Quantitative & Applied Ecology
Posts from qaecologists- Australia’s species need an independent champion October 17, 2017
- 14th Annual Jane Elith Culinary Competition October 3, 2017
- Open source hardware for conservation October 2, 2017
- Incorporating overhead costs and handling times into invasive species control September 13, 2017
- A visit to Christmas Island September 12, 2017
- Recent QAECO Posts
- Culling animals “ethically” August 21, 2017 qaecology
- Is there truly “no saturation in the accumulation of alien species worldwide”? May 16, 2017 qaecology
- Life in corrupt science: when metrics become targets April 5, 2017 qaecology
- Wanting to learn Species Distribution Modelling? Consider enrolling in our online subject! March 22, 2017 qaecology
- Reading group: An Italian wolf in Switzerland March 22, 2017 qaecology
Tag Archives: metrics
Life in corrupt science: when metrics become targets
‘Publish or perish’. The overused phrase describing career aspects in today’s academia. Whereas day-to-day work is rarely quite as grim, we all learn early on that our performance as scientists is very much measured by the number of publications, citations, … Continue reading
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