How are Pacific NW mountain birds responding to climate change? I got up at 4:00 am for a month to find out. but first the backstory, or "how I spent seven years telling everyone this project wasn't possible" new paper here: esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

A warning by scientists. Owing to interactions among drivers, and the increasing spread of new & well-established alien species, "simple extrapolations from the impacts of invasive alien species observed today are likely to underestimate the magnitude of future impacts." phys.org/news/2024-06...

I see this feature of endorsement in LinkedIn and ai have no idea what it means. Should I be endorsing people? Should people be endorsing me?

. @clauswilke.com is correct. blog.genesmindsmachines.com/p/python-is-... #Rstats

To truly protect #biodiversity, we must harness #PredictiveModels to reveal which #ConservationBiology strategies succeed—and which fail. Read the PNAS News Opinion: https://ow.ly/iVsF50Xl1BL#biodiversity#PredictiveModels#ConservationBiology#GlobalBiodiversityFramework #GBF #conservation

Ok #rstats #shiny hive mind. When rendering geom_tile to a plotly in shiny, and press the download button the resulting .png is missing the tiles? What gives! Any advice gratefully received (These data are fake!)

I love teaching and it's never a perfect process but I thoroughly enjoy it. Always have. However, I just finished the most challenging class I have ever taught in terms of students attitude and behavior. It felt tortuous at times. I am so glad it's over! I will never teach these majors again. Ever.

We wrote the Strain on scientific publishing to highlight the problems of time & trust. With a fantastic group of co-authors, we present The Drain of Scientific Publishing: a 🧵 1/n Drain: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820 Strain: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/... Oligopoly: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...

What to with you analysis of ecological data when you are missing some data points? Check out this @ESAMonographs paper summarizing approaches and providing guidelines! esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

We are looking for #rstats community feedback on 3 new dplyr functions! We're aiming to expand the `filter()` family: - `filter()` to keep rows - `filter_out()` to drop rows - `when_any()` and `when_all()` as modifiers Read more and leave feedback here: github.com/tidyverse/ti...

I trust other researchers too easily sometimes, and then I realize sometimes I need to keep my ideas closer to my heart because some of them are idea poachers more often than not. #neverAgain

Stunning illustration of mimicry! Common cuckoo eggs (top row) imitate the eggs of their host species (bottom row). The 30 October issue of Science explains this dazzling coevolution with genomic data — though I admit, it’s complex enough that I’d struggle to teach it! 🧪🌿🌎🦉

#rstats people I'm sure I remember someone had recently developed a package or at least a hack for getting around the fact that geom_ribbon can't map the fill aesthetic to a variable (continuous or not), but now I can't find it, can anyone point me to it?

My most destructive trait I have is that every single day, after lunch, I crave something sweet. I gotta have something otherwise I can't stop thinking about it all afternoon.

Roman glass cups with colourful enamel decoration of animals from the Roman arena. AD 200s. Found in richly-furnished graves in Denmark. National Museum of Denmark, Copenhagen. 📷 by me #FindsFriday #Archaeology

A pet peeve of mine is to see students' homework formatted with justified text and single spacing. I don't know why anyone would think that awful squarish alignment is ok.

🦔📉Habitat and predator heterogeneity influence density of a declining mammal 📷 © 1 Emily Clark 2 Hongli Yu vist.ly/4c62s #ErinaceusEuropaeus #LandscapesOfFear #MelesMeles #PopulationEcology #SpatialCaptureRecapture #SpatiotemporalCovariateHeterogeneity

My boyfriend and I have a shared calendar in Google and I can’t even begin to tell you how much joy that brings me every time he puts an event in it like a doctor’s appointment or something. Who knew my love language was shared calendars 😂😂🗓️💻

Every time we make a call, our voices reveal personal information that #AI can extract and exploit. Computer Science Assistant Professor Nirupam Roy and his team developed a system that defends our data from automated surveillance while keeping conversations clear ⤵️

New paper on the functional significance of medium-sized mammals for the dispersal not only of plants but also numerous small invertebrates. Would be interesting to study zoochory by the large species such as wisent and red deer! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1...

LinkedIn accounts can be stolen easily. This now has happened to two people I know personally, most recently this morning. There appears to be no viable way to protect your account from this attack, as the attack goes through LinkedIn support. nazmul-ahsan.medium.com/your-linkedi...

