Vaughn Bodden

I'm happy to share this short piece published in @Trends_Ecol_Evo where we discuss the concept of vagrancy in the animal kingdom and argue that this poorly understood phenomenon deserves more attention from researchers --> authors.elsevier.com/a/1i2kTcZ3WyH4f

📢 Delighted to share the cover of my book Spatial Statistics for Data Science: Theory and Practice with R 😍😍😍 🔗 paulamoraga.com/book-spatial/ Thanks so much to my editor @lara_crc & all the team at @CRC_MathStats! The book will be available soon! #rstats #stats #datascience

Hey, did you know that there's a @QGIS plugin that lets you add a #chatGPT chat tab so you can ask it for help? This is a huge usability win. Has anyone checked on Stack Overflow? They doing okay?

Sea spiders can regenerate whole limbs and nearly complete body segments and most of their back halves, including the hindgut, anus, musculature, and parts of reproductive organs. In PNAS: ow.ly/RpJo50MylS7

I've written a tutorial for an occupancy model which incorporates spatial autocorrelation using a Gaussian process, coded in @mcmc_stan. peter-stewart.github.io/blog/gaussian-… Feedback is welcome, especially if you spot any mistakes which need fixing!

Huertas et al --> Mapping tree mortality rate in a tropical moist forest using multi-temporal LiDAR sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Are you interested in new techniques to estimate how species modify their diel activity patterns in response to anthropogenic change? Well then I have a 🚨new #openaccess paper🚨 for you, out now in @ASNAmNat! 1/ journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/72…

Delighted to announce that the publication of SizeExtractR is now out in Ecology and Evolution. This a useful workflow for demography in Ecology, written in ImageJ and R. Read more here: doi.org/10.1002/ece3.8…

⁦@LarkinPowell⁩ What a book! Wish all early career wildlife / conservation practitioners (⁦⁦⁦@TWSearlycareer ⁦⁦@USGSCoopUnits⁩)⁩ had access to these useful decision-making skills! Excited for new examples & to learn something! #sdmCoP

“If infected with parasites, this #frogs association with humans indicates they have great potential to serve as agents of #zoonotic transmission & may also threaten #pets that consume them.” #OneHealth #InvasiveSpecies #WildlifeTrade #FrogFriday m.ufhealth.org/news/2022/uf-s…

New paper out today! A hidden ecotype, and a role for hybridisation in boosting dispersal. Thanks to all involved with this! @jill_olofsson @m1bianconi @larrlarrr @PACgrass @EEB_Sheffield royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs…

Our new paper is out @PNASNews! "No link between population isolation and speciation rate in squamate reptiles". Led by Sonal Singhal, with @dan_rabosky and others. Find pdf copy at ivanprates.org/publications

Anthropocene = Homogenocene? Widespread homogenization of plant communities in the Anthropocene @Barnabas_Daru et al @NatureComms nature.com/articles/s4146… #speciesinvasions

New R package for calculating detection ranges for acoustic telemetry - a Bayesian approach provided by @sebdalgarno.. @AquaticTracking @OceanTracking #OTNstudyhall github.com/Freshwater-Fis…

Very happy and thrilled to share our review on 'The ecology of sleep in non‐avian reptiles' where we try to understand what is known on where, how, how much, and when do reptiles sleep, and the role of ecological factors in shaping these traits. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/br…

Our paper on the evolution of tusklessness in African elephants is finally out! Human-mediated selection can have some very strange an surprising consequences... science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

🥳🍻 Had fun running a workshop on Bayesian capture-recapture inference with hidden Markov models in R #rstats & Nimble w/ @SarahCubaynes @chloe_nater @MaudQueroue & Perry de Valpine @R_nimble ✅ Slides, worksheets & video recordings freely available from oliviergimenez.github.io/bayesian-cr-wo…

We can now count #flyingfoxes accurately & precisely from the air to aid 🦇conservation management! Important #thermal #drone study led by @westsyduhie Masters student @ElieDoesEcology in @RSECJournal: …lpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/rs… @BatConIntl @GlobalBatNet @batpapers @tarongazoo

Just finished up a week teaching Bayesian statistics with R #rstats for non-stats PhD students & 💜 it #bayes #mcmc #jags 🌍 Dedicated website bit.ly/3u0XPhV 🍳 Material bit.ly/2PxzDVu 📽️ Video recording (in English w/ 👽 accent) bit.ly/3cmaLJn

Insect monitoring: Trap method efficacy per taxonomic group