CLOSING SOON: Postdoc (Pullman, United States) Develop machine learning tools to predict host-virus compatibility with @seifert_steph at @WSU More details: iddjobs.org/jobs/postdoc-t…

Had such a great time talking about hierarchical spatial occupancy and abundance models at Vogelwarte_Science last week in Switzerland with an amazing group of researchers! All workshop lectures and exercises are freely available on GitHub: github.com/doserjef/Switz….

*NEW pre-print* "Extended sample size calculations for evaluation of prediction models using a threshold for classification" Led by Rebecca Whittle we develop sample size calculations for estimating: accuracy, specificity, sensitivity, PPV, NPV, F1-score arxiv.org/abs/2406.19673

New paper: inlabru: software for fitting latent Gaussian models with non-linear predictors Preprint now up on arxiv arxiv.org/abs/2407.00791 Inlabru extends the class of models that users can fit with INLA (1/n)

Postdoc position for modeling biodiversity and ecosystem responses to climate change. Nanyuki/Kenya and Bern/Switzerland search.app/kZxoJSDQCUFsCV…

📢 PSA: Tired of #betareg in #rstats complaining when you have 0 and/or 1 in your response variable? 🎉 Good news: betareg can now capture this at the expense of a single extra parameter! 📄 New arXiv working paper with Ioannis Kosmidis @[email protected] zeileis.org/news/xbx/

Hey, that's me, doing the publishing thing. 🥳😎 If you like SDM's, climate data, invasive species predictions, R, or MaxEnt, this may be of interest to you. This was a pre-covid idea - glad to finally see it published. #Ecology #MaxEnt #SDM #R

TidierPlots.jl 0.8.0 is out! It's a massive refactoring to address several issues all at once. - Enables transformation of variables w/ either DataFrames or TidierData syntax - Plots and geoms can be broadcast - DateTimes work - facet_wrap fixed 6+ issues resolved!

Interested in occupancy models? Now you can fit them with INLA (R-INLA ) . Read our paper doi.org/10.1111/2041-2… and check out the tutorial ecol-stats.github.io/Occupancy-Mode….

I’m hiring for an early career data scientist (master’s preferred). We work a hybrid schedule, so that’s three days a week in Grand Rapids. DM me if you or someone you know is interested. meijer.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/Meijer/job/Gra…

Very proud of Coralie Williams 's first #PhD paper Methods in Ecology and Evolution ! Improving reporting of statistical simulation studies for EcoEvo and beyond besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/20…

🚨JOB ALERT🚨 Interested in how the microclimate mediates the coexistence of species rich insect communities? Us too! Come and work Cardiff University School of Biosciences with me, Andrew Davies, charlene and Rebecca Senior (rebeccasenior.bsky.social) on our HFSP funded project. Full advert: bit.ly/CardiffAntJob

Excellent from Brian McGill: is ecology (and by extension, other disciplines, even digital humanities!) ready for really big code projects, and how both authors and readers can presume the code works? dynamicecology.wordpress.com/2024/10/14/is-…

Nice to see my paper out in Ornithological Applications! We found that trailing-edge species are moving uphill in response to climate change, but they seem to be still hanging on. Not exactly cheery news, but some cool science went into this: academic.oup.com/condor/advance…

Check out my blog in Methods in Ecology and Evolution about our recent article about improving reporting standards for simulation studies👇 #reportingitems #metaresearch

My posit conf talk is live youtu.be/sjYNUIkOlC0?si…

How can we use environmental DNA (eDNA) sampling to systematically collect species occupancy data rapidly and efficiently across vast spatial domains to improve understanding of factors influencing species distributions? onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.111…

I decided to restart my ecological stats blog posts. Check out this new one on why you should probably stop using the number of survey days as a covariate in occupancy models. Check it out! masonfidino.com/camera_days/

In Afrikaans, it's called the Satan's bush 😈 Meet the silver-leaf nightshade (Solanum elaeagnifolium) ! 🧛‍♂️ This invasive weed is poisonous, can regenerate itself from fragments and is unpalatable for most animals 😱 Check it online 👉 shorturl.at/4xCbN

#EarlyView👀 80% of insect species are yet to be discovered and named; most are smaller, less abundant, found at fewer locations and often in taxonomically complex groups, than named species #OpenAccess #OriginalArticle⬇️ doi.org/10.1111/icad.1… @Royentsoc Wiley Ecology & Evolution