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for example, if you become a statistician you will be perpetually asking people “what is your research question” regardless of which area of stats you work in

submitted 17 hours ago • 2 comments

How much water did the data center use that could have been used to fight the actual fire instead of to make stuff up about it?

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For the longest time I was trying to figure out how to take advantage of the multiple desktops on my laptop until it hit me, one for each area. So one Desktop with all the things I am working on for my teaching and the other one for my research and another one for other projects 💡 💡 💡 💡 💡

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"This was an experiment by a kindergarten class. They dropped seeds in the cracks of the sidewalk to see what would happen. This would help our bees " via I Love Bees

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So sad: cutting off the horns of rhinos appears to be the only conservation measure that reduces rhino poaching | Science doi.org/10.1126/scie... #megafauna

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🦉Rat poisons are killing Aussie birds — 281 experts unite to say enough is enough. These deadly second-generation poisons are harming our birds, wildlife and pets. A federal review is underway, with a decision expected very soon. Visit: actforbirds.org/ratpoison to have your say!

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🚨 Big milestone for Rdatasets 🚨 The web archive now hosts 3400+ free and documented CSV datasets. Fantastic for teaching and testing! And {Rdatasets} is a new #RStats 📦 for easy download and search Web archive: vincentarelbundock.github.io/Rdatasets R 📦: vincentarelbundock.github.io/Rdatasetspkg

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments

I am so important in the scientific community and my Spam folder reminds me of this every single day.

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Should Ecology be more proactive & vocal on one of the key issues of our times? What systemic & institutional changes are needed for the ecological community to be at the forefront of the response? If these are questions that speak to you, this new paper may be of interest lnkd.in/eXfXG4xM

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New on European conservation science: Free-ranging domestic cats occur deep in the forests, with >10% occupancy even 1 km from homes. Their presence near edges suggests persistent risks to biodiversity well beyond suburbs. Nyheim et al. in Conservation Science and Practice doi.org/10.1111/csp2...

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If your frequentist analysis gives the same result as a Bayesian analysis, that means nothing for either paradigm. No frequentist is bothered that Bayes "works" - they use Bayesian calculations all the time. No Bayesian is bothered that a freq estimator agrees - it's interpretation that is doubted.

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Turns out birds are facilitating a tick superhighway between north and south america?? Thanks to @cenemes.bsky.social and @emlbcohen.bsky.social for this one pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26431964/

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

OMG this is so useful! Open software for the win.

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📢New paper 📢 MS student Clara Dawson's 1st chapter is out! Does increased habitat connectivity always increase wildlife-vehicle collision rates? No! We found nonlinear effects of connectivity on wildlife-vehicle collisions Free access: rdcu.be/emUU3

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

Amazing to see @mongabay.com covering our Red List assessment of Afro-Asiatic #wildcat. One of the most widely distributed but barely studied felids worldwide!

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Just published in JOSS: 'modelbased: An R package to make the most out of your statistical models through marginal means, marginal effects, and model predictions' https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.07969

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

Some of my collabs from last year are being reignited and I am so happy about it. I feel so inspired and motivated to work on these manuscripts again!! Side projects here they come!

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The Last of Us may be over for now, but fungus pandemic news endures. Here's my story on how white-nose disease, which has battered North American bats, may have more devastation in store. 🧪 Gift link: nyti.ms/4mGRyV8

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

I always said I would never have a Macbook because I’ve always been a Windows girlie and yet here I am enjoying this Macbook so much I don’t want to look back. Although in Windows defense, I have Parallels Desktops so I have both systems installed so I can switch if I have to…

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The rarest of hyenas is also the floofiest. The brown hyena (Parahyaena brunnea) is called "Strandwolf" in Afrikaans, which translates to "beach wolf", a reference to their tendency to scavenge along the Namibian coast. There are a 5,000-10,000 brown hyenas in the wild. (📷:Nico Smit, EcoView)

submitted 12 days ago • 4 comments

While R is far from “dead” I do think we in the #rstats community need to consider this chart from @jscarto. R has seen remarkable growth over the past decade, but has declined since 2022. Why is this the case? Three notable things happened in 2022:

submitted 15 days ago • 22 comments

Review submitted. The first one of 2025. This one was easy!

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According to new research, the proliferation of artificial feeders has allowed Anna's hummingbirds to expand their range out of Southern California up to the state’s northern end. The researchers also found that their beaks got longer and larger, a likely adaptation to slurp up more nectar.

