Simone Blomberg

Excited for this new pre-print from my lab. Please enjoy and re-tweet! biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

@MoranKenyan @rstatstweet This is true. It’s called the Gambler’s Ruin. If you start off with a finite balance and the “house” has infinite funds and you never leave the game then you will eventually lose it all, with probability of 1.

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@LilySimpson1312 Haha I read this sitting in my backyard wearing flannel, t-shirt, jeans and trainers. #notTransEnough?

My last PhD chapter is now out there ready to be criticized - and cited, hopefully for good reasons! 🤞 An evaluation of performance and an attempt to "reconciliate" linear and geometrics morphometrics and their treatment of size and allometry. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ec…

@robcrod @NatureComms @Rob_SalGo @mollykgrace @ecologiaUMH @cayuela_hugo @C_PCarmona Good work team. I hope my contribution was helpful.

Our latest work on the main threats to the functional diversity of #tortoises , #turtles and #crocodiles has been published today in @NatureComms . Link here nature.com/articles/s4146… with @Rob_SalGo @mollykgrace @ecologiaUMH @cayuela_hugo @C_PCarmona @simoneb66

@brodriguesco @rstatstweet attach() is the spawn of the devil.

#RStats, what are some impure functions that are very heavily used in R? (and not the usual suspects like read/write.csv) - data() - plot() something else?

@AssignedMale You rock, @AssignedMale ! Keep doing your lovely work. There’s a whole lot of good people on your side. Yay!!! ❤️❤️❤️

Do it for them

@WaneDrew @PPantsdown Shout out to non-binary folks who seem to get erased in this debate. I support your rights to have a different, unique experience of gender. Enbies rock!

@WaneDrew @PPantsdown Because although we are women, men our experience of our gender is different to that of cisgender folks. We are different (everyone is different from everyone else in some way!). Besides, it was cisgender doctors who first described us as trans. We didn’t come up with the label.

Hello fellow cisgender folks! My threads are full of nazi/anti-trans replies. When u engage in long back-forths, remember trans & gender-diverse ppl see their robotic genocidal disinfo. One reply followed by a block cuts it off. (Trans ppl, do whatever t.f. you want to of course)

Ed kuepper is going off! ⁦@EdKuepper⁩

@DaniaAlbini @rstatstweet This is not an RStudio issue. Update your R. Then update your packages.

@arkfrancis Unlike some fields that require lots of people in a lab. Look for how many papers are first author papers and you will get a better idea.

@arkfrancis Don’t worry! It depends on the field. Maths is different because it’s a very individual type of research. Throwing more brains at a problem doesn’t really speed up the research…

I'm looking at CVs of postdocs in another research area, with over 100 publications. That's roughly twice as many as I have, after over 20 years in academia, ten of which at full professor. I find it really difficult to comprehend how that level of productivity is possible!

@arkfrancis There are several genera and a bunch of species in Australia I think. The one commonly known as the house centipede is introduced I think.

What the hell is THIS?? South coast NSW, Australia. About 1cm long body.

@arkfrancis Centipede!

@arkfrancis Interesting finding though I have always thought these measures to be too dependent on tree topology and branch lengths to be taken too seriously. One of the reasons why I haven’t gone down that rabbit hole. In my own work I spend a lot of time doing simulations to test this

OK, here’s a short take on what we found in this paper. It’s maths, yes, but the take home messages are very applied and relate to species conservation. Here we go… 1/

@colin_fraser @rstatstweet Also it’s good programming practice to not use global variables unless absolutely necessary. Global variables can be modified by any other part of the code which could lead to some difficult bugs.

Just discovered a completely bizarre #RStats quirk. Wrapping this loop up in a function speeds it up by like 8x.

@Alexander_Lees Universities have been moving away from “ologies” (zoology, ornithology, etc including botany here) to “ics” courses (genetics, genomics, bioinformatics, transcriptomics etc) for quite a while. It means that natural history knowledge is being lost at an increasing rate.

Going, going, gone: specialist university courses in the natural sciences - botany, ornithology, biological recording. Demand is seemingly too low... #Echobox=1671035212" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">theconversation.com/botanists-are-…

Sometimes, it can be hard to know what resources you should read if you are just joining the #JuliaLang community, so this article covers 10 you might want to read 📚: juliazoid.com/the-10-best-ju…

I profoundly disagree with the smearing of the journal @ASNAmNat by @RichardDawkins and @Evolutionistrue: I am a (proud) long-term member of the editorial board of American Naturalist which is still one of our most important journals in evolutionary biology 1/n