Global heating pushes coral reefs towards worst planet-wide mass bleaching on record theguardian.com/environment/20…

NEW RESEARCH
Uppermost global tree elevations are primarily limited by low temperature or insufficient moisture

📄 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.111…

Enjoy this version of our mapping of climate driven potential dengue transmission in the The Economist, part of a really scary account of changing dengue in Latin America.

economist.com/the-americas/2…

I field a lot of questions about ancestral state reconstruction of discrete traits so I posted a new tutorial to my blog that contains a number of useful #Rstats #phytools demos. 😀

Check it out here: blog.phytools.org/2024/04/a-few-….

Happy #DNA Day ! 🧬 This is one of my favourite pieces I made for Scientific American about genome sizes across select species. Was really fun to make this!

#science #DNA #genome #infographic #sciart #genomics #genetics #genes

Are tumours like ecosystems? Cancer displays complex, heterogeneous populations that can be mathematically described as interacting species. Check our new paper with Guim Aguadé-Gorgorió and Sandy Anderson on generalized Lotka-Volterra models for cancer
biorxiv.org/content/10.110… Barcelona Collaboratorium

The positive impact of conservation action | Science science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

The concern and larger epizootic effect is with H5N1, but if I had to pick a personal #influenza villain... one to just hate... it's these avian H9N2s found in Egyptian fruit bats.

Schwemmle Lab Florian Krammer and others

nature.com/articles/s4146…

Congratulations to Prof. John Vandermeer for being elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences! His groundbreaking work in #Ecology and dedication to sustainable agroecosystems is making a real-world impact. 🌿👏 #UMEEB #GoBlue myumi.ch/kZVn2

like birds? like mountains?

JOIN THE MOUNTAIN BIRD NETWORK

Here's how it goes:
1) do a systematic bird survey of a mountain slope
2) your wildest dreams will come true

info posted here:
benjamingfreeman.com/mountainbirdne…

(please share widely)

My grandfather built motors that powered big machines. In a lab not so different from his workshop, my colleagues and I uncovered the assembly of the bacterial motor. Today, this discovery has been published in Nature Microbiology #MolecularNodes #Discovery nature.com/articles/s4156…

🚨🏝️🐦 Check out our new #openaccess paper in Royal Society Publishing, in which we investigate the importance of migratory drop-off for island colonization in birds: doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2…

Lindley's paradox makes it very clear why p-values are not measures of evidence absent context.

If we want reliable measures of the evidence for something, we can use likelihoods or Bayes factors instead.

New paper from the lab to systematically reduce multi-dimensional systems to an effective one-dimensional representation, and go beyond mean-field analysis of reaction-diffusion systems 👀

👉arxiv.org/abs/2404.11366

A short thread follows 👇

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It’s amazing how many empirical features of interactions and collective response can emerge from a simple imperative: to minimize surprise. Out today in PNAS PNASNews - with Conor Heins Richard Mann Karl Friston and colleagues! Centre for the Adv Study of Collective Behaviour Max Planck Society pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

So excited to see this incredible footage of endangered snail kites by Matt Hamilton.

The episode airs this evening on Nature as part of the series 'Raptors: A Fistful of Daggers'!

UF Snail Kites UF IFAS Wildlife

pbs.org/wnet/nature/th… via Nature

New 📦: {GLMMcosinor} extends cosinor modelling with GLMM-ness! Lots of flexibility for fitting models appropriate for rhythmic data with non-Gaussian responses and hierachical structures (i.e. repeated measures)

pkgsite: docs.ropensci.org/GLMMcosinor/
preprint: biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

The world is making some real progress on climate change.

Not enough. But we have some momentum building, and many avenues to accelerate.

Measuring forest degradation has been a focus lately due to #COP28 and new EU Degradation policies. Here we argue that quantifying degradation requires a long-term, landscape-scale approach: nature.com/articles/s4155…

Prof Fenton's work in gut helminths of mammalian hosts can be found at nature.com/articles/natur…. It was also at this time that Prof Fenton began collaborating with Dr Amy Pedersen of Edinburgh Uni, with whom he still collaborates! Prof Fenton now discusses Multi-parasite systems.