Please find below the latest newsletter from the International Network of Next-Generation Ecologists, the network that connects early-career ecologists across ecological societies and organizations while raising awareness of important topics for the future of ecology.
Peter Søgaard Jørgensen on behalf of INNGE INNGE Newsletter I(II) — July 2012**** Is this email not displaying correctly? 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They have built a nice looking new web site, and propose rethinking the way journal articles are submitted, reviewed, and published. To find out more, we sent them a series of questions about the new service.**** A survey on mathematical training for ecologists<http://innge.us5.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=49aadaf1b6aa68de62c4a932c&id=6ea4ba9932&e=159d8e1018> Ecology today relies largely on statistical and theoretical modeling. Modeling is now on every ecologist’s doorstep, and that makes good training all the more important**** Interview with Peerage of Science<http://innge.us5.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=49aadaf1b6aa68de62c4a932c&id=9bc9e1d4c7&e=159d8e1018> Peerage of Science (PoS<http://innge.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=49aadaf1b6aa68de62c4a932c&id=aeaf17be0b&e=159d8e1018>) is a new venture in peer review for research papers. What is PoS about? What do they do? We caught up with PoS the other day and asked them a couple questions.**** More to open science than just open data<http://innge.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=49aadaf1b6aa68de62c4a932c&id=8fbcb51966&e=159d8e1018> One interesting aspect of the US SOPA<http://innge.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=49aadaf1b6aa68de62c4a932c&id=6b1fce3264&e=159d8e1018>and RWA<http://innge.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=49aadaf1b6aa68de62c4a932c&id=21849899db&e=159d8e1018>bills is how they contrast with the rhetoric of the UK coalition government. **** Legislation in the United States seeks to keep research findings behind paywalls<http://innge.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=49aadaf1b6aa68de62c4a932c&id=cc5c3131c4&e=159d8e1018> Do exorbitant profits need to be protected at the expense of transparent and freely available publicly-funded research?**** Earth Summit Rio+20**** We now know that Rio+20 did not deliver what scientists and many non-governmental organizations had hoped for, a document with a concrete plan to bring on a sustainable trajectory for the coming decades. For reasons including financial crises and general slow progress in implementation of global decision making, expectations for the meeting were low. The final summit document which was agreed on already before the arrival of most state leaders and the upset of the high-level negotiations has been described as 283 paragraphs of fluff including no concrete timelines and goals. On the topic of Green Economy which was seen to be one of foci of the summit the biggest accomplishment is that the World Bank will now start to experiment with measures of sustainable growth as a future complement or substitute for the outdated conventional measures such as GDP. Leading up to the summit major reports on the health of the planet were released one after the other (see below), apparently without making a difference on the already deadlocked negotiations. See how the summit unfolded here<http://innge.us5.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=49aadaf1b6aa68de62c4a932c&id=6e57645b28&e=159d8e1018>and on our Facebook page<http://innge.us5.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=49aadaf1b6aa68de62c4a932c&id=cdec27990a&e=159d8e1018>. *The fact is that there had never been a better time for state leaders to break the “tragedy of commons” trajectory we are heading down on many fronts of natural resource use and environmental degradation. Over the past week the set of future challenges inherited by the next generation of ecologists has certainly not grown smaller.***** Recent sustainability material:**** - Download the final document produced from Rio+20 here<http://innge.us5.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=49aadaf1b6aa68de62c4a932c&id=82d68e07ca&e=159d8e1018>, available in multiple languages**** - International Council for Science’s recommendations<http://innge.us5.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=49aadaf1b6aa68de62c4a932c&id=494dbe7e71&e=159d8e1018>for Rio+20 **** - UNEP Global Environmental Outlook (GEO) 5<http://innge.us5.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=49aadaf1b6aa68de62c4a932c&id=1391592743&e=159d8e1018> **** - Nature Special<http://innge.us5.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=49aadaf1b6aa68de62c4a932c&id=e0a23fb4f3&e=159d8e1018>on Rio+20 **** - WWF Living Planet Report 2012<http://innge.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=49aadaf1b6aa68de62c4a932c&id=6f8cc67209&e=159d8e1018> **** - UN Secretary General’s High-level Panel on Global Sustainability: Resilient People, Resilient Planet<http://innge.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=49aadaf1b6aa68de62c4a932c&id=81bafc4d25&e=159d8e1018> **** - PLoS Biology’s June issue<http://innge.