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Category Archives: community
Local boy makes op-ed
Here’s a new one for my publications list: the Op-Ed pages of my hometown newspaper. I’ve spent the last weeks calling my congressional reps, and hassling other people to do the same, over the Trump administration’s vandalism of research funding (alongside its … Continue reading
Posted in Action Item, community, ecology, evolution, funding, NIH, NSF, politics, Science Communication, United States
Tagged Science Homecoming
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Nominations open for the 2025 Harry Smith Prize, recognizing early career research published in Molecular Ecology
The editorial board of the journal Molecular Ecology is seeking nominations for the Harry Smith Prize, which recognizes the best paper published in Molecular Ecology or Molecular Ecology Resources in the previous calendar year (2024) by graduate students or early career scholars … Continue reading
Nominations open for the 2025 Molecular Ecology Prize
From the Molecular Ecology Prize Committee: We are soliciting nominations for the annual Molecular Ecology Prize. The field of molecular ecology is young and inherently interdisciplinary. As a consequence, research in molecular ecology is not currently represented by a single … Continue reading
The creationists are winning. Here’s what we scientists can do about it
In my first year of graduate school at the University of Idaho, I joined a bunch of my colleagues in the audience of a debate staged between an evolutionary biologist and a creationist. I remember almost nothing of the debate’s … Continue reading
Posted in climate change, community, evolution, modest proposals, politics, Science Communication, United States
Tagged denialism, scicomm, social media
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Notes from Asilomar, 2025
Driving up to Monterey from southern California is lovely enough to make me almost enjoy driving. Highway 1, just two lanes of traffic right at the edge of the continent, pays for its clifftop views of the Pacific with frequent … Continue reading
Posted in Coevolution, community, conferences, genomics, natural history
Tagged American Society of Naturalists, Asilomar
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Some science books for 2024
The Molecular Ecologist receives a small commission for purchases made on Bookshop.org via links from this post. One minor personal accomplishment I scored this year is that it’s the first year since I started tracking, fully a decade ago, in … Continue reading
Posted in book review, community, ecology, fieldwork, natural history, politics
Tagged conservation, history of science, moral philosophy, natural history
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Coming to PAG 32 this January? Join the first-ever Molecular Ecology workshop
Posted on behalf of Loren Rieseburg and Shawn Narum, workshop organizers. We are pleased to announce the inaugural workshop for Molecular Ecology at the Plant & Animal Genomics (PAG) conference. The field of Molecular Ecology has been revolutionized by advances … Continue reading
Mini Reviews provide a new format for brief overviews of trending topics
Sometimes you want to introduce an idea or review a topic that doesn’t support an in-depth review of the literature. Molecular Ecology and Molecular Ecology Resources are introducing a new article format that may be what you’re looking for: Mini … Continue reading
Posted in community, Molecular Ecology, the journal, science publishing
Tagged Mini Reviews
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2024 Harry Smith Prize awarded to Robert Masaki Hechler, for demonstrating the potential of environmental transcriptomics
This year’s Harry Smith Prize, which recognizes the best paper published in the field of molecular ecology by an early career scholar, has been awarded to Robert Masaki Hechler, now a PhD student working with Martin Krkosek at the Univeristy … Continue reading
2024 Molecular Ecology Prize goes to Michael Whitlock, for foundational contributions to the study of population genetics in space
The Molecular Ecology Prize Committee has announced the 2024 recipient of the award, which recognizes an outstanding scientist who has made significant contributions to the still-young field of molecular ecology: The 2024 Molecular Ecology Prize has been awarded to Professor … Continue reading