Category Archives: modest proposals

Summer session resolutions

Posted on 15 May, 2023 by Jeremy Yoder

Like all good academics, I bristle at the not-infrequent suggestion, from innocent but insufficiently browbeaten friends and family, that I “take summer off”. In point of fact I am simply not paid for the months between the spring and fall … Continue reading →

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Falling through the gap

Posted on 26 Oct, 2022 by Jeremy Yoder

There is a hole. Right at the top of our science. In the introductions to our peer-reviewed papers, where we should explain the need for the new research results we are about to present, there is more and more often … Continue reading →

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Introducing The Molecular Ecologist Podcast

Posted on 17 Mar, 2020 by Jeremy Yoder

The Molecular Ecologist is trying out a new medium for the first time since we launched: audio! That’s right, TME contributors, talking about the science we’ve been reading and writing about, recorded for easy listening on any internet-capable device. As … Continue reading →

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The last of us, Ph.D.

Posted on 23 May, 2017 by Jeremy Yoder

I hear tell that there’s another movie in the Alien franchise in theaters, which makes this a fine opportunity to revisit the beauty and stupidity of the last one, Prometheus. In that previous instalment, we watched people who were, allegedly, … Continue reading →

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