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William Godsoe @godsoewilliam.ecoevo.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

I'm delighted that Anne Carson won the nobel for Litterature. Makes me smile to think about Canada an the ways it tries to make culture. I read her poems at night university. I must have heard about her on the CBC . I'm listening to her now talking about her […] [Original post on ecoevo.social]

Cover page for Anne Carson's collection of poems "The beauty of the Husband a fictional essay in 29 tangoes"

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William Godsoe @godsoewilliam.ecoevo.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/08/2026

I just had the most @joncounts meeting of all time. The bicycle tire was successfully repaired.

Serious office meeting... but a bike tire is being repaired.

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William Godsoe @godsoewilliam.ecoevo.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/06/2026

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William Godsoe @godsoewilliam.ecoevo.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/06/2026

@sundogplanets This bad boy is powered by renewable energy and runs on FOSS. (I think)

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William Godsoe @godsoewilliam.ecoevo.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/05/2026

Watching Stephen Colbert over the last few days gives me the firm unironic vibe of:

Screen cap from Sunset Boulevard: "I am big. Its the pictures that got small"

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William Godsoe @godsoewilliam.ecoevo.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/05/2026

@sci_burst I'm just getting into the solarpunk episodes, just as the season seems to be over. If you ever come back to the theme, I'd love to see a discussion on most solarpunk places in the southern hemisphere. A year ago i wrote a nomination of why i think […] [Original post on ecoevo.social]

Bicycle gear with a scene from Otautahi (Christchurch): street car, earthquake damaged buildings and a cherry tree. Illustration by Jean Donaldson.

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William Godsoe @godsoewilliam.ecoevo.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/05/2026

@natematias There is a lot of mileage around base rates. I wrote a toy model on a similar AI detection problem in ecology. You use AI to detect pest species and trap them. We'd expect AI to have some chance of errors, the consequences of which depend on base […] [Original post on ecoevo.social]

Title page to: Godsoe, William, James G. Ross, and Claire M. Postlethwaite. "When does management using artificial intelligence lead to unintended consequences? A case study using ‘smart’traps." Ecological Modelling 516 (2026): 111573.

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William Godsoe @godsoewilliam.ecoevo.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/04/2026

I nominate Oxford Terrace/Cashel Street as #solarpunk alley Otautahi (Christchurch). In this scene a crowd gathers around a car race (on screen across the avon river). Bikers seem to have just dropped by as I did... only interrupted by the old timey tram. This […] [Original post on ecoevo.social]

Crowd in downtown Christchurch, including bikes and tram.

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William Godsoe @godsoewilliam.ecoevo.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/04/2026

The new Casey hut in Arthur's pass national park Aotearoa. Solar panels to right and rain water collection system to left. As is normal in a DOC hut, a chatty collection of randoms passing around a bit of cheer. It might as well be #solarpunk .

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William Godsoe @godsoewilliam.ecoevo.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/04/2026

I was delighted to read the new book “Choose wisely” it picks apart the idea that “rationality” is when people maximizes expected utility. They argue that this view is too limited, in particular that most problems cannot naturally be framed as exercises in […] [Original post on ecoevo.social]

BARRY SCHWARTZ
RICHARD SCHULDENFREI
Rationality, Ethics,

and the Art of

Decision-Making

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William Godsoe @godsoewilliam.ecoevo.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/04/2026

Intellectually i knew all these things about Shannon, but it hits different in a @ZachWeinersmith cartoon.

Comic of Claude Shannon working on information theory, unicycles and flaming trombones.

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William Godsoe @godsoewilliam.ecoevo.social.ap.brid.gy · 31/03/2026

I wanted to share a paper considering unintended consequences of using #AI in ecology. We link pop growth and ai performance. We use an example of traps that use AI to selectively "remove" undesired species like rats. We then show how this can damage […] [Original post on ecoevo.social]

Figure from paper with caption: A major management concern in Aotearoa is the control of invasive mammalian predators such as Ship rats (Rattus rattus). (B) Control of predators can have unintended consequences including harm to native species such as the Weka (Gallirallus australis). (C) Existing control measures are designed to mitigate these unintended consequences such with this trapping tunnel designed to mechanically exclude Weka. (D) A new generation of traps such as the AT-520 AI uses AI to selectively target pest species. The consequences of this advance are currently unclear.

Chain of events where improving our ability to detect rats unintentionally damages populations of other species.

