Biodiversity wars

No, not the methodological stuff. That's boring (which is why I have a grant application out right now on that topic).

This. A roundup and prospectus on what the degradation of biodiversity is leading us to.

Also, see the interview with Peter Raven, here.

More like this

Interested in archaeological stratigraphy? In 3D fieldwork methodology? Then come to Jönköping in southern Sweden for the VIIIth Nordic Stratigraphy Conference, 25-26 February 2011.
I take it that the enterprise of SEED and scienceblogs, in its framing as a public conversation about science, is to argue about science. So, below, a quote from Isaiah Berlin.
I'm always interested in the present and future of libraries. There's a steady stream of reports from various organizations that are broadly relevant to the (mostly academic) library biz but they can be tough to keep track of. I thought I'd aggregate some of those here.

OK, so we can either go for boring or depressing. Any change of a Basic Concepts post on Fisher's alpha?

Bob