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A podcast from three early career ecologists about science, academia, life, and other stuff.

Jon and Jeff explore the utility of the "hot take." Should or can scientists be more provocative in how they frame their science or how they...

Jon and Jeff are joined by Drs. Cristy Portales and Lauren Hallett to talk about the nebulous concept of the "early career" scientist. When...

Jon, Jeff, and guest co-host Tess Grainger talk about bridging the gap between ecological theorists and empiricists. Where are the challenge...

Jon and Jeff address the absurdity of reviewing two articles a day, Jeff offers up a revolutionary idea for review papers, and both address...

Jon and Jeff are back and talking future directions and making plans--with a big announcement and a fair amount of navel-gazing

Grace, Jon, and Jeff discuss the potential occurrences and frequency of data fabrication and scientific fraud in ecology. Just how rare is r...

Grace, Jon, and Jeff reconvene still during the pandemic and talk about career changes, switching universities, what pandemic-induced change...

Grace, Jon, and Jeff talk about the beginnings of quarantine and then jump into the murky waters that are applied vs. basic ecology. Is ther...

Grace, Jon, and Jeff are talking the phosphorous cycle in part one of a multipart radio play about the often forgotten element cycle. The ga...

How does one prepare for their first major science conference? We brought along a ton of friends including Drs. Susan Cheng, Ben Bond-Lamber...

Grace, Jon, and Jeff talk about the hidden costs of publishing, referencing Josh Schimel's famous blog post on the subject. Where does open...

Grace and Jon sit down with Mike Pace from the University of Virginia to talk about data sharing and how the ecological data landscape has c...

Grace, Jon, and Jeff recount some summer activities and talk about ESA2019, but the main focus of the show is talking about a recent Nature...

Jeff sits down with professor and ecohydrologist Ryan Emanuel from North Carolina State University to talk about crossovers in ecology and h...

Grace, Jon, and Jeff are back at it with Classic Ecology V: SE Hobbie's 1992 opus "Effects of plant species on nutrient cycling." The gang a...

Jon and Jeff do a deep-dive into the PLOS: Computational Biology paper "Ten Simple Rules for Better Figures." This one is kind of nerdy, but...

Grace, Jon, and Jeff do a round of Would You Rather? Academic Style and then follow up with a conversation about the quintessential paper Po...

Grace, Jon, and Jeff do some spring cleaning via the latest buzz from Twitter and the blogosphere including way-out-there poster designs, wh...

Grace, Jon, and Jeff are talking March Mammal Madness 2019 ! Jeff questions dandelions, Jon goes all in on owls, Grace has speciation questi...

Jeff and Jon sit down with Patrice Connors and Marc Kissel, two of the folks behind March Mammal Madness 2019 (#2019MMM). Marc and Patrice g...

Grace, Jon, and Jeff tackle a recent paper in Ecology (Pillai and Gouhier, 2019) that claims that the "positive" effect of biodiversity on e...

Jeff sits down with Rob Nowicki to talk about how the scope of ecological research has changed over that past few decades, the differences b...

Grace, Jon, and Jeff bid a not-so-fond farewell to 2018. The gang talk about their favorite papers of the year, science low-lights, and thei...

Dr. Ben Cook from NASA Goddard Institute of Space Studies joins us on the show to talk about drought, the climate system, working across sca...

We welcome Dr. Kyla Dahlin from Michigan State University to the show. Kyla's research aims to better understand and quantify ecosystem proc...

Grace, Jon, and Jeff continue the discussion about the NSF proposal process including ad hoc reviews, what panels are like, and how to prepa...

Grace, Jon, and Jeff celebrate two years of podcasting with a mailbag episode where we answer a slew of emails, questions, and follow-ups fr...

Jon and Jeff ask the age old question, when do the statistics get so wonky you call in the quants? The gang minus one talk about the trade-o...

Grace, Jon, and Jeff give a primer on the funding mechanisms at the National Science Foundation (NSF) as well as recent changes that we are...

Jon and Jeff interview Atticus Stovall of the University of Virginia, a lidar guru and all-around nice person, live from the top of a mounta...

Grace, Jon, and Jeff talk about a recent paper in Nature E & E on how sampling bias affects science and policy. The gang also tally the resu...

Grace, Jon, and Jeff talk about the new Resources page on the Major Revisions website as well as their own thoughts about what helped them g...

Grace, Jon, and Jeff talk about their favorite scientists from any form of fiction . . .with some big surprises. They also cover who they do...

Grace, Jon, and Jeff talk about recent op-eds in Nature and Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment on the culture of science and ecology i...

In episode 38 we welcome Brady Hardiman to the show! Brady is an Assistant Professor of Urban Ecology in the department of Forestry and Natu...

Grace, Jon, and Jeff talk about the Gleason, 1926 classic, "The individualistic concept of the plant association" a real barn-burner of a pi...

Grace, Jon, and Jeff keep the classics in ecology series going, this time with Raymond L. Lindeman's 1942 piece, "The Trophic-Dynamic Aspect...

Grace, Jon, and Jeff kick off a series delving into classic papers in ecology, leading off with P. A. P. Moran's classic paper "The statisti...

We talk to Caitlin MacKenzie, a postdoc at the University of Maine, about taking sediment cores from frozen lakes in Maine, what it's like t...

Grace, Jon, and Jeff jump into the murky and oddly shaped pool that is the world of the graduate school interview. We also go on a journey t...

Grace, Jon, and Jeff talk about #SinceIWasYoung.

Grace, Jon, and Jeff reconvene book club to chat about the Professor is In!

Grace, Jon, and Jeff are back in book club this episode, talking about the book "How to do Ecology." The gang also talk about how academics...

Grace, Jon, and Jeff jump right into the fray this week to talk about a recent, divisive article in Nature Ecology and Evolution about the p...

It is time for the inaugural Impact Factor Draft! Grace, Jon, and Jeff pick journals based on how they think the IF will change next year. R...

Grace, Jon, and Jeff revisit the first year of the podcast, including the most and least popular episodes--and we look forward to the future...

Grace and Jeff, sans Jon, talk about some of the latest in carbon cycling research--terrestrial and aquatic! We also talk Jon's recent weddi...

Grace, Jon, and Jeff do a deep dive into having difficult conversations in the classroom around the current political and social climate and...

Grace, Jon, and Jeff talk about how to get the most out of grad school including setting priorities, making friends with the smart people, t...

In our first banter-only episode, Grace, Jon, and Jeff talk about the eclipse, the comings and goings of the Ecological Society of America 2...