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William Godsoe @godsoewilliam.ecoevo.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/03/2026

More cycling in Canterbury, the article below goes through the details but annecdotally i've noticed this while trying to scooch into our itty bitty bike shed […] [Original post on ecoevo.social]

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William Godsoe @godsoewilliam.ecoevo.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/03/2026

I just finished Michael Lewis's biography of Sam Bankman-Fried "Going infinite". It is bizzare, timely and an awesome read. It uses the the "buisness" of cryptocurrency as a window into how hype cycles emerge, the stats strategies that help people get ahead in […] [Original post on ecoevo.social]

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William Godsoe @godsoewilliam.ecoevo.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/03/2026

Oh sure you might be looking for instructions for how to format a box for the journal Oikos, but wouldn't you rather have some similarly branded yogurt?

Google search for Oikos box (i.e. the ecology journal) leads to box of oikos yogurt.

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William Godsoe @godsoewilliam.ecoevo.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/03/2026

Reading for today: Wan, et al. "Functional coexistence theory: Identifying mechanisms linking biodiversity and ecosystem function." Ecological Monographs 95, no. 3 (2025): e70033. Many many people have speculated on when species' coexistence leads to a […] [Original post on ecoevo.social]

Screen cap of:

Wan, et al. "Functional coexistence theory: Identifying mechanisms linking biodiversity and ecosystem function." Ecological Monographs 95, no. 3 (2025): e70033.

FIGURE 8 Applying functional coexistence theory to a plant
competition experiment. We parameterize our resource competition
model and identify drivers of pairwise community biomass using
experimental data: Wedin and Tilman (1993) competed two grass
species, Poa pratensis and Agropyron repens, across a soil nitrogen
gradient (horizontal axis, all panels). Detailed methods are given in
Appendix S1: Section S6. (a) Fitting the resource competition model.
After determining R and monoculture biomass of Poa (blue dashed
line) and Agropyron (orange dashed line) from single-species
growth, we fit our model to the plot-level equilibrium biomass of
each species (points) across the soil nitrogen gradient. Model
predictions (solid lines) capture the shift between Agropyron and
Poa as nitrogen increases. (b) effect on yield. Using the
fitted parameters, we quantified transgressive overyielding (black
line) as the difference between the communitys biomass and that
of its highest-yielding species (Poa); we shade the portion of this
curve where the outcome was coexistence without transgressive
overyielding (gray). (c) Niche and fitness components. We show the
predictions of functional coexistence theory ,
calculating the range of fitness ratios (vertical axis) that would
allow transgressive overyielding (green) or just coexistence (gray)
across the nitrogen gradient. The solid line shows the actual fitness
ratio between the species; the dashed lines show the three
boundaries as in Figure 7b.

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William Godsoe @godsoewilliam.ecoevo.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/02/2026

When your talk is a tough act to follow...

Talk program, Carl Bergstrom first, then little old me.

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William Godsoe @godsoewilliam.ecoevo.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/02/2026

@hweimer those are just design things though, really love the idea.... On the less practical side the original Simicity let you simulate disasters like godzilla. Disasters are a key part of the climate change story... any room for thes guys?

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William Godsoe @godsoewilliam.ecoevo.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/02/2026

Powerpoint has... of course removed the option to turn off its "AI" slide suggestion. I know what i'll be talking about in my next lecutre and what autogenerated design I will use.

Ugly slide design of:
"you've been asked to work with a new staff member"
-Claims to be superintelligent
-Interrupts frequently
-Can't be relied on to tell the truth
-Does not take no for an answer
-What do you do?

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William Godsoe @godsoewilliam.ecoevo.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/02/2026

See the bike lane veering to the right? Gotta be the prefered route to take a bike, certainly not the stroad (Blenheim road) to the left. I had long wondered why google maps would insist on routing me across the stroad, ignoring the lovely bike path. I though […] [Original post on ecoevo.social]

Street scene in Christchurch New Zealand, bike lane to the right, stroad (Blenheim road) to the left.

Screen shot of google maps, showing a "bicycle" route along a busy road, rather than a nearby bike lane.

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William Godsoe @godsoewilliam.ecoevo.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/01/2026

I will watch with interest. In Christchurch/Otautahi New Zealand, I see google maps giving bad directions as well. In this neighbourhood there is a beautiful bikelane connecting these two locations. Google maps instead recommends a four lane stroad, with no protected bike lane.

Google map direction along a busy road in Christchurch New Zealand.

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William Godsoe @godsoewilliam.ecoevo.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/01/2026

Inlaws are taking me on a trip to Brisbane/Bundaberg Aus next week. There is talk of going naturalizing, but i'm slowly coming to the realization that Australia is quite hot, maybe not ideal for dragging my kids for a hike given their tender NZ/Canadian […] [Original post on ecoevo.social]

Crossing inlet in Abel Tasman national park.

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