Continuing our series on difficult comparative models - and how to address them properly - we’re happy to showcase another study, this time in @jevbio.bsky.social academic.oup.com/jeb/advance-... We will guide you through a series of increasingly complex models, from binary, through ordered to

We have an updated version of this preprint, available at: ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v... Fingers crossed the formal, final version will be out soon. We think this highlights a major issue in how we study behavior (& more). Thank you @sekharma.bsky.social & @itchyshin.bsky.social! #evolution

Our recent paper looks at location-scale interfaces in comparative data. But predicting variance in variance extends much further - if you still have not have a look here onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... (another recent paper in @globalchangebio.bsky.social). We show how extending the idea

VACANCY - Independent research fellowships leading to tenured positions We’re inviting applications from outstanding researchers who either hold, or wish to apply for, Independent Research Fellowships. APPLICATION DEADLINE: 10 November 2025 Click here to apply: jic.link/Fellows

UMass Boston seeks a tenure-track Assistant Professor in microbial ecology, starting September 1, 2026. Apply by December 1, 2025. Details: http://www.umb.edu/academics/csm/biology #job

By extending the comparative model we can assay the evolutionary signal in evolvability itself and test a number of biologically interesting trait configurations (codivergence, contra-divergence, ceiling effects, phenotypic integrations and more!)

The models are notably more complex but fittable with modern Bayesian GLMM routines. Think of them as looking at mean and scale (usually variance) evolution along the tree, here in an example of two concurrent Brownian Motion dynamics driving diversification of both variance and means.

Our newest paper is out in Methods in Ecol Evol @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social :) amazing team effort - we show that the traditional way of analyzing comparative data lacks finesse. besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/action/oidcS... w/ @itchyshin.bsky.social Yefeng Yang, Losia Lagisz & Ayumi Mizuno

2 job adverts on a NERC project w myself + @darrenobbard.bsky.social on “What determines the virome: ecology and the environment, evolution, or species history?” early 2026 in @uniexecec.bsky.social - Postdoc: jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr... - RA: jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr... Pls share!

Fellow econ folks! We are hiring! Come work with me and my delightful colleagues at The University of Melbourne! Applications close November 23, 2025 Link: unimelb.wd105.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/UoM_Ex...

Have you always thought about running simulations to make sure your models work the way you want them to? The new squidSim can help! I'm very impressed with how @joelpick.bsky.social led this project and with the amazing final result!

Clearly I'm grumpy about the state of research in the field atm, particularly how power analyses are performative and hypothesis testing is butchered... so resharing this chat I had with @runbabyo.bsky.social et al. where we talk about these topics www.youtube.com/live/b0rXmtx...

Please consider applying to our open faculty position call that includes Ecology! apply.interfolio.com/172075

Interested in simulating the kind of data that you might commonly find in evolutionary and ecological studies? Then we have the R package for you - squidSim!! Check our new preprint: ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...

International #ResearchIntegrity conference 16-18 November 2025 Come to hear @elisabethbik.bsky.social Ivan Oransky @jamesheathers.bsky.social @retractionwatch.com Lisa Bero @liammannix.bsky.social @jdwilko.bsky.social @jacksonwryan.com +many others, stay for Sydney in late Spring @sydney.edu.au 🧪

The Department of Neuroscience at the University of Lethbridge has a tenure-track position for a neuroscientist studying brain function across the life span in nonhuman animals. Join a terrific community of researchers in a beautiful part of the country.🧠🧪 Re-post uleth.peopleadmin.ca/postings/8586

Members of the American Society of Naturalists @asn-amnat.bsky.social can get free registration to the 2025 SORTEE conference Oct 15-16 sortee.org/upcoming/

Sekhar won the best poster award (!) and you can learn more about this work, done in collaboration with @itchyshin.bsky.social in preprint form at: ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...

~10 years after the experiments, the paper is finally ready 😅😅 Take home: nothing beats patient collaborators 😆 Thanks @josefin-sundin.bsky.social @BenSpeers-Roesch @itchyshin.bsky.social @TimClark @SandraBinning!! #OceanAcidification #AnimalBehaviour #OpenScience ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...

Tenure-Track Quant Psyc job opening at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff. Areas of interest are pretty broad (SEM, multilevel, or psychometrics), the deadline to apply is coming up soon (Sept 15) if you're interested! careers.nau.edu/jobs/assista...

the Association for Interdisciplinary Metaresearch and Open Science always welcomes new people doing or curious about metaresearch!

Very happy to share that I've been awarded the 2025 @ecolsocaus.bsky.social "Next Generation Ecologist" award. I'll be giving a plenary at the ESA2025 in Adelaide. See you there!! www.ecolsoc.org.au/news/2025-ne...

The Center for Infectious Disease Dynamics (CIDD) at Penn State is hiring for a senior-level position in Infectious Disease Modeling. Come join our dynamic group of disease researchers! Feel free to message me for details psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/PSU_Ac...

Today 14 scientific societies in #ecology #evolution and #marineScience are publishing the results of a survey that finds negative impacts of federal policies on food security, flood mitigation, infectious disease preparedness, and wildlife conservation: 🧪👩‍🔬 www.firsthandaccounts.org/impacts/2025...

