There are still a couple of days left to apply for a position as an Ecological Statistician in @rececochange.bsky.social!!

#StatsPubs No matter how many times you read it, this paper on hierarchical GAMs keeps giving. Clear model explanations together with R code (mgcv). So useful! doi.org/10.7717/peer... Thanks for writing @ericjpedersen.bsky.social, D. Miller, @gsimpson.bsky.social @noamross.net

Good policy from arxiv: AI-spawned misconduct - hallucinations, plagiarism, or evidence of using an AI to write “your” article - will get authors a one-year ban and the requirement that future submissions must be published at a reputable peer-reviewed place. Don’t waste people’s time with dreck.

"A citation is a formal assertion of a relationship between works, and when that relationship is fabricated, the integrity of the entire document and the scholarly record is compromised."

We’re doing layoffs to spend on AI is increasingly a song that investors don’t want to hear. GitLab stock down -8% after their AI pivot and bury the lede layoff announcement.

RE: https://mastodon.me.uk/@pikesley/116560335270718717 If you're still on GitLab you might want to speed up planning your migration path.

Next week, I will be facilitating TWO separate workshops focused on children with incarcerated loved ones. The first is for formerly incarcerated/criminalized caregivers - Things I Wish I’d Said To My Children: A Workshop for Formerly Incarcerated Parents - 1 to 2:30 pm

This is lab policy at @epic-biodiversity.org - the abridged version of our policy on generative AI is "no". This is not a guideline or an aspirational document. It's part of our rules of behavior and good academic conduct. epic-biodiversity.org/generative-ai/

We’re so proud to announce The Texas Project — a paid summer fellowship program for young people who want to help take back Texas. Applications are officially open! Click here to apply: https://tinyurl.com/TheTexasProject

Today marks 50 years since John Chambers and Rick Becker presented a new project to colleagues at Bell Labs - an interactive environment that became the S language. For more details, see the #RStats blog entry "S at 50": blog.r-project.org/2026/05/05/s...

Really happy to see the @wilsonornithsoc.bsky.social issue a strong policy banning the use of AI for reviewing manuscripts and submitting awards/grants/manuscripts. Science writing is a human endeavor and should be done by actual humans! wilsonsociety.org/wp-content/u...

New paper: "From #proteins to species #ranges: a framework for understanding #thermal #adaptation during range expansions" led by @saismit.bsky.social doi.org/10.1098/rspb... @isemevol.bsky.social @royalsociety.org @cnrsecologie.bsky.social @cnrsoccitanieest.bsky.social

I’m super happy to share that we’re looking for a PhD student to join us! It’s an exciting project and a great opportunity to work together on big questions about biodiversity and human impacts. Come work with us! and please share with people who might be interested 👉 m.refline.ch/673277/1356/...

Our new review article “Calibration, Sensitivity and Uncertainty Analysis of Complex Ecological Models—A Review” now online and freely available in #EcologyLetters dx.doi.org/10.1111/ele.... #Ecology #EcologicalModelling #SensitivityAnalysis #UncertaintyQuantification 🌐

Now very motivated to derive the Norma distribution #rstats #stan

The flaws of fitness functions in changing environments https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.04.27.720981v1

Never stop hoping (your chains will converge) #rstats #stan

🚨Sign up for our next MEE live! 💡Richard Shefferson will be joining us in the free online webinar to go through ADAPT3- adaptive dynamics and community projection in the R programming language. 🔎Find out more and register here 👉️ buff.ly/c3p6K1e 🧪🌍️

Abstract submission is open now until May 1 (anywhere on earth) for the International Statistical Ecology Conference: statisticalecology.org We've got 14 workshops, 6 plenary speakers, new partnerships in the works, & we'll have a limited number of scholarships available for students. #ISEC2027

Will Godsoe (Lincoln University) @godsoewilliam.ecoevo.social.ap.brid.gy will present the next PopBio on the Dark Side seminar: "Is there more to life than information?" Join us online next Thursday 30th April 1pm AEST. Please share widely. Sign up link here: forms.gle/y2Dssbf268bJ...

Hey Young Modellers, unfortunately, our 🍱 Lunchbox Models 🍱 seminar next week has to be postponed to another time - please instead mark our next session on May 27th with Meike Wittmann (Uni Bielefeld) in your calendars already! 🦊 Find the full seminar schedule here: www.yomos.org/lunchbox-mod...

I do this first, it’s good practice anyway. Three means revision at least. To be certain, I do claim-citation-abstract comparison for the rest for a reject decision: “because most readers would dismiss this research as fabricated by an LLM, its potential contribution to knowledge is limited.”

I do this on peer reviews. Pick 3 random citations: read the context, look for the paper. If the paper exists, assess from the abstract if it could reasonably be related. If it fails three times, double check them by accessing the article. If illegible, pass.

Post Doc position alert! Come work with us on the evolution of cannibalism. Full job description in link below. Salary starts at $58k plus benefits. (Please help spread the word) emdz.fa.us2.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

Very useful work from Matti here. Publishers extract enormous rents from the community and in exchange provide us with bloated websites. Reducing their rent seeking is a large endeavor, but while we're on it at least we can streamline our user experience by ditching their bloat & frills. Thanks!

