Success refers to the fact that the article on the philosophy of complex versus simple models that was submitted to TREE is accepted with just some minor revisions to take care of. This paper has had such a difficult path to publication but is now there - hurrah. Another success in the last week was that Nana Li has passed her first year progression hurdle - in a panel meeting by Skype and so she is on her way. Aris has returned from a break induced by him living on coffee and cigars for two months while trying to compress two years work into those two months. He is back in Crete and back to work again. Liu Yu has made it to his field site in northern China just beating the swallows there apparently. Finally it looks like Greg has a paper’s worth of material on climate change induced changes in forest community structure based on a well studied forest in North Eastern USA. The only downside on all this is that yours truly has had to start work at 4 for several mornings in the last week just to keep up with everything.
