Archive for 2012

Another reason not to read Willpower

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I’ve criticized Baumeister and Tierney’s Willpower for it’s lack of substance. It’s also pretty sexist. Sir Henry Morton Stanley is introduced as a paragon of self-control with these lines: If self-control is partly a hereditary trait – which seems likely – then Stanley began life with the genetic odds against him. He was born in […]

Time management in grad school

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The next ESA interview I’ll post is with Colin Kremer, one of my favorite people on the planet. We talked all about why he’s an ecologist and some of the cool stuff he works on, but also spent some time catching up and talking about grad school. In the short snippet below, he turns the […]

Some exciting talks on evolutionary rescue

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Last summer, the Société Française d’Ecologie held a conference on evolutionary rescue – that is, can populations evolve themselves out of an environmental pickle? Some of the talks are here and they’re awesome. I’m supposed to be working on my ESA abstract, drafting my thesis proposal, and reading the first two chapters of an evolutionary […]