Stats for Scared Ecologists

#EarlyView👀 80% of insect species are yet to be discovered and named; most are smaller, less abundant, found at fewer locations and often in taxonomically complex groups, than named species #OpenAccess #OriginalArticle⬇️ doi.org/10.1111/icad.1… @Royentsoc @WileyEcolEvol

In Afrikaans, it's called the Satan's bush 😈 Meet the silver-leaf nightshade (Solanum elaeagnifolium) ! 🧛‍♂️ This invasive weed is poisonous, can regenerate itself from fragments and is unpalatable for most animals 😱 Check it online 👉 shorturl.at/4xCbN

I decided to restart my ecological stats blog posts. Check out this new one on why you should probably stop using the number of survey days as a covariate in occupancy models. Check it out! masonfidino.com/camera_days/

How can we use environmental DNA (eDNA) sampling to systematically collect species occupancy data rapidly and efficiently across vast spatial domains to improve understanding of factors influencing species distributions? onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.111…

My posit conf talk is live youtu.be/sjYNUIkOlC0?si…

Check out my blog in @MethodsEcolEvol about our recent article about improving reporting standards for simulation studies👇 #reportingitems #metaresearch

Nice to see my paper out in Ornithological Applications! We found that trailing-edge species are moving uphill in response to climate change, but they seem to be still hanging on. Not exactly cheery news, but some cool science went into this: academic.oup.com/condor/advance…

Excellent from Brian McGill: is ecology (and by extension, other disciplines, even digital humanities!) ready for really big code projects, and how both authors and readers can presume the code works? dynamicecology.wordpress.com/2024/10/14/is-…

🚨JOB ALERT🚨 Interested in how the microclimate mediates the coexistence of species rich insect communities? Us too! Come and work @CUBiosciences with me, @andrewbdavies, @cjanion and @RebeccaASenior on our @HFSP funded project. Full advert: bit.ly/CardiffAntJob

Very proud of @coraliewilliams 's first #PhD paper @MethodsEcolEvol ! Improving reporting of statistical simulation studies for EcoEvo and beyond besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/20…

Interested in occupancy models? Now you can fit them with INLA (@bayescomp_inla ) . Read our paper doi.org/10.1111/2041-2… and check out the tutorial ecol-stats.github.io/Occupancy-Mode….

TidierPlots.jl 0.8.0 is out! It's a massive refactoring to address several issues all at once. - Enables transformation of variables w/ either DataFrames or TidierData syntax - Plots and geoms can be broadcast - DateTimes work - facet_wrap fixed 6+ issues resolved!

📢 PSA: Tired of #betareg in #rstats complaining when you have 0 and/or 1 in your response variable? 🎉 Good news: betareg can now capture this at the expense of a single extra parameter! 📄 New arXiv working paper with @IKosmidis_ zeileis.org/news/xbx/

Hey, that's me, doing the publishing thing. 🥳😎 If you like SDM's, climate data, invasive species predictions, R, or MaxEnt, this may be of interest to you. This was a pre-covid idea - glad to finally see it published. #Ecology #MaxEnt #SDM #R

@BrendanGodley @PolCapdevila90 @ExeterMarine @UniExeCornwall @ExeterGSES @UniExeCEC @SarahENelms @_KMETCALFE @LuisHuckstadt @CezzaLew @NicolaWeber @KJHockings Hey @fock_fish - this seems like a role that was made for you? 😁

Postdoc position for modeling biodiversity and ecosystem responses to climate change. Nanyuki/Kenya and Bern/Switzerland search.app/kZxoJSDQCUFsCV…

New paper: inlabru: software for fitting latent Gaussian models with non-linear predictors Preprint now up on arxiv arxiv.org/abs/2407.00791 Inlabru extends the class of models that users can fit with INLA (1/n)

*NEW pre-print* "Extended sample size calculations for evaluation of prediction models using a threshold for classification" Led by @R_L_Whittle we develop sample size calculations for estimating: accuracy, specificity, sensitivity, PPV, NPV, F1-score arxiv.org/abs/2406.19673

Had such a great time talking about hierarchical spatial occupancy and abundance models at @Vogelwarte_scie last week in Switzerland with an amazing group of researchers! All workshop lectures and exercises are freely available on GitHub: github.com/doserjef/Switz….