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 has become boring because ecology as a field has become boring, and that the field needs more “positive turmoil.”
In a recent post I argued that academics and professional baseball players are both in very “pyramidal” professions, but that they respond to this in very different ways. Jon Walter points out some ways in which their responses actually are pretty similar.
RJ Miller points us to a dubious-but-oft-repeated “game of telephone” claim: that 80% of animals on Earth are nematodes. We’ve been discussing other “game of telephone” claims recently.
Shan Kothari muses on whether faculty hiring committees give the right amount of weight to candidate agreeableness. I think it’s hard to say, because in my anecdotal experience the vast majority of candidates are agreeable.
Chris Mebane shares the interesting story of Ned Feder and Walter Stewart, who apparently were so effective at investigating scientific misconduct back in the ’90s that senior NIH officials made them stop.
Meghan passes on the wisdom of Arthur Brooks: “Remember, the reward for winning a pie-eating contest is usually more pie.”
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About Jeremy Fox
I’m an ecologist at the University of Calgary. I study population and community dynamics, using mathematical models and experiments.