You can now find a recording of my course "Introduction to Bayesian Statistics in R & brms" on youtube. Slides & code available here: github.com/benjamin-ros... #Rstats

Going to run some of these bad boys on microbiome datasets next week

We tried Cyberpunk 2077 but she finds it a bit too hectic, so let's play the feline version next: Stray #caturday

Die neue Tarifrunde steht an!

Ecology faces an accumulation of models but not an accumulation of confidence. Our new paper w/ Jonathan Levine www.nature.com/articles/s41... in @natecoevo.nature.com introduces a rigorous test rooted in queueing theory to falsify inadequate models and build confidence in useful ones.

You can always calibrate your statistical test to focus on a hypothesis about what YOU deem as a practically significant effect… if you so dare. #statssky #hypothesistesting #sciencesky

She prefers the analogue life on a lazy #caturday

Announcing 🍱 Lunchbox Models 🍱 – an online seminar series all about ecological modelling & career insights, hosted by the @gfoesoc.bsky.social AKs Computational Ecology and YoMos 🦊 Find the topics and details as well as access to Zoom on our webpage: www.yomos.org/lunchbox-mod... Please share!

Solidarität mit dem @verbrecherverlag.bsky.social Sowohl für Romane wie auch für Gesellschaftskritik mein Favorit seit Jahr und Tag

No beef between these 2 potats for over an hour on this #caturday morning, this can only mean that world peace is near

We ask all Privatdozent:innen, Professor:innen and other colleagues, including solidaric colleagues abroad, to sign this letter and thus support our cause. You can find and sign the letter via the following link: chng.it/VhcP5tDBBY

Alien Earth

A brief delve into the recent science history of network theory (including food webs)

Wünsche dem @verbrecherverlag.bsky.social alles Gute zum 30. Geburtstag. Aktuell auf meiner Leseliste ist der Sammelband "Klimawandel und Gesellschaftskritik"

MC Stan is here! Follow for the latest Stan news, and tag if you want us to repost your posts about new papers, packages, courses, etc. about Stan

Simulations are no longer just “nice to have.” They’re reshaping how we do statistics. Care to learn more? Check out our paper arxiv.org/abs/2503.24011, accepted for publication in the upcoming theme issue of Philosophical Transactions A.

@raviranjan.bsky.social & I are teaching a free online workshop with on experimental design for environmental scientists on the 23rd. We'll focus on using simulations to evaluate how well different experimental designs help achieve your goals. Please sign up & share! forms.gle/MZTxeQs4UpMr...

Jetzt kommt es auf die Hochschulleitungen an Nach dem Scheitern der Ampel muss die neue Koalition beim #Wissenschaftszeitvertragsgesetz endlich liefern. Gleichzeitig steigt der Druck auf die Rektorate und Präsidien. Im Wiarda-Blog: www.jmwiarda.de/blog/2025/09...

Before becoming a computational ecologist, I was working in fluid dynamics (for airplanes). This is going to be an interesting and fun read!!

Stan / CmdStan 2.37 release! blog.mc-stan.org/2025/09/02/r... - sum_to_zero_matrix type sums to zero across both rows and columns - simplex and *_stochastic_matrix types should be now faster and more stable - new functions exposing the built-in constraint implementations 1/2

Rare sighting of a theoretician in the field

2025 shit is hitting the fan so hard that Werner Herzog is starting social media

Davon mal abgesehen, dass der Begriff "Coach" kein rechtlich geschützter ist & jede/r sich so nennen kann (ich bitte auch alle Coaches in meiner Bubble, das Folgende nicht persönlich zu nehmen) – es braucht kein x-tes Coaching zu 'mental strength in academia', 'Wege aus Wissenschaft', 1/2

Ever stared at a table of regression coefficients & wondered what you're doing with your life? Very excited to share this gentle introduction to another way of making sense of statistical models (w @vincentab.bsky.social) Preprint: doi.org/10.31234/osf... Website: j-rohrer.github.io/marginal-psy...

