I did not know this.

the British monarch gives a regular speech to parliament and in the room where they make them wait before going on there’s a framed copy of Charles I’s death warrant. just a fun historical fact, no reason to bring it up

(possibly hot) take: public libraries are the most consistently innovative and progressive institutions in the western world. Definitely beating out universities or tech companies

I've been working with NCV this last week; it's a powerful tool for modelling data with dependencies that are poorly/inefficiently modelled via stochastic process priors like cov functions or low-rank smoothers. However, it's a complex topic, so I thought I'd summarize the key ideas in a thread 1/n

The Garden of Earthly Delights (detail), by Hieronymus Bosch, 1480-1505, 📸 by @alexbrandon

I think the clocks in UK go back tonight. Or forward. Not sure. Is it forward

Hi all. I am very excited that after 6 years I finally got my phylogenetic comparative methods book and online exercises online. Feel free to use and share. The book is here: nhcooper123.github.io/pcm-primer/. Note that it is not finished, we had to abandon it before the sunk costs fallacy broke us

‪ 🌳 Do you want to contribute to research on how humans perceive forests? Take this quick, anonymous 10-min survey 🌲 👉 www.biodiful.org#/forest This will help us explore how people experience forest biodiversity! Please share on 🦋 & tag @biodiful.bsky.social to reach more participants 🙏💚 🌐🌍🦤🦑🪴🍁🧪

You know what trend I would love to see? Animated remakes of classic but flawed live action films. "Del Toro's stop-motion Neverending Story". "Miyazaki's Cloud Atlas"

Americans: we live in a fallen state—embroiled by sin, cheating, lying, and evil. You cannot trust anyone, not even those who claim to know you best Canadians: I love my neighbors and my friends!

This is like someone drawing a frowny face on their pet rock then feeling sorry for it

these memes are fresh

iDiv Leipzig is organizing a symposium for early career researchers from all fields interested in scientific integrity & reproducibility. Some good stuff, e.g.: @haesleinhuepf.bsky.social on generative AI for science, @rmcelreath.bsky.social on a guerilla approach to scientific workflow.>

🚨 GAMs have moved on—so it’s time for an update. On March 3, 2026 (17:00–19:00 CET) I’ll be livestreaming an updated introduction to Generalized Additive Models in R 📺 YouTube livestream link: youtube.com/live/A9U8e1K... #RStats #mgcv #GAMs #gratia #statistics 🧪

I will probably get told off for sharing this - but it does give some perspective on why I was under so much pressure to leave Monkey Cage - I accept my career is dead so…. skepchick.org/2026/01/the-...

We must never let it revealed to the world that Hawaiian pizza is a Canadian invention

I'm slightly disturbed about what Germans seem to think Canadian food consists of

Really enjoying #BES2025. Things I appreciate: - Morning plenaries (gets people in on time, doesn’t leave morning speakers w/ empty rooms) - Good length coffee breaks (30 min!) - Vegan lunch served on site - Posters across all career stages & spread across rooms - Strong presence of journals/editors

What's on your #BES2025 schedule today? We will be at the How to get published-workshop together with the @britishecologicalsociety.org and the @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social to talk about just that! And if you can't make it today, the same workshop is taking place tomorrow.

"It may be uncomfortable to conclude that a widely used study design has been producing spurious results. But the evidence is in, and telling uncomfortable truths is a part of doing science." Problems with twin studies. theinfinitesimal.substack.com/p/the-missin...

Okay I want to say more about this, specifically I want to say: lampshading is a technique to use carefully. What's lampshading? it's when the author says, yeah, I know this is a problem, I acknowledge it but I'm not going to solve it. Throw a lampshade on it, it's a lamp.

I wasn't going to repost this until he mentioned his melancholy

📣Tomorrow our next series of online seminars restarts: Chris Klausmeier (MSU) will present: ⭐Microbial cross-feeding: coexistence and collapse, spatial patterns and population cycles⭐ Free and open to all: Zoom link: iite.info/seminar/ Global Times: www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/f...

