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Unsettling Stats about Women in Science
Smithsonian Institution @ Flickr Commons In a recent post, I pointed out that: “A 2012 study showed that the top 1% of the most highly cited ecologists were men (93%), American (65%), had an average of...
View ArticleWomen in Science: Reaching Equilibrium
Women in Science: Reaching Equilibrium, #scio14 from _klburke I will be leading a discussion at ScienceOnline Together on February 27th, 10:30am (Room 3, for those attending). The basis for the...
View ArticleThis Week’s Good Reads: Staff Scientists, Gender Bias, Open Access, and Peer...
1) One of the most popular posts on this blog was when I wrote about how little we know about ecology career paths after the PhD and suggested a population biology model for studying it. Far from...
View ArticleThis Week’s Good Reads: Gender Bias Study Follow-Up, Honeybee Debates, and...
1) Last week, I posted about the controversy unfolding around a study that concluded that gender bias does not appear to exist in STEM tenure-track hiring. It continued this week. I especially...
View ArticleThis Week’s Good Reads: Bad Statistics, Changes in Media, and Continued...
1) The controversy over the paper by Williams and Ceci on gender bias in academic hiring (or the lack thereof) that I mentioned last week and the week before continues: Science Careers published a...
View ArticleThis Week’s Good Reads: Science in Africa, Public Trust in Science, and...
1) Research: Africa’s Fight for Equality, Nature News, Linda Nordling 2) Under the Sea, a Missing Link in the Evolution of Complex Cells, NY Times, Carl Zimmer 3) New method for monitoring global...
View ArticleThis Week’s Good Reads: Lost Museums, Warm-Blooded Fish, and Bamboo Math
1) In last week’s reading update, I mentioned the NAS conference on public trust in science that just took place. Kirk Englehardt, one of the attendees, blogged about one conversation at the conference...
View ArticleLast and This Week’s Good Reads: Shaming Journalists, Hyping Research, and...
Only a few from last week, but they’re too good not to mention: 1) I’m so glad someone collected the evidence to show that most ecology grad students feel ill-prepared in mathematics and statistics for...
View ArticleThis Week’s Good Reads: The Hyperbolome, Making Impact, and Genetic Rescue
This seems to be the week of cool meetings I missed. Including: 1) The General Meeting for the American Society for Microbiology, which you can check out at #ASM2015. Carl Zimmer spoke about the hype...
View ArticleThis Week’s Good Reads: Ecologists’ Favorite Statistical Methods, How...
1) Last week, I discussed the NY Times’ coverage of retractions in science, which failed to acknowledge that more retractions actually could mean science is doing a better job of outing bad science....
View ArticleThis Week’s Good Reads: The Elusive Source of Ebola, the Natural History of...
1) Seeking the Source of Ebola, National Geographic, David Quammen 2) “Most people would think it’s a bad thing to be a lightning rod, and I cannot say I enjoy it,” [Oreskes] said. “But remember, the...
View ArticleLast Two Weeks’ Good Reads: Pooping in the Field, Scientists in the...
1) Ecologists share their favorite sightings while going to the bathroom in the wilds of their fieldwork: What’s the Best Bird You’ve Seen While on the Toilet?, Living Alongside Wildlife, Rebecca...
View ArticleThis Week’s Good Reads: Fieldwork Fails, Cecil the Lion, and Salamander Disease
1) For some laughs and some camaraderie, check out #Fieldworkfail stories, which are so great that I wrote a full post about it. Some sightings while pooping in the field, shared last week, also would...
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