Like to develop spatio-temporal models? Interested in Arctic marine mammals 🦭🐳 and their susceptibility to oil spills? You may be the postdoctoral fellow Dr. Mariane Marcoux and I are looking for! See the details in the job ad: tinyurl.com/spatiostatamm

Want to reduce perceived uncertainty by billions of fish? Try highest density intervals instead of equal-tailed intervals. Can also change perception of stock health. New short paper with @marieaugermethe.bsky.social. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... New R package: github.com/andrew-edwar...

it's a hard and sad time in science / higher ed in the US right now. on the other hand, lots of PhDs are looking for work, so I wanted to share— I'm hiring a postdoc! it's a two-year position at UCSC to do (preferably Bayesian) modeling of marine ecosystems: recruit.ucsc.edu/JPF01892

...but today NOAA abruptly shifted shifted the Hake review meeting to be online only. It's already booked and paid for, hotels booked, 30-40 people travelling to attend, and industry members now out of pocket. During covid, the online meetings were vastly less effective for international diplomacy.

Next week, I am meant to be reviewing the Pacific hake assessment. This is the largest fishery on the US West Coast, catching hundreds of thousands of tons of fish, providing $295 million in income and providing 4324 jobs (in 2022). But... 1/n