And the Michaelis-Menten model is the same one we use in ecology to model type-II predator functional responses! Enzymes function a lot like predators, "feeding" on reactants

What scientific paper do you find yourself re-reading because you love how it's written? One of mine is Mallet 2012: "The struggle for existence: How the notion of carrying capacity, K, obscures the links between demography, Darwinian evolution, and speciation" dash.harvard.edu/entities/pub...

17. If I had the option to press a button and LLMs would not have been, and never would be, invented, I would push it without hesitation. In fact, I'd have a considerable, positive willingness to pay to push that button.

5. Most frequentist methods are just *fine* and there's no need to always go full luxury bayesian in every application.

Every applied math book about dynamics or regression in short:

I’m also thrilled to announce that I will be starting a faculty position with @centreecomgmt.bsky.social @ U of Guelph this fall! I will be recruiting students & postdocs for 2026 - please reach out or come find me at #CSEE2025 if you’re interested in theory, global change & fisheries ecology 🐟

✨ The Bernhardt Lab at the University of Guelph is recruiting graduate students for 2026! Join us! We have several fully funded grad positions available ✨ Please spread the word! www.bernhardtlab.org/join-us #CSEE2025

It's great to see a packed house at the #CSEE2025 "Forefront of Statistical Ecology in Canada" symposium! It's a great sign of strength of the statistical ecology community here If you want to join the community and conversation, sign up to the Google Group!

Between Sinners and Kpop Demonhunters, this is turning out to be a surprisingly good year for musicals.

Grace Wahba, "the mother of smoothing splines," won the International Prize (aka the Nobel) in Statistics #stats for her representer theorem. youtu.be/8Ae_QzwwR_U?... So well deserved! I guess, one could also give her the price again in two years for her work on Generalized Cross-Validation.

it seems pretty clear to me that the country was founded on both inspiring ideals of universal human rights *and* on slavery and genocide. the tension between these two tendencies - sometimes within the very same individuals! - is a main theme of American history a real Land Of Contrasts situation

I hope anyone cancelling this FT subscription tells them it's because they're trying to reduce their trade deficit with the magazine

This post is pure art. Next time I teach shrinkage estimation I'm pointing students to this

In 1912, she moved to Berlin to begin working with Leonor Michaelis in enzyme kinetics. With him, she developed the Michaelis-Menten Equation. The equation shows that the rate of reaction rate in enzymes increases to saturation as the substrate concentration increases. 🧵4/10

Creating a lecture on mollusc biology for next week, and this comes up in my feed. 🎉 Sometimes the teaching gods smile on us

Never use a dual Y axis line chart! I made a little playground: You can tweak the axis limits and see how different the graph looks like: www.react-graph-gallery.com/example/dual...

Teaching #MathematicalMethodsInPopulationBiology again. This course covers basic methods for deterministic & stochastic dynamical models in population biology. In this thread*, I'll highlight topics from all twenty 90-min lectures. *Redoing this thread as I didn't complete it in 2024

Yes…ha ha ha…YES. Marginal effects are an absolute game changer if you work with even just slightly complicated models. If you haven’t looked into them yet, you may be missing out and making your life harder than it already is!

Everyone is running away with this one, but I took the time to trace the source, and these are 80% confidence intervals, the true meta-science story (and there is one!), was written up as one about selective reporting and calibrating standard errors..

By strict standards of replication, the estimated speed of light wasn't replicable based on highly inconsistent CIs, even though the initial estimates were within 1% of the modern value (figure from www.olympus-lifescience.com/en/microscop...)

Started out the new year by rereading Ian M. Banks' "Player of Games"; still takes my breath away with how exciting, nuanced, and timeless it is; feels like it could have been written yesterday

Instead of listing my publications, as the year draws to an end, I want to shine the spotlight on the commonplace assumption that productivity must always increase. Good research is disruptive and thinking time is central to high quality scholarship and necessary for disruptive research.