Evidence, methods, and practice

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Good questions deserve a paper you can read, question, and keep.

Explore 104 publications across six topics, written under eleven fictional staff bylines. Every entry includes an abstract, the full paper, an illustrated cover, sources, and a downloadable PDF.

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A fictional, non-peer-reviewed demonstration archive. These are teaching syntheses, evidence essays, methods notes, and practice documents. They do not represent original Still North fieldwork, peer-reviewed institute research, or endorsement by the cited organisations. Worked examples are labelled as illustrative. Read the original sources before using a claim.

Find the question that matters to you

Browse all 104 papers, or combine a topic, author, and paper type. Results open in the native archive, with publication dates and links to every full paper. Filters combine, so a specific combination may have no matches.

Browse all 104 papers · Results are presented newest first, 20 per page. Use Older Posts and Newer Posts to move through the complete archive. The final page contains the remaining four papers.

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Evidence essay (42) · Practice essay (21) · Methods note (37) · Evidence review (4)

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Amina Okafor (23) · Eirik Solheim (10) · Elín Bjarnadóttir (13) · Ivalu Petersen (7) · Kaisa Lehtinen (10) · Noor Rahman (8) · Omar Haddad (7) · Priyanka Das (7) · Samuel Adeyemi (6) · Sofia Mendes (7) · Theo Nguyen (6)

Six starting points

One recent paper from each topic. Follow a question into its methods, assumptions, and limits.

Cover of What counts as an independent tundra plot?

Wildlife and ecology · Methods note

What counts as an independent tundra plot?

Large numbers of tundra measurements need not provide large numbers of independent treatment tests.

Priyanka Das · 3 pages · 1,570 words

Cover of After permission changes in a shared dataset

Communities and governance · Practice essay

After permission changes in a shared dataset

Changed permission requires an accountable response even when a shared dataset cannot be recalled perfectly.

Ivalu Petersen · 3 pages · 1,533 words

Read with the evidence in view

Start with the abstract. Each one states the question, the kind of evidence used, and the limit of the conclusion. Page and word counts describe the complete source paper, not a claim about research quality.

Follow the sources. Published NOAA assessments, research articles, governance documents, and other attributed references remain separate from the fictional institute. A citation does not turn an illustrative example into an observation.

Keep the context. These publications are not field-safety instructions, a universal community research protocol, or professional advice. Questions about permission, authority, local conditions, and competence cannot be resolved by downloading a worksheet.

For a shorter teaching session or a reusable worksheet, visit Resources. For the people and roles behind the fictional bylines, meet the team.