Excited to share our new paper in @natcomms.nature.com We synthesize causal discovery & inference approaches across traditions (regression adjustment, quasi-expts, SEMs, Granger causality, convergent cross-mapping, and more) into a unified workflow for ecologists. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
rspatialdata: a repository of spatial datasets & tutorials for spatial analysis & visualization in #rstats, supporting real-world applications such as estimating air pollution, quantifying disease burden, and monitoring progress toward the SDGs🌍💻📊
👉 rspatialdata.github.io
“If we misunderstand what science is, mistaking automation of method for the human project of collectively constructing, debating & refining the symbolic representations through which we make sense of reality, AI may foretell the death of science.”
— @saraimari.bsky.social
#science #ai
I love it when a student (who started their PhD two months ago) shares a GIF of their modelling attempts (here a draft of realistic foraging behaviour - more to come). #movementecology #geoprofiling
Mark your calendar for Jan 12, 2026!
The next Statistical Methods webinar hosted with the @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social Statistical Ecology Section will be at noon US ET.
Michael Dumelle will present on “Building Spatial Statistical Models in R using {spmodel}”
Register at: bit.ly/4i7l0BD
Super cool paper! Congrats
Happy to see our analysis on scaling up temperature x nutrient interactions from populations to communities published in Ecological Monographs @esajournals.bsky.social! 📈
Phase transitions, bifurcations, thermal vents, exoplanets and their interactive maps, as well as pointers to a whole special issue just published in @royalsocietypublishing.org about origin of life.
With Spotify and Apple podcasts as usual.
What do you need more?
CC: @ricardsole.bsky.social
🦂 Scorpions? Not quite.
Take a closer look into #NHMLA's Entomology collection and learn more about false scorpions with resident Assistant Curator of Entomology, Rodrigo Ruedas!
Poster for the talk by César Marín, entitled "Understanding plant holobionts through complexity science". It will take place on Monday, 27 October 2025 at 4 pm (CET) via Zoom.
Next week, we welcome @cmarin.bsky.social in our ROTO Lecture Series. César will speak about understanding plant holobionts through complexity science. 🌿 Just register here to participate 👉 rotorub.wordpress.com/roto-lecture...
#HPBio #PhilSci #PlantScience
New paper in @funecology.bsky.social led by @felixpleiva.bsky.social. We present ShareTrait, a community-driven platform for standardising & sharing individual-level trait data in ectotherms to improve data reuse across studies.
🔗 doi.org/10.1111/1365...
#OpenScience #FAIRdata
Do ant colonies work like liquid brains? Check this great paper in @pnas.org led by @ceabcsic.bsky.social Pol Fernandez and F.Bartumeus that shows how to explain collective foraging by modelling ants as neural agents @jordipinero.bsky.social @frazambelli.bsky.social www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
title of a new paper - Historical model biases in monthly high temperature anomalies indicate under-estimation of future temperature extremes https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-025-02579-5
graph of monthly max temperature and ln of area burned for ecozone 5 in canada https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10584-005-5935-y
New paper out that suggests that we under-estimate future temperature extremes and this is not good news for fire. www.nature.com/articles/s43... Temperature is strongly related to area burned - the warmer we get the more fire we see. Also, extremes are important - 3% of fires burn 97% of the area
Was just sent this, author unknown. There's plenty to debate but they're right about evolutionary ecology. 🌏
Today !
Way to go, @hippieherper.bsky.social 🐍
Been really enjoying the Complexity Science Discussion Group hosted by Paul Middlebrooks, where we're working our way through the Santa Fe Institute's "Classic Papers in Complexity Science". The group is open for anyone interested:
braininspired.co/complexity-g...
I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy.
I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.
hey remember when a rich ceo died then when they caught the suspect they made a circus of it like they found osama bin laden and charged him with terrorism but less than weeks ago two democrat lawmakers and their spouses were shot as literal assassination to shift control and everyone already forgot
Unlike many here, I’m fine if some people aren’t interested in aesthetic pleasures, and want life to be condensed to the most quickly-digestible set of facts. Takes all kinds. Just don’t assume the rest of us are like that, and definitely don’t force it on us.
The way people are losing their fucking minds over a proposal for a publicly owned grocery store should give you some insight into how a proposal for public libraries would be greeted today if they didn't already exist.
New paper from the lab: how do we make probabilistic species interaction networks more useful and robust? @francisbanville.bsky.social has some thoughts, and went through the literature to map mathematical definitions to ecological concepts.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Do you model by hand?
Do you like saving time?
Do you want better results without the grunt work?
Then come to my #Evol2025 talk! I’ll present CoalMiner, a tool I built to automate demographic model generation for tools like fastsimcoal.
Tuesday | Computational Biology II | 4:30–4:45pm
Political cycles last 3-5 years.
Buildings now stand for 50.
Appliances now break in five and can’t be fixed.
We buy new clothes each year to align with what’s hot.
We’re stuck in short-term thinking—quick wins, fast fixes, fleeting trends.
If people really find this to be such an easy conclusion, then Congressional authority should be easy to get.
So why don’t they insist on a vote?
They know this isn’t “progressive” resistance. They want to marginalize it as such because on top of this war being ILLEGAL, it’s also deeply unpopular.
Do animals dream? Here is a bank vole, sleeping (and dreaming?) in a metabolic chamber
Thanks for the share :)
Do you know how to get the GIS layers for this? I’d love to look at the biodiversity profiles of these for these regions
Attending #ICCB2025?
Join me at the poster session this evening to learn more about the findings of this research and discuss their implications!
Trump is sending ICE to blue cities to enact the "largest mass deportation program in history" and Chicago is at the top of the list.
I'm calling for every Democratic leader and candidate to stand against ICE, to call for its abolition, and to materially support immigrants.
Inaction is complicity.
It’s not farming or rewilding
It’s not land sparing or sharing
It’s using ecological understanding to design nuanced approaches
In agricultural landscapes, rewilding specific areas will likely lead to synergies that increase resilience, biodiversity, & ecosystem services
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