🚨 New blog post! 🚨 Collaborating on Quarto documents can be tricky, especially if you're working with people who don't need to write code 🫂 So I've pulled together some options for collaborating on Quarto documents into a blog post! Link: nrennie.rbind.io/blog/collabo... #QuartoPub #RStats

🐛🗺️💻 Our paper introducing and describing the mappestRisk package is now published in @peerj.bsky.social ⏬ peerj.com/articles/21428 #AgriculturalScience #Biogeography #Bioinformatics #Ecology #Zoology

New research on Southeast Asian dipterocarps, the tallest tropical trees, shows that they adjust their hydraulic system as they grow tall, suggesting resilience to drought. Learn more this week in Science: https://scim.ag/4eOcwhy

🌦️🌳 Why are more trees dying in European forests? Extreme summer droughts are definitely part of the story, but our new paper shows that tree mortality is shaped by climate variability across seasons, not by single extreme events alone. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Most of the statistical tests you learned in stats class — t-test, ANOVA, correlation — are actually special cases of a single thing: linear regression. Ch 7 of Experimentology argues that thinking in models, not tests, is more flexible and a better foundation for theory. 🧵 experimentology.io

Natural history on canvas: Brueghel knew about bird-eating noctule bats Just published in @pnas.org, OA for all eyes Led by the one-and-only @romero-vidal.bsky.social, with the amazing @elena-tena.bsky.social and Sonia Sánchez-Navarro @ebdonana.bsky.social LINK: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

¡Hoy lanzamos nuevo monográfico! 😱🎉 En esta ocasión traemos un ámbito de investigación novedoso que no habíamos tratado anteriormente, la Educación en Ecología. Un ámbito, por cierto, cada vez más presente en las sociedades científicas a nivel internacional. Os lo contamos en este hilo ⬇️

AI, Comparative Advantage, and the Next Decade of Ecological Research. Food for thought @jdrakephd.bsky.social doi.org/10.1111/ele.... #ecopubs

A new paper by @dominiquemakowski.bsky.social, @mattansb.msbstats.info, me and colleagues just out! We show how to choose informative priors in Bayesian regression models using a systematic simulation study and a practical step-by-step tutorial in #Rstats and #Stan! doi.org/10.3389/fpsy... >

PHD POSITION: FOREST ECOLOGY & CLIMATE CHANGE 🌲 Project: "Seed Rain, Pollen Limitation, and Climate Change" Supervision: G. Kunstler (LESSEM-Grenoble) & S. Venner (LBBE-Lyon) Focus: Quantify climate & pollen limitation impacts on tree fecundity. Details: urls.fr/LoFZKJ #PhDPosition #ForestEcology

📍 Interesting early-stage project: RQGIS Console An R console integrated directly into QGIS -- letting you write and run R code inside QGIS with full access to your active project (layers, CRS, extent, and metadata). github.com/jsmendozap/r... #QGIS #RStats #GIS #Geocomputation #RSpatial

After some internal discussion, we published our genAI lab guidelines: bartomeuslab.com/2026/06/15/g...

Thrilled to share that @minecr.bsky.social and my paper on Ten simple rules for teaching data science is now available from @plos.org Computational Biology! journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...

We are hiring a new postdoc to join our team! 🐝👀🧬 Learn more about the position here: www.bc3research.org/en/job_offer...

new diamond open-access Journal of Statistical Ecology launched 🎉🎉🎉 jse.centre-mersenne.org @fredbarraquand.bsky.social @oaggimenez.bsky.social @marieaugermethe.bsky.social @vianeylb.bsky.social (apologies to any Bsky editors I missed)

What if conservation could respond before the crisis hits? In 2024, howler monkeys were falling dead from trees in Mexico. Our model had flagged that region before the crisis. We present the first global early warning system forecasting extreme heat exposure for biodiversity here rdcu.be/fm8ml

I just returned from two back-to-back conferences. Students, I noticed that a lot of your slide decks had an oddly similar layout structure and I was able to confirm in conversations that these were AI-generated/assisted. Some thought about this for your own professional development: 🧵

This week on my substack: what is an agent open.substack.com/pub/tidydesi....

Excited to share our new paper in @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social on data and code archiving at @britishecologicalsociety.org journals. TL;DR: Data archiving rates are high, code archiving rates are low, documentation needs to be improved! besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.....

🤩 New open datasets just dropped for Europe's #forests! Three satellite maps. Whole continent. Free on Zenodo. → Disturbances 1985–2023 → Canopy height, cover & complexity → Dominant tree genus Read more about the maps and their impact: forestpaths.eu/news/new-hig...

Don’t reach for ChatGPT Images or Nano Banana as your first option when creating scientific images There are multiple free and open-source images, icons, and tools for creating scientific illustrations. #plantscience @stephenturner.us blog.stephenturner.us/p/free-open-...

