treat yo self!!!

Reading a really nice paper on equilibrium (or lack thereof) in ecology and it has one of the most ecology coded passages I've read in a while: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

I'm so happy to be able to post this for the first time in years. No expectations, but let's fucking go Suns www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzFx...

All I want is for the vibes to be better for the Suns this year. The team has just been so hard to watch the last couple of years. Go Suns!

Me seeing Lakers fans finally realize how much of a drag Ayton is to have on your team, no matter the price.

Something that I actually kind of like about doing stats in python instead of R is that being forced to implement a lot of things by hand gives me more of an understanding of the equations that I'm using for any given analysis. I don't know if this is really a "pro".... #rstats #pystats

Holy cow this is incredible. I loved the Owl House but I'm so excited to see what a fully unleashed Dana Terrace can do. This *needs* to be picked up for a full series

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I love everything about this. I also love how much it breaks some people's brains that you don't have to make yourself miserable to make art or even run a company. I have no doubt that they could have released this in a fraction of the time if they had "real" project management. But at what cost?

I find the argument that "LLMs might exhibit some aspects of human cognition! We might be probability machines too! So we should treat them as actual intelligence" to be really tiresome. Especially since it feels like a lot of these people wouldn't give the same consideration to animal cognition.

My first ever middle school dance, I got it in my head to request "War Pigs". I guess the DJs didn't know it, because they actually played it (right after "It's getting hot in herre"). They got 30 secs into it before yelling at me that I couldn't request music anymore. RIP Ozzy. Absolute legend.

After long and ardent thought, I have come up with what I believe to be the definitive Philosophy of AI: It sucks.

This is a fascinating thread and is close to something I’ve been thinking about since this tragedy, the replacement of local expertise by a kind of suburban willful ignorance that local environment and ecosystems matter when you move to a new place.

The increasingly powerful term #mycorrhiza warrants attention #Editorial by Bonfante & Genre. 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... Inaccurate AI-generated image generated using: ‘Generate a photo of a plant root system interacting with fungal mycelium in a mycorrhizal interaction’.

This is it. This is why the alarm about AI mostly ought to be a much much deeper and more urgent alarm about the completely broken social and cultural environment many of us live in now.

Video is officially up on YT You Can’t Separate Harry Potter from J.K. Rowling youtu.be/JHvWWJ-640E

It’s alive! Our Mycorrhizal Networks special issue is out in Functional Ecology. Packed with spore-tacular science. A collection that highlights advances, identifies unresolved questions & the future research directions. besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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

It's often presented as a kind of conformity or groupthink to "trust the experts," but you do in fact need to do this to have a functioning society! What is the alternative? Every person researches every single issue of public concern themselves?

Yes! Exactly! Efficienty at the cost of effectiveness is insanity and drives the enshitification spiral.

Worth noting that this is also what the UK government review found, it just ignored all the evidence in its conclusions.

applying for jobs again

49 ecology GRFP recipients this year compared to 121 in 2024. Overall awards are down 50% YoY... Absolutely brutal.

…is ESA doing a course on vibe coding for ecology?

1. For the past thirty years I've had the best job in the world. 
I've had the opportunity to follow my curiosity; explore the workings of nature and society; mentor students and junior colleagues in the same process; and teach generations of students about it all.

I like this *a lot*. I've always had issues with the classic calculations of beta diversity (see their toy example in the figure). I'm bought in on H Y P E R V O L U M E

There's a lot of interest in #deeplearning for tree crown segmentation from imagery, but most methods are tested in manual annotations, checked visually. How well do these perform on rigourously ground-truthed data? Our new preprint, by Matt Allen finds...not so well.🧵 arxiv.org/abs/2503.14273

New #statistics #ecopubs @esajournals.bsky.social: Predictive models are indeed useful for causal inference doi.org/10.1002/ecy.... Sounds like a response to 'Predictive models aren't for causal inference' doi.org/10.1111/ele....

Paradox Paradox, CO

Holy cow I really love uv for python. I was just able to port over a project from my osx laptop to my windows workstation (with a fresh python install) and everything just worked with a single uv run command. #python #uv #openscience #machinelearning

My hot take of the day (science related) is that R is too good at doing statistics and if you want to actually learn how statistical methods work you should code them from scratch. (some elaboration in thread) #R #python #openscience #datascience

Amazing thread. Michael Hobbes is *the* best at pointing out how these people exist in a complete fantasy land. "We’re seeing a moral panic, a society-wide assault on a phantom leftist who wants to ban Dr. Seuss and arrest you for using the wrong pronouns and put kitty litter boxes in classrooms."

Hooray! Finally got some some object detection up and running on my dataset from RMBL this summer. Still a lot of work to do to clean this up but soon, all of the pollinators shall be detected! #ecology #openscience #pollination

I grew up near here and I was solidly in my 20s before I realized that the Monticello of Jefferson was pronounced completely differently. Monte-chello vs. Monte-sello

Life is actually pretty long. Even if you feel old and that you already missed your chance, take the steps to achieve something that might take years of effort.

Wait, whoah, regulatory agencies generally keep us safe?? Even if they aren't totally efficient?? Wait, actually it's inherently *inefficient* to aim for 100% coverage of a problem but we're still interested in that inefficiency because it saves lives??

"We thought plants that are being munched on send warning signals to others, allowing them to boost defences. Turns out, plants are actually selfish jerks and their neighbours resort to chemical eavesdropping": a new @biology.ox.ac.uk paper by @stuwest.bsky.social 🧪🌱 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Solid article on NSF cancelling all grant reviews this week. www.npr.org/sections/sho... Oy gevault!

No, I don't need a bloody copilot for this document, thank you. Writing is, in no small part, a tool for thinking. If you outsource that element to a machine that cannot think, you shouldn't be surprised if, at the end of the process, neither you nor your reader are any the wiser.

🎉🎉New Preprint!!🎉🎉 "From Policy to Practice: Progress towards Data- and Code-Sharing in Ecology and Evolution" doi.org/10.32942/X24... Myself and a whole bunch of awesome coauthors reviewed data- and code-sharing policies across 275 journals that publish ecology and evolution studies.

Unbeweevilbly beautiful.

I really wish they would have asked about hesitancy about using because of a worry of incorrect/nonfactual information. Some of the inequities might actually stem from some groups being more discerning and less trusting of a proprietary, hallucinating black-box.

It's the best time of year! #AGDQ starts today! I've been watching for the past 5 or 6 years and it's so much fun every time. I love how talented and passionate everyone is about these games and how much money they're able to raise help prevent cancer.

I think about the process of reporting this article *all the time.* Totally changed the way I understand social progress and reform.

Super interesting! I'm excited to get more into this, but at a first pass this makes intuitive sense to me. I love the idea of incorporating more natural history knowledge into these kinds of models.

I didn't get to do this earlier this year because I wasn't on bluesky yet, but I wanted to share the first paper I ever published! academic.oup.com/icb/article-...

Fuzzy #mycology #mushrooms

I’ve been thinking about this a lot recently. And over the past year since playing Talos Principle II (seriously). There was such a pro and hopeful humanity/consciousness message in that game that is really stood out in a culture saturated with dystopian fiction. Bring on a Solarpunk future!!

One of my favorites to find in Colorado. Hawks’s Wing! Or, Sarcodon imbricatus. Some people report the taste is bitter apparently but I’ve never found that to be true. I like to fry it with soy and put it on top of soups/ramen. #mycology #mushrooms