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Great resource on spatial analysis

I am building a shiny app that interacts with a pgSQL db this is hosted on AWS RDS with the app being deployed on an AWS EC2. I have made dockerfile and GHA that build GHCR and deploy the app but stumbled upon {golem} a bit after the fact. Do ppl have examples of usage of {golem}. #Rstats #Rshiny

All the material for my Bayesian Data Analysis course is available online, including the lectures, which we re-recorded this fall (some of them by @aloctavodia.bsky.social and Noa Kallioinen while I was on vacation). The video links are listed in the schedule at avehtari.github.io/BDA_course_A...

There's been much talk about the "Just a Job" piece in Nature Human Behavior — absent an ability of many to read it. The author is here, @laraffington.bsky.social. In the post below, she shares a link available to all.

Travel from the comfort of your own home this #25DaysofFishmas as we explore fishes from all across the US each day in December. Best part? No sleeping on air mattresses in guest rooms! The road trip kicks off with fishes from the southeastern US on Monday Dec. 1!

#30daymapchallenge | Day 22 Data: Natural Earth | The Great Islands Earlier this summer I finished this print version of my map from last year depicting our Great Lakes as islands. Been trying to learn more about lighting techniques in Blender—I think this was a big leap forward from 2024 version!

Today is World Fisheries Day! 🎣 Fishing has been an essential part of human history for thousands of years and continues to support communities around the world. In recent decades, technological advances have expanded the range of fishing vessels and increased their efficiency, 1/5

Michigan lawmakers want to greatly increase funding for invasive mussel control research in the #GreatLakes to $500 million over the next 10 years - as Great Lakes Fishery Commission's Greg McClinchey says in this article: "Mussels are this generation’s sea lamprey" bridgemi.com/michigan-env...

Sea lamprey control - a joint effort between the US + Canada - has allowed lake trout to make a comeback in the #GreatLakes over the past 60 years. This fall marks the 3rd year the Fond du Lac Band has been able to practice the tradition of subsistence netting www.mprnews.org/story/2025/1...

Some good advice in here but one critical piece I always give is this: Get a hobby. Preferably a mildly social one. One that has NOTHING TO DO WITH SCIENCE. NOTHING. You need friends. Not colleagues. FRIENDS. Friends who will love you no matter your research prospects...

FINALLY! 🥳 A Baltic Sea Tracking Network is on the way!! Thanks in part to a receiver loan from @oceantracking.bsky.social members of ETN based at SLU & LUKE (Finland) have deployed what we hope is just the beginning 💪 You can find out more about the project here: tinyurl.com/yc5nhxr5

This package has data that can be used instead of nycflights13 to teach joins, and also to look at temporal trends and draw maps. It has to coolest hexsticker vahdatjavad.github.io/ecotourism/ and cute creatures: mantarays, gouldian finches, glow worms and orchids

I haven't used {DeclareDesign} before, but I have been using {marginaleffects} in my simulation-based power analyses for the past year or so, and I recommend you do too.

30 seconds of Lake Ontario 🌊 📍Deer Creek Wildlife Management Area #lakeontario #greatlakes #beach

An Op Ed in the @theglobeandmail.com on World Lake Day. www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

Obviously, and laughably wrong. Whales do not in fact fly into windmill blades. Entanglement in fishing gear, and getting hit by ships is the main cause of right whale deaths. And the other whale species are doing just fine in the Atlantic.

By sequencing DNA from a bloom near Barker’s Island in Superior last fall, researchers linked the toxins to Microcystis aeruginosa. The Minnesota Sea Grant called it a “breakthrough discovery.”

Fish telemetry is helping researchers uncover critical data to guide conservation decisions. Submit your research or review on telemetry applications for managing #aquaticspecies for this collection. Submissions open until Sept 30, 2025 ▶️ buff.ly/Y2FTYRL @icft2025.bsky.social

NASA-funded 2.5-3y position at St. Mary's College of Maryland using #acoustictelemetry and observing system data to create real-time forecasts of Atlantic sturgeon: www.smcm.edu/hr/smcm-job/... #trackingnotslacking 🦑🐟🧪🌎

Sea Grant work helps coastal communities become more resilient to disasters, promotes sustainable fisheries and aquaculture, and contributes to healthier coastal ecosystems for all. In 2023 alone, a federal investment in Sea Grant of $94 million resulted in $828.3 million economic benefit.

This year's Jack Christie/Ken H. Loftus Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions toward Understanding Healthy #GreatLakes Ecosystems from the Great Lakes Fishery Commission to @margaretdocker.bsky.social!

