Archive for the ‘Just for fun’ Category
Sharing data issues for ecology and evolution
Posted by: chrislortie on May 12, 2014
Novelty in reviews by Göran Arnqvist: Dr. Pangloss was, I fear, wrong.
Posted by: cjlortie on November 29, 2013
Chasing the white rabbit: novelty as a filter for editors
Posted by: cjlortie on November 23, 2013
Intecol 2013 presentations
Posted by: chrislortie on August 15, 2013
Friday!
Posted by: oikosasa on January 18, 2013
Don’t forget to laugh…
Posted by: oikosasa on November 1, 2012
How to become a leading ecology blogger
Posted by: Jeremy Fox on July 2, 2012
The ecology of hipsters
Posted by: Jeremy Fox on June 29, 2012
Why “Lonesome George” was lonesome
Posted by: Jeremy Fox on June 28, 2012
Darwin’s Origin of Species: notes for your reading group (UPDATED)
Posted by: Jeremy Fox on June 21, 2012
Fighty crab: the meme that keeps on giving
Posted by: Jeremy Fox on June 10, 2012
Fighty crab vs. zombies
Posted by: Jeremy Fox on June 10, 2012
Pollination ecology humor
Posted by: Jeremy Fox on June 7, 2012
Advice: on the perils of “established” methods
Posted by: Jeremy Fox on June 6, 2012
Robert McIntosh, long-ago zombie slayer
Posted by: Jeremy Fox on June 1, 2012
Advice: how to collaborate
Posted by: Jeremy Fox on June 1, 2012
Here’s what happens when you don’t understand math
Posted by: Jeremy Fox on May 29, 2012
I’m busy
Posted by: Jeremy Fox on May 26, 2012
My blogging is starting to have real-world impact
Posted by: Jeremy Fox on May 22, 2012
Crowdfunding crowdfunding
Posted by: Jeremy Fox on May 14, 2012
Turn your study system into a funny meme! (UPDATED)
Posted by: Jeremy Fox on May 11, 2012
On the use and care of mathematical models
Posted by: Jeremy Fox on May 10, 2012
Wikipedia on ecological microcosms
Posted by: Jeremy Fox on May 10, 2012
“I want to be the [famous non-scientist] of science”
Posted by: Jeremy Fox on May 10, 2012
Favorite popular science books about ecology?
Posted by: Jeremy Fox on May 6, 2012
Video: a snarky take on the kin selection debate
Posted by: Jeremy Fox on May 2, 2012
Human instructors > computers
Posted by: Jeremy Fox on April 23, 2012
Favorite ecology and evolution quotes? (UPDATED)
Posted by: Jeremy Fox on April 22, 2012
What’s the worst you’ve ever been mis-cited?
Posted by: Jeremy Fox on April 18, 2012
Hardest (or weirdest) question you were asked during your candidacy exam?
Posted by: Jeremy Fox on April 16, 2012
What’s your favorite ecology textbook? (UPDATED)
Posted by: Jeremy Fox on March 27, 2012
Oikos blog: have we won the internet yet?
Posted by: Jeremy Fox on March 26, 2012
Introspection of Oikos papers: self synthesis and expanding the scientific discussion.
Posted by: cjlortie on March 21, 2012
The Philosopher’s stone, other forms of ecological synthesis such as reviews.
Posted by: cjlortie on March 20, 2012
What is novel synthesis in ecology?
Posted by: cjlortie on March 20, 2012
May the odds be ever in your favor: a brief comment on the review games in ecology.
Posted by: cjlortie on March 19, 2012
Journal loyalty.
Posted by: cjlortie on March 16, 2012
The nine kinds of peer reviewers
Posted by: Jeremy Fox on March 15, 2012
Advice: the ‘snake fight’ portion of your thesis defense
Posted by: Jeremy Fox on March 15, 2012
From the archives: What’s your best paper?
Posted by: Jeremy Fox on March 14, 2012
Where do Oikos blog readers come from?
Posted by: Jeremy Fox on March 9, 2012
What were you, or what were you going to be, before you became an ecologist?
Posted by: Jeremy Fox on March 6, 2012
Poll: have you ever eaten your study organism? (UPDATED)
Posted by: Jeremy Fox on March 5, 2012
Craziest thing you’ve ever done for science?
Posted by: Jeremy Fox on March 5, 2012
“Blind tastings” for scientific papers?
Posted by: Jeremy Fox on March 2, 2012
From the archives: why my papers are like fine wine
Posted by: Jeremy Fox on March 2, 2012
Modeling challenge: explain sheep cyclones
Posted by: Jeremy Fox on February 23, 2012
The bright side of a zombie (ideas) apocalypse
Posted by: Jeremy Fox on February 15, 2012
Want to cite the Oikos Blog? Here’s how! (UPDATED)
Posted by: Jeremy Fox on February 14, 2012
College vs. graduate school
Posted by: Jeremy Fox on February 11, 2012
Herding professor cats
Posted by: Jeremy Fox on February 11, 2012
The last word on US vs. Canadian funding systems
Posted by: Jeremy Fox on January 29, 2012
Sh*t scientists say
Posted by: Jeremy Fox on January 19, 2012
How do you read? How much do you read?
Posted by: Jeremy Fox on January 13, 2012
Creationism humor
Posted by: Jeremy Fox on January 4, 2012
All I want for Christmas
Posted by: Jeremy Fox on December 20, 2011
A gift for the evolutionary biologist who has everything
Posted by: Jeremy Fox on December 20, 2011
NeRd race!
