Excited to share our paper in Journal of Ecology! Big thanks to editors, reviewers, Robert M. Pringle & collabs, particularly Gorongosa National Park. Traits of diet plants of 14 large herbivores suggest fresh perspectives on niche partitioning, body size, & leaf economics: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/13…

What exactly do African megafauna eat, and why does it matter? Our PNASNews study analyzed thousands of fecal samples from 30 species of large mammal herbivore in 10 savannas in 7 countries One key result: No two species eat precisely the same plants... pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

Do larger herbivores eat lower-quality diets? Yes… but for reasons that may surprise you! My new synthesis of the Jarman-Bell Principle with Robert M. Pringle touches animal ecology, behavior, evolution, metabolism, and more! link.springer.com/chapter/10.100…

In this new paper in nature, a team of scientists tracked a community of individually monitored large carnivores🦁& herbivores🐘throughout the worst cyclone in the history of Africa... WHAT THEY DISCOVERED MIGHT SHOCK YOU... doi.org/10.1038/s41586…

@matthewchutch @JustineABecker @JoshDaskin Meredith S. Palmer, Ph.D. Arjun B. Potter University of Idaho Princeton University UC Merced Montana State University Yale University ABS University of British Columbia Gorongosa National Park Gorongosa Science University of Kent Wits University U.S. National Science Foundation National Research Foundation of South Africa High Meadows Environmental Institute HHMI BioInteractive @HHMINEWS Nat Geo Explorers nature Most of all they thank Gorongosa National Park and Gorongosa Science for the opportunity and for fostering the close-knit collaborative research community that made this exciting research possible

course notes shiraamitchell.github.io/nmaist_statist… created together with Arjun B. Potter, Charles Luchagula, Rose Mosha, Emmanuel Mpolya, and many other colleagues at nmaist _official, as well as @betanalpha Andrew Gelman et al. Avi Feller Daphna Harel Joe Blitzstein 🙏 feedback appreciated !

Designing and teaching this Bayesian stats course led by shira mitchell at nmaist _official was a joy! We used the seedlings in my common garden experiment as a teaching tool. 🌱Students critiqued the experiment, debated priors, and built models… a totally different stats course 🙌

The third iteration of this course with shira mitchell at nmaist _official is the best yet !