Wilkins back in Portuguese 14 Aug 2008 Thanks to the editor of Trends in Ecology and Evolution, and the permissions department of Elsevier, my scientific blogging article is up again in Portuguese. At no cost! Thanks folks. João Carlos at Chi vó, non pó, translated it and hosts it. And it’s all legal and above board. Administrative
Administrative Competition prizes found at last! 11 Sep 2012 Last November (November!) I ran a competition for some spare copies of Species: A history, but then I moved, and my prize copies ended up in storage. I was living in a one room granny flat, as we call them in Australia, and had no access to the boxen in which… Read More
Administrative A new comment policy? 6 May 2011 From Barry Ritholz’s blog Please use the comments to demonstrate your own ignorance, unfamiliarity with empirical data, ability to repeat discredited memes, and lack of respect for scientific knowledge. Also, be sure to create straw men and argue against things I have neither said nor even implied. Any irrelevancies you… Read More
Administrative I am an idiot 13 Jul 2010 I decided not to continue being the manager of a technical computing graphics department when I realised that my staff knew more than I did. I hadn’t realised until a few minutes ago that I now must relinquish the title of “geek”. There’s nothing wrong with my offline editor. I… Read More