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Congratulations to the new Dr Dr Huang Yen-Hua Huang who successfully defended his dissertation at UW-Madison Forest and Wildlife Ecology today! An impressive body of work on anthrax dynamics in Southern Africa and an engaging presentation. Well done, Yen-Hua!

I defended my PhD yesterday. In the journey, I've experienced many challenges. Thankfully, I've been guided by a bright lighthouse, my advisor, Dr. Wendy Turner Wendy Turner. Though I seemed awkward by that time, Wendy's 7-min intro was truly lovely. Next stop: postdoc at Yale

⁦Sean Schoville and I from Berkeley Environmental Science, Policy & Mngmt⁩ 2003 cohort have students fledging today! ⁦Yen-Hua Huang⁩ and Yi-Ming Weng off on new and exciting adventures! ⁦

I was recently asked about resources for getting started with the metafor package (for conducting meta-analyses with R). So here are some suggestions.

Are you interested in using authentic ecological research as an undergraduate teaching tool? Check out our new teaching module that uses #SnapshotUSA camera trap data to lead students on an exciting adventure to test fundamental ecological hypotheses: qubeshub.org/publications/3…

New disinformation push on Amazon? A torrent of new low quality "books" about Taiwan has appeared; a quick Google shows at least some of the content is plagiarised, and the names of the authors appear to be fake. I count 61 of these under one search term alone. 1/4

How are neural networks used in ecology ? Apart from the analysis of images and sounds, you can use #NeuralNetworks to capture the relationship between ecological parameters (e.g. occupancy, abundance or survival) and covariates 🤯 A few pointers in the 🧵 below 😉

Efficient R programming refers to increasing the efficiency of tasks with R. This encompasses both computational efficiency and programmer productivity. Check out this awesome #bookdown to learn more - it's free! bookdown.org/csgillespie/ef… #rstats #rmarkdown #quartopub #rstudio

Awesome paper by Sean Anderson @ericward_ Dr. Philina English @LAK_Barnett introducing R 📦 sdmTMB for fitting space x time models to ecological data w/ GLMMs and Gaussian random fields. biorxiv.org/content/10.110… Vignettes ▶️ pbs-assess.github.io/sdmTMB/index.h… #RStats 🗞️#174-2022

Interested in modeling animal movements and want to account for correlations between step-lengths and turn angles?  Check out cylcop 0.2.0 on CRAN, led by Florian Hodel!  Its faster, shinier, better documented, and has some new functions for plotting and model fitting.

Did you know that Harvard has free Resume, CV and Cover Letter resources - including action verbs, templates and samples? I've compiled a list of them -

Folks at EEID2023, the second last talk of the entire meeting will be about animal behavior and trophic interactions, presented by me. Please stay till the end on Thursday to hear my talk, and discuss with me if you have any interesting ideas even after the conference! #eeid2023

A month of name tag collection.

How hard is it to do science in a language that’s not your first language? We quantified the severity of #languagebarriers for non-native English speakers when reading/publishing papers and attending/presenting at international conferences. doi.org/10.1371/journa… 1/9

Today, we're launching the Pathogen Harmonized Observatory, or Pharos: a global platform for managing and sharing data on wildlife disease. You can explore some example datasets, or upload your own, by heading over to pharos.viralemergence.org 🖥️ More on the project... 🧵

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When I teach Principal Component Analysis (PCA), I use my interactive dashboard to engage my students. They can observe how, through an orthogonal transformation (rotation) of a two-feature dataset, the variance of the data projected onto one of the components can be maximized.

To be a good geospatial data scientist, you need good tools. My tool of choice is R. Here are the packages I can't live without: #rstats

I've created a website called Data Hacks, which contains over 1,000 quick R and Python tutorials. Solutions are shown without unnecessary talk, allowing you to quickly find code snippets for specific problems. The graph in this post displays some of the plots created on Data