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=49aadaf1b6aa68de62c4a932c&id=6256575354&e=159d8e1018>is sustainability themed **** Blog feature: Next-Generation Point of View**** Good science depends on good peer review<http://innge.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=49aadaf1b6aa68de62c4a932c&id=8968ae9c4f&e=159d8e1018> **** **[image: M_Hochberg]**Does Darwinian evolution apply to scientific ideas? *Michael Hochberg*, founding and former editor in chief of Ecology Letters, argues it does, and the process of peer-review is a strong force of selection, which should result in a better science. However, the “tragedy of the reviewer commons” and “publish or perish effects” are threatening this process of selection.**** Survey on Math in Ecology**** The results are in!**** During the spring of 2012, a team of INNGE members led by Fred Barraquand conducted a survey on the current state of quantitative training in ecology, relying heavily on the existing email list-serves in ecology and evolution. We received 937 answers to the online questionnaire. The majority of respondents were divided evenly between North America and Europe. With more than 40% being PhD students, the great majority of the respondents had studied biology as undergrads. Almost all (95%) use math to do statistics (and half of them, for statistical purposes only). More than one third of respondents use mathematics for theoretical work, and a quarter for various forms of decision making.**** The results highlight a clear lack of quantitative training and understanding: 75% of the respondents do not feel satisfied with their understanding of mathematical models within their field; another 75% feel the level of mathematics was “too low” in their ecology classes (22% “Just right”, and only 2% “Too high”); 90% think more mathematics classes (statistics not included) during the ecological curriculum would be desirable, and this percentage goes up to 95% for statistics classes.**** Respondents were asked what proportion of ecological training should be made up by mathematics, statistics, and programming. There was a remarkably consistent median of 30% across all considered respondent categories, this “ideal perceived need” for quantitative training is far from the current status at most universities. Suggestions to improve quantitative training were dominated by the need to relate statistical and theoretical modeling to concrete ecological problems.**** Overall, the survey indicates that (1) quantitative training (math/stats/programming) in ecology is often inadequate (2) PhDs and postdocs feel a lack of quantitative training (3) improving quantitative training will require not only more quantitative courses, but also courses more centered on the specific needs for ecologists, focusing on ecological questions and data. We are currently analyzing the results in more detail, and a paper is in preparation. Until then, see a preliminary summary of the results here<http://innge.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=49aadaf1b6aa68de62c4a932c&id=264ccc1b68&e=159d8e1018> .**** Towards London in 2013**** INNGE has now attended its first planning meeting for INTECOL 2013<http://innge.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=49aadaf1b6aa68de62c4a932c&id=e646d5b2f3&e=159d8e1018>. We are delighted to announce that our plans to provide training, support and networking opportunities for early-career ecologists at the meeting were met with a very favourable response.**** The plans are still taking firm shape. Already we can announce that the Sunday afternoon before the main conference will consist of skills & training workshops, with a dual stream offered to appeal to as many different types of next-generation ecologists as possible. Within the conference programme itself, INNGE will run 3 sessions in the format of Pecha Kucha<http://innge.us5.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=49aadaf1b6aa68de62c4a932c&id=e997061db7&e=159d8e1018>talks. We invite everyone interested to participate in the shaping of these events via our online communication platforms.**** If you’d like to attend INTECOL 2013 but are unsure of having the necessary funds to get to London, the British Ecological Society is offering 42 Parkyn Bursaries to support students from low income and lower middle income countries to attend the INTECOL Congress, and matching that funding to support a further 106 students from higher income countries. Click here<http://innge.us5.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=49aadaf1b6aa68de62c4a932c&id=db2b28f602&e=159d8e1018>for more details on funding and stay tuned for more news. **** Global Network News**** Since our last newsletter INNGE has established contacts to biological and ecological societies in Austria, Denmark, Italy and Spain. We hope we can keep building the network of nodes that presently includes 16 organizations in 13 countries. See a list of the organizations and contact persons at the end of this newsletter and let us know if your society is not included, but you would like to be.