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Friday, June 20, 2014

So many reference to choose from, may as well alliterate

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"Many different processes are commonly referred to as asexual reproduction and numerous authorities have set out syst...
Thursday, May 22, 2014

Field Course!

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I love field courses. I loved taking them, love teaching them and even enjoy the logistics of preparing for them. What could be better than ...
Thursday, May 08, 2014

One way to avoid writing negative reviews is to decline to act as reviewer

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"Please tell us why you have declined to review this article" I am afraid I am unable to decipher the meaning of even the title ...
Monday, May 05, 2014

Administrative Danglish

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A few examples: Censorship- Grading, examining "Will this class require external censorship?" Confrontation Hours- The time a...
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Breaking a truly ancient tradition

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"Modal age at death" means the age at which the largest number of individual deaths occur. The modal age at death is determined by...
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Wednesday, April 02, 2014

Diana Levitis

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T-Mobile is sending me emails about your wireless device. I think you may have mistyped your email address when you set up your account.
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Monday, March 31, 2014

Lines 147-152 show great potential.

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I hate writing negative reviews of people's manuscripts. I really hate writing negative reviews when I know the authors. But one has to ...
Sunday, March 30, 2014

The Case of the Incomprehensibly Big Super Volcano

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The Yellowstone Super Volcano is every American's favorite geological Apocalypse-in-waiting.* Every 700,000 years, give or take a few h...
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Thursday, March 20, 2014

. . . by any other name . . .

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I'm sure it makes a difference to the worms, but to me 'cattle manure,' 'cowdung,...
Wednesday, March 19, 2014

Apozygotic agamospermic apomictic agamospory

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I'm making a table. Not the tisch, bord, tavolo, mensa kind. I'm making a table of comparisons of offspring viability between sexual...
Saturday, March 15, 2014

Knee deep in the fetid pools of evolution

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I am, as I may have told you before, an evolutionary biologist at heart. And one of the things I love about evolution i...
Thursday, March 13, 2014

Cetacean eustachian excitation citation

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1. Ridgway SH, Carder DA, Kamolnick T, Smith RR, Schlundt CE, et al. (2001) Hearing and whistling in the deep sea: depth influences whistle ...

A favor

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If I ever propose to gather another dataset for other than educational purposes, please point out to me that I already ...
Tuesday, March 04, 2014

Hear Ye

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I've created a website for myself. There are already sites* about me and my science, but these are boilerplate formatted things that ...

Ceremony of Science

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I am going to Switzerland for a day next week, to a dissertation defense. I have never been to one before, as UC Berke...
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Saturday, February 22, 2014

Gloom and Doom from the happiest country on Earth

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I will say first that I find it difficult to imagine any rich modern country taking climate change more seriously, or ...
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Tuesday, February 11, 2014

And while I'm on the subject...

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In contrast , last week I turned down a request to review. I replied honestly, " Judging from the abstract, t...
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Coming home now

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--> I have been asked to review another paper. It is for a very good journal. I have published with them and thought thei...
Tuesday, February 04, 2014

Revisiting the treadmill desk

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I am very fond of my home-built treadmill desk , but basically never use it any more. Working at home with a toddler running around is hard ...
Sunday, February 02, 2014

ZIGLMM

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I do not know nearly as much statistics as I would like. To put it another way, the marginal benefit of increasing my knowledge of statistic...
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