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Jeremy Fox

Canada, Mexico, United Kingdom
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Writer, journalist, classical guitarist, UK/Cda/Latinoamérica, Books: Chocolate Man(1995), Cauldron (2009) Conquest (2021), En Busca del Padre A. Roig (2023)
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Even microcosm experiments can be difficult to replicate

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By Jeremy Fox
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There’s a lot of discussion right now in ecology about replicability/reproducibility (call it what you will). See for instance this recent (and awesome!) interview with Kate Laskowski. One question is whether, or to what extent, we should expect ecological field studies to replicate, since the results of many ecological field studies are sensitive to all sorts of uncontrollable ecological factors (the weather, the genotypes of the organisms involved, etc. etc.).
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A striking retraction from Ecology Letters

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By Jeremy Fox
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Tao et al. 2024, on microbially-mediated interactions between native and non-native plants, has just been retracted by Ecology Letters. And…wow. I’ve never seen a retraction notice like this in ecology. According to the notice, an EcoLetts editor identified “unusual repetitive patterns” in the underlying data, “identified using common statistical analysis tools,” that were unlikely to have occurred by chance in “a typical data collection effort”.
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I’m much less sure about where to submit my papers than I used to be

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By Jeremy Fox
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Way back in 2013, I wrote advice on how to decide which journal to submit to. Now I want someone else to give me advice on that! It used to be that I was always quite sure about where to submit my papers. These days, I’m often quite unsure. Ok, there are still some things I’m sure about. I still prefer scientific society journals like Ecology and Oikos, though my preference isn’t so strong that I would never consider submitting elsewhere (as I have done in the past).
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