The new generation of adults knows fewer plant species than the old people do. Lindemann-Matthies et al. @peopleandnature.bsky.social besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... 🧪🌍🌳🪴🌱

Will climate change increase global forest deadwood carbon stocks (because of increasing tree productivity and mortality) or decrease it (because of increased deadwood decomposition)? Find out in the new paper by Edelmann et al., out now in @commsearth.nature.com doi.org/10.1038/s432...

“… it took time to figure out how to let go and lead without hovering over every single move, to be there when people struggled without taking the wheel.” #ScienceWorkingLife https://scim.ag/42y5hoi

Are pine plantations helping or hurting nature? Let me share our research-supported view of pine plantations in Mediterranean landscapes, and how they relate to wildfires, soil erosion, and biodiversity loss. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

“I will miss the creativity of teaching.” During #TeacherAppreciationWeek, check out this #ScienceWorkingLife essay from a retired professor emeritus on how she challenged students to think beyond facts—and how she learned to teach like a scientist. https://scim.ag/4en9MsX

Las II Jornadas de Ecoinformática ya están aquí! Serán en @fbiodiversidad.bsky.social Sevilla el 1-3 oct. Charlas, talleres, visitas excursiones! Estamos muy emocionadxs con la 2ed! Tu también? Apúntate! 👉 ecoinfaeet.github.io/II_jornadas_... (plazas limitadas) Colabora @ebdonana.bsky.social

Happy 100th birthday to the living legend and national treasure that is Sir David Attenborough. Few figures alive have done as much for nature and conservation as Sir David, and we've been very lucky to work with him over the years. #DavidAttenborough #Attenborough100 #Nature #PlanetEarth

📦 My new R package {spatialData} is on CRAN! 🎉 Ecological datasets as sf data frames and their companion raster data ready for analysis and modeling. Built as example data for R packages, but great for teaching too! 🔗 blasbenito.github.io/spatialData/ ❗check the Articles section!

On my way to #EGU26, perfect time to drop a new post! 🗺️ Something I've been wanting to write about: Mercator projections still showing up in high-profile journals. So here it is: projections you should stop using (for most things) 👇 #gis #rstats #dataviz dominicroye.github.io/blog/map-pro...

Just released mori 0.1.0 on CRAN — a new R package for shared memory across processes. Parallel R no longer has to mean duplicating your dataset in every worker's RAM. opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-04... 🧵 1/3

#BlogAEET "Desbiologizar lo vegetal" Carlos Herrera @cmhmaliani.bsky.social reflexiona sobre la tendencia creciente que existe a manipular (o ignorar) conceptos biológicos, como manifestación de negacionismo científico y el objetivo de defender fines extractivistas. blogaeet.org/2026/04/20/d...

Statistics presented in a very engaging way that show how the world has changed since 2011 by @natclimate.nature.com www.nature.com/immersive/s4...

🚦 flownet (by Sebastian Krantz) is an R package for transport modeling: compute routes, network flows, and more. Read about it at sebkrantz.github.io/Rblog/2026/0... #RStats #RSpatial #TransportModeling

'The real threat is a slow, comfortable drift toward not understanding what you're doing. Not a dramatic collapse. Just a generation of researchers who can produce results but can't produce understanding' What a nice post on AI, education, learning, research and academia

Swedish old-growth forests store 83 % more carbon than managed forests, according to a new study from Lund University with BECC & @mergesweden.bsky.social members Anders Ahlström & Didac Pascual. The difference is substantially larger than previous estimates: www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HtS...

Together with @juditlecinadiaz.bsky.social & @monicagturner.bsky.social, we synthesized studies on post-disturbance forest reorganization. Key insight: Self-replacement is common across biomes, i.e., disturbances act as catalysts of change only under specific conditions doi.org/10.1111/geb....

More evidences that "Pay to publish" journals are increasing inequalities nd bisases in science globally ... #Ecology But... #antotherscienceispossible #diamondOAmodel #freetoreadandpublish nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Project assistant with a background in natural sciences wanted You will work with a programmer and stakeholders from the Swedish forestry sector to create a graphical user interface for the dynamic vegetation model LPJ-GUESS. Read more, apply or tip your network --> lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

97% of the papers archived the data but only 35% archived the code. Most people are writing code but not sharing it. Time to bring up this again: scispace.com/pdf/publish-... (and if the code isn't good enough yet, maybe it's too early to publish the paper) #openscience #reproducibility #ecopubs

Who needs PowerPoint when you have Quarto and @emilhvitfeldt.bsky.social's extensions?! I wanted to make an image-heavy presentation. Usually, I'd reach for Keynote. But Emil shared quarto-revealjs-editable, which let me stay in Quarto land 🥰 Thanks, Emil! Find it here: github.com/EmilHvitfