Recommended Reads #33

• Editorial boards of ecological journals are far less likely to have people who principally work with insects, compared to other taxa. Simon Leather runs down the numbers for us.

• Here is a great site for students about the Anatomy of a Scientific Article. Looks like great reading for students in lower-division and starting upper-division coursework.

• “The rise in part-time faculty does not bode well for the biological sciences.” Here is an exceptionally detailed article in BioScience about the role of contingent faculty in biology departments in universities throughout the US. This is fascinating and important reading if you’re involved in any kind of decision making at the department level or above.

• “Counterintuitively, clarity limits what students learn.” The Pedagogy of Confusion by Good Enough Professor.

• Here’s a by-the-numbers reasonable piece about how to get tenure at small liberal arts colleges.

• Noam Ross shows what topics people are discussing at the Ecological Society of America, and how it’s changed in the last year.

• Why Americans still don’t use the metric system.

• Hey, look, I’m a Person Behind the Science. A half-hour of me talking, if you’re so inclined.

• How is it that two Americans got an untested Ebola treatment, but it wasn’t offered to anybody else in the world with Ebola? Here’s the short answer from Popular Science magazine.