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I completely re-worked my course "Introduction to Bayesian statistics with brms" and taught it for the 1st time this week. It is meant as a tutorial for ecologists, but should be general enough for other sciences as well github.com/benjamin-ros... #stats #Rstats #brms #Stan #Bayesian

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There have been a bonanza of forestry and biodiversity papers out this week; here's what I've been reading from @oisinmacaodha.bsky.social on biodiversity and AI, @emilyrlines.bsky.social on tree species identification and @cst.cam.ac.uk on a tree hugging phone app anil.recoil.org/notes/forest... 🌏

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Landmark international agreements are only worth anything if the signatories actually follow through with their pledges “More than half are either pledging to protect less than 30% of their territory or are not setting a numerical target” www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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go.bsky.app/NiaWN5i I'm happy to receive suggestions for this.

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Bonus panel and hovertext here: smbc-comics.com/comic/murderer

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Excellent from @adamtooze.bsky.social on Germany’s railways and European defence. adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-...

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January GISTEMP data is in and we set another monthly record - and tied for the third highest temperature anomaly of any month (since 1880). svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5190

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In today's Odd Lots Newsletter, i wrote about Walter Ong Thought, and how as we return to Orality, we're completely re-wiring the logic engine of the human brain. Get the newsletter here: www.bloomberg.com/account/news...

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Your map’s legend can be turned into a histogram, helping your audience understand the distribution in addition to decoding the colours.

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Tree-killing beetle found to be attracted to Britain’s most common spruce

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Don't forget to apply to this summer school on model-based multivariate analysis for ecologists! If you have any doubts about applying, or questions, I'm happy to have a chat.

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Today in BAD DATA VISUALIZATION Bar graphs exist for a reason. Use them.

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Incoming Asteroid xkcd.com/3049

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I was just told that I have to remove “climate” from the title of an ongoing grant if I want to keep it. And publications from that grant cannot include “climate” and other forbidden words. I can’t believe I’m writing this from the United States of America. #AcademicSky

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Research which has the greatest impact in actually getting threatened species protected is mostly published in niche journals, which have low impact factors, which is bad for your career. This is a problem… www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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This part?? This is why sometimes research doesn’t make immediate sense to people looking at a list of projects but can still lead to important discoveries

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Dubbeldäckarna på tågsträckan Linköping-Stockholm-Uppsala-Gävle blir bekvämare – och snart kan cykeln följa med.

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My annual decarbonization presentation is here. 200 slides, covering everything from water levels in Lake Gatún to sulfur dioxide emissions to ESG fund flows to Chinese auto exports to artificial intelligence. www.nathanielbullard.com/presentations

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Now accepting applicants for 25-26 intake of our #StatisticalEcology MSc: bit.ly/3ooHNyc. A unique opportunity to develop skills at the interface of #statistics and #ecology (some partial scholarships available too). Please help me share!

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"a bustling online underground economy for all things scholarly publishing. Authorship, citations, even academic journal editors, are up for sale...the study of noncoding RNA in cancer [is] like swimming in garbage" theconversation.com/fake-papers-...

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Is sublinear growth the skeleton key to all of ecology? Or even all of biology? Interview with Ian Hatton. dynamicecology.wordpress.com/2025/01/20/i...

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Västtrafik följer nu Stockholm och förbjuder fossil reklam i kollektivtrafiken. Och förbudet är omfattande, även charterreklam där resmålet endast kan nås med flyg omfattas.

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"A study of federally funded research projects in the United States estimated that principal investigators spend on average about 45% of their time on administrative activities related to applying for and managing projects rather than conducting active research" www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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Researcher: "We let the data speak for itself." Earlier that day:

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One of my new fave communities on Reddit is called "Ask Old People". Interesting to get perspectives on what life was like in the past. Many of you will be shocked to hear that to be classed as an "old person" who can reply, you need to be born on or before 1980 😄 www.reddit.com/r/AskOldPeop...

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I see a lot of hostility to AI here, mostly from creatives focused on “it’s fake and it sucks”. A lot of critics close to the AI industry focus on “it’s real and dangerous”. Good post here asking which it is (if either!) www.platformer.news/ai-skeptics-...

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Happy Winter Solstice! These photos were taken with a pinhole camera I made from a beer can and left out from Summer to Winter Solstice - a 6 month exposure. Bottom line = Winter Solstice. Top line = Summer Solstice. The lines are the Sun moving across the sky w/some reflections. No line = clouds

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Cat memes of a hundred years ago, and postcards as social media www.bbc.com/future/artic...

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Could journals please stop calling it an 'invitation to review'. Invitations are meant for pleasant things like parties or weddings, not to carry out work for free so that someone else can make lots of money.

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This is a very random and fascinating list of 52 things Tom Whitwell learned during 2024. Worth a read! medium.com/@tomwhitwell...

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hello I decided to be more annoying than usual www.theverge.com/2024/12/5/24...

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#AdventOfCode starts on Sunday! Some advice: "Decide what you’d like to get out of this, and be prepared to ditch it any time it’s not feeling fun or interesting any more. You can learn a lot from doing any amount of this, and it’s not meant to be a slog." neil-vass.com/some-things-...

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Fascinating article about what happens to nature when humans abandon land, why people leave, and how it can be both good and bad for biodiversity www.theguardian.com/news/2024/no...

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Trolley problems in scientific writing - if you can't please every reader, how do you make writing choices weighing one reader against another? scientistseessquirre...

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