Editor's choice: Sampling biases shape our view of the natural world onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ec… #biodiversity #data #global #macroecology

Perks of a bunny buddy during a PhD/pandemic Lower blood pressure A writing buddy Supports healthier eating Fun roommate Cons: Cute little dried poops

Blog post on our recently published paper in Biogeography.News: Are there general principles governing geographical range evolution? journalofbiogeographynews.org/2021/09/01/are…

First PhD paper is out today in Ecology Letters! We modelled seal prey in Hudson Bay through year 2100. If we continue #greenhousegas emissions as usual, there's a regime shift in prey (distribution, body size, biomass). With strong mitigation the effects are minimal.

New Frontiers of Biogeography article out today - Special Issue on Elevational Gradients and Mountain Biodiversity!

lapply() > for loops...

How does regional pool diversity shape unique island communities globally? Find out more about this month's Cover Image article doi.org/10.1111/jbi.14… on the journals blog at journalofbiogeographynews.org/2021/09/04/poo… @hebert_kat

Together with cata sanabria went to the Colombian Amazon forest for monitoring ants in indigenous territories. This is the first set of results using army ants and was just published early view in Revista Caldasia UN

Really awesome and useful paper! Plus it reads very easily!

When birds fly over the ocean, where do they go? Great paper by Nourani et al. in yesterday's Proc B: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.10…

Science Before Statistics: Causal Inference — a 3 hour conceptual crash course in causal inference. Link to slides and code in the video desription. youtube.com/watch?v=KNPYUV…

A machine learning algorithm walked into a bar. reddit.com/r/programmerhu…

Thanks for the feature, IEA! Here's a snippet of me chatting about our recent Nature Communications paper. Want to find out more? Read the full paper here: go.nature.com/3zy9DeY

I love R and have this obsession with doing EVERYTHING with it but sometimes it's easier (and faster...) to use Excel for certain tasks

Great opportunity!!

Periodic reminder that BES Macroecology has a list of databases that we think are useful for macroecology research (e.g. species abundances, environmental data). You can add data here: tinyurl.com/MacroDataSets and view the database here: docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d…

What do plant aboveground traits tell us about fine root traits? New paper @nature led by University of Tartu members Riin Tamme Guille Bueno Dr. Aurèle Toussaint Macroecology UT Plant Ecology UT, Sabrina Träger, Mari Moora, Martin Zobel plus Sandra Diaz and @MunsonAlison nature.com/articles/s4158…

Been off of the bird app for a while but this looks really cool! Can’t wait to read it! Congrat @JacksonAHelms !

Perhaps some of the coolest ants I have seen are these muscle ants (Podomyrma sp.) found by my colleague Kinji. Iron range, Qld 🇦🇺