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A fairer way to rank conservation and ecology journals in 2014
Normally I just report the Thomson-Reuters ISI Web of Knowledge Impact Factors for conservation-orientated journals each year, with some commentary on the rankings of other journals that also publish...
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We generally ignore the big issues
I’ve had a good week at Stanford University with Paul Ehrlich where we’ve been putting the final touches1 on our book. It’s been taking a while to put together, but we’re both pretty happy with the...
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Attention Ecologists: Journal Ranking Survey
In the interest of providing greater transparency when ranking the ‘quality’ of scientific journals, we are interested in collecting ecologists’ views on the relative impact of different ecology,...
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Australia should have a more vibrant ecological culture
I’ve always had the gut feeling that Australia punched above its weight when it comes to ecology and conservation. For years I’ve been confidently bragging to whomever might listen (mostly at...
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Give some flair to your scientific presentation
– As the desert spring came to the great Centre Red, Scores of sandalled folk from tin birds descend-ed. Alice Town had been invaded, Bearded alike and unshorn-legged. They sat and stared at words...
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An Open Letter to Environmentalists on Nuclear Energy
Professor Barry W. Brook, Chair of Environmental Sustainability, University of Tasmania, Australia. barry.brook@utas.edu.au Professor Corey J.A. Bradshaw, Sir Hubert Wilkins Chair of Climate Change,...
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It’s time for environmentalists to give nuclear a fair go
This is an article by Barry Brook and me, published today in The Conversation. I’m republishing it here. – Should nuclear energy be part of Australia’s (and many other countries’) future energy mix? We...
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How things have (not) changed
The other night I had the pleasure of dining with the former Australian Democrats leader and senator, Dr John Coulter, at the home of Dr Paul Willis (Director of the Royal Institution of Australia). It...
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What makes all that biodiversity possible?
Predators. You can either stop reading now because that’s the answer to the question, or you can continue and find out a little more detail. I’ve just had an extremely pleasant experience reading John...
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No evidence climate change is to blame for Australian megafauna extinctions
Last July I wrote about a Science paper of ours demonstrating that there was a climate-change signal in the overall extinction pattern of megafauna across the Northern Hemisphere between about 50,000...
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Subconsciously sexist?
It was with some consternation that I processed some recent second-hand scuttlebutt about my publishing history with respect to gender balance. I’ve always considered myself non-sexist when it comes to...
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Job: Research Fellow in Palaeo-Ecological Modelling
I have another postdoctoral fellowship to advertise! All the details you need for applying are below. — KEY PURPOSE Scientific data such as fossil and archaeological records used as proxy to...
View ArticlePostdoctoral position re-opened in Global Ecology
I believe it is important to clarify a few things about the job advertisement that we are re-opening. As many of you might recall, we advertised two positions in paleo-ecological modelling back in July...
View Article100 papers that every ecologist should read
How do you objectively identify the 'classic' papers in ecology? Here we tell you how, and provide the list
View ArticleEcologists are gender-biased
I normally don’t do this, but this is an extra-ordinary circumstance. As many of you are already aware, Franck Courchamp and I published a paper in Nature Ecology and Evolution on Monday that ranked...
View ArticleWhat Works in Conservation 2018
This book is free to download. This book contains the evidence for the effectiveness of over 1200 things you might do for conservation. If you don’t have a copy, go and download yourself a free one...
View ArticleLegacy of human migration on the diversity of languages in the Americas
This might seem a little left-of-centre for CB.com subject matter, but hang in there, this does have some pretty important conservation implications. In our quest to be as transdisciplinary as...
View ArticleHow to fix a broken river
It seems that most of what I do these days is measure, model, or otherwise quantify environmental damage. While I dabble in restoration, occasionally I’m involved in a project that really can make a...
View ArticleBeing empathetic for better interdisciplinarity
(originally published on the GE.blog) Scientists appear to have mixed feelings when it comes to interdisciplinarity in science — the reaction spans from genuine enthusiasm right through to pure...
View ArticleIncreasing human population density drives environmental degradation in Africa
Almost a decade ago, I (co-) wrote a paper examining the socio-economic correlates of gross, national-scale indices of environmental performance among the world’s nations. It turned out to be rather...
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