resilienceSci on Twitter- resilienceSci: RT @MarkAndrachuk: "How many qualitative interviews is enough?" via @ECGGroup and @jenlove23 http://t.co/JWcrY5y9V2 #ecrchat #phdchat May 24, 2013
- resilienceSci: Fun end to SRC Futures panel with a good discussion on ingredients & potential for a "good" #Anthropocene. May 24, 2013
- resilienceSci: RT @DianeOrihel: Reason triumphs, sometimes: #ELA Lake 227 was fertilized with #phosphorus this week, so this 44-year experiment continues!… May 24, 2013
- resilienceSci: RT @DianeOrihel: On May 7, scientists called on #DFO and #EC to reverse its decision to end world's longest #eutrophication exp't http://t.… May 24, 2013
- resilienceSci: ESPA funded postdoctoral position for SRC lead project on poverty alleviation & coastal ecosystem services http://t.co/g60LUkWAV2 May 24, 2013
- resilienceSci: @MichaelSchoon1 I put the "good" in quotes - but gave some criteria that could be used to define good May 24, 2013
- resilienceSci: RT @sthlmresilience: @MichaelSchoon1: indeed, that is a critical question and is being discussed during the panel May 24, 2013
- resilienceSci: RT @MichaelSchoon1: @vgalaz @sthlmresilience @FredrikMoberg @resilienceSci @gustafr good for whom? May 24, 2013
- resilienceSci: RT @sthlmresilience: So Prof Peterson says criteria for a good Anthropocene is that it is: Fair, Prosperous, Sustainable, Resilient and fun May 24, 2013
- resilienceSci: RT @vgalaz: Abt to kick off final global future panel disc @sthlmresilience "Creating a Good Anthropocene?" ft @FredrikMoberg @resilienceSc… May 24, 2013
Tag Archives: Science
Eric Idle on “Who Wrote Shakespeare?” : The New Yorker
In the New Yorker, former Python, Eric Idle writes “Who Wrote Shakespeare?”. He explains: While it is perfectly obvious to everyone that Ben Jonson wrote all of Shakespeare’s plays, it is less known that Ben Jonson’s plays were written by … Continue reading
BP wins ’2010 Accidental Earth Experiment’ Prize
Bill Chameides Dean of the Nicholas School of Environment at Duke awards BP his 2010 Accidental Earth Experiment’ Prize!!! on his blog the Green Grok. His award recognizes that BP’s incompetence created a disaster that created novel conditions allowing scientists … Continue reading
An Algorithm for Discovery
A decade ago in Science, Paydarfar and Schwartz, neurologists from University of Massachusetts, wrote about an An Algorithm for Discovery (DOI:10.1126/science.292.5514.13). They suggest that there is a useful algorithm for creating new knowledge that has five steps: 1. Slow down … Continue reading
Mapping Science
A nice 2008 PNAS paper Maps of random walks on complex networks reveal community structure (PNAS 105, 1118) [pdf] by Martin Rosvall and Carl T Bergstrom creates beautiful and informative visualizations of citation networks in science (from 2004 ISI data) … Continue reading
Posted in Networks, Visualization
Tagged Carl T Bergstrom, ciations, ISI, Martin Rosvall, PNAS, Science
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Naomi Oreskes on Merchants of Doubt
Historian of science Naomi Oreskes recently gave a talk at Brown University, based on her new book, Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming, about how right wing … Continue reading
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Tagged climate change, climate change politics, denial, FUD, Merchants of Doubt, Naomi Oreskes, Science, video
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Economics as a complex systems science
An interesting interview of Paul Krugman by Edward Hugh is on A Fistful of Euros: E.H. : The late Sir Karl Popper used to contrast what he regarded as science with ideologies like Marxism and Psychoanalysis, because there seemed to … Continue reading
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Tagged A Fistful of Euros:, complex systems, economics, Edward Hugh, Paul Krugman, Science
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Clickstreams to map scientific knowledge production
Johan Bollen and collegues (2009) use “clickstreams” to map science interaction in their latest PLoS article. And they find in Figure 5 that “Ecology” sits in-between as a broker between social science and environmental/biological science. The other researchers of the … Continue reading
Caribbean reef fish decline in wake of coral collapse
A recent paper by Paddack et al in Current Biology (doi:10.1016/j.cub.2009.02.041) that shows that observed declines in fish populations in the Caribbean are consistent across all subregions of the Caribbean basin (2.7% to 6.0% loss per year) and appear to … Continue reading
Posted in General, Regime Shifts
Tagged Caribbean, coral reef, fish, Michelle Paddack, Science
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Ecology and Wikipedia pt 2
To follow up on my post Wikipedia and ecology, the ESA blog EcoTone has posted an interview with the authors of the recent TREE paper on wikipedia (DOI:10.1016/j.tree.2009.01.003): Why don’t you think more scientists contribute to Wikipedia? EB: I know … Continue reading
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Tagged communication, EcoTone, internet, Science, Trends in Ecology and Evolution, Wikipeida
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Wikipedia and Ecology
Journal Watch Online reports on a recent TREE paper Callis et al Improving Wikipedia: educational opportunity and professional responsibility (DOI:10.1016/j.tree.2009.01.003 ) in Open Source Ecology A University of Florida professor directed those energies towards a more noble cause: surveying and … Continue reading
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Tagged communication, internet, journal watch online, Science, Trends in Ecology and Evolution, Wikipeida
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