@GaryRitchison Thanks for sharing this, Gary! We had a great time working on it. Congrats on your book series! Hope you're doing alright. -Alex.
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Alex Baecher (he/him)
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Alex Baecher (he/him)
@AlexBaecher
Work: Postdoc at UF Family: Wife (Kristin), daughter (Faye), dog (Ollie) Hobbies: Herping, hiking, swimming, woodworking, and home DIY projects
Gainesville, FL Katılım Aralık 2018
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Invasion risk posed by the pet trade
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@gregnormanfox Nice job dodging the fact that he was a far-right conspiracist who's racist rants alienated even his politically-aligned friends -- calling him "beyond conservatism". The trend of violence amongst young white nationalist boys makes this considerably less "mysterious", Greg...
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More details emerge about Florida State University shooting suspect Phoenix Ikner as motive remains a mystery
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Two papers in one week! Congrats @Lise_Comte and BIOSHIFTS team!! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/gc…
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Great work leading this review @Jake_Lawlor1 and thanks to all the wonderful folks at BIOSHIFTS!!! @Lise_Comte @666brunno999 @JennSunday
Nature Reviews Earth & Environment 🌈@NatRevEarthEnv
🚨New Review! Warming temps are causing species' geographic ranges to shift. @Jake_Lawlor1, @Lise_Comte, @EkoLogIt, @JennSunday et al document these shifts, their difference from expectations, and their effects. nature.com/articles/s4301… (free to read: rdcu.be/dE753)
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@FletcherEcology @NSF @McCleeryLab @MonadjemAra @maggie_mjones @alexpotash Science that comports with lore! Also, who read the abstract with the dramatic voice of a movie trailer thriller?
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@alexpotash If its any consolation, I was an R luddite—self described base R hipster (who refused tidy convention until 2020). sf was a pill, but on the other side (took 2 or so months) I'm reformed and rejoicing. And what Rob said too.
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After another day of struggling to use the sf package for what should have been a simple task, I am spitefully retweeting this.
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I used to enjoy doing #spatialstatistics in R with package sp, but sf is such a nightmare to work with. It's like the developers sat down and said "how can we make everything as unintuitive and roundabout as possible?"
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My recent paper (how climate change and invasive species affect treefrogs native to the SE USA) made the cover of Journal of Animal Ecology (!) and later featured in Nature Climate Change (!): tinyurl.com/2tfuj25h
@BrettScheffers 📷Steve Johnson
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Having a second child 8 days before your dissertation is due to your committee 0/10 do not recommend
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This red-eyed tree frog looks ready for the weekend!
Photo by SNRE PhD student @AlexBaecher, who's building models to predict where and when high-risk invasive reptiles and amphibians are expected to spread under climate change.
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New paper out from the Scheffers Lab. A huge combined effort with @AlexBaecher, @thenaturedave and @BrettScheffers. We scoured the literature of tropical vertical stratification, finding big differences in how taxa are structured from ground-to-canopy.
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@se_casc supported researchers @AlexBaecher and @BrettScheffers co-authored, “Experimental evaluation of how biological invasions and climate change interact to alter the vertical assembly of an amphibian community,” published in @AnimalEcology
🗞️go.ncsu.edu/climate-change…
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🐸Consortium university researcher @AlexBaecher investigated how climate change and invasive species threaten Florida treefrogs
Learn more about these projects:
1. secasc.ncsu.edu/science/longle…
2. secasc.ncsu.edu/science/coqui-…
3. secasc.ncsu.edu/home/about/peo…
4. go.ncsu.edu/climate-change…
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@KateMcGinn14 @buron_ryan I can imagine what your face must have felt like.
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@boxdog1031 @inknaturalist @UF Wait till you see what he thinks about guns, climate, health care, justice reform...
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The UF Presidential Search Committee has unanimously endorsed former Yale and UT Austin professor, past Midland University president and current U.S. Senator Dr. Ben Sasse as the sole finalist to become the 13th president of the University of Florida. fal.cn/3swsz
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@EmilyKhazan @alexpotash Definitely possible, especially places like MDPI. For example, just this morning a request came in to review a paper on urban bushmeat consumption from "Annals of Environmental Science and Toxicology". Visiting the website, it *almost* passes for a low rent journal.
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@alexpotash I think so... Most of the journals well outside of my expertise requesting reviews from from MDPI (and other 'predatory') journals. Maybe predatory, maybe desperation because of their bad reputation?
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Is there such a thing as a predatory review request? I got asked to review a paper that has literally nothing to do with my research field. My best guess is some algorithm picked me because the title used the word 'synergistic' which I also used in a title of one of my papers.
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Behold, a grape-sized nugget of pure concentrated spicy nacho dust, worth more than it's weight in gold. @Doritos dm me if you'd like to add this to your Museum of Cornchiped Oddities 👀
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My favourite PhD chapter published! @SpringerEcology
By seasonally, horizontally and vertically tracking a poison frog population in Panama, we found them tied to the biggest trees, highlighting their conservation importance. @BrettScheffers @AlexBaecher
link.springer.com/article/10.100…
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@alexpotash According to my wife this very morning, this is not real. Apparently, some of the bands featured tweeted out that they had never heard of the festival, and were never invited to play.
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🥳 Happy to report that the #rstats {equatiomatic} package now supports binomial and poisson regression models from `lme4::glmer()`! Give it a try with the dev version: `remotes::install_github("datalorax/equatiomatic").
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