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Richard McElreath 🐈‍⬛ @rmcelreath.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

Nature Scientific Reports is the third most cited journal in the world smdh

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Nick Brown @steamtraen.eu · 08/11/2025

As an exercise, one could consider exactly what citation counts are good for, given that quite possibly _nobody_ noticed that citations of their own articles were being under-reported (or massively over-reported) over 14 years and possibly millions of authors.

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BioSS @bioss.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

BioSS researcher Dr Ana Couto worked with a team of international scientists who tracked over 100 marine species of large vertebrates to identify the most critical locations for conservation in the global ocean. 🌍🌊 Read more here: www.bioss.ac.uk/case-studies... #conservation #marinebiology

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Global tracking of marine megafauna space use reveals how to achieve conservation targets

The recent Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) sets ambitious goals to protect, conserve, and manage at least 30% of the world's oceans in an effort to halt the loss of important mari...

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Aki Vehtari @avehtari.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

Posterior predictive checking of binary, categorical and many ordinal models with bar graphs is useless. Even the simplest models without covariates usually have such intercept terms that category specific probabilities are learned perfectly. Can you guess which model, 1 or 2, is misspecifed? 1/4

Useless posterior predictive checking bar graphs for Models 1 and 2

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Amber Cowans (she/her) @ambercowans.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

📝 Are you using multispecies occupancy models to investigate interactions in species occupancy (i.e. co-occurrence)? 🦁🦓 Check out our new paper for advice on the number of sites you need to reliably detect interactions under different scenarios ⬇️

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Sample size considerations for species co‐occurrence models

Multispecies occupancy models are widely applied to infer interactions in the occurrence of different species, but convergence and estimation issues under realistic sample sizes are common. We conduc...

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Elisabeth Bik @elisabethbik.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

Fantastic new paper by @reeserichardson.bsky.social et al. An enormous amount of work showing the extent of coordinated scientific fraud and involvement of some editors. The number of fraudulent publications grows at a rate far outpacing that of legitimate science. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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PNAS

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...

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Natalie Cooper @nhcooper123.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

This should be a lot of fun! Help us find out if BES journal data and code sharing policies are actually working, with a little side bonus quest about data equity 🤓

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ESA Journals @esajournals.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

Seeking Data Editors! Are you an ecologist or environmental scientist with a keen interest in open research? We're looking for Data Editors to work with our journals & implement our Open Research Policy. Honorarium provided! 🚨Applications due 7/18🚨 Learn more: shorturl.at/3qzIu

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Thomas Cornulier @tcornulier.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

Bivariate turning angle and step length kernels for step selection functions

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BioSS @bioss.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

📆Deadline extended📆 If you're looking for an exciting #PhD opportunity in #Mathematics, #Statistics, and #AnimalHealth, you have two more weeks to apply! ✍️ Deadline: 14th July #FindaPhD #PhDChat @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social @roslininstitute.bsky.social

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Giles @gdeejay.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

I am currently writing up something on spurious correlation and noticed that Tyler Vigen's spurious correlations now come with an #AI generated explanation: 👌 tylervigen.com/spurious/cor...

AI generated explanation of spurious correlation between big bang viewership and people googling 'how to make a baby'

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Bert van der Veen @vdveenb.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

A few months until the end of my postdoc contract. Norway has defunded a good part of the academic system, so opportunities are limited. I will try to apply for my own funding, but pending potential failure, if someone has a job opportunity that might suit me I would be happy to have a chat!

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BioSS @bioss.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

There's just over a week left to apply for these two(!) Ecological Statistician vacancies in our Offshore Renewables group- don't miss your chance to apply! 📆 #StatisticalEcology #OffshoreRenewables #Statistics #DataScience #Seabirds #MarineMammals #Vacancy #Job

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Dr Katherine Whyte @kateywhyte.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

📣We are recruiting two(!) Ecological Statisticians to join our Offshore Renewables Group at @bioss.bsky.social. If you have an interest in developing and applying statistical methods to ecological data, do check out the advert below. Please share with anyone who may be interested! 🙏

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Darren Dahly @statsepi.bsky.social · 24/10/2024

Clinical Researchers: I am here to warn you about a meteor hurling towards us. That meteor represents increasing scrutiny of clinical research; and in particular how we approach data collection, analysis, interpretation and reporting. Prepare now, or face the consequences. 1/

Title slide: Acting as if our research might matter - Analyzing data

Image: A meteor about to strike the earth.

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Gavin Simpson @gsimpson.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

I've posted a new video on YouTube that gives a brief overview of the new conditional_values() function in my gratia #RStats 📦 I plan to do more of these videos over the next few weeks & months. Make sure you're subscribed if you want to be notified as they get posted. youtu.be/iKG0aHWpTAo

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Visualizing generalized additive models in R using gratia and conditional_values()

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Chris Sutherland @chrissuthy.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Now accepting applicants for 25-26 intake of our #StatisticalEcology MSc: bit.ly/3ooHNyc. A unique opportunity to develop skills at the interface of #statistics and #ecology (some partial scholarships available too). Please help me share!

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Paul Caplat 🌲🌳🐦🦋 @paulcaplat.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

PhD alert! Come work with me, @deonroos.bsky.social and Lorraine Scott to develop & apply geoprofiling to identify breeding sites for mobile species of conservation importance, using citizen-science data & field surveys in a #trait based approach. Deadline 19 Feb! 🌍 www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Three pictures: a bumblebee on a lavender flower; a pine marten on a small log; a hen harrier flying

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Paul Caplat 🌲🌳🐦🦋 @paulcaplat.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

Funded PhD on using sighting data to identify breeding sites for predators and pollinators with a cool approach (geoprofiling) soon available with me and @deonroos.bsky.social, Lorraine Scott and @lambin-ecology.bsky.social, spread the word!

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 18/12/2024

I disagree with perplexity.ai CEO Aravind Srinivas about the importance of sourcing in search results, but boy does he have Google's number here. Search for something they can't sell, you get an AI summary. Something they can, you don't. Try it yourself. From: www.fastcompany.com/91125423/per...

“I’m pretty sure that if you type something like ‘shoes’ or ‘handbags,’ you’re going to get the Shopping UI with hundreds of ads screaming at you to buy [their product],” he said. “So there’s no incentive to . . . give you an aggregated summary with exactly what people are saying about different shoes so you know exactly what you [should] buy.”

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Chris Sutherland @chrissuthy.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

We are inviting applications for this cool PhD project (really keen to support people from underrepresented backgrounds!) iapetus2.ac.uk/studentships...

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Dr. Nyssa Silbiger @nsilbiger.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

Have you ever thought to yourself… how can I make my #rstats plot UGLIER? Well, look no further, cuz it’s good plot-bad plot time! My students made plots that will make you want to laugh, cry, and throw your computer out the window. Which one do you think is the worst? 🧵🧪

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Bert van der Veen @vdveenb.bsky.social · 10/11/2024

go.bsky.app/NiaWN5i I'm happy to receive suggestions for this.

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