Answers: Plant physiology (Naeem), population bio and epidemiology (Dwyer). Both say not so much in community ecology. #ESA2014 #IGN12
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Great comment from the audience: Tools we use drive us towards theory or empirical approaches. Not free intellectual space. #ESA2014 #IGN12
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Dwyer: Sam Scheiner pointed out that< 50% of papers in ESA journals have ANY theory. In the context of ESA, need more. #ESA2014 #IGN12
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Comment from audience: Theorists should ask more questions based on observations of nature. #ESA2014 #IGN12
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Dwyer: We all try to do all three of theory, observation, and experimentation...it's hell #ESA2014 #IGN12
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Naeem: Graduate programs these days are integrating training, but the structure of the field hasn't caught up. #ESA2014 #IGN12
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Fox: Ecologists don't actually all have the same motivations. Some want to be in nature, some love equations. #ESA2014 #IGN12
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Naeem: Let's get rid of theory/observation/experimentation separation. Slows science by a factor of 10. #ESA2014 #IGN12
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Naeem: The people who can work in theory, observation, and experimentation are the ones who are getting jobs. #ESA2014 #IGN12
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Naeem: Progress occurs when the disparate particles of theory/observation/experiment condense into new matter. #ESA2014 #IGN12
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Naeem starting with an history of matter formation in the universe. Not sure where this goes from here. #ESA2014 #IGN12
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Power uses example theory of life-history tradeoffs in parasites to show how data disproves theory assumptions #ESA2014 #IGN12
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Stachowicz quotes May: "Nature represents a small + special part of parameter space", but it's the part we care about #ESA2014 #IGN12
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Stachowicz quotes Einstein: Empiricists doubt their experiments, only theorists believe their models. #ESA2014 #IGN12
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Stachowicz: Ecology is sometimes described as "proving the obvious", but what's obvious is not always right. #ESA2014 #IGN12
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.@CardinaleLab: Why are we still talking about this? We have this argument every few years. #ESA2014 #IGN12
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Cardinale: We have a problem of ignorance and arrogance by "pure" empiricists and theorists #ESA2014 #IGN12
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Cardinale: Theory and empiricism are a continuum. The extremes are useless + wasteful. #ESA2014 #IGN12
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Pascual: General theory has helped us with methods and modeling frameworks/fitting, need to return to finding principles #ESA2014 #IGN12
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Pascual: Theories can be general hypothesis generators, or tools to answer empirical questions ("case study view") #ESA2014 #IGN12
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Fox: I'm an optimist. Think we are getting better at linking models to data....[CUT OFF] #ESA2014 #IGN12
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