I have spoken frequently on this blog about the need for ecology to become a more predictive science (e.g. Post #1 Post # 2 Post #3 Post #4 Post #5). For those of you who are interested in this top…

MacArthur Award-winning ecologist Priyanga Amarasekare has been suspended from UCLA for a year without pay, apparently in retaliation for speaking out against discrimination against her in promotio…

I wasn’t planning to keep compiling data on the N. American tenure-track (TT) ecology faculty job market. But I did it one more time, thanks to a combination of procrastination on real work, …

Back when this blog was active, I avoided using it to promote my own work. Now that it’s largely dormant, shameless self-promotion is about the only thing I can still be bothered to use it fo…

The Dept. of Biological Sciences is hiring two tenure-track asst. professors (or in exceptional cases, associate professors), one in animal ecophysiology and the other in ecosystem services under c…

The Dept. of Biological Sciences is hiring two tenure-track asst. professors (or in exceptional cases, associate professors), one in animal ecophysiology and the other in ecosystem services under c…

The Faculty of Science at the University of Calgary is hiring a tenure-track asst. or assoc. professor in applied data science. The successful candidate will join whichever department within the Fa…

I am seeking 1-2 graduate students (M.Sc. or Ph.D.) to start in F 2023 or W 2024. My lab does fundamental research in population and community ecology. We also have a new line of metascience resear…

Science news story here. I’m struck by both the similarities and differences to the Pruitt case. An incomplete list of similarities: -repeated data fabrication across numerous papers over man…

Science news article here. In the unlikely event that you have no idea what this is about, start here and say goodbye to your day. I may blog about this later, or maybe not. UPDATE: Nature has a ne…

Back in 2010, Jonah Lehrer wrote a big New Yorker feature called “The Truth Wears Off”. In it, he called attention to anecdotal observations that many of the effects and phenomena scien…

I continue to keep a close eye on developments in the various ongoing, high profile cases of apparent data fabrication in ecology. Retraction Watch has the news that Science has issued an Expressio…

Kudos to then-grad student Ken Thompson for speaking up about the anomalies that kicked off this investigation, and kudos to Science for pursuing the investigation so well. I thought #pruittdata wa…

E. O. Wilson, one of the greatest biologists of the last hundred years, has passed away. He was 92. New York Times obituary.

Earlier this winter, former leading behavioral ecologist Jonathan Pruitt was placed on paid administrative leave by McMaster University, with no access to grant funds or students, and was suspended…

I link to this every year. Key quote: A society—a civilization, if you like—is a hard thing to hold together. If you live in an agrarian society, and you have only stone, wood, and bone for tools, …

Should’ve posted this earlier, but hopefully better late than never: I’m hosting a Zoom seminar at noon today from Tim Parker on the reliability of ecological knowledge and how we can i…

I am seeking two graduate students (MSc or PhD) to start in Sept. 2022 or Jan. 2023. For background on my lab, visit my lab website. Briefly, my own work mostly involves modeling and experiments on…

McMaster University recently completed its investigation into serious accusations of scientific misconduct against prominent behavioral ecologist Jonathan Pruitt. My understanding is that Canadian …