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"I understand the urge to treat what’s going on as perhaps elevated but still normal government functioning[...] But how much evidence is necessary to recognize that this is a delusion and that preemptive appeasement or ducking &covering while hoping the blows land elsewhere is not going to work?"

submitted 28 days ago • 2 comments

Some mark-recapture analyses that I did on a really cool dataset made it out today! Really appreciative for Jared and the rest of the team who brought me in. It's been a blast to work on this project: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

📢 Evolutionary biologists: This is your chance to meet with US law makers en force to communicate the importance of federal investments in scientific research and education (and optionally to also attend a communications bootcamp). Grants are available for folks from any career stage! #Evolution 🧪

submitted 34 days ago • 2 comments

hit me up if you know anyone hiring a postdoc in marine #EvolBio #PopGen, especially if the job is remote or on the west coast!!! 🌊🐟🐚🧬

submitted 34 days ago • 1 comment

Incorporating Sex-Diverse and Gender-Inclusive Perspectives in Higher Education Biology Courses. Really glad to finally see this in print. And proud to have played a small role in writing it. #sex #gender #STEMeducation @sicbjournals.bsky.social #SICB2025 academic.oup.com/icb/article-...

submitted 35 days ago • 10 comments

Teaching #MathematicalMethodsInPopulationBiology again. This course covers basic methods for deterministic & stochastic dynamical models in population biology. In this thread, I'll highlight topics from all twenty 90-min lectures. Redoing this thread as I didn't complete it in 2024

submitted 35 days ago • 3 comments

Sooooo if this whole "biological sex" EO is really happening, biologists are going to make as much noise about it as possible, right? Professional societies, universities, individual research groups? It's really incumbent on us (that's a "biologists us" here) to make a BIG FUCKING STINK

submitted 38 days ago • 30 comments

Delighted to see the final version of my paper for @asn-amnat.bsky.social appear online. In it, I analyze stochastic matrix models to partition the effects of spatial and temporal variation in demography and dispersal on metapopulation growth rates www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/... 1/n

submitted 39 days ago • 4 comments

In the 1970s Robert May published several great overview papers on periodic and chaotic population dynamics using difference equation models. The results don't age, but that was long ago. Any articles, books you'd recommend as subsequent updates in a similar vein, difficulty? #evobio #hpbio #complex

submitted 41 days ago • 2 comments

1/ Important read for anyone using, contributing, or building large databases by aggregating data sources. Discusses issues with data quality, duplication, credit attribution, etc, and includes recommendations for improvement doi.org/10.1111/gcb.... #ecopubs

submitted 90 days ago • 4 comments

In my latest paper (with M. Hooten and V. Narasimhan), we developed a dyadic model that accounts for the flow of biological processes in space-time. We applied our method to ancient human DNA data to study human movement in Bronze Age Europe. (1/5) academic.oup.com/biometrics/a...

submitted 45 days ago • 1 comment

🥁 Announcing the Public Domain Image Archive! 🥁 We are v excited to share our new sister-project, the Public Domain Image Archive (PDIA), a curated collection of 10k+ out-of-copyright historical images, all free to explore and reuse: pdimagearchive.org @pdimagearchive

submitted 50 days ago • 578 comments

Happy to announce I will be guest editing a special issue highlight PUI research! Please share axial.acs.org/cross-discip...

submitted 47 days ago • 6 comments

I really like their first point in the Moving Forward section about figuring out an appropriate allocation of resources to fieldwork training relative to other skills. The integration of field work experience with developing skills in theory and modeling seems really important (IMO).

submitted 47 days ago • 1 comment

How can we model the emergent complexity of microbial ecosystems? How do you do the maths & predict their dynamics, from the gut & the soil to the biosphere? Here's a great review paper in @natureecoevo.bsky.social. @vmaull.bsky.social @saramitri.bsky.social nature.com/articles/s41...

submitted 48 days ago • 1 comment

Re-reading Grubb's 1977 classic The maintenance of species‐richness in plant communities: the importance of the regeneration niche A paper overflowing with ideas, most of which remain highly relevant to this day; really one of my favorites biomar.fciencias.unam.mx/Sobretiros/S...

submitted 50 days ago • 2 comments

Do you want to study roots? We released RhizoVision Explorer 3 years ago and now have 12,500+ downloads. RVE is free, open-source software for analyzing root images. The website covers common reproducible imaging approaches. Feel free to ask any questions! Version 2 coming! www.rhizovision.com

submitted 52 days ago • 1 comment

I’ll be teaching the computer lab for pop ecol at UO for the last time this year. I’m working on cleaning up the materials that I developed to make publicly available… but in the meantime, here’s this year’s #MathRock playlist that I put on while students code: open.spotify.com/playlist/1Xc...

submitted 59 days ago • 0 comments

Started a Theoretical Ecology starter pack. For from complete. Respond if you want to be added or removed. go.bsky.app/PwpvZLb

submitted 63 days ago • 35 comments

Stats consulting is constantly like: Them: I want you to run (complex stats) Me: OK, what's your research question though? Them: ...A (complex stat)? Me: Research question? Them: You know, like the stats in this journal article. Something reviewers will like.

