Grace and Jon sit down with Dr. Michael Pace of the University of Virginia in lovely Ames, Iowa to talk about how the landscape of data and data sharing has changed across ecology in the last few decades. 

Links
Hooray for Ames!
Moo by Jane Smiley
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Music:
Raffi - "The Sharing Song"

Recorded in late August, the gang discuss a recent Nature Communications op-ed on the difference between statistical and mathematical models. How and why do we approach modeling the way that we do? What are the assumptions we make? 

Jeff also remembers college football is a thing while mounting a defense of all things pumpkin.

Links:
​A short comment on statistical versus mathematical modelling

​Music:
Elton John - "The Bitch is Back"
Sports. - "Words That Rhyme With Different, etc."