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Invasions, beauty, and ecosystem services: a conundrum | Scientist Sees Squirrel
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Seldom original. Often wrong. Occasionally interesting. The Scientist’s Guide to Writing. Invasions, beauty, and ecosystem services: a conundrum. Photo: Lupines below Öræfajökull, Iceland (S. Heard). In Iceland, in July, the landscape in many places is carpeted in blue. The fields of lupines. Conservation, and I think a deep philosophical one. That problem: why should we conserve natural ecosystems in the first place? But I’ve never come across a logically consistent argument that should work. So if lupi...
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Are reviewers crazy? Or are they saints? | Scientist Sees Squirrel
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Seldom original. Often wrong. Occasionally interesting. The Scientist’s Guide to Writing. Or are they saints? Image: Jason McDermott, with permission. Or are they saints? Both, of course, and neither; but I’ll try to do better than that. And sometimes they are. Sometimes they’re. Crazy (for instance when they suggest a paper needs some male coauthors. And bring the internet down in flames around PLoS One’s writhingly apologetic leadership)*. The Mad Scientist’s Confectioner’s Club, Jason McDermott].