Dynamic Ecology
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Welcome to Dynamic Ecology! Below are answers to some questions you may have about this blog.
Who started this blog?
I’m Jeremy Fox, a Professor at the University of Calgary. Previously, I did a B.A. at Williams College, a Ph.D. under Peter Morin at Rutgers University, and a postdoc at the NERC Centre for Population Biology at Imperial College London.
I’m broadly interested in population, community, and evolutionary ecology–those bits of ecology that–in my view, anyway!–have population dynamics at their core (hence the name of this blog). For information on my research, please visit my lab homepage.
Although I’m the founder of Dynamic Ecology, it’s not just my blog. It’s a group blog. Brian McGill and Meghan Duffy also blog here. They’re both awesome. All three of us collectively decide how the blog operates.
Recent posts
- AI could write my first Friday linkfest, not my last
- Mentoring lessons from Faking It
- I have a backlog of stupid Friday linkfests that should comfortably outlast civilization
- Do you want me to compile data on last year’s N. American ecology faculty job market? Take the poll!
- No true Scotsman, doing ANOVA by hand, the hippopotamus major, and AI
- Dynamic Ecology, an experimental project to demonstrate the vulnerabilities, lack of oversight, and overall low barrier to entry in the modern blogging industry, makes this Friday linkfest
- Ecology is now ready for “Big Code” and the errors it hides
- “[T]hrowing people into the deep end is a great way to find out if they can swim, but a poor way to teach them to swim”: Bethann Garramon Merkle and Stephen Heard on teaching scientific writing
- This Friday linkfest is built with next-gen adherence to our industry-leading ethical principles
- As a journal editor, I’ve started using Claude to help find reviewers