Comments for Roundtable https://roundtable.nceas.ucsb.edu An information-sharing forum for the NCEAS community. Thu, 14 Feb 2013 00:13:56 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.9.5 Comment on Creating a More Inclusive Academic Culture by stacy https://roundtable.nceas.ucsb.edu/2013/01/30/creating-a-more-inclusive-academic-culture/#comment-19 Thu, 14 Feb 2013 00:13:56 +0000 http://roundtable.nceas.ucsb.edu/?p=20295#comment-19 Very related to Steph’s comment above — Ben Adams also suggested Primate Visions by Donna Haraway as a good read on the topic of gendered perspectives in the development of science. In the book, Haraway examines evidence of a male bias in primatology (at least until relatively recently). I haven’t read it, but it looks like an interesting (and provocative) read.

]]> Comment on Creating a More Inclusive Academic Culture by sehampton https://roundtable.nceas.ucsb.edu/2013/01/30/creating-a-more-inclusive-academic-culture/#comment-18 Tue, 12 Feb 2013 00:40:54 +0000 http://roundtable.nceas.ucsb.edu/?p=20295#comment-18 Hey, thanks for putting this together! In the discussion I mentioned a paper that summarized how researchers’ gender alters perspectives and can change the course of questions being pursued in a field – a nice example that has always made me wonder how much our field will change as perspectives diversify even more over time:

Principles of Females’ Perspectives in Avian Behavioral Ecology

Patricia Adair Gowaty

Journal of Avian Biology

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Vol. 28, No. 2 (Jun., 1997), pp. 95-102

http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/3677302

]]> Comment on Creating a More Inclusive Academic Culture by stacy https://roundtable.nceas.ucsb.edu/2013/01/30/creating-a-more-inclusive-academic-culture/#comment-17 Thu, 07 Feb 2013 22:31:15 +0000 http://roundtable.nceas.ucsb.edu/?p=20295#comment-17 Steph also suggested checking out a new paper she wrote with Carly Strasser and Josh Tewksbury on the future for ecology, which has a section on diversity (or lack thereof) in ecology: http://carlystrasser.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/bio.2013.63.2.2.pdf

]]> Comment on Can we infer causality from observational data? by sehampton https://roundtable.nceas.ucsb.edu/2013/01/11/can-we-infer-causality-from-observational-data/#comment-16 Sat, 19 Jan 2013 02:11:15 +0000 http://roundtable.nceas.ucsb.edu/?p=62262#comment-16 Inspired by Kara’s description of plankton science using the upgoer-five text editor – constraining text to the 1,000 most common words in English – I’ve attempted to sum up the discussion:

People who study stuff think they can learn what causes things to
happen, but maybe we can’t ever know if they are right. If you are
looking at one thing, another thing may be happening at the same time,
but you are not looking at it so you don’t know. Maybe something that
you weren’t looking at was really the cause. Maybe humans can’t know
what is real anyway. It’s still important to study stuff. And it is
agreed that a car that could move back through time, to times before
now, would help us to understand what causes things to change.

]]> Comment on Storytelling and communication through environmental media: Blue Horizons films by sehampton https://roundtable.nceas.ucsb.edu/2012/12/20/storytelling-and-communication-through-environmental-media-blue-horizons-films/#comment-15 Fri, 21 Dec 2012 23:04:23 +0000 http://roundtable.nceas.ucsb.edu/?p=48689#comment-15 *Thanks so much for the link to the book Richard mentioned, Stacy! It was a really fun and lively discussion!

]]> Comment on Storytelling and communication through environmental media: Blue Horizons films by stacy https://roundtable.nceas.ucsb.edu/2012/12/20/storytelling-and-communication-through-environmental-media-blue-horizons-films/#comment-14 Fri, 21 Dec 2012 05:47:54 +0000 http://roundtable.nceas.ucsb.edu/?p=48689#comment-14 And just in case you were wondering what happened with the ‘No Otter Zone’: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/21/science/earth/policy-lifts-otter-free-zone-in-california.html?_r=0

]]> Comment on Cooperation in animal groups by dieter.lukas https://roundtable.nceas.ucsb.edu/2012/10/02/cooperation-in-animal-groups/#comment-13 Fri, 05 Oct 2012 17:57:50 +0000 http://roundtable.nceas.ucsb.edu/?p=14027#comment-13 *Stephanie – those rotifers do look beautiful! Having a cute study animal seems to be beneficial, and not just to morale as this Plos One study shows! 

]]> Comment on Cooperation in animal groups by sehampton https://roundtable.nceas.ucsb.edu/2012/10/02/cooperation-in-animal-groups/#comment-12 Thu, 04 Oct 2012 16:25:45 +0000 http://roundtable.nceas.ucsb.edu/?p=14027#comment-12 Wow, love the review you linked here, Dieter – when I was studying this topic, the reviews were never so inclusive across taxa!

]]> Comment on Cooperation in animal groups by sehampton https://roundtable.nceas.ucsb.edu/2012/10/02/cooperation-in-animal-groups/#comment-11 Thu, 04 Oct 2012 14:07:47 +0000 http://roundtable.nceas.ucsb.edu/?p=14027#comment-11 Thanks, Dieter! I almost did my PhD on coloniality and group size (in a very beautiful rotifer). After doing so much research on group living when I wrote that proposal, I now see a lot of social and political issues through that scientific lens as well!

]]> Comment on Cooperation in animal groups by stacy https://roundtable.nceas.ucsb.edu/2012/10/02/cooperation-in-animal-groups/#comment-10 Wed, 03 Oct 2012 21:59:42 +0000 http://roundtable.nceas.ucsb.edu/?p=14027#comment-10 Thanks, Dieter, for posting the links to your papers on this fascinating topic! I look forward to discussing more of your ideas about the generalizability of this research to emergence of cooperation in human animals (e.g., scientists) when we meet next week.

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