Reflections on Papers Past

Stories behind old papers in ecology and evolution

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📢🎉🌟Congratulations to Hari Sridhar for his new paper with Judith Bronstein in Philosophical Transactions B: ‘Connecting and integrating cooperation within and between species’ https://t.co/MrbOwf8E2h
And Hari's study system (mixed-species bird flocks) made it to the cover!

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📢🌟The June issue of Biological Theory is out! https://t.co/sQ6aB0IjdE
Read the editors’ summary of the latest issue, with free reading links for all the articles here: https://t.co/SBcO4tBmOr

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What lies behind the making of a scientific paper that challenges the very foundations of a field? https://t.co/LCXyoAtr4e

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The school has a new format with neuroscientists and philosophers teaching alongside. The list of speakers include our own Isabella Sarto-Jackson @JacksonSarto and KLI alumnus Alejandro Fabregas Tajeda @AFabregasT

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📢🌟KLI announces CALLS FOR WRITING-UP FELLOWSHIPS FOR DOCTORAL STUDENTS in the final stage of their PhD research. Duration: 6 months starting either in spring or in fall 2025.
Details at https://t.co/hrxwfx01N3
#Evolution, #EvolutionaryMedicine, #DevelopmentalBiology

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We're thrilled to have Prof. Kevin Lala in our midst again.https://t.co/J5BTZVy9i9
Here's a peek at forthcoming book: Lala et al. (2024) Evolution Evolving https://t.co/RPTIR9fXja

#evolution, #evodevo, #biology, #nicheconstruction, #evoevolving, #philsci, #plasticity, #scicomm

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📢🌟For our next #KLIColloquium, we are thrilled to have our very own KLI Fellow, Hari Sridhar!🥁🥁
Title: An Elephant in the Room? The Place of Science and Scientists in Conservation Decision Making in India
🗓️25th Apr (Thurs)
🕒3PM CET
⛳️KLI (in person)
https://t.co/213GVywo66

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🥁🥁🥁📢 Check out our new website of the interviews https://t.co/cbhCn47ytJ
🎉154 interviews alongwith
🔹️Annotated papers
🔹️Quotes from the interviews
🔹️Visual archive of photos of the making of the papers.

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📢🎉Very happy to announce KLI Fellow Hari Sridhar's new website
https://t.co/HAmYnkRe1d Hari interviews authors of famous papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behaviour and Conservation, (154 so far!) about back-stories and reflections on their impact, validity and relevance today. ✨

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In a paper published in The American Naturalist in 1992, Jessica Gurevitch, Laura Morrow, Alison Wallace and Joseph Walsh presented the results of what was, arguably, the first meta-analysis in ecology…

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"I immediately was knocked off my seat. I thought this is something that we could use to resolve these questions about the effects of competition in ecology, because there had been many studies with many different results.”

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Gurevitch: “I read an article in The Boston Globe about a study that had been done in the educational literature that asked the question: “Were boys really smarter than girls in mathematics?” which seemed inherently very interesting to me. And the answer was, “No, they’re not.”

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"And they explained in this newspaper article that this was a relatively new statistical technique to combine the results of separate studies to reach general conclusions and to resolve apparent discrepancies and results among studies. And I thought, “Wow, this is something!”

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"It was based on a study of children in elementary school grades. And what they had done was combined the results of many different studies using a meta-analysis. Well, I had never heard of meta-analysis before, and I was instantly electrified by the concept..."

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@shahid_naeem

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"It is probably the most important paper in my career, but it is not my favourite. You know, my most favourite paper was rejected so many times I gave up on it. It hasn’t been published. [ ] So my favourite paper is only mine!"

- Shahid Naeem
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"JC Daniel said, if you’re a zoology graduate, why don’t you make some observations on wildlife?  I said, I don’t know anything about it; I’m not trained to do that. He gave me his card and asked me to be in touch with him."

- AJT Johnsingh
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...and at that point the light bulb went off in my head, [ ] the ants are the same as secondary compounds in plants [ ]. The plant is investing in the ants and supporting the ant colony instead of making chemicals inside of itself for defence."
- Janzen https://t.co/iUkYrxyWZo

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"When I went to Stanford and gave my thesis defence, at the back of the room was an old man with his head down on the desk who seemed to be sleeping through the whole thing. We get to the end and he raises his hand and he says ‘Your ants are like the chemicals in my plants’...