New book up! solomon.quarto.pub/sr2rstan/ This is the #rstan sibling to my #brms translation of Richard McElreath 🐈‍⬛'s 2nd edition. This 0.0.1 version has drafts of Chapters 1 through 8. 1/5

With other colleagues, we're compiling a list of tips to help beginners get started with Bayesian statistics. This list draws on advice we've gathered over the years from courses and workshops we've conducted for non-statisticians. What do you think? Are we missing anything?

Casual reminder to not interpreting effects as causal, if there are (presumably) causal relationships between predictors. Table 2 fallacy might be lurking around behind these effect sizes. Draw a DAG and handle with care!

An #OpenAccess article inaugurating our 🆕 'Monographs' section: Introducing the Integrative Causal Investigation Paradigm, a multi-evidence approach combining statistical and mechanistic methods to advance causal understanding in ecological systems doi.org/10.1002/ecm.16…

Das ist alles? Ein Konzept für ein Dauerstellen-Programm sollte das BMBF dem Haushaltsausschuss liefern. Ein Jahr hatte das Ministerium Zeit – und kommt jetzt mit vier Seiten voller Buzzwords, einem bereits gescheiterten Vorschlag – und keinem Konzept. jmwiarda.de/2024/09/30/das…

#IchbinHanna: With FDP leaving the government (finally!), looks like nothing will happen with #WissZeitVG anytime soon. Not the worst outcome, 6+6 still being better than the recent proposal. What a complete shitshow.

🔖 I know everyone has other things on their mind right now, but we published a new preprint this week! biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Here are some thoughts on teaching #statistics to non-statistical students, specifically those in #applied #ecology degrees. Thanks to Dr William Kay (he/him) and Tiago André Marques for an enjoyable (and not last) collaboration. request pdf here 👉tinyurl.com/33keh22s

Falls ihr auch live bei der Diskussion zum #WissZeitVG im Bildungsausschuss dabei sein möchtet, folgt dem Link unten. Hier auf der Tribüne ist's auch schön. #IchBinHanna #IchBinReyhan #IchBinTina bundestag.de/ausschuesse/a1…

New study in Global Change Biology led by Marie Sünnemann. Contributions by Eisenhauer Lab UNIVERSITÄT LEIPZIG Benjamin Rosenbaum UFZ Universität Jena and others.

If you are interested in a postdoc position working on ecological networks - see this: jobs.uni-jena.de/jobposting/2e8… PRT