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Nich Martin

@ecological-nich.bsky.social
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Ecologist, Entomologist, Evolutionary and Mathematical Biologist. Stats nerd. Florida Museum of Natural History Opinions are my own

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Nich Martin @ecological-nich.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Yesterday I successfully defended my dissertation. #firstgen
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Alfredo Sánchez-Tójar @asanchez-tojar.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
My paper was proved wrong. After a sleepless night, here’s what I did next: - Don’t take it (too) personally - All in for open and reproducible science - Science works in increments - Science is a human endeavour 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Kelly Zamudio @kzutaustin.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
5calls.org 5 calls makes it very easy to call your representative on whatever issue you have an opinion about. They even have starter scripts that you can use. Remember, one call=one issue. Don't be complacent, this DOES MATTER.
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Spend 5 minutes. Make 5 calls. Make your voice heard.
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Nich Martin @ecological-nich.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Kid 1 heard that if you feed crows they will eventually start bringing you gifts. She’s been doing that for a bit, and it finally happened.
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Nich Martin @ecological-nich.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Getting closer to submitting the first draft of my dissertation. These books were invaluable to the process. I’d love to see what books were most important to your professional development.
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Nich Martin @ecological-nich.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
A hill I will probably die on, model selection should only be used if the goal is prediction. I will admit though, I do use Baye's Factor when I have two mechanistically different models that use the same parameters.
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Charles Mullon @charlesmullon.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
1/7 Sexual antagonism arises when males and females face different selection pressures for a trait influenced by shared genes. This is thought to drive balancing selection and maintain genetic polymorphism. We challenge this view in our recent paper : 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/evlett/qrae059
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The maintenance of genetic polymorphism underlying sexually antagonistic traits
Abstract. Selection often favors different trait values in males and females, leading to genetic conflicts between the sexes when traits have a shared gene
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Laura Dee @lauradee.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Very excited this paper is now out in Ecology Letters onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.... #causalsky
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Foundations and Future Directions for Causal Inference in Ecological Research
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Nich Martin @ecological-nich.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
At the risk of losing all credibility as a scientist, I’m extremely sympathetic to epistemological anarchism.
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British Ecological Society @britishecologicalsociety.org · 09/01/2025
New research in the @animalecology.bsky.social explores how animals use a combination of colour patterns, like eyespots that resemble the eyes of larger animals, and specific behaviours to protect themselves from predators.
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W. P. Mueller @wpmueller.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
#ornithology www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Nocturnal camouflage through background matching against moonlight | PNAS
Camouflage is often considered a daytime phenomenon based on light and shade. Nocturnal camouflage can also occur, but its mechanistic basis remain...
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British Ornithologists’ Union (BOU) @bou.org.uk · 08/01/2025
Multiple Long‐Term, Landscape‐Scale Data Sets Reveal Intraspecific Spatial Variation in Temporal Trends for Bird Species | onlinelibrary.wiley.... | Ecology Letters | #ornithology 🪶
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Nich Martin @ecological-nich.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
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Ants best humans at test of collective intelligence
Insects put their minds together in ways that sometimes eludes people
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Retraction Watch @retractionwatch.com · 27/12/2024
Evolution journal editors resign en masse to protest Elsevier changes The mass resignation is the 20th such episode since early 2023, according to our records.
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Evolution journal editors resign en masse to protest Elsevier changes
All but one member of the editorial board of the Journal of Human Evolution (JHE), an Elsevier title, have resigned, saying the “sustained actions of Elsevier are fundamentally incompatible with th…
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Nich Martin @ecological-nich.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
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Understanding p-values: Different interpretations can be thought of not as different “philosophies” but as different forms of averaging. | Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
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Richard McElreath 🐈‍⬛ @rmcelreath.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Since it is inefficient to attempt to educate every reviewer individually, I am yeeting into your feed this clear paper from Gelman, Hill, and Yajima on how Bayesians can do even better than correcting for multiple comparisons. arxiv.org/abs/0907.2478
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Why we (usually) don't have to worry about multiple comparisons
Applied researchers often find themselves making statistical inferences in settings that would seem to require multiple comparisons adjustments. We challenge the Type I error paradigm that underlies t...
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Nich Martin @ecological-nich.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Very cool (mathy) paper. I hope this gets accepted wherever they sent it to. I want to see the appendix.
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Society for the Study of Evolution @sse-evolution.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
SSE is sponsoring three symposia at #Evol2025! Applicants can submit proposals for a virtual or in-person symposium. Check out previously funded symposia and learn how to apply on our website. Deadline January 6! buff.ly/3V0mh34 @evolmtg.bsky.social
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Nich Martin @ecological-nich.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
This! Regardless of your field it is so important to analyze your data through the lens of theory.
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Society for the Study of Evolution @sse-evolution.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Have you had part of your dissertation published in Evolution or Evolution Letters this year? You may be eligible for this award! Papers must have been included in a 2024 issue to be eligible. Submit your nomination by Jan. 31: shorturl.at/CnVo6 @journal-evo.bsky.social @evolletters.bsky.social
Text: Society for the Study of Evolution, SSE Presidents' Award for Outstanding Dissertation Paper, Deadline January 31. Recent covers of Evolution Letters and Evolution.
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Kevin Bairos-Novak @ecolology.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Hey all, please RT this new starter pack for locating our fellow ecological modellers on Blue Sky! And please reply to this post if you'd like to be added to the starter pack! go.bsky.app/EfUQaM2
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Jarrett Byrnes @jebyrnes.bsky.social · 29/02/2024
For a while now, @lauradee.bsky.social and I have been working on a guide to introduce Ecologists to causal inference tools for observational data that has problematic unobserved confounding variables lurking in the background. And now it's up as a preprint! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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