PHYLOPIC 2.0 IS OFFICIALLY RELEASED! Go check out the newer, faster, more useful PhyloPic here: phylopic.org

Physiological Sighs (deep nasal inhale followed by 2nd brief nasal inhale, then a full exhale via the mouth) is not Yogic or “breathwork”. It is a naturally occurring breathing pattern that reverses hypoxia, occurs in sleep too & also happens to be the fastest way to de-stress.

🚨🚨 New paper alert🚨 🚨 in nature on the emergence of the latitudinal diversity gradient in planktonic foraminifera, with Isabel Fenton Alex Farnsworth🌻 Tracy Aze & Paul Valdes. We found the modern gradient emerged ~15 Ma, driven primarily by speciation! nature.com/articles/s4158…

1/6 For 30 years ecologists have been told that correlations between traits across species need to be corrected for phylogeny (usually via PGLS), because related species are not independent. Several half-truths in that ... besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/13… @Jecol Mark Westoby Barbara Holland

Basking sharks are what now?! New paper led by Dr Haley Dolton (she/her) where we document regional endothermy in our favourite giant filter feeding sharky 🔥. Interesting implications for evolution and ecological advantages of regional endothermy; we thought it was only seen in apex 🦈&🐟1/3

Come join us Australian Institute of Marine Science! Three (!!) new permanent research scientist opportunities are available to work in our Reef Recovery Adaptation & Restoration Program: - Coral Early-life Ecology - Applied Ecological Genetics - Coral Phenomics and Symbiosis shorturl.at/qvCHJ

Our new paper on indirect effects and fitness in coevolved networks is out nature.com/articles/s4158…

More tremendous work on neuronal branching—combining novel empirical patterns and scaling theory to determine biological constraint principles—by former graduate student (now postdoc!) Paheli and postdoc (now faculty!) Alex Brummer royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs…

Forgive me, for I am about to Bayes. Lesson: Don't trust intuition, for even simple prior+likelihood scenarios defy it. Four examples below, each producing radically different posteriors. Can you guess what each does? Revealed in next tweet >>

When using OLS regression, from where do we get the assumption the residuals are normally distributed? You don't need that assumption to minimize the sum of the squared residuals, nor to use the CLT to compute the SE's for the beta coefficients. So what's its origins?

We analysed 50 years of coral reef data to identify patterns in coral resilience, finding links between resistance, recovery and coral cover pre- and post-disturbance 🪸 Pls read and share to help justify the unfathomable amount of hours I put into this😅 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

Huge undertaking by Michael Skeeles to raise fish for a year with or without supplemental oxygen to see whether it enhanced growth rates & supported the gill-oxygen limitation hypothesis. It didn’t! BUT, a cool finding RE oxygen extending the reproductive window!

“You need 16 times the sample size to estimate an interaction than to estimate a main effect,” explained statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2023/11/09/you…

This looks like a biggie for those of us interested in microbial contributions to food webs aslopubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10… HT fdocmac

I'm super thrilled to share this new paper with David Vasseur out now in Ecology Letters!! 🙌 Interactions between temperature and nutrients determine the population dynamics of primary producers 🦠🌡️ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

I'm on team rebase. There are enough times when circumstances require a complicated merge (eg backporting a hotfix). Thus the goal for a regular merge should be a clean simple Git history

Moving beyond #Arrhenius to embrace #unimodal #scaling of biological rates with #temperature - new paper w/ #JosefGaren in Ecology Letters shorturl.at/fpy45 UBC Botany UBCBiodiversity UBC Zoology UBC Science Santa Fe Institute

How do scaling laws at the single-cell level give rise to macroecological patterns? We show that in plankton, power laws of nutrient uptake and grazing shape eco-evolutionary dynamics to produce scaling relationships at the ecosystem level. 🌊 science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

#Openaccess out today in Annual Reviews Breeding and Selecting Corals Resilient to Global Warming James Cook Uni Minderoo Foundation Australian Research Council #DECRA annualreviews.org/doi/full/10.11…

🚨 modelsummary 2.0.0 📦 for #RStats is out now! Draw beautiful and customizable tables for your descriptive statistics, regression models, correlations, balance, etc. Save your tables to HTML, Word, LaTeX, PNG, Typst, and more.  Short 🧵 for v2 modelsummary.com