Chris Patrick

Earlier this week 11.5% of NSF staff were fired and now NSF is being dismantled by DOGE. Rumors of a 60-100% budget cut. NSF is the only funder of basic research in the USA. Call your reps and tell them to prioritize basic research and save NSF. nsf.gov/impacts

Super-excited to share this paper that came out yesterday in Science. Congrats to all 152 co-authors! science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Excited to share Naomi's new paper on eelgrass wasting disease and herbivory! "Herbivores can benefit plants and pathogens by selectively feeding on diseased tissue." @bodegamarinelab Read more: doi.org/10.1111/1365-2…

I am extremely proud to share our new paper in Science on drivers of decomposition in streams and rivers worldwide led by Krista Capps, Scott Tiegs, and Dave Costello! #river #ecology #2024sfs @CostelloLab science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Hot off the presses! New work from our group demonstrates how long term climate regime modifies riverine responses to pulse disturbance events, in this case hurricanes! besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/13…

Check out our newest paper about using widgeon grass to enhance seagrass restoration under climate change! besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/13…

Air temperature is 55° and the water temperature was 57°. A cold day for scuba diving but we got the work done! 32 acres of bottom surveyed for seagrass in two days. Big thanks to #TNC for helping us out with this. #seagrass #MarineScience #restoration

Here at Benthics and want to learn about carbon sequestration differences between Ruppia and Zostera? Check out my student, Alyson Hall’s, talk at 11:30am today! @EcoAlyHall #BEM2024 #BlueCarbon

So happy to be amongst my fellow Benthic Ecologists at #BEM2024 ! VIMS CEEL (vims.edu/research/units…) is here in force this year!

@djm_MEEG @jebyrnes @Ecology_Letters I see! Yes, I agree that pseudoreplicate isn’t a terribly useful term. Focusing on matching domain of the data/experiment with domain of desired inference is most important thing and a less rigid framework than categorical definitions based on independence.

@djm_MEEG @jebyrnes @Ecology_Letters Nice piece! But it closely echoed Hurlbert 1984 (cited) and parts also reminded me of elements from papers like Choate et al 2012 (academic.oup.com/bioscience/art…). What were the really novel points here or did you more intend it as a reintroduction of fundamentals for a new gen?

And @bolkerb wins April fools. github.com/bbolker/gLLMgl… #rstats

Do we need a new category (6) of tropical cyclone? pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

This made me laugh and maybe cry a little, this is definitely the life of an academic in the USA some days! mcsweeneys.net/articles/class…

@LifeAfterMyPhD If you read the article you’ll see that the prof admits to feeling wracked with anxiety and guilt over the incident. This read like a confession they are trying to make amends for. I think it’s very self aware and apologetic, a reflection piece.

@bielleogy @jebyrnes Faculty myself and I support the push to increase wages, but this didn’t read as a scare tactic to me, it read like a boiler plate university memo designed to provide transparency for how the university intends to handle paychecks for strikers. I’d want to know this if striking.

Inference versus Prediction Statisticians versus Machine Learners Great summary! bioconductor.org/help/course-ma…

@ElenaLitchman Huzzahhh! What a great blog, glad to see it’s back!

Dynamic Ecology is back! | Dynamic Ecology dynamicecology.wordpress.com/2024/01/08/dyn…

@Jon_Chase03 @Nature @idiv @PunksInScience Is that headline primarily a function of the historically more abundant taxa having relatively more population to lose? Or is there a more ecological explanation for the pattern?

Our new study @Nature synthesizes time series on insects from sites across the world. Building on our previous work @idiv, we show that abundant species are declining faster than rarer species (richness is also declining). Expertly led by @PunksInScience nature.com/articles/s4158…