📢 Thrilled to share our new paper 🌍 We found synthetic debris in nearly 1/4 of Eurasian otter spraints examined across five European countries, revealing how plastics infiltrate freshwater ecosystems. Link: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #plasticpollution

🚨New paper out Our study reveals how barn owl parents coordinate nightly chick feeding. Females step up when males underperform & pairs that meet more often at the nest share work more equally boosting chick survival🦉 doi.org/10.1016/j.is... @unil.bsky.social @vogelwarte.bsky.social #movementecology

I'm excited to share a new version of the Air formatter for #rstats, with support for tabular formatting! Super useful with `tibble::tribble()` calls or `data.table::fcase()`. It's currently experimental as we're looking to get feedback on the feature, so please let us know what you think.

This is the oldest surviving spherical representation of Earth, created in 1492. It's so old that the entirety of the Americas are missing, and other parts of the world are pretty hazy.

University educators: what's the current prevailing wisdom? Are people still recording lectures and posting them and/or having live zoom links to regular classroom lectures? I understand there are advantages and disadvantages to both and no easy answer either way but any thoughts are useful.

I am leading graduate students through a discussion on effective writing practices. How do you push through writer’s block when it hits you? Please share your tips!

📸 A clouded leopard was photographed in Jilong County, Tibet—1,000 km from its known range. With 97% of its habitat lost in China, this discovery offers hope and calls for urgent cross-border conservation 🐾 doi.org/pf3w

Ideas are easy. The difference between an idea and a story is the difference between a lightning bug and lightning.

Hey @nrennie.bsky.social quick question. Are you still writing and polishing your data viz book or is it done already? We are thinking about reading it for a new DSLC cohort.

📖Published📖 Check out our new research article by Dorazio et al. 👉 An evaluation of multi-species occupancy models with correlated species occurrences buff.ly/IdObfXV 🌍 🧪

Scientists have detected microplastics in the digestive systems of red howler monkeys living in protected areas in the Brazilian Amazon, marking the first evidence of plastic ingestion by a tree-dwelling primate, according to a recent study.

The impact of PhD studies on mental health - A longitudinal population study PhDs can be and some would likely argue, should be hard. But surely not *this* hard? #AcademicSky www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Because we are living in unprecedented times my boyfriend and I have developed a new good morning greeting where we wish each other an uneventful boring day at work. We yearn for precedented times.

This crucially important and obviously visionary work makes me feel vindicated for having said the same thing last year, albeit with much less evidence, while being mercilessly mocked by the city and its residents. royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

WOW! Our survey of scientists who stopped using Twitter and started using Bluesky is now the #1 most-shared on social media article in the history of the journal Integrative and Comparative Biology! Thanks for reading it, everyone! @sicbjournals.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/icb/... 🧪

new pub out — Yosemite is a perfect (and picturesque) place to show how heterogeneity can shape species distributions and foraging patterns. Grateful to Yosemite NP, Levi & Sacks labs & @roguedogs.bsky.social for their collaboration 💗

Quote: "It is very hard to interpret big data in ecology in meaningful ways if you do not know anything about who the organisms are and what they do in the environment." onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

The only M&Ms that are worth something are Peanut M&Ms. The rest are just noise.

All models are wrong; some are useful. All LLM outputs are hallucinations. Some are useful.

#ornithology www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Changing our diets is one of the best things we can do for ourselves … and for the planet. Here is our assessment of how modest changes in diet could have big impacts on climate change. drawdown.org/explorer/imp...

Whoever invents a silencer for leaf blowers will become a millionaire overnight.

“Remote-control science” keeps power in the #GlobalNorth while local experts do the work without credit. Time to #decolonize research with fair authorship, funding & respect for local knowledge 🌍 #DecolonizeScience #ResearchEquity #GlobalSouth #FairScience onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Thanks to the interesting {capybara} R package, I just came across this nice Hadley Wickham quote: > “He who gives up code safety for code speed deserves neither.”

Greater noctule #bats use echolocation to track migrating #birds and consume them on the wing! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

I clearly had a lot of thoughts/feelings from reading Terry's blog post, so I wrote one of my own It ended up being a bit of a stream-of-thought post but I think it captures some of my worries benharrap.com/post/2025-10... #statssky #episky #academicsky

Pumped to share our work on bird behavior and the 2024 Eclipse, in today's @science.org. 100k bird vocalizations + 10k continent-wide observations from the public = really fun collab led by Liz Aguilar, with @juncowren.bsky.social @mathcancer.bsky.social @imillercrews.bsky.social #NSF

Advocacy in support of 'wild horses' in the West has become so strong that even in sensitive areas like the scenic Mono Basin, agencies are now more inclined (or forced) to let entire landscapes be chronically degraded by overgrazing. Another example where science-based mgmt has been steamrolled. 🌍

How the Queens Zoo is helping to save a New England rabbit, writes the @nytimes.com. The New England cottontail population has shrunk by more than 80 percent since the 1960s. 🌎 www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/n...