Posted by: Jeremy Fox on December 20, 2011
MeRry ChRistmas
Posted by: Jeremy Fox on December 19, 2011
Statistical humor
Posted by: Jeremy Fox on December 17, 2011
Darwin in space, or spurious correlation exemplified
Posted by: Jeremy Fox on December 12, 2011
Biostatistical pickup lines (?!)
Posted by: Jeremy Fox on December 7, 2011
Food chain rewiring taken to absurd lengths
Posted by: Jeremy Fox on December 2, 2011
More examples of humorous and satirical scientific papers (UPDATED)
Posted by: Jeremy Fox on November 28, 2011
That’s not really what we’re aiming for
Posted by: Jeremy Fox on November 25, 2011
Can we select okra to taste like creme brulee?
Posted by: Jeremy Fox on November 19, 2011
A subtler, funnier “Spandrels”
Posted by: Jeremy Fox on November 17, 2011
Must read: what doing science feels like
Posted by: Jeremy Fox on November 10, 2011
Crowdsourcing: Looking for eloquent statements of ‘what it means to be a theorist’
Posted by: Jeremy Fox on November 9, 2011
Model-based humor
Posted by: Jeremy Fox on November 7, 2011
More ecology humor by non-ecologists
Posted by: Jeremy Fox on November 4, 2011
Where are the wholehearted defenders of the IDH zombies?
Posted by: Jeremy Fox on November 3, 2011
On changing your mind in science
Posted by: Jeremy Fox on October 28, 2011
Poll: do you still believe in the IDH zombie? (UPDATED)
Posted by: Jeremy Fox on October 24, 2011
Zombie ideas in ecology: the t-shirt
Posted by: Jeremy Fox on October 18, 2011
Ecological and evolutionary movies
Posted by: Jeremy Fox on October 12, 2011
Mathematics vs. natural history
Posted by: Jeremy Fox on October 5, 2011
Gonzo ideas in ecology?!
Posted by: Jeremy Fox on October 1, 2011
Ecology humor by non-ecologists
Posted by: Jeremy Fox on September 29, 2011
Papers with funny titles are less cited
Posted by: Jeremy Fox on September 29, 2011
What’s the funniest scientific talk you’ve ever heard?
Posted by: Jeremy Fox on September 27, 2011
Now THAT’S the way to stop a bandwagon!
Posted by: Jeremy Fox on September 26, 2011
Ecologist interview: Jeremy Fox
Posted by: Jeremy Fox on September 26, 2011
Ecologist interview: Alan Hastings and Carl Boettiger
Posted by: Jeremy Fox on September 22, 2011
Ecologist jokes
Posted by: Jeremy Fox on September 22, 2011
Zombie ideas: the motivational poster
Posted by: Jeremy Fox on September 19, 2011
Why trust physical scientists? Social scientists? Ecologists?
Posted by: Jeremy Fox on September 14, 2011
Interview: ecologist Jean Burns
Posted by: Jeremy Fox on September 12, 2011
Another legacy of NCEAS: overly-nice ecologists?
Posted by: Jeremy Fox on September 7, 2011
How hard do you work?
Posted by: Jeremy Fox on September 1, 2011
A picture (and caption) is worth a thousand words
Posted by: Jeremy Fox on September 1, 2011
The University of Calgary: now with fewer zombies!
Posted by: Jeremy Fox on September 1, 2011
Interview with Steve Ellner
Posted by: Jeremy Fox on August 31, 2011
Video interviews: Jeremy Fox on the Oikos blog and the ESA meeting
Posted by: Jeremy Fox on August 29, 2011
In which I try to get readers to do my job for me
Posted by: Jeremy Fox on August 24, 2011
Interview with former Oikos editor and author Nick Gotelli
Posted by: Jeremy Fox on August 23, 2011
Ecology interviews
Posted by: Jeremy Fox on August 17, 2011
Blogging the ESA: Friday highlights
Posted by: Jeremy Fox on August 12, 2011
Blogging the ESA: Thursday highlights
Posted by: Jeremy Fox on August 12, 2011
Blogging the ESA: Wednesday highlights
Posted by: Jeremy Fox on August 11, 2011
How different levels of scientists appear to other scientists
Posted by: Jeremy Fox on August 10, 2011
Blogging the ESA: Tuesday highlights
Posted by: Jeremy Fox on August 10, 2011
Blogging the ESA: Sunday and Monday highlights
Posted by: Jeremy Fox on August 9, 2011
A statistical overview of the ESA meeting
Posted by: Jeremy Fox on August 7, 2011
Oikos: ecology ends here
Posted by: Jeremy Fox on July 29, 2011
Fantasy ecology dinner
Posted by: Jeremy Fox on July 29, 2011
Tweeting the ESA meeting
Posted by: Jeremy Fox on July 28, 2011
This is why I’m not a field ecologist
Posted by: Jeremy Fox on July 21, 2011
What’s your best paper?
Posted by: Jeremy Fox on July 9, 2011
But we don’t FEEL old…
Posted by: Jeremy Fox on June 28, 2011
Dr. Seuss: community ecologist
Posted by: Jeremy Fox on June 16, 2011
There are questions you shouldn’t ask…
Posted by: Jeremy Fox on May 24, 2011
Are there any reliable predictors of talk quality?
Posted by: Jeremy Fox on May 21, 2011
The best sentences a scientist gets to say
Posted by: Jeremy Fox on May 15, 2011
Why my papers are like fine wine
Posted by: Jeremy Fox on May 15, 2011
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