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I beg you please stop calling p-hacking exploratory analysis. Call it data dredging, fishing expedition, cherry picking, significance chasing. Labeling your non-pre-reg'd analyses clearly as exploratory isn't a license to p-hack. Stop bastardizing scientific exploration and stop hiding behind it.

submitted 17 days ago • 2 comments

16 species of wader/shorebird are in worse trouble than we thought. There's a list at the end of this blog about recently red-listed Broad-billed Sandpipers: wadertales.wordpress.com/2024/12/08/b... #ornithology BB s/p papers by @bksandercock.bsky.social & Skitts Rae

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New #fisher research in BC reveals there is a distinct population—morphologically, ecologically, & evolutionarily. Does this mean the long-suspected subspecies is finally confirmed? New research from @richweir.bsky.social and the Martes Working Group asked this important question. 🌎🧪🦊 A 🧵

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

Over one billion (with a B) birds die from collisions with sheet glass each year in the U.S. alone, sometimes immediately but often from their injuries. An ecologist shares some simple steps you can take to reduce collisions: buff.ly/d1Oe7fL #Ornithology 🐦

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New paper coins the "Gollum effect" in reference to systemic territoriality in academia, behaviour that is anthitetical to scientific collaboration, resource sharing, and open knowledge exchange. Check out the stats! Most respondents from #ecoevo www.cell.com/one-earth/fu...

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I know a lot of folks are currently looking for jobs, so this is a timely new position w/@ucanr.bsky.social & UCSD! General role is environment-focused data science, but specific topical focus could be anything from sustainable ag to wildfire risk. More details: recruit.ucanr.edu/JP...

submitted 19 days ago • 1 comment

More evidence for rapid evolutionary change induced by human activities. Feeders and exotic Eucalyptus associated with more Anna's hummers, but only feeders appear to have led to a change in beak morphology. These hummers now overwinter in southwestern BC, Canada!

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We’re just going to drive this car right off the cliff aren’t we

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New OA paper out this week!🚨This one is particularly meaningful for me as it is the final part of my dissertation to be published, and it is the project I set out to do when I started my PhD – Did African Jewelfish alter the Everglades aquatic food web? 1/n 🧪🐟🌎🧵 doi.org/10.1002/ecs2...

submitted 24 days ago • 2 comments

Update for #quarto users producing PDF with LaTeX Since Quarto 1.8.10, the default PDF engine is now LuaLaTeX instead of XeLaTeX. This follows the recommendation in LaTeX NEWS issue 40, Nov. 2024, from the “LATEX Tagged PDF” project. Please, try it out. We don't expect much impact, though.

submitted 19 days ago • 1 comment

I would like to create a college level course where we write an article on any topic related to Ecology (no data collection unless it’s data already collected). We spend the entire semester writing up the idea and we discuss other areas like what to expect from reviews, how to reply to revs etc 1/n

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🚨 Paper Alert 🚨 Second PhD paper is out in Movement Ecology! Exploring the behavioral responses of female #brownbears 🐻 to adult males! Females accompanied by dependent offspring, irrespective of age, perceive adult males as risk and use spatiotemporal avoidance tactics! #phd Here: rdcu.be/emKnG

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New online! Drivers and impacts of global seed disperser decline

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Regular glitter is terrible for the environment (and everything in life; it's like the devil's dandruff), but... @inccymru.bsky.social have fed water voles biodegradable glitter to mark their poops and track their territories and movement. Nice conservation hack. 🧪🌏💩✨ www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

Okapi, Cape vulture and brush-tailed bettong

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I am trying to access data in iNaturalist using RStudio. I tried using the rinat package but was unsuccessful. Anyone has a script or a way for me to access the data via the API? 🌎 #RStudio #RStats

submitted 23 days ago • 2 comments

Mammals on the Margins: Identifying the Drivers and Limitations of Range Expansion 🔗 buff.ly/Dhmwwng @rolandkays.com

submitted 23 days ago • 1 comment

I have a busy weekend ahead of me between grading, reacquainting myself with a manuscript, and a review I will be glued to my laptop. Also, I had to check the spelling of the word “reacquainting” LOL At least I hope I am using it well here.

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

I just read a paper that documented ONE detection of a large carnivore in an area. And they made an entire paper around that one single observation. Call me crazy but… one? one single observation?

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New paper! We developed HawkEars, a CNN training framework and classifier for a regional community of acoustic animals - 328 bird species and 13 amphibian species in Canada. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #bioacoustics 1/n

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