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Category Archives: writing
To Sweave, or not to Sweave, that is the question
I am about to start writing up the manuscript of my recent biomath seminar (Act 3: Pineda-Krch. 2011. Cycles at the edge of existence: Emergence of quasi-cycles in strongly destabilized ecosystems.). While the slides for the talk were put together using … Continue reading
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Open Access(ish) contribution: Cycles in finite populations: a reproducible seminar in three acts
It’s Open Access week and this is what the hoopla is all about “Open Access” to information – the free, immediate, online access to the results of scholarly research, and the right to use and re-use those results as you need … Continue reading
LaTeX – how do I love thee?
LaTeX really is the best thing since sliced bread. LaTeX is just a large set of macros built on top of TeX, a digital typesetting language created by Donald Knuth at Stanford in the 1970s. The original LaTeX, now called … Continue reading
The art of manuscript mashing
Carlo Artieri of The Musings of a Mad Biologist has a post today about Manuscript mashing!, i.e. the art of actually writing a manuscript. The post provides a candid description of how one can (or, in my opinion, should) go … Continue reading
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Two new theoretical journals
There are two new journals on the block that should be of interest to ecology-evolutionary-theory minded folks. Theoretical Ecology with Alan Hastings as the Editor in Chief. A few phrases from its aims and scope that caught my attention are; … Continue reading
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New submitted paper on the evolution of phenotypic plasticity
Together with Richard Svanbäck and Michael Doebeli I have submitted a manuscript entitled Fluctuating population dynamics promotes the evolution of phenotypic plasticity. This is the fruit of the project that I discuss in the post Genetic basis of adaptive phenotypic … Continue reading
How to write consistently boring papers
Many research papers are boring. There is one paper, however, that – irrespective of what one thinks of it’s scientific merits – definitely is not boring. It’s Kaj Sand-Jensen‘s paper How to write consistently boring scientific literature published earlier this … Continue reading
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Write, write, write…
The Ten Simple Rules for Fledgling Academics that I discussed in a post a few days ago actually omits one critical rule which may even be considered the most important rule of them all. A rule without which one is … Continue reading
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