New #AcousticTelemetry mooring design recs backed by decades of experience from @oceantracking.bsky.social and @imos-aus.bsky.social: repository.oceanbestpractices.org/handle/11329... Complete with a repo to further community development! github.com/ocean-tracki... 🌎🧪🐟🦑 #trackingnotslacking

We had an amazing time on Sunday at Earth Day at Malden Park. Thanks to everyone who stopped by our booth to chat and learn about water monitoring, and the work we are doing with RAEON. We are looking forward to seeing you again at our community science events starting this month! shorturl.at/FJN6L

mort: An R package to conservatively identify mortalities and shed tags in passive telemetry arrays. Journal of Animal Ecology, 00, 1–13. doi.org/10.1111/1365...

Long-term convergence of salmonid isotopic niche in Lake Ontario #GreatLakes 🧪 "Lake Ontario salmonid isotopic niches have converged through time, suggesting energy sources for salmonids have become more similar." www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Fun surprise today…Mark Carney happen to show up next to building I work in. Shook his hand and said support science! #canadastrong

OTN’s study hall promotes a culture of open science by providing a platform for transparent discussions and problem-solving. These informal sessions on Thursdays can be a valuable resource for anyone interested in aquatic telemetry. Learn more: oceantrackingnetwork.org/study-hall/

Trophic Ecologists - new pkg alert - {trps} (pronounced ‘tropes’): Bayesian Trophic Position Models using 'Stan'. Estimates trophic position using equations from Post (2002), Vander Zanden & Vadeboncoeur (2002), & Heuvel et al. (2024). benjaminhlina.github.io/trps/ #rstats #ecology #foodwebs

AOC: What they like to call as radical, I believe is common sense. I believe that when a person gets sick, they shouldn’t go bankrupt in the wealthiest country in the history of the world. Common sense I believe that a minimum wage should cover the minimum cost to live. Common sense...

⚡️FIGHT THE OLIGARCHY RALLY ⚡️ STARTING TOMORROW. Nevada. Arizona. Colorado. You, me, and Bernie. Dem and GOP districts. ❤️💙 See you there 💪🏽🌞

This is super cool: "The SeaTube Catalog contains video recordings from Remotely Operated Vehicle dives, fixed cameras at the seafloor, and time-lapse cameras at coastal shore stations." data.oceannetworks.ca/ExpeditionMa... Here's an eel feeding at 1000m off the coast of Virginia. 🧪🐟🦑

Another really cool one

Really looking forward to another rendition of my ecological time series and forecasting course using {`mvgam`} and {`brms`} in #rstats. Come for the wiggles, stay for the memes

Interesting to see these massive salmon farms popping up in small communities in the US. The freshwater output is huge; we fought one planned in MD's Eastern Shore that would have an outfall literally 6' above critical endangered sturgeon habitat. Moved to the Susquehanna, a much larger system.

I use to work in sea lamprey control in the GL and now do fisheries and food web dynamics in the GL and this is not good. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Pretty sad and frustrating tbh

Past and present members of our lab at the @scas-scsa.bsky.social meeting.

Many fired workers are not speaking publicly, but here are four Minnesotans who did.

Dozens of workers focused on lamprey control were among scores of Michigan federal workers fired without notice in the past week Story by @bridgemi.com: www.greatlakesnow.org/2025/02/trum...

I help manage and study fisheries in Wisconsin, with the goal of making fishing better. It would be impossible without federal colleagues, partnerships, programs, funding, and regulations. Here’s a small sampling of what they do. Let’s not discard every cog and wheel without understanding their role

Lake Erie, other Great Lakes could be damaged by Trump’s funding cuts, hiring freezes www.toledoblade.com/local/enviro...

Trophic ecologists who work with stable isotopes I bring you a{nichetools} - a complementary package to {SIBER} and {nicheROVER} that allows you to work with data objects created by either pkg. Check it out! benjaminhlina.github.io/nichetools/ #rstats #stableisotopes #foodwebs

Scientists, it’s been a rough week. And honestly, we don’t lift each other up enough—especially when it comes to mental health. Our careers are built on repetitive rejection of papers, grants, and jobs. That doesn’t define you. You and your science are incredible. Just wanted to remind you of that.

Another video in my series on applied time series and forecasting with the {mvgam} #rstats 📦. This one introduces State Space hierarchical GAMs and GPs for tackling multivariate series youtu.be/2POK_FVwCHk?...

I've posted a new video on YouTube that gives a brief overview of the new conditional_values() function in my gratia #RStats 📦 I plan to do more of these videos over the next few weeks & months. Make sure you're subscribed if you want to be notified as they get posted. youtu.be/iKG0aHWpTAo

Last week’s study hall somehow resulted in us swimming around with acoustic tags in our socks in the fjord today! @bergentelemetry.bsky.social @mathildeoddekalv.bsky.social

Ocean science friends! The American Fisheries Society is planning on removing certain words like inclusivity and safety from their 5 year plan. They are voting on this on Thursday, so please share your dissent and fill out the form here. Please also share! #oceansci docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...