And there-in lies the problem. We expect young scientists to cut their teeth
without pay. We expect "interns" to service our grants. We (scientists) are
not independent to seek truth, wisdom, or knowledge we are married to the
all-mighty grant-machine that may or may not spew-forth grant m
When I first entered my PhD program I remember asking a few of the biology and
geography faculty why they thought conservation biology and invasion biology
were important fields of study. I was having trouble understanding why it was
important to make sure a given ecosystem/community continued
While 9 or 12 posts might not seem like much, those numbers are likely outliers
when considering the number of posts most users make over the same period
(zero!).
I don't perceive this as a problem though. Anyone can authoritatively post to
this list regardless of whether they really have th
When I first saw the title of this posting, I was immediately drawn to the word
'confronting'... and not in a positive way. I do not believe that it is
necessary to 'confront' deniers. Confrontation breeds a defensive attitude,
and being forced into a corner on a issue does not lead to rationa
I posed a very similar question to a group of graduate students and professors
during a theoretical ecology seminar a few years ago. The central premise was
that humans, by virtue of our innate-desire/ability to alter our surroundings,
have caused a general decline in biodiversity globally. Th
