‪ @eveliendegreef.bsky.social's latest is out in the @asn-amnat.bsky.social feature exploring the challenges of genetic forecasting😀 "Identifying Areas of Potential Risk Based on Future Genetic Adaptability in Three Arctic Whale Species" doi.org/10.1086/738889 🧪🌎🧬🌐 #consgen #popgen #evobio

"I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve (or save) the world and a desire to enjoy (or savor) the world. This makes it hard to plan the day." -E.B. White

📘 New book out soon ! I’m excited to share that 𝐁𝐚𝐲𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐚𝐧 𝐀𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐲𝐬𝐢𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐂𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞-𝐑𝐞𝐜𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐃𝐚𝐭𝐚 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐇𝐢𝐝𝐝𝐞𝐧 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐤𝐨𝐯 𝐌𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐥𝐬: 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐨𝐫𝐲 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐂𝐚𝐬𝐞 𝐒𝐭𝐮𝐝𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐑 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐍𝐈𝐌𝐁𝐋𝐄 is being published by Chapman & Hall / CRC Press Hope it’s useful to students, researchers, and practitioners #StatisticalEcology #NIMBLE

A must-read, particularly for college instructors - not just as a solution to the conundrum of students using AI to do their assignments but as an example of successful student-centered learning and decision-making vs. traditional classrooms in which teachers just lay down the law: is.gd/4Gf1Yp

Excited to announce a second paper that was also just published in Marine Mammal Science: this one on trace element levels in long-finned pilot whales. doi.org/10.1111/mms....

Very happy to announce a paper that just came out in Marine Mammal Science: on the use of pedigree-informed abundance estimation in North Atlantic right whales. doi.org/10.1111/mms....

Thanks to claude code, I wrote my first iphone app: apps.apple.com/us/app/time-... It's what I have always wanted for a talk timer (as both a speaker and a chair). It's very minimal, designed to be read from across the room, and make it clear when you're running out of time.

New postdoc position in Seattle! 'We are looking to fill a position at NWFSC/UW for a postdoctoral research associate with an immediate start date, applying eDNA approaches to gain insight into the foraging ecology of Cook Inlet beluga whales. Contact [email protected] or [email protected].'

Upcoming collage night at the Nova Scotia Museum of Natural History. www.eventbrite.ca/e/natural-hi...

Interested in genetic diversity-area relationships as a potential proxy for genetic diversity? Check out Chloé Schmidt's latest 😀 @chloology.bsky.social 🧪🌎🧬🌐 #consgen #popgen #evobio with Sean Hoban, @debbiemleigh.bsky.social, & Walter Jetz onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Modeling the joint effects of genetic drift, mutation, and selection on loci that contribute to disease risk suggests that variation at many such loci is shaped more by their pleiotropic effects on non-disease traits than by their contribution to disease risk

📖Published📖 Carter et al. present tidypopgen, a new R package for population genetic analysis of SNP data which combines existing methods for computational efficiency with an easy to use object structure 🧬 🌍 🧪 buff.ly/huubYjs

And we're live, Lecture A1 is online. Introduction to Bayesian workflow, generative models, estimands, estimators, estimates, error checking, beginnings of probability theory and Bayesian updating. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztbY...

Books read in 2025. The Message, The Sympathizer, and White Fragility were all great and had a big impact on me. Vonnegut is fantastic. John Warner's new book is also great (particularly for teachers). Also re-read Moby Dick, a new version with lovely prints frequently throughout.

The last Avian Hybrids story of 2025! 😀 Peaks and Pitfalls: How to avoid artefacts in demographic analyses avianhybrids.wordpress.com/2025/12/31/p... Based on the Current Biology paper by Leon Hilgers and his colleagues | #ornithology

Just gave my last talk of the year! 2025 was quite packed, I gave talks about: - the age-period-cohort problem - making rigorous causal inference more mainstream - mediation analysis - marginaleffects - causal graphs (x10) If you're curious, check out my slides here: juliarohrer.com/resources/

We have an open tenure-track faculty position in our department for someone with a research program focusing on Cell Biology. See below jobs.careerbeacon.com/details/assi...

I had a wonderful conversation with @Trevor Aleo about my latest book, #Schoolishness: Alienated Education and the Quest for Authentic, Joyful Learning, and you can listen to us on his podcast, Conceptually Speaking. open.substack.com/pub/trevoral...

There's a word for learning from evolution's inventions: bioinspiration. Here's my interactive story on the way animals and plants fuel technological creativity. Gift link: nyti.ms/4otNQyl

The concept of "fitness" is central to evolutionary biology but it's not entirely worked out. There are multiple definitions, doubts about predictive power, problems with internal consistency. Here's a paper from last year attempting to solve some of these problems. doi.org/10.1093/evol...

Calls for membership on COSEWIC subcommittees are now posted (including the marine mammals SSC)! It is incredibly rewarding to serve on these committees, not to mention the pleasure of working with such great people. www.cosewic.ca/index.php/en...

