The last post here  mused on the connection between (but also, distinctness of) the scientific goals of "understanding" and ...

There is an interesting editorial at elife from Barak Cohen on "How should novelty be valued in science?" It connects to some of ...

How science is done is the outcome of many things, from training (both institutional and lab specific), reviewers’ critiques and requests, h...

If you want to truly understand how scientific progress works, I suggest fitting mathematical models to dynamical data (i.e. population or c...

By Marc Cadotte and Caroline Tucker For their centennial, ESA is asking their members identify as the ecological milestones of the last ...

Benjamin Haller. 2014. "Theoretical and Empirical Perspectives in Ecology and Evolution: A Survey". BioScience;  doi:10.1093/biosc...

A post from Charles Krebs' blog called " Ten limitations on progress in ecology " popped up a number of times on social media ...

Species in last 3 months' papers in Ecology Letters. "Multiple species" tended to be meta-analyses. Browse the abstracts...

The annual ESA meeting functions in a lot of different ways. There are the obvious: the sharing of ideas and work, the discovery of new idea...

Are those who do not learn from (ecological) history are doomed to repeat it? A pervasive view within ecology is that discovery tends ...

In 1999, John Lawton , eminent British ecologist, published a lament for the state of community ecology entitled “ Are there general laws in...

Has there been a shift in how ecology is done? In an interesting editorial in the most recent ESA Bulletin, titled “Losing the Culture of Ec...

Looking through my feed of community ecology papers this month, I couldn’t help but notice that while most tested well-established concepts–...