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5 out of 10 ecology textbooks on my shelves make this distinction: geometric models are for populations with discrete pulses of births, …
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Awareness of students’ mental health is growing in academia right now. Unsurprisingly, faculty suffer mental illness too, and …
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In 2016 I started thinking about using sum to zero contrasts and wrote a brief blog post about them. Someone read it! I got this email …
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I set up 4 10 gallon aquaria in the teaching lab this semester. The goal was to observe the nitrogen cycle as the tanks settled in. I …
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A colleague wrote: Hi Drew, I’m trying to make a really simple (I think) plot in R, but am not sure how to do it. I want to make the …
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Really. I have no concept of what my students’ lives are like, and this is something I have to constantly remind myself. I cannot …
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I’ve been teaching students ggplot2 for graphics exclusively for a year or more now. One issue that seems to throw students is …
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So I’ve kicked the ball on migrating to blogdown/hugo/netlify!
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This is a shorter summary that will hopefully be used by Hugo.
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Brian Cade published a scathing condemnation of current statistical practices in ecology. It promises to be highly influential; I have …
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