For the past few years I’ve been involved in a collaboration to put together a broad-coverage life history database for mammals, reptiles, and birds.

Recently, over at the blog Ecological Rants the eminent ecologist Charles Krebs wrote a post about the ills of simplification in ecology. The post focuses specifically on how ecology has been ‘led astray’ by simplified models and lab studies.

*This is a guest post by Elita Baldridge.** This is the third in a series of posts about my experiences completing a PhD with a chronic illness (Part 1, Part 2, and background information). Not only is this about the tools that I used to complete my PhD, but I am optimistic that these tools/coping […]

For the last 5 years I’ve been actively involved in training efforts through Software Carpentry and Data Carpentry to train researchers in best practices for software development and data analysis. These are concepts that are fundamental to the research we do in my gropu and my commitment to open and reproducible research.

This is a guest post by Elita Baldridge (@elitabaldridge). She is a recently finished PhD in our group who has been navigating the development of a chronic illness during graduate school and beyond.

This is a guest post by Elita Baldridge. I am working on organizing an Inclusive Ecology Section within the Ecological Society of America.

This is a guest post by Elita Baldridge Most people aren’t familiar with the challenges of working on a PhD with a disability or chronic illness, and yet there’s a good chance that someone you know is in this situation and isn’t talking about it. This is the first in a series of posts about […]

A few months ago Mick Watson wrote an awesome post about How to recruit a good bioinformatician.

My research group is hiring a Scientific Software Engineer to help develop software that facilitates science, contribute to research in data-intensive ecology, and improve scientific research and computing through training and modeling competitions. We are actively involved in data-intensive computational research, open source software development, and open approaches to science.

The newly created Early Career Ecologist Section of the Ecological Society of America is to organizing a mentoring program for the upcoming ESA meeting in Baltimore. ESA can be a big and intimidating meeting for students and postdocs.

A couple of months ago Micah J. Marty and I had a twitter conversation and subsequent email exchange about how citations worked with preprints. I asked Micah if I could share our email discussion since I thought it would be useful to others and he kindly said yes.