William Ou 歐家昂

@Athmanathan25 @raf_dandrea @Ecology_Letters 🤩

My next plant-soil feedback theory paper with @raf_dandrea is out in @Ecology_Letters onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/el… -We show that our formulation with an explicit conditionable soil variable leads to a richer set of outcomes than both the std. PSF formulation and LV competition. (1/5)

Why do ecological systems typically develop from fast- to slow-growing species? Why do species tend to appear one by one instead of all at once? We found that this developmental path is most likely to emerge as species minimize environmental resistance to enhance their survival.

Hi #ecology friends, question for you: are priority effects a niche or neutral process?

@mdesiervo1031 The Genetic Basis of Evolutionary Change - Lewontin 1974 p269 :D

@jiaangou Where is this from?

"Equilibria annihilate history. It is the nature of an equilibrium point that all paths [] lead to it (at least locally), so that the particular history of change is irrelevant and, once the system is at equilibrium, there is no trace of historical information"

Hey #dataviz tweeters, I've noticed a lot of really pleasing circle-pack-along-an-axis plots lately, especially in interactive news or "pop" data vis. Do we have a good way to replicate these in #RStats or #Shiny? ggbeeswarm gets close, but not quite #datavisualization #R

"we better clarify what competition is fundamentally: [...] how rates of consumption affect the amount of time a renewable resource is made unavailable to future consumers" 💯

R.I.P. Daniel Dennett 1942-2024 "There is no such thing as philosophy-free science; there is only science whose philosophical baggage is taken on board without examination." —Daniel Dennett, 1995

“Our editorial team is well aware of the traditional challenges in this space and aims to embrace new, weird, and creative perspectives.” 🥹🥹🥹

Very excited to share work for my first PhD chapter on variation in leaf carbon economics, energy balance and heat tolerance traits in a common garden! doi.org/10.1111/nph.19…

We're running some fun experiments and are curious what your expectations are: How many generations in the past do you think yeast "remember" environmental change?

@SonjaSaine @KoneenSaatio Congrats!!! 🎉

Kiitos @KoneenSaatio apurahasta väitöskirjani viimeistelyyn! Hankkeessa tutkin sienilajien välisten vuorovaikutusten ja elinympäristön roolia lahottajasienten siirtoistutuksissa. Onnittelut muille rahoitetuille ja ajatuksia rahoitusta vaille jääneille.🧡 koneensaatio.fi/apurahat-ja-re…

Highly recommend letting Snoop Dogg tell you what life is

@biocomplexed Hang in there! The academy needs you :)

Glad to see this one finally out. Huge thanks to the amazing coauthors @metaboli3am @sylvieestrela @jccvila @asanchez_lab

Lewontin’s (1983) famous equation found in Rosen (1975) 👀

"If an event results from the joint operation of a number of causative chains, and if these causes “interact” [...], it becomes conceptually impossible to assign quantitative values to the causes of that individual event." Levins & Lewontin, 'The Dialectical Biologist' Ch 4

@wc_ratcliff Robert Rosen calls it mimetics: sciencedirect.com/science/articl… But here's a more recent review by Roli et al (2022): frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…

Yesterday I had a student ask me about whether a computer model, like a LLM, could be conscious. This has long seemed pretty absurd to me, so I said “I dunno, do you think linear regression is conscious?” Boom, QED. But then I spent the night thinking about it more.

Thomas Park (1962) quoting #Whitehead while trying to understand, what appears to be, historically-contingent competition in flour beetles 😍