Armchair Ecology

Latest posts

Aug. 16, 2019
Should I optimize my code?
3 minutes (568 words)
Aug. 15, 2019
Data quality is a myth
3 minutes (477 words)
Jun. 10, 2019
Quantitative dissimilarity of ecological networks
9 minutes (1880 words)
Jun. 3, 2019
Ecological networks, almost-p-hacking, and conformism
4 minutes (659 words)
May. 13, 2019
Training a neural network on the seeds dataset
7 minutes (1301 words)
Feb. 25, 2019
Are there two schools of ecology?
4 minutes (797 words)
Feb. 18, 2019
The great european bunny extinction of the 1950s
3 minutes (566 words)
Feb. 11, 2019
Transgressive overyielding and coexistence
5 minutes (1009 words)
Feb. 3, 2019
A successful failure at identifying camera traps pictures using deep learning
3 minutes (510 words)
Nov. 20, 2018
False negatives and the reproducibility crisis
2 minutes (371 words)
Nov. 5, 2018
Building your own data life cycle
2 minutes (266 words)
Oct. 16, 2018
What is the most uniquely biodiverse place in Canada?
3 minutes (513 words)
Oct. 11, 2018
Data analysis: content and style separation
3 minutes (487 words)
Oct. 1, 2018
Beware data science in ecology
3 minutes (558 words)
Sep. 24, 2018
The many flavors of (research) computing
3 minutes (597 words)
Sep. 21, 2018
Herd immunity: how vaccines work for all of us
7 minutes (1470 words)
Aug. 19, 2018
Explaining algorithms is not easy
3 minutes (614 words)
Jul. 9, 2018
Picking the most efficient flower-picking route with simulated annealing
6 minutes (1255 words)
Jul. 3, 2018
Measuring the modularity of ecological networks
4 minutes (825 words)
Jun. 25, 2018
Brain dump on drawing random networks — part 1
5 minutes (958 words)
Apr. 9, 2018
I am not competing against laptops when I teach.
4 minutes (799 words)
Apr. 2, 2018
The well-rounded biologist.
4 minutes (689 words)
Mar. 19, 2018
Data is not just data anymore
3 minutes (480 words)
Mar. 12, 2018
Three years of using Julia
3 minutes (465 words)
Feb. 19, 2018
The grammar of data
3 minutes (487 words)
Feb. 12, 2018
Diffential Equations with Julia, updated.
3 minutes (616 words)
Feb. 5, 2018
But why should we model things anyways?
4 minutes (695 words)
Jan. 29, 2018
When are networks worth it?
3 minutes (457 words)
Jan. 22, 2018
The value of getting nothing done.
2 minutes (388 words)
Jan. 15, 2018
Naive Bayesian Classification of parasite data
7 minutes (1317 words)
Jan. 8, 2018
Notes on the Gillespie algorithm - part 2
7 minutes (1285 words)
Jan. 1, 2018
Notes on the Gillespie algorithm - part 1
5 minutes (1037 words)
Dec. 4, 2017
Live mathematical modeling
3 minutes (462 words)
Nov. 27, 2017
Fail, fail, fail. Then fail again.
3 minutes (540 words)
Nov. 20, 2017
"No true Scotsman" (and no true ecologist)
3 minutes (502 words)
Nov. 13, 2017
A biogeographic study of Paw Patrol
4 minutes (769 words)
Nov. 6, 2017
Solving differential equations for ecological problems.
4 minutes (754 words)
Oct. 16, 2017
Reproducing modelling papers is important and instructive.
3 minutes (581 words)
Oct. 9, 2017
Why I can’t enjoy PhD Comics, and why I may be wrong.
3 minutes (636 words)
Oct. 2, 2017
How to ensure you have early career speakers at your next events.
2 minutes (393 words)
Sep. 25, 2017
Five tips to make better presentations
3 minutes (613 words)
Sep. 18, 2017
Hypotheses are over-rated. Don't let them ruin your writing.
5 minutes (991 words)
Sep. 11, 2017
Data training: community over institution
2 minutes (395 words)
Aug. 7, 2017
What I look for in a Software paper.
2 minutes (419 words)
Jul. 31, 2017
The most important scientific figure ever drawn.
4 minutes (671 words)
Jul. 24, 2017
Bipartite networks are not sampled well.
3 minutes (526 words)
Jul. 17, 2017
Is community ecology a thing?
3 minutes (611 words)
Jul. 10, 2017
Julia in ecology: why multiple dispatch is good
4 minutes (760 words)
Jul. 3, 2017
The futility of sharing ecological data
3 minutes (634 words)
Jun. 26, 2017
Responding to reviewers, part 2
4 minutes (709 words)
Jun. 19, 2017
Responding to reviewers, part 1
5 minutes (972 words)
Jun. 12, 2017
Science Bioblitz, data quality, and crowd-sourcing
3 minutes (605 words)
Jun. 5, 2017
We can't see the forest for the bird.
3 minutes (466 words)
May. 30, 2017
Two grants should be enough
5 minutes (908 words)
May. 29, 2017
When exactly is it citizen science?
3 minutes (524 words)
May. 22, 2017
In defense of over-simplified ecological models
4 minutes (692 words)
May. 15, 2017
Computational ecology: currencies for collaboration
4 minutes (641 words)
May. 8, 2017
The artist and the craftsman.
3 minutes (605 words)
May. 1, 2017
What is computational ecology?
4 minutes (701 words)
Apr. 24, 2017
Approximate Bayesian Computation and tiny data in ecology
3 minutes (622 words)
Apr. 17, 2017
Ecology's unhealthy obsession with patterns
4 minutes (835 words)
Apr. 10, 2017
Is ecology replicable?
4 minutes (810 words)
Apr. 3, 2017
Advanced research computing for ecology
4 minutes (710 words)
Mar. 31, 2017
Ecological modelling is world building
3 minutes (615 words)