submitted 435 days ago • 18 comments

If you happen to be interested in the coexistence of diploids and tetraploids given modern coexistence theory and stochastic population dynamics - Check out our #JustAccepted paper at @asn-amnat.bsky.social doi.org/10.1086/734411

submitted 71 days ago • 0 comments

Climate Change and the Emergence of No-Analog Forest Assemblages in North America Gougherty et al onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @globalchangebio.bsky.social

submitted 79 days ago • 1 comment

Interested in exploring the successes & challenges of evidence-based #conservation, & defining visions for the future of the field? 💭 🌎 🧪 Proposals for our new cross-journal special feature are now open! 📑 Find out more here: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/evidence-bas...

submitted 83 days ago • 0 comments

I'm looking for postbac opportunities in ecology/wildlife for someone looking to improve their research experience for grad school applications. If there are good compilations I'd love to be pointed to them, but also interested in individual programs if folks are aware of them. Thanks! 🌎

submitted 83 days ago • 2 comments

Are you interested in species interactions and how we model them? Then this thread is for you! Our new paper in Ecology on the role of abundance in species interactions provides new statistical tools for modelling species interactions. shorturl.at/Sqz9m 🧵(1/13)🧵

submitted 84 days ago • 2 comments

Fascinating results on #plant-soil feedback in a changing world: „…any disruption of the established plant-soil-climate interactions may lead to the release of plants from negative PSF, potentially destabilizing plant communities.“ Inspiring research!

submitted 88 days ago • 0 comments

Social Epistemologists: I was trying to populate a starter pack for us manually but got lazy and thought it would be much more fun to turn this into a game! Post a link to your favourite paper you wrote on the topic below with a post-length abstract and I’ll add you to it! #PhilSky #SocEpis

submitted 92 days ago • 35 comments

One issue this model deals with is selection bias that leads to overestimating eDNA concentrations

submitted 93 days ago • 1 comment

I hope this starter pack helps bring our community together on this platform. If you identify as an ECR, work in community ecology, and would like to be added, please reply! 🌱 It's currently too land-centric, but I'd love to see folks from marine and freshwater systems join! 🌊 go.bsky.app/5XJXVyX

submitted 100 days ago • 46 comments

Gallien et al. investigate intransitive loops that frequent in competition networks, and find that their positive effects on species coexistence often collapse when other biotic interactions are considered. Read now ahead of print! www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

submitted 274 days ago • 0 comments

I recently read a paper by Kleshnina and others and used it to teach myself some evolutionary game theory techniques. This is a little obscure, so I'll thread below about why this topic matters for humans and the environment 🧵 nadiah.org/2024/11/20/k...

submitted 98 days ago • 2 comments

Still trying to share what I’m all about with new friends on here! Here’s the 4th installment of what I do (did? not closing any doors): I got my start in ecology through con bio and invasion biology. Here’s a paper that came out of that work: esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

submitted 97 days ago • 1 comment

I've got 5-6 months money for a Postdoc ecological modeller, linking mathematical (translated via statistical) models to insect lab popn. time-series data; starts Jan 2025. Must be UK-based (not cost/time effective for applicants to get such a short-term visa 😔). Please contact me if interested! 🌍🧪

submitted 99 days ago • 0 comments

If you are interested in #rstats, hierarchical modeling in ecology, and in particular occupancy models, then check out my blog! The one post that gets the most traffic is this one here on how to combine presence-only and detection/non-detection data. 🧪 masonfidino.com/bayesian_int...

submitted 100 days ago • 2 comments

Bluesky tip for newbies: Bluesky has no real algorithm. Likes here do nothing but show the poster that you enjoyed their content. That kindness is always going to be appreciated by creators, but if you want to help to boost something here, you have to repost it so others see it. 🙂

submitted 101 days ago • 21 comments

Theorist bridge trolls barking at you to formally connect theory to data? Wondering how, without troll magic? We can help! "Bridging theory and data: A computational workflow for cultural evolution" With @dominikdeffner.bsky.social @natyfedorova.bsky.social Jeff Andrews. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

submitted 100 days ago • 6 comments

Assembling my community on these 💙 skies! If you're into community ecology, check out my @newphyt.bsky.social paper with Oscar Godoy and Eric Allan. 🌱 We explored how nitrogen enrichment and foliar fungal pathogens drive plant multispecies coexistence: nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

submitted 102 days ago • 1 comment

Quick bit of procrastination to make a cute lil' bifurcation diagram of a Ricker model in R. Colors represent different strengths of density-dependence.

submitted 101 days ago • 1 comment

Hey all, please RT this new starter pack for locating our fellow ecological modellers on Blue Sky! And please reply to this post if you'd like to be added to the starter pack! go.bsky.app/EfUQaM2

submitted 106 days ago • 108 comments

What I do #3 [non-work edition]: I’m an amateur drummer! When I’m not modeling ecological processes, I drum to a variety of genres like prog rock, punk, and gay pop music. Sometimes I record myself on my electric set (video attached). Drumming really helps blow off steam from the academic grind.

submitted 102 days ago • 1 comment

To other stats folks: When you’re studying uncertainty propagation, d’you ever get filled with ✨ existential dread ✨ surrounding the epistemological limitations of modeling complex systems? (Only kinda joking)

submitted 103 days ago • 0 comments