Sharks absolutely get cancer, and people claiming otherwise are pseudoscientific grifters preying on the desperate. Even if sharks did not get cancer, eating shark would not cure your cancer any more than eating LeBron James would make you better at basketball.

Finally an #Idaho judge drops the hammer on a poaching ring with hefty jail sentences and lifetime hunting privileges suspended. The gasping from the sentencing courtroom gallery was the sound of privilege meeting justice. #idpol www.kivitv.com/twin-falls/s...

How bowhead whales live for centuries—and how we might borrow some of their biology to extend our healthy lifespan. Gift link to my new column: nyti.ms/4hyD9ry

Wow. Hadn't even thought about the implications of antivax ideas on pets and veterinarians...

Do you also have a "To Read" folder that’s basically a black hole? 🕳️ My new blog post explores why that’s okay. And how to orbit the black hole instead of getting sucked in. You’ll Never Keep Up with the Scientific Literature (and That’s Okay) jenteottenburghs.wordpress.com/2025/10/28/y...

Exciting opportunity to work on Marion Island! mousefreemarion.org/vacancies/?f...

7 reasons to use Bayesian inference! statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/10/11/7...

Leaf blowers are one of the most effective tools I've seen for turning your problem into someone else's problem.

Our paper (Brieuc Lehmann is the first author) is now online in Genetics. academic.oup.com/genetics/adv...

So sad to hear about the passing of Jane Goodall. She was a huge inspiration for me. I was lucky enough to see her give talk, and to meet here, many years ago. A huge loss.

New story on the Avian Hybrids blog! The hidden effects of genetic purging in Galápagos Mockingbirds avianhybrids.wordpress.com/2025/10/01/t... Based on the Molecular Ecology study by Jakub Vlček, Sebastian Espinoza-Ulloa and their colleagues | #ornithology

In 2020, O Gaggiotti, J Goudet and I showed that Qst-Fst comparison was uncalibrated with high population structure. During her PhD with us, Isa do O developed LogAV: a method that accounts for any population structure while testing for local adaptation : journals.plos.org/plosgenetics...

New article from @stefcraps.com! Ecological apologies: reckoning with grief, guilt, and multispecies justice. doi.org/10.1080/0964...

Week 2 mega preview with @patrickclaybon.bsky.social @jourdanrodrigue.bsky.social - Buying more Jets stock - Kyle Pitts SZN? - The Titans defense: creditable - Bo Nix trying stuff - Puns. So many puns 🎧: landing.podtrac.com/nfldaily 📺: youtu.be/rxi0ko9dDp0?...

SINGER, our ARG inference method, is finally published and freely available online: doi.org/10.1038/s415... It was a long journey – 16 months from initial submission to acceptance. Is it just me, or has peer review gotten more arduous lately? 4+ rounds of review isn't so unusual these days...

This new book, The Ungraded Classroom, edited by Carlo Ricci and Gina Riley (with a foreword by @susandblum), has just been published! It has many examples, beautifully and honestly presented, of ways educators have included ungrading in their classrooms. www.amazon.com/dp/B0FQHZKJZ...

Wow, Florida at it again… planning to become the first state to end all vaccine mandates, even for schoolkids. Don’t let the facts of decades of preventing outbreaks and protecting public health get in the way.

Ever wonder what a day in the life of an Innocence Project lawyer is like? Take a moment to read this @reuters.com profile of Director of Strategic Litigation Chris Fabricant and learn about the everyday challenges our legal team faces. www.reuters.com/practical-la...

How do wildlife populations respond to human pressures, and how can we better predict these responses to guide conservation? Here, we review current modelling approaches and highlight new opportunities, with case studies. 🔗 Open access: doi.org/10.1111/ele.... 🙌🙏 @cassiespeakman.bsky.social

I finally tried out {priorsense}📦 with #Stan #rstats and it's awesome! Fed it a simple model I use for teaching, and found some (minor) prior-data conflicts. The powerscale_plot_dens() function really helps in understanding how "bad" the conflict is.

Alberta, Canada The Handmaid's Tale among more than 200 books to be pulled at Edmonton public schools Internally distributed list obtained by CBC shows more than 200 books slated for removal www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

At this point, I bet you can bottle horse dewormer, call it CureAll, and sell it on pharmacy shelves, and there would be no consequence. Oh wait! They already do that, with endorsement from a dude with worms in his brain!

Errrmm 🤦🏾‍♂️

Bioinformatics workbook bioinformaticsworkbook.org/#gsc.tab=0

Free course: Intro to Computational Biology by Mike Love, author of DESeq2. biodatascience.github.io/compbio/

Ever stared at a table of regression coefficients & wondered what you're doing with your life? Very excited to share this gentle introduction to another way of making sense of statistical models (w @vincentab.bsky.social) Preprint: doi.org/10.31234/osf... Website: j-rohrer.github.io/marginal-psy...

Excited for this year's lineup of fabulous speakers, including @bielleogy.bsky.social, @catalicu.bsky.social, and others at the @calstate.bsky.social Virtual Bioinformatics Webinar series! I hope that you'll join us - Friday's at noon Pacific. Deets in the flyer.