Since search is dead, how soon do you think Google Scholar is headed for the Google Graveyard? I'm betting it's soon, and academia is NOT prepared

We talk more about visual posterior predictive checking and above plots in teemusailynoja.github.io/visual-predi.... The next bayesplot release will give a warning if PPC bar graphs are used with less than 6 unique outcome values, with a link to a page containing suggestions for better plots. 4/4

Brought out the good stuff for #caturday

Spent the better part of the morning trying to populate a non-square matrix in NIMBLE, with constants on upper triangle and variables on lower triangle and block. Extra-challenge: no if-statements and no custom running indices allowed, just slicing all the way. 🫠 #Rstats

New on CRAN: staninside (0.0.4). View at https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=staninside

Who would have thought: Sicherheit führt *nicht* zu #Einkuscheln. Existenzangst hingegen lähmt. #PDprekär #IchBinHanna #IchBinReyhan #WissZeitVG

Paper recommendation: A sparse modelling approach for analyzing community dynamics (20-40 species), using a regularized horseshoe prior for N² species interactions (zero vs non-zero), and a dimension-reduction approach for the N² residual correlation matrix (influences of unmeasured covariates) 🔥

From now on, whenever running MCMC I will quietly whisper "Go get 'em, Andrey the furious!" 🔥 #Rstats #StatsSky

If you see this, quote post with a robot that isn’t from Star Wars, Star Trek, Dr Who and Transformers

🌳 One of my dearest projects—with brilliant friends and colleagues—is out in @NatureComms We show that how you plant tree species (not just which) can significantly boost forest functioning. 🔗 rdcu.be/evtXs 👇 A short thread

🌳 Tree placement matters! A new study shows forests with diverse, non-clustered species boost biomass (+11%), nutrient cycling and decomposition. 🛠️ Line planting = sweet spot between ecology and management. 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41... www.idiv.de/the-right-mi...

New #rstats blog up! solomonkurz.netlify.app/blog/2025-07... This is the first in a brief series where we use {brms} to learn {Stan} code. Many thanks to @fusaroli.bsky.social and @stephenjwild.bsky.social for their helpful reviews.

When I'm running out of ideas how to finish a paper 📚🪐🧪

Great new paper by two journal editors providing a roadmap for effective statistical reporting – fantastic resource for students in any ecological field. academic.oup.com/fisheries/ad...

I started identifying the plants in our Schrebergarten for the #CitizenScience project GartenDiv using the #FloraIncognita app floraincognita.de/gartendiv/

New fear unlocked: lab generated mirror life spreading across the planet

Antisemitic incidents are skyrocketing at German universities

I'm missing a bit of a demographic perspective here. E.g. a German PhD will easily face 4+ non-permanent employments before they secure a permanent position (if at all), which might limit the range of what they'd want to speak up about and what not #IchbinHanna

🚨 Big milestone for Rdatasets 🚨 The web archive now hosts 3400+ free and documented CSV datasets. Fantastic for teaching and testing! And {Rdatasets} is a new #RStats 📦 for easy download and search Web archive: vincentarelbundock.github.io/Rdatasets R 📦: vincentarelbundock.github.io/Rdatasetspkg

www.spiegel.de/politik/deut... #IchBinHanna

I often show students this figure and ask, how different is the green distribution (p < 0.05) from the blue distribution (p = 0.10)? Just to raise some awareness that the difference between "statistical significant" and "not significant" is not always that significant...

Ecologists’ endless quest for automatic inference statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/05/28/e...

Visionär und doch konkret: Die Delegierten beschließen das künftige wissenschaftspolitische Programm der GEW. #GEWTAG25 #BlueLZ #IchbinHanna www.gew.de/aktuelles/de...

Totally missed this last year's paper: A great introduction to continuous-time modelling (deterministic & stochastic)!

More shots fired in the #causalInference #ecology literature! 🌍