I’ll be leaving PCI in May to begin a new postdoc, which means my current position will soon be open! You’ll find the job advert below (in French). Please feel free to share it within your networks, and don’t hesitate to get in touch if you’d like more information!

🎓 Applications open for Master 2 EvoGEM which provides theoretical and methodological training to interpret evolutionary patterns from genomic data. ✔️ Evolution, Maths, Population and quantitative genetics, Phylogenetics ✔️ Tutored projects ✔️Fully taught in English 📍Paris evogem.fr 📢 Please share!

Inbreeding depression persists even without genetic variation in identical snail genomes. This new paper suggests epigenetic mechanisms beyond classic mutation-based explanations. Image credit: Robert Aguilar, Smithsonian Environmental Research Center @wikimedia doi.org/10.1093/evle...

Microbial communities can harbor many species that do not coexist in pairs, yet can coexist in the full community. Here we provide the mathematical foundations of emergent coexistence, and explain why it can't be predicted from pairwise tests journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...

Is your model converging? statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2026/04/02/i...

1. `tinyplot` v0.6.1 is out on CRAN. This release contains mostly bug fixes and internal optimizations. grantmcdermott.com/tinyplot/NEW... Who knew that base #rstats plotting could be this easy and feature-rich? P.S. Check out @zeileis.org's nice slides here: www.zeileis.org/papers/Psych...

Finally! Here is our perspective on why cooperation maximizes diversity and how it promotes additional coexistence mechanisms that do not occur under competition journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1... This is a hard topic with strong opinions... Thanks @asn-amnat.bsky.social for publishing it! 🧵👇

If you use #github, they've automatically opted you in to train their AI on your code. Disable it below, and then consider ditching GitHub if you can. github.com/settings/cop...

🌿 Can plants evolve fast enough to keep up with climate change? A landmark study published this week in *Science* — supported by AnaEE-France — brings us closer to an answer. Here's what scientists found after tracking the evolution of 70,000 plants across 30 sites on 3 continents over 3 years

2 posts for 2 year postdocs in statistical genetics here at Leicester. Lovely group. jobs.le.ac.uk/vacancies/13...

Check out our new paper out now!🐦 Partial migration - coexistence of year-round residents and seasonal migrants - often leads to #metapopulation structures where multiple subpopulations are connected by seasonal overlaps of different groups of residents and migrants from different populations. (1/4)

Give #time ⏳ to #Meta-#Ecosystem 🍂 🍃 🌊 #Ecology! Interested in integration of a temporal dimension in meta-ecosystem research? Join our session (#13) at #NSO-#GFÖ conference in Odense, Denmark, Sep. 13–17 2026. Abstract submission: nordicsocietyoikos.glueup.com/event/joint-...

This entire thread is magnificent and you really should watch every video in every post

Big congrats to former Lowry Lab postdoc Daniel Anstett, who's paper: "Rapid evolution predicts demographic recovery after extreme drought" is out in Science today. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

New paper showing that much of the apparent success of protein language models in predicting mutational effects is a mirage: These models mostly memorize sites. 1/ www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Nice to see this published at @PLoS Comp Bio. Big improvements after peer review and important input from @gsherloc.bsky.social! Hopefully, this tool will be helpful for those interested in using barcodes for detecting new beneficial mutations. journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...

INBOX: Latin Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter Bobby Pulido, who is running as the Democratic candidate for #TX15, is offering to sing at any quinceañera in his district by request, after his Republican opponent remarked that he “only belong[s] at Quinceañeras": pulidoevents.com/quince

I have written my first R-package for feeding experiments! BayesFR allows fitting functional responses by providing dynamical prediction models for use in #brms. Includes models for classical type 2 and type 3 responses, and also prey mortality or predator interference (more to come) #Rstats (1/3)

My department at CSU Northridge is hiring a vertebrate functional morphologist! We've got a great EEB group, and we're looking for someone to carry forward a tradition of enriching organismal courses and community-engaged research. App review starts March 15 csucareers.calstate.edu/mob/cw/en-us...

The arduous path to obligate asexuality in #Daphnia #ProcB #OpenAccess #Evolution #Genetics royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...

The final part of the story: "The arduous path to obligate asexuality in Daphnia" is out in #ProcB 🥳 royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article.... 1. Instead of comparing long-established asexuals to sexuals, we generated new asexual lineages to observe the transition in action.

Est-ce que une francophone me dit le traduction correct pour "continuous, categorical, discrete" , et aussi "response variable, predictor variable"? Je veux trouver les mots corrects pour un cours de statistiques. Merci ;) 🇲🇫📈

iDiv and @uni-jena.de are recruiting a Postdoctoral Researcher (f/m/d) in Trait-Based Community Ecology and Modelling. Highlights: 🔺Full-time (100%, 40 h/week) with the option to reduce to 80% 🔺Fixed-term for 2 years 🔺Salary up to E13 TV‑L 📆 Apply by: 29 March 2026 www.idiv.de/career/job-o...

#PhDPosition in Ecological #DataScience in our group. For details, see www.uni-regensburg.de/universitaet... #MachineLearning #AI #DeepLearning #Statistics #Ecology #AcademicJobs