Shared from my PhD lab’s WhasApp chat, how a journal published a paper about the Arctic fox which is 100% an AI hallucination, and journal isn’t retracting it.
www.canids.org/resources/Le...
Damn depressing how fake science and AI is increasingly flooding real science and real work.
Send help @gsimpson.bsky.social.
I find myself writing an argument for #GAMs.
My data generating process is multivariate, but the univariate outcome is non-linear, so I can design a GAM that predicts well, while being an utterly misspecified model.
Is this how it starts? Am I part of the GAM cult now?
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🎉 It's livestream day 🎉
Join me at 1700 (CET; 1600 UCT) today for two hours of GAM goodness 🤤
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Hehe, not really. If there are sufficient colleagues, and there is some travel funding, drop me an email at Bert.van-der-Veen@uni-bayreuth.de and we can see what may be arranged.
Yes, I organised a few last year. Thanks for noticing!
I don't have many plans yet for this year, but that can always change if there is sufficient interest.
At least I will organise the workshop with @physaliacourses.bsky.social again github.com/BertvanderVe..., but plans are not yet concrete.
Oh, I don't care in which repository the data is archived.
This issue has cropped up in various flavours. Most recently it concerned a paper that was supposed to archive the data upon publication in dryad, but it wasn't actually submitted to dryad, and this paper wasn't published recently either.
I'm getting real sick and tired of journals referring me to either a) the authors or b) data dryad, when I inquire after a paper's data, that was promised in the data statement.
Surely, if data archiving is promised, the journal and publisher have a responsibility for seeing this through. #ecoevo
a graph showing how LLMs do or do not p-hack
While LLMs will try to follow good research practices by default, you can pretty easily convince them to p-hack for you. In one case (out of the 4 tested), the LLM moved the result from p > 0.05 to p < 0.001. github.com/janetmalzahn...
Come work with us! 🧪🌐🧑💻🌿🐸❄️
I am hireing a #postdoc in Climate Change Ecology to work on Ecological Synthesis and support the upcoming #IPCC report as a Chapter Scientist (CH14: terrestrial, freshwater and cryopspheric biodiversity, ecosystems, and services. #IPCC #AR7
@ipcc.bsky.social
It'll probably make it to CRAN in March.
Please don't old your breath, #gllvm management may take a day to get back to me.
One moment, will check
Ooh, I like Laplace priors now.
Seats still open for the GLMs in R course with @vdveenb.bsky.social l! Bert’s a top-notch instructor—dive deep into GLMs as a powerful, flexible framework for all kinds of data analysis. Don’t miss out!
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Please share with anyone who may be interested!
#GLMs
"Ten simple rules for teaching data science": arxiv.org/abs/2602.02874
A new preprint by @minecr.bsky.social and myself. We'd love any feedback!
With @bobohara.bsky.social and Anne Mehlhoop
New article on #gllvm by Audun Rugstad.
An approachable guide (equations omitted) on model-based ordination for community ecologists.
Full of practical tips and recommendations, examples, and reoroducible code in the appendix.
doi.org/10.32942/X2K...
🚨 GAMs have moved on—so it’s time for an update.
On March 3, 2026 (17:00–19:00 CET) I’ll be livestreaming an updated introduction to Generalized Additive Models in R
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#RStats #mgcv #GAMs #gratia #statistics 🧪
The basics of linear models, GLMs & ANOVA are reviewed at the start of the course. But if you do not have a solid understanding of these topics, you may benefit more from our course “GLMs as a Unified Framework for Data Analysis in R” w/ @vdveenb.bsky.social
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Dear colleagues, we are searching for candidates to fill a Full W3 Professorship for Plant #Ecology at the University of Regensburg, Germany. For details, see www.nature.com/naturecareer... 🌐 🌎 #AcademicJobs
As @bbolker.bsky.social indicated, you can do this now in #gllvm. Happy to have a chat if you want to explore that further.
Check out this advertised professorship in Bern with my colleagues at the Institute of Plant Sciences! Please share widely to reach candidates from across the world and beyond our local academic bubbles. 🫧
#QueerInSTEM #DisabledInSTEM #BlackInSTEM #WomenInSTEM #CarersInSTEM #AcademicSky #HigherED
This is actually great for trait-based analyses... @bobohara.bsky.social
#gllvm can now handle multiple response types at the same time (different data types for different species; presence-absence and counts, or counts and overdispersed counts, counts and biomass, ..., for example), thanks to a massive coding exercise by Jenni Niku!
I hope our session proposal doesn't feel lonely @maximilianpichler.bsky.social.
OK, #gllvm now finally provides an se.fit option in the prediction function, to get simulated confidence intervals.
This was a 5-years old request that should have probably been picked up sooner or later, but better late than never?
Advance your data analysis skills with our online Generalised Linear Models in R course (23–27 Feb) with @vdveenb.bsky.social
Learn to fit, interpret, and visualise GLMs for diverse data types through practical sessions.
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