[ECOLOG-L] Plant Systems Biology Full Time Tenure Stream - Assistant Professor

http://webapps.yorku.ca/academichiringviewer/viewposition.jsp?positionnumber=1853 Position Information Position Rank: Full Time Tenure Stream - Assistant Professor Discipline/Field: Plant Systems Biology Home Faculty: Science Home Department/Area/Division: Biology Affiliation/Union: YUFA Position

[ECOLOG-L] ten simple steps to process cam trap photos: advice on how to automate

Dear Colleagues, Our research team is a fan of #rstats and automation; however, we have not fully moved all of our processes over to this philosophy and revised our workflows. We have a relatively high volume of cam trap photos to process, and in the past, we did manually using this workflow:

[ECOLOG-L] Politics versus ecological and environmental research: invitation to submit to Ideas in Ecology and Evolution

://ojs.library.queensu.ca/index.php/IEE/login Warm regards, Chris Lortie and Lonnie Aarssen.

[ECOLOG-L] Training Opportunity - Open Science for Synthesis: Gulf Research Program

Dear Colleagues, This is an exciting training opportunity I wanted to share with you. Application Open for Training in Open Science and Synthesis through the Gulf Research Program. Members from NCEAS, DataONE, and Data Carpentry are teaming together to provide an NCEAS led, 3-week open

[ECOLOG-L] basic data sharing from your ecology courses this Fall

too with the students. cheers, chris lortie.

[ECOLOG-L] ESA2016 ignite talks - ten simple rules

presentations' published here: http://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371/journal.pcbi.0030077 I hope you find both helpful. cheers, chris lortie. @cjlortie

[ECOLOG-L] Fully-funded MSC & PhD positions: positive plant-plant-animal interactions in the deserts of California.

A funded position(s) with Dr. Christopher Lortie at York University is available to do research either at the MSC or PhD level on positive interactions using shrubs, annual plants, and animals Our lab website is http://www.ecoblender.org, and the personal blog of Lortie is found is

[ECOLOG-L] video abstracts for ecologists (ESA2016 & our papers)

Dear Ecolog, With ESA2016 right around the corner, I have been thinking about how to increase our outreach as a discipline. Last week, I discovered video abstracts for papers. They are relatively common in other fields, and we could consider doing them both for our papers and conference

[ECOLOG-L] shrub-open microenvironmental measurements

contrasts. Do you know of any other datasets? Or, if you have some, would you be willing share/publish/collaborate? cheers, chris lortie. www.christopherlortie.info

[ECOLOG-L] seed biology responses to shrubs in deserts

have questions or interest in the idea, please pop me a note. cheers, chris lortie.

[ECOLOG-L] MSc PhD graduate research opportunities in Californian Deserts

from September to December then spend January to May in the deserts. Please pop me an email if you would like additional information. cheers, chris lortie www.christopherlortie.info

[ECOLOG-L] seed bags: where to buy more?

Hi Ecolog, My students and have run out of seed bags. I bought a few thousand a number of years ago, but we are finally out. The bags are approx 17x8 cm, made of fine mesh, white, sealed on 3 sides, and we use a heat sealer to close the top once loaded up. Does anyone know where I can buy

[ECOLOG-L] ecology bingo

Dear Ecolog, I teach 2nd year ecology. The students have requested practice Qs for basic-memory, short-answers. I decided to do it in a fun way so prepped ecology bingo for terminology. http://bit.ly/ecobingo Please feel free to use the templates. I was considering providing take-home

[ECOLOG-L] input on synthesis in ecology mss

Hi Ecolog, I just had the good fortune of participating in an Environmental Information Management course at UNM. Teaching a topic is always an illuminating experience because explaining is sometimes more challenging than doing. My job was to cover systematic reviews and meta-analyses.

[ECOLOG-L] help with ecology lab manual

would also like to add a few online labs too. Any input appreciated. If you have a lab manual, single specific experimental labs, or resources you could direct me to, that would be super. cheers chris lortie.

