Comments on: Careful what you say in lecture: a tale of tweets, ice-storms in Quebec, and population ecology http://arthropodecology.com/2013/02/14/careful-what-you-say-in-lecture-a-tale-of-tweets-ice-storms-in-quebec-and-population-ecology/ Writings about arthropod ecology, arachnids & academia at McGill University Thu, 10 Sep 2015 00:19:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Chris Buddle http://arthropodecology.com/2013/02/14/careful-what-you-say-in-lecture-a-tale-of-tweets-ice-storms-in-quebec-and-population-ecology/#comment-3828 Mon, 01 Jul 2013 12:34:22 +0000 http://arthropodecology.com/?p=1449#comment-3828 Thanks for the comment – interesting! Yes, I have heard of other measures health linked to things like major power outages, but I didn’t find anything it the primary literature (although, to be truthful, I didn’t do a full and comprehensive literature survey)…. something to investigate for a future blog post!

]]> By: Steven Hamblin (@BehavEcology) http://arthropodecology.com/2013/02/14/careful-what-you-say-in-lecture-a-tale-of-tweets-ice-storms-in-quebec-and-population-ecology/#comment-3823 Sun, 30 Jun 2013 10:25:59 +0000 http://arthropodecology.com/?p=1449#comment-3823 There may not have been a baby boom, but there were effects. Pregnant mothers exposed to the stress of the ice storm may have been stressed in ways that caused developmental fluctuations; this was measured using digit ratios down the road by my M.Sc. advisor (Pete Hurd) along with colleagues at Concordia (I think). He’s had trouble publishing the data, because no one believes it, but he can make a good case for there having *something* that came of it.

]]> By: Adrian D. Thysse http://arthropodecology.com/2013/02/14/careful-what-you-say-in-lecture-a-tale-of-tweets-ice-storms-in-quebec-and-population-ecology/#comment-2772 Thu, 14 Feb 2013 18:18:53 +0000 http://arthropodecology.com/?p=1449#comment-2772 It’s good to be called out when public statements are incorrect, and the earlier the better. Just this week I have had two people point out errors on blog posts, which does not always happen (the pointing out, that is, not the errors…). I really do appreciate being corrected, and I wish people were less hesitant to do so.
Being slightly embarrassed in the morning is better than the humiliation of knowing you’ve been walking around with your fly down all day!

]]> By: geoff http://arthropodecology.com/2013/02/14/careful-what-you-say-in-lecture-a-tale-of-tweets-ice-storms-in-quebec-and-population-ecology/#comment-2771 Thu, 14 Feb 2013 17:21:58 +0000 http://arthropodecology.com/?p=1449#comment-2771 Chris – although you may have eliminated the idea of a mini-boom based on yearly numbers. There are other measures – was there a “baby bump” 9 months after where typical child bearing demographic concentrated to that time of the year (9 months) without affecting annual? Maybe the couples most susceptible to creating pregnancy clumped to that time of the year?

always good to call out urban myths of course!

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