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What happened after Goldilocks ran out of the three bears' house? How did Cinderella's marriage hold up? Why did those elves help out that shoemaker in the first place? This podcast shoves classic children's stories through the meat grinder to give you original short stories that you probably won't want to tell to your kids. Welcome to Ridiculous Revisions, bedtime stories for the disturbed!
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Minor Revisions is a podcast that demystifies the process of writing for academic journals. It is produced by the editors of Politics & Space, an international journal of critical, interdisciplinary research into the political and the spatial. Each episode features authors who tell the ‘behind the curtain’ story of how they developed their article and succeeded in the review process.
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This podcast will discuss about the revisions made to the research that was concluded about how quickly the natural resources depleted from Easter Island.
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Episode 4: Gabriel Silvestre and Guillermo Jajamovich, 'The afterlives of urban megaprojects.'
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In this episode, Gabriel Silvestre, a lecturer in urban planning at Newcastle University in England, and Guillermo Jajamovich, an Adjunct Researcher at the University of Buenos Aires in Argentina, tell the inside story of researching, writing, and publishing their article, “The afterlives of urban megaprojects: Grounding policy models and recircula…
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MR076: Hot takes!
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Jon and Jeff explore the utility of the "hot take." Should or can scientists be more provocative in how they frame their science or how they interact with the public? What are the advantages? Disadvantages? Who can even do this--hint, hint it's clearly a privilege issue.Major Revisions
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Jon and Jeff are joined by Drs. Cristy Portales and Lauren Hallett to talk about the nebulous concept of the "early career" scientist. When does "early career" start? When does it end? We discuss whether it is purely a concept based on time since degree, achievement of certain milestones, or just how one defines themselves.…
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Jon, Jeff, and guest co-host Tess Grainger talk about bridging the gap between ecological theorists and empiricists. Where are the challenges? What are the ways forward? What do we gain? Paper for discussion: Grainger et al. 2022 (https://tessgrainger.files.wordpress.com/2022/01/grainger-et-al.-2022-amnat.pdf) .…
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Jon and Jeff address the absurdity of reviewing two articles a day, Jeff offers up a revolutionary idea for review papers, and both address whether they would or would not change any of the advice they have given out on the podcast over the years.Major Revisions
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Jon and Jeff are back and talking future directions and making plans--with a big announcement and a fair amount of navel-gazingMajor Revisions
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Episode 3: Pavithra Vasudevan and Sara Smith, ‘The domestic geopolitics of racial capitalism.’
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Our third episode features Pavithra Vasudevan and Sara Smith. Pavi is Assistant Professor in the Department of African & African Diaspora Studies and the Center for Women’s & Gender Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. Sara is Professor of Geography at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. They tell the inside story of researchi…
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Jack Spriggins, of Jack and the Beanstalk fame, continues to be rewarded for his limitless greed at the expense of others.Chris Hellkamp
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Fifty years after a gingerbread man mysteriously came to life and died on the same day, an old farmhand is brutally murdered.Chris Hellkamp
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The classic fable The Tortoise and the Hare taught us that "slow and steady wins the race", but is that really the lesson to be learned? Come see how the tortoise's life changed after his famous win against the hare.Chris Hellkamp
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Grace, Jon, and Jeff discuss the potential occurrences and frequency of data fabrication and scientific fraud in ecology. Just how rare is rare? What is scientific fraud? How do we detect it and how do we prevent it?Major Revisions
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Grace, Jon, and Jeff reconvene still during the pandemic and talk about career changes, switching universities, what pandemic-induced changes they hope stick around, and whether giraffes are believable as animals.Major Revisions
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For Rapunzel's hair to get as long as it did, it would have had to grow a lot faster than anyone else's. Maybe she would have even been something of a medical oddity. Maybe the witch thought she was doing Rapunzel a favor by taking her from her parents. Join me as we imagine a completely new version of the Rapunzel story!…
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In this episode, Lisa Freeman, an urban geographer with a doctorate from the University of Toronto who is a researcher at a healthcare union and Nick Blomley, a professor of Geography at Simon Fraser University, tell the inside story of researching, writing, and publishing their article, “Enacting property: Making space for the public in the munici…
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You remember Hansel and Gretel, right? Two children are left to die in the woods by their parents. Ah, those were the days! The children get caught by an evil witch who uses a house made of tasty treats to lure her victims in. One kid gets caged and fattened up for the kill. The other kid is kept around for slave labor until she has an opportunity …
