Armchair Ecology

Latest posts

Ecological networks, minus the species
Jun. 23, 2020 10 minutes (2032 words)
Programming languages are irrelevant
May. 21, 2020 3 minutes (492 words)
Meta-populations on a toroidal world
Mar. 3, 2020 6 minutes (1242 words)
Reaction networks for disease dynamics
Feb. 5, 2020 5 minutes (888 words)
It's time to retire the iris dataset
Jan. 20, 2020 4 minutes (759 words)
SDM with bioclim in three lines of code
Nov. 15, 2019 5 minutes (986 words)
A recommender for species interactions
Nov. 12, 2019 5 minutes (1059 words)
Against Notebooks
Nov. 9, 2019 2 minutes (354 words)
Should I optimize my code?
Aug. 16, 2019 3 minutes (568 words)
Data quality is a myth
Aug. 15, 2019 3 minutes (477 words)
Quantitative dissimilarity of ecological networks
Jun. 10, 2019 9 minutes (1879 words)
Ecological networks, almost-p-hacking, and conformism
Jun. 3, 2019 4 minutes (659 words)
Training a neural network on the seeds dataset
May. 13, 2019 7 minutes (1301 words)
Are there two schools of ecology?
Feb. 25, 2019 4 minutes (797 words)
The great european bunny extinction of the 1950s
Feb. 18, 2019 3 minutes (566 words)
Transgressive overyielding and coexistence
Feb. 11, 2019 5 minutes (894 words)
A successful failure at identifying camera traps pictures using deep learning
Feb. 3, 2019 3 minutes (510 words)
False negatives and the reproducibility crisis
Nov. 20, 2018 2 minutes (371 words)
Building your own data life cycle
Nov. 5, 2018 2 minutes (266 words)
What is the most uniquely biodiverse place in Canada?
Oct. 16, 2018 3 minutes (513 words)
Data analysis: content and style separation
Oct. 11, 2018 3 minutes (487 words)
Beware data science in ecology
Oct. 1, 2018 3 minutes (558 words)
The many flavors of (research) computing
Sep. 24, 2018 3 minutes (596 words)
Herd immunity: how vaccines work for all of us
Sep. 21, 2018 7 minutes (1470 words)
Explaining algorithms is not easy
Aug. 19, 2018 3 minutes (614 words)
Picking the most efficient flower-picking route with simulated annealing
Jul. 9, 2018 6 minutes (1255 words)
Measuring the modularity of ecological networks
Jul. 3, 2018 4 minutes (825 words)
Brain dump on drawing random networks — part 1
Jun. 25, 2018 5 minutes (958 words)
I am not competing against laptops when I teach.
Apr. 9, 2018 4 minutes (799 words)
The well-rounded biologist.
Apr. 2, 2018 4 minutes (689 words)
Data is not just data anymore
Mar. 19, 2018 3 minutes (480 words)
Three years of using Julia
Mar. 12, 2018 3 minutes (465 words)
The grammar of data
Feb. 19, 2018 3 minutes (487 words)
Diffential Equations with Julia, updated.
Feb. 12, 2018 3 minutes (616 words)
But why should we model things anyways?
Feb. 5, 2018 4 minutes (695 words)
When are networks worth it?
Jan. 29, 2018 3 minutes (457 words)
The value of getting nothing done.
Jan. 22, 2018 2 minutes (388 words)
Naive Bayesian Classification of parasite data
Jan. 15, 2018 7 minutes (1317 words)
Notes on the Gillespie algorithm - part 2
Jan. 8, 2018 7 minutes (1285 words)
Notes on the Gillespie algorithm - part 1
Jan. 1, 2018 5 minutes (1037 words)
Live mathematical modeling
Dec. 4, 2017 3 minutes (462 words)
Fail, fail, fail. Then fail again.
Nov. 27, 2017 3 minutes (540 words)
"No true Scotsman" (and no true ecologist)
Nov. 20, 2017 3 minutes (502 words)
A biogeographic study of Paw Patrol
Nov. 13, 2017 4 minutes (769 words)
Solving differential equations for ecological problems.
Nov. 6, 2017 4 minutes (754 words)
Reproducing modelling papers is important and instructive.
Oct. 16, 2017 3 minutes (581 words)
Why I can't enjoy PhD Comics
Oct. 9, 2017 3 minutes (636 words)
How to ensure you have early career speakers at your next events.
Oct. 2, 2017 2 minutes (393 words)
Five tips to make better presentations
Sep. 25, 2017 3 minutes (613 words)
Hypotheses are over-rated. Don't let them ruin your writing.
Sep. 18, 2017 5 minutes (991 words)
Data training: community over institution
Sep. 11, 2017 2 minutes (395 words)
What I look for in a Software paper.
Aug. 7, 2017 2 minutes (419 words)
The most important scientific figure ever drawn.
Jul. 31, 2017 4 minutes (671 words)
Bipartite networks are not sampled well.
Jul. 24, 2017 3 minutes (523 words)
Is community ecology a thing?
Jul. 17, 2017 3 minutes (610 words)
Julia in ecology: why multiple dispatch is good
Jul. 10, 2017 4 minutes (758 words)
The futility of sharing ecological data
Jul. 3, 2017 3 minutes (633 words)
Responding to reviewers, part 2
Jun. 26, 2017 4 minutes (706 words)
Responding to reviewers, part 1
Jun. 19, 2017 5 minutes (970 words)
Science Bioblitz, data quality, and crowd-sourcing
Jun. 12, 2017 3 minutes (603 words)
We can't see the forest for the bird.
Jun. 5, 2017 3 minutes (466 words)
Two grants should be enough
May. 30, 2017 5 minutes (907 words)
When exactly is it citizen science?
May. 29, 2017 3 minutes (521 words)
In defense of over-simplified ecological models
May. 22, 2017 4 minutes (691 words)
Computational ecology: currencies for collaboration
May. 15, 2017 3 minutes (636 words)
The artist and the craftsman.
May. 8, 2017 3 minutes (605 words)
What is computational ecology?
May. 1, 2017 4 minutes (696 words)
Approximate Bayesian Computation and tiny data in ecology
Apr. 24, 2017 3 minutes (619 words)
Ecology's unhealthy obsession with patterns
Apr. 17, 2017 4 minutes (835 words)
Is ecology replicable?
Apr. 10, 2017 4 minutes (806 words)
Advanced research computing for ecology
Apr. 3, 2017 4 minutes (710 words)
Ecological modelling is world building
Mar. 31, 2017 3 minutes (614 words)