[ECOLOG-L] special issue of IEE on the future of publishing

Dear Ecolog, We have put together a special issue of Ideas in Ecology Evolution on the future of publishing for our discipline. The papers are all online and OA. I set up a quick blog for discussion and link throughs to the pdfs of all papers here: http://futurecopublishing.wordpress.com

[ECOLOG-L] smart cams insect observation

Dear Ecolog, My colleagues and I were recently fretting over how to secure funding to buy more cameras to record arthropod visitations to specific plants. We were chatting about it and suddenly realized that every smartphone now has a relatively high resolution camera. If we wanted to build

[ECOLOG-L] immediate science journal university thesis publications

Dear Ecolog, Great news. The new journal immediate science ecology that my peers and I have launched (http://www.immediatescience.org) has two new papers: a discovery paper on the habitat of the threatened California Red-legged Frog and a development paper on reintroduced prairie dog

[ECOLOG-L] do citations matter in ecology effect size databank

Dear Ecolog, My colleagues and I are interested in whether citations, frequently used as a proxy for merit (i.e. most highly cited work), relate to the biological significance of the study. As ecologists, we used a large set of effect sizes from eeb to test this idea. If you are interested,

[ECOLOG-L] new form of journal for ecology

Synopsis New journal for ecological research that will help us avoid repetition, accelerate, and document supported hypotheses. Free for undergraduates, graduate students, and postdoc. Think of this as a home for your riskiest research, undergraduate theses, and unpublished thesis chapters -

[ECOLOG-L] calling all ESA twitter folk

, chris lortie.

[ECOLOG-L] 'optimal' funding levels for ecologists

Dear Ecolog, My colleagues did some work examining the importance of funding on relative citation success (http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10./j.1600- 0706.2012.20109.x/abstract). I know that citations are, at best, a proxy for impact, but I was wondering if folks had a sense of

[ECOLOG-L] Is there a peer-review crisis in ecology? Summary of analyses.

Hi Ecolog, In January, I conducted a poll to assess whether there is any evidence for a crisis in the review of ecology papers. The proxy used was the decline to review rate (weighted analysis of reported requests by reviews actually done). I know there are other possible estimates and

[ECOLOG-L] peer-review thought experiment

we agree that rejected papers still need a home and that perhaps it is time to experiment with other journal models for ecology. cheers, chris lortie.

[ECOLOG-L] Is there a referee crisis in ecology?

Dear Ecologgers, Thank you so much for your feedback on the editorial 'Money for nothing and referees for free' published in Ideas in Ecology and Evolution in December (http://library.queensu.ca/ojs/index.php/IEE/index). The most compelling and common question I was asked was is there a

[ECOLOG-L] paid peer reviews (outcome of poll)

hi Ecologgers, About 6 weeks ago, I was invited to write an editorial for Ideas in Ecology and Evolution (IEE). I recalled reading a few articles by Hochberg commenting on the increasing difficulty in securing referees and had seen several new incentive systems. So, I wrote up a piece

[ECOLOG-L] Oikos Editor in Chief Vacancy

The ecological journal Oikos, published by the Nordic Society Oikos, is seeking to recruit a new Editor in Chief, following the departure of Professor Tim Benton. Oikos is among the top international journals in its field and will endeavour to further improve its status in the coming years.

[ECOLOG-L] final call for comments on getting paid to review

), please click here do the 1 min survey. https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/BFZJNW5 cheers, chris lortie.

[ECOLOG-L] payment for peer-review in ecology

that whilst recognition and just an ethic of service might suffice money is not a bad incentive too. So, if you have less than one minute, please click on the following link to share your thoughts with us. We will of course share the results. https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/BFZJNW5 cheers, chris

[ECOLOG-L] PhD positions available in community ecology

Hi Ecolog, Two great opportunities have come up at my school for PhDs in ecology and biogeography. The first is fully paid for 3 years at $50,000 per year (wow) whilst the second is regular levels of funding which is $21,000 with a bit of teaching for 5 years. Previously, only Canadians

[ECOLOG-L] Oikos blog

as a place for discussion, and the editorial staff are reading it with an eye for hot topics for future Forum papers. We hope you enjoy it. cheers, chris lortie. Senior Editor

Ecolog survey results on reviewers in ecology and evolution now available.

Dear Ecolog, My colleagues and I comprise an NCEAS working group studying the publication process in ecology and evolution. The recent posting by the journal Frontiers in Ecology and Environment advertising an online survey exploring the publication process specific to their journal has