Nature Scientific Reports is the third most cited journal in the world smdh

As an exercise, one could consider exactly what citation counts are good for, given that quite possibly _nobody_ noticed that citations of their own articles were being under-reported (or massively over-reported) over 14 years and possibly millions of authors.

BioSS researcher Dr Ana Couto worked with a team of international scientists who tracked over 100 marine species of large vertebrates to identify the most critical locations for conservation in the global ocean. 🌍🌊 Read more here: www.bioss.ac.uk/case-studies... #conservation #marinebiology

Posterior predictive checking of binary, categorical and many ordinal models with bar graphs is useless. Even the simplest models without covariates usually have such intercept terms that category specific probabilities are learned perfectly. Can you guess which model, 1 or 2, is misspecifed? 1/4

📝 Are you using multispecies occupancy models to investigate interactions in species occupancy (i.e. co-occurrence)? 🦁🦓 Check out our new paper for advice on the number of sites you need to reliably detect interactions under different scenarios ⬇️

Fantastic new paper by @reeserichardson.bsky.social et al. An enormous amount of work showing the extent of coordinated scientific fraud and involvement of some editors. The number of fraudulent publications grows at a rate far outpacing that of legitimate science. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

This should be a lot of fun! Help us find out if BES journal data and code sharing policies are actually working, with a little side bonus quest about data equity 🤓

Seeking Data Editors! Are you an ecologist or environmental scientist with a keen interest in open research? We're looking for Data Editors to work with our journals & implement our Open Research Policy. Honorarium provided! 🚨Applications due 7/18🚨 Learn more: shorturl.at/3qzIu

Bivariate turning angle and step length kernels for step selection functions

📆Deadline extended📆 If you're looking for an exciting #PhD opportunity in #Mathematics, #Statistics, and #AnimalHealth, you have two more weeks to apply! ✍️ Deadline: 14th July #FindaPhD #PhDChat @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social @roslininstitute.bsky.social

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

I am currently writing up something on spurious correlation and noticed that Tyler Vigen's spurious correlations now come with an #AI generated explanation: 👌 tylervigen.com/spurious/cor...

A few months until the end of my postdoc contract. Norway has defunded a good part of the academic system, so opportunities are limited. I will try to apply for my own funding, but pending potential failure, if someone has a job opportunity that might suit me I would be happy to have a chat!

A new journal just for publishing reanalyses of published empirical research findings statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/04/16/a...

There's just over a week left to apply for these two(!) Ecological Statistician vacancies in our Offshore Renewables group- don't miss your chance to apply! 📆 #StatisticalEcology #OffshoreRenewables #Statistics #DataScience #Seabirds #MarineMammals #Vacancy #Job

📣We are recruiting two(!) Ecological Statisticians to join our Offshore Renewables Group at @bioss.bsky.social. If you have an interest in developing and applying statistical methods to ecological data, do check out the advert below. Please share with anyone who may be interested! 🙏

Clinical Researchers: I am here to warn you about a meteor hurling towards us. That meteor represents increasing scrutiny of clinical research; and in particular how we approach data collection, analysis, interpretation and reporting. Prepare now, or face the consequences. 1/

I've posted a new video on YouTube that gives a brief overview of the new conditional_values() function in my gratia #RStats 📦 I plan to do more of these videos over the next few weeks & months. Make sure you're subscribed if you want to be notified as they get posted. youtu.be/iKG0aHWpTAo

Now accepting applicants for 25-26 intake of our #StatisticalEcology MSc: bit.ly/3ooHNyc. A unique opportunity to develop skills at the interface of #statistics and #ecology (some partial scholarships available too). Please help me share!

PhD alert! Come work with me, @deonroos.bsky.social and Lorraine Scott to develop & apply geoprofiling to identify breeding sites for mobile species of conservation importance, using citizen-science data & field surveys in a #trait based approach. Deadline 19 Feb! 🌍 www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Here are the titles and links to the 10 fully #netgain PhD projects. Follow along for more exciting opportunities in 2025. 1/12

Funded PhD on using sighting data to identify breeding sites for predators and pollinators with a cool approach (geoprofiling) soon available with me and @deonroos.bsky.social, Lorraine Scott and @lambin-ecology.bsky.social, spread the word!

I disagree with perplexity.ai CEO Aravind Srinivas about the importance of sourcing in search results, but boy does he have Google's number here. Search for something they can't sell, you get an AI summary. Something they can, you don't. Try it yourself. From: www.fastcompany.com/91125423/per...

We are inviting applications for this cool PhD project (really keen to support people from underrepresented backgrounds!) iapetus2.ac.uk/studentships...

Have you ever thought to yourself… how can I make my #rstats plot UGLIER? Well, look no further, cuz it’s good plot-bad plot time! My students made plots that will make you want to laugh, cry, and throw your computer out the window. Which one do you think is the worst? 🧵🧪

go.bsky.app/NiaWN5i I'm happy to receive suggestions for this.

This is so frustratingly common across the social sciences.. scatter.wordpress.com/2017/03/14/t...