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Robots in Hiring Committees
When I sit in a hiring committee, I ask myself: is it even possible to predict who's going to be a good scientist by looking at a CV? It turns out that yes, it is possible.
Clever Apes: Rock-Paper-Scissor
A new episode of WBEZ Clever Apes covers the work of the Allesina lab on rock-paper-scissor, featuring Jason and Anna playing rock-paper-scissor-bull!
F1000 on Allesina PLoS One 2011
Antonio di Franco & Joachim Claudet review the paper on Nepotism for Faculty of 1000
Rock Paper Scissors: the Devil in the Details
A new paper by Jose Rojas-Echenique and Stefano Allesina in Ecology
F1000 on Allesina & Levine
Helene Muller-Landau and Andrew Gonzales review the paper on competition networks for Faculty of 1000.
Rock-Paper-Scissor! New article in PNAS
A new article by Allesina & Levine in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences proposes a new theory of biodiversity.
Great Podcast
Jai Ranganathan launches a podcast on ecology, conservation, evolution and other interesting things!
F1000 on Melian et al.
Ben Bolker evaluates the paper by Melian et al. for Faculty of 1000: "This paper is exciting because it (1) demonstrates an alternative mechanism (frequency-dependent selection) for a fundamental pattern in evolution (deceleration of speciation rate during the course of evolutionary radiation), and (2) fits the model to real data from two well-known radiations."
James McDonnell Foundation: Grant to Allesina Lab
The James S. McDonnell Foundation awards a "Studying Complex Systems" grant to the Allesina Lab.
Neutral theory on a graph
New paper in PLoS Computational biology relates speciation rate and graph theory
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