Allesina λab Theoretical ecology & more

Boot camp video

Vicky, Stephanie and I put together a short video for the STEM for all initiative of NSF. Read more

Instructions for authors

Title The title should be descriptive and less than 99 characters long (excluding occurrences of the letter “i”). It cannot contain punctuation, the article “the”, pronouns, adverbs or adjectives. It should be fairly enigmatic, to appeal to our wide, interdisciplinary readership. Abstract The abstract should be brief and poignant. It must be pa... Read more

Computing skills for biologists

After years in the making, “Computing Skills for Biologists — a Toolbox” is finally out! The book covers many topics, including the Unix shell, programming in Python and R, LaTeX, and relational databases. It shows how these tools can be integrated to build powerful pipelines for the automated, rigorous and reproducible analysis of biological... Read more

Random zoo

When will I be in Lotka? In a new paper, Carlos, José, Jacopo, Kent and I tackle this simple problem: if we take a Lotka-Volterra system with random parameters, and let the dynamics elapse, how big will the final, persistent community be? You can read the paper here: Carlos A. Serván, José A. Capitán, Jacopo Grilli, Kent E. Morrison & St... Read more

Talk at the Italian Institute of Culture

I am going to give a talk at the Italian Institute of Culture in Chicago on Feb 23, 2018 @ 7PM. Rock-Paper-Scissors: what can children’s games teach us about biodiversity? Italian Cultural Institute of Chicago Friday, February 23, 2018 from 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM (CST) 500 N Michigan Ave., Suite 1450, Chicago, IL 60611 If you want to join us, you ... Read more