**** Collaboration with BiodiversityKnowledge**** INNGE is actively participating in the open consultation of the BiodiversityKnowledge project, a EU Framework Programme 7 funded project that seeks to create a European network of biodiversity knowledge providers and users. From time to time, we hope to have blog posts at innge.net by early career scientists involved with the project. **** The Ecology World Map (June 2012)**** *[image: World_Map]<http://innge.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=49aadaf1b6aa68de62c4a932c&id=c6566db833&e=159d8e1018> ** Key*: Green – national ecological society, Yellow – multinational ecological society, Stripes – Ecological society with formal early career initiative.**** With this map we try to keep track of the planet’s ecological societies. In this updated version of the world map we have added DIVERSITAS<http://innge.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=49aadaf1b6aa68de62c4a932c&id=72f0148768&e=159d8e1018>Nodes (black borders and triangles) to illustrate the global coverage of the biodiversity science organization. Since last newsletter an ecological society has been re-established in Denmark, with an early-career representative on the board!**** Current INNGE Nodes and Contacts**** INNGE Nodes are an essential part in our effort to build a global community of next-generation ecologists. Each INNGE Node is an organization with either a geographical and/or issue-related focus. The contact to and from each organization is facilitated by the INNGE Node Contact(s).**** *Argentinian Ecological Society (Argentina)***** - Laureano Gherardi <[email protected]> (student section)**** - Laura Yahdjian <[email protected]> (early career and board contact) **** *Austrian Biologists Association (Austria)***** - Stefan Kapeller <[email protected]>**** *British Ecological Society (United Kingdom)***** - Thomas (Tom) Ezard <[email protected]> (INNGE representative on INTECOL 2013 planning committee, Working Group Contact, BES early career representative)**** *Ecological Society of America (USA)***** - Naupaka Zimmerman <[email protected]> (INNGE.net webmaster, Working Group contact, past ESAm Student Section Chair)**** - Jorge Ramos <[email protected]> (Working Group Contact, current ESAm Student Section Chair, current contact to activities in Mexico)**** *Ecological Society of Australia (Australia)***** - R. Andrew Hayes <[email protected]> (Working Group Contact, ESAu early-career contact)**** *French Ecological Society (France)***** - Timothée (Tim) Poisot <[email protected]> (Working Group Contact, current contact to Canadian Society for Ecology and Evolution)** ** - Vincent Bonhomme <[email protected]> (Working Group Contact, co-coordinator of INNGE in India activities)**** *INNGE in India (India)***** - Santonu Goswami <[email protected]>**** *INNGE main contact (global)***** - Peter Søgaard Jørgensen <[email protected]> (Working Group Contact, MAHB contact)**** *INNGE mathematics in ecology coordinator***** - Frederic Barraquand <[email protected]>**** *International Biogeography Society (global)***** - Ana M.C. (Guida) Santos <[email protected]>**** *Italian Ecological Society (Italy)***** - Edoardo Calizza <[email protected]>**** *National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON, USA)***** - Brian Wee <[email protected]> (NEON external affairs officer)**** *New Zealand Ecological Society (New Zealand)***** - Timothy (Tim) Curran <[email protected]>**** - Ellen Cieraad <[email protected]>**** *Norwegian Ecological Society (Norway)***** - Ingeborg Palm Helland <[email protected]>**** *Oikos Denmark (Denmark)***** - Anne Eskildsen <[email protected]>**** *Open Source and Open Access specialist (USA)***** - Scott Chamberlain <[email protected]> (Working Group Contact, FigShare contact, contact to Recology)**** *Raptor Research Foundation (Global)***** - Jessi L. Brown <[email protected]>**** *Swedish Oikos Society (Sweden)***** - Berrit Kiehl <[email protected]>**** *Terrestrial Ecological Society of Spain (Spain)***** - Roberto (Rob) Salguero-Gomez <[email protected]> (Working Group contact)**** - Lucia De Soto <[email protected]>**** [image: MAHB_logo]<http://innge.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=49aadaf1b6aa68de62c4a932c&id=a830acc4cd&e=159d8e1018> **** In the latest MAHB newsletter<http://innge.us5.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=49aadaf1b6aa68de62c4a932c&id=026a7adaf1&e=159d8e1018>you can read a report about “50 must-haves in order to achieve sustainability in 2050” inspired by the World Business Council for Sustainable Development’s<http://innge.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=49aadaf1b6aa68de62c4a932c&id=66fab0664b&e=159d8e1018>Vision 2050. **** [image: figshare_logo]<http://innge.us5.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=49aadaf1b6aa68de62c4a932c&id=1f12f4cf49&e=159d8e1018> **** Our open data partner, FigShare<http://innge.us5.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=49aadaf1b6aa68de62c4a932c&id=31a452d3e3&e=159d8e1018>, “allows researchers to publish all of their research outputs in seconds in an easily citable, sharable and discoverable manner”. They have been making great progress in growing their user base, and have some great upcoming features, including Groups, which allows scientists to interact online around particular topics. 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