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This episode, we tackle the tale of The Elves and the Shoemaker. In the original tale, a shoemaker falls on hard times, but a group of elves starts showing up in the middle of the night to make his products for him and the business climbs out of the red. Did you ever wonder why the elves helped out the shoemaker in the first place? Well, maybe the …
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No one ever mentions anything of Cinderella after she settled into life at the royal palace. It’s a life that changes a person, and not normally for the better.Chris Hellkamp
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For our first episode, we butcher the tale of Goldilocks and the Three Bears. In the modern story, a little girl called Goldilocks finds a house in the woods. She finds no one at home with the door unlocked, so she just strolls right in and helps herself. She breaks a chair by sitting in it, eats some porridge left out to cool on the table, and fal…
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In our first episode, Luiza Bialasiewicz, a professor of European Governance at the University of Amsterdam, and Sabrina Stallone, a doctoral student at the University of Bern, tell the inside story of researching, writing, and publishing their article, “Focalizing new-Fascism: Right politics and integralisms in contemporary Italy.” Introduction to…
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Welcome to Minor Revisions, a podcast that demystifies the process of writing for academic journals. This short ‘trailer’ describes the purpose of the podcast (to demystify the publishing process through behind the scenes stories told by published authors) and highlights who might be interested in listening to future episodes (many people, we hope!…
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Grace, Jon, and Jeff talk about the beginnings of quarantine and then jump into the murky waters that are applied vs. basic ecology. Is there really a difference? Does it matter?Major Revisions
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Grace, Jon, and Jeff are talking the phosphorous cycle in part one of a multipart radio play about the often forgotten element cycle. The gang also revisit five questions, debate Chacos, and delve into a fascinating hypothetical scenario regarding publishing. What if you could only write a specific number of papers? How would that change the scienc…
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How does one prepare for their first major science conference? We brought along a ton of friends including Drs. Susan Cheng, Ben Bond-Lamberty, Alexey Shiklomanov, and other conference veterans Lisa Haber, Amy Hudson, and Bill Hammond to offer their tips. Jon and Jeff jump in too.Major Revisions
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Grace, Jon, and Jeff talk about the hidden costs of publishing, referencing Josh Schimel's famous blog post on the subject. Where does open access and preprints fit into the current state and future of publishing? How would we alter the publishing landscape? How do you decide where to publish? Also, Jeff gets his license plate stolen.…
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Grace and Jon sit down with Mike Pace from the University of Virginia to talk about data sharing and how the ecological data landscape has changed over the last couple of decades.Major Revisions
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Grace, Jon, and Jeff recount some summer activities and talk about ESA2019, but the main focus of the show is talking about a recent Nature Communications op-ed on statistical vs. mathematical modeling.Major Revisions
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Jeff sits down with professor and ecohydrologist Ryan Emanuel from North Carolina State University to talk about crossovers in ecology and hydrology, introducing students to interdisciplinary work, and his work with American Indian/Indigenous communities. Ryan also gives us a big announcement.Major Revisions
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Grace, Jon, and Jeff are back at it with Classic Ecology V: SE Hobbie's 1992 opus "Effects of plant species on nutrient cycling." The gang also talk about the experiment Jeff is apart of and debate, at length, nitrogen and phosphorous limitation. Hold on to your hat there buckaroo, this one is a doozy.…
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Jon and Jeff do a deep-dive into the PLOS: Computational Biology paper "Ten Simple Rules for Better Figures." This one is kind of nerdy, but at this point, isn't that what y'all want?Major Revisions
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This episode is about the fair trade movement and its importance. This podcast is presented by Ana Reyes 2A.
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MR057: Classic Ecology IV: Power, 1990
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Grace, Jon, and Jeff do a round of Would You Rather? Academic Style and then follow up with a conversation about the quintessential paper Power 1990 "Effects of Fish in River Food Webs" as they jump back into the Classics in Ecology series. Mary Power's work established the importance of understanding river food webs from a trophic perspective, rat…
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MR056: Real Ecosystems, Posters, and Spring Cleaning
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Grace, Jon, and Jeff do some spring cleaning via the latest buzz from Twitter and the blogosphere including way-out-there poster designs, what constitutes a real ecosystem, comparing male-female ratios in publications, and how ecology programs are put together. Grace also details her wine-o-mometer for the changing seasons while Jon doubts the exis…
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