The latest paper from the DISCAR synthesis group is out at Ecology Letters! We discuss the key approaches to predicting human impacts on wildlife populations, highlighting avenues for incorporating indirect effects, such as energetic modelling. doi.org/10.1111/ele....

The SORTEE Guidelines for Data and Code Quality Control in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology doi.org/10.32942/X24...

I wrote (ranted) on experimental design as I was frustrated as an editor at how little guidance students were getting. I underestimated the interest in the issue: it has been downloaded 10,000+ times! Clearly it’s something we need to be talking about more. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

#MCMC takes too long for a human being? (drawn by ChatGPT)

#MCMC takes too long for a human being? (drawn by ChatGPT)

🚨Introducing the @sortee.bsky.social Guidelines for Data and Code Quality Control in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology🚨 doi.org/10.32942/X24... Increasingly E&E journals are recruiting data editors. We provide standardised guidelines for journals with data editors and those wanting to recruit them 🧵

All three books I've co-authored are freely available online for non-commercial use: - #Bayesian Data Analysis, 3rd ed (aka BDA3) at stat.columbia.edu/~gelman/book/ - #Regression and Other Stories at avehtari.github.io/ROS-Examples/ - Active Statistics at avehtari.github.io/ActiveStatis...

Michigan State University, Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior Presidential Postdoctoral Fellowship. eeb.msu.edu/initiatives/...

Paper drop, for anyone interested in #metascience, #statistics, or #metaanalysis! @clintin.bsky.social and I show in a new paper in JASA that the P-curve, a popular forensic meta-analysis method, has deeply undesirable statistical properties. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 1/?

iNaturalist is shaping the future of biodiversity research. See our recent paper, published in Bioscience. doi.org/10.1093/bios...

NEW JOB POSTING - #DataScientist / Senior Data Scientist at @stonelivinglab.bsky.social - come help us make a wealth of climate resilience and environmental data accessible to everyone from scientists to policy makers to the public! See employmentopportunities.umb.edu/boston/en-us... for details

Calling all evolutionary biologists! **AES 2025 Conference** 📍 UQ Brisbane | 🗓 1–3 Oct **Talks close 1 Sept** Don’t miss out — submit & join us for three days of cutting-edge science + community! aes.corsizio.com/event/685405... #AES2025 #Evolution #ECR #SciComm #AusSci

AES 2025 ECR Awards – Apply Now! Submit your best paper (preprints welcome!) for a chance to give a 30-min plenary at AES 2025 in Brisbane. Two categories: PhD and Postdoc Winners get $500 travel support + free rego 🔗 ausevo.com/2025_researc...

Doctoral position on genomic basis of Fucus (brown algal) local adaptation - join our exciting #Fubluc team! Fully funded for 3.5 years & we also consider candidates with strong molecular or bioinformatic skillls but no marine / algal experience, see www.geomar.de/en/karriere/...

Here's said mascot along with an excellent checklist by @shreyadimri.bsky.social

🎉New preprint! "TADA! Simple guidelines to improve code sharing" tinyurl.com/8rmnwjrk We present simple guidelines to help researchers of all coding levels improve the transparency and reproducibility of their analytical code, TADA! Transferable, Accessible, Documented, Annotated.

📷 The 2025 SORTEE conference program is now online! Visit sortee.org/upcoming/ to register and explore the exciting lineup of various sessions. #SORTEE2025 If you know a great open science project, now is the time to nominate it for a SORTEE Award www.sortee.org/awards/

The call for proposals is now up for our long awaited #AIMOS2025 conference in Sydney this November: aimos-inc.github.io/aimos.confer...

Around 3 years ago, we started writing papers during our weekly lab meetings. This is the first one from our new lab at @ualberta.bsky.social Location-Scale Models for Ecologists! preprint: ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v... tutorial: ayumi-495.github.io/Eco_location... Enjoy! #glmmTMB #brms

Register now for the next joint @aimosinc.bsky.social @ausrepro.bsky.social webinar "Preventing statistical errors before publication" with Dr Michèle Nuijten and Dr Tom Hardwicke on Wed 27 Aug (4:00pm AEST). @michelenuijten.bsky.social @tomhardwicke.bsky.social qut.zoom.us/meeting/regi... 2/3

🔥🔥🔥 New paper: Location scale models in ecology: heteroscedasticity in continuous, count, and proportion data from @itchyshin.bsky.social et al. with a code tutorial for #rstats! ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v... for paper and ayumi-495.github.io/Eco_location... for code! 🌍🧪

Around 3 years ago, we started writing papers during our weekly lab meetings. This is the first one from our new lab at @ualberta.bsky.social Location-Scale Models for Ecologists! preprint: ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v... tutorial: ayumi-495.github.io/Eco_location... Enjoy! #glmmTMB #brms

All titles of Cambridge Elements in the Philosophy of Biology, including mine The Role of Mathematics in Evolutionary Theory, are downloadable for free till the 25th. www.cambridge.org/core/element...