEAS working group product. The odds of any key synthesis paper since 2000 being from NCEAS are crazy high

Two papers on whether fisheries stock assessments are reliable, using similar methods, and similar data, but very different conclusions: Science: science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… (overstate sustainability) Fish and Fisheries: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11… (little evidence of bias)

🐋A new study challenges conventional thinking about how populations of large baleen #whales recover from whaling, with researchers revealing that populations continue increasing rapidly for a wide range of recovery levels. Full story⤵️ fish.uw.edu/2024/08/rapid-… Trevor Branch

Great paper with important ramifications for whale science... fish.uw.edu/2024/08/rapid-… Well done Yu Kanaji, Trevor Branch, Alex Zerbini, Oceans Initiative,

Love corals, symbioses & resilience?🪸🌡️🪸 Apply to join our team and conduct your "Global Change and Coral Reef Resilience" PhD in a supportive, stimulating environment @UVic w annual expeditions to Kiritimati. Fully funded, open to internat'l students! juliakbaum.org

It took me SEVEN years to figure out that you can save a ggplot as a vectorized .svg file ggsave("file.svg"). The svg file can be opened on powerpoint and it will be completely vectorized, even text are still recognized as text boxes! No more recreating plots on illustrator!!!!!

No proposal or manuscript is ever perfect, but to be effective, it does eventually need to be finished. Nothing we submit will ever be as good as it *could* be and just recognizing that can be an important step forward. Perfection is not the goal. Finished is the goal.

After a little over a year as department chair, I finally understand my role. Quite simply, my job is to make sure that my faculty and staff have the resources they need to succeed. It's not to catch them out; it's to create the conditions for a win.

New school year reflection: one thing I've never been any good at is running my research group meetings. Anyone got any tips for useful/productive/fun weekly small group meetings?

How to Get Into Grad School. ecoevoevoeco.blogspot.com/2015/02/how-to… I am currently discussing this subject with a number of undergrads in my own lab and sent this blog post to them. It might also be of use to others.

Hello, I'd like to invite you to do my laundry for me. If you accept, I ask that you do my laundry in the next 7 business days. If you decline, please give a reason, and recommend 2-3 colleagues who can do my laundry instead. No, of course there's no payment, what a crazy idea

I got my PhD for a negative result, I even managed to publish it. Finding out your hypothesis was wrong is still a hard-won contribution to knowledge, which requires all the same skills as a positive result. Nothing to be upset or ashamed about!

How about this: Eliminate the job "post-doc". After a PhD you are a "researcher", and no punishment for multiple stops. At any point (age blind) you can apply for starting grant funds. You apply for consolidator funds w/in 7 years of starting lab (unlinked to PhD date).