Most things don't work. But one out of every twenty things DO work. We should save space in journals for these.

Hi Twitter! what's your favourite open ecological dataset for teaching? The data should be * clean-ish * on at least a few species * have two continuous things to relate to each other * "Ecological" Thinking of: penguins, Harvard forest data, mammal trait database

The Bernhardt Lab is recruiting at all levels for 2024! We have multiple funded grad student and postdoc opportunities available! Please spread the word 🌊🌡️🐟🌱 bernhardtlab.org/join-us

If anyone is interested in an invite code for the azure sky place, I have a few now; message or DM me

📅Join us tomorrow for our next seminar: Eric Pedersen (Concordia) will present on: 🌟'How do we define a patch?'🌟 As ever, our seminars are free and open to all - please spread the word! Zoom link:iite.info/seminar/ Global times: timeanddate.com/worldclock/fix… See you there!

If you work with GAM models or hierarchical GAM models (HGAM) and need to use them for prediction, you will not want to miss this webinar by Nick Clark (aka Nicholas J Clark). Nick has developed elegant statistical methodology for this & a cool R package to implement it. #rstats

I am delighted to announce publication of the 4th edition of Linear Algebra Done Right as an Open Access book. The electronic version is legally free to the world at linear.axler.net. That website also has links to pre-order the print version of the book. #linearalgebra

Have you noticed the deluge of "10 Simple Rules for..." papers? They're inescapable in science like Taylor Swift on the radio. So I got cranky.... scientistseessquirrel.wordpress.com/2023/10/31/10-…

Southern California colleagues! Super excited to give an urban ecology seminar soon at UC Santa Barbara (Nov 27) and Cal State LA (Nov 28). Hope to catch many colleagues there! (But if aquatic ecology and bio stats are more your thing, catch Eric Pedersen at USC on Nov 28).

Have you wanted to analyze lake bathymetric data or fish movement and wanted to use soap-film smoothers from {mgcv}. Checkout our recently made package {soapcheckr} that will assist you in making soap-film smoothers! #Rstats #GAMs #spatialanalysis github.com/dill/soapcheckr

My first PhD chapter is out as a preprint! We formulate step selection functions as GAM-like models, which can be fitted in mgcv. This allows for the inclusion of non-linear effects/interactions, as well as individual-level and spatial random effects! doi.org/10.1101/2024.0…

Some important information just send to any list we could get our hands on, but please spread the word (1/n)

NIMBLE, HMMs, GAMs for movement data, Bayesian MCMCs .. do not miss the fab workshopsvat #ISEC_2024 IN Swansea this July! statisticalecology.org/?page_id=58

Eric Pedersen—a biologist and assistant professor Concordia University —will be joining OTN's virtual study hall on March 14 from 2:00-4:00 p.m. AST! Don't miss this chance to ask him questions about the role of GAMs in the analysis of telemetry data. DM us for the link. #TelemetryTuesday

An 18th century map of the Island of Montréal, revealing where several small rivers once ran freely - before they were canalized or buried as underground sewer lines.

🎆I am beyond thrilled to announce that I will be joining Concordia University Biology department as an Associate Professor in the Fall 2024! My Computational Genomics lab will use multi-omics to understand environmental and genetic contributions to human health. 🧬🧑‍💻

The CSEE Meetings account is evolving! 😂🤣😅 Thank you to the outstanding #CSEE2024 #Vancouver #dreamteam led by @gerlame 👏👏 We 👀 forward to seeing you in #Sherbrooke July 6-9th, 2025, for a meeting co-chaired by Fanie Pelletier & @festa_bianchet event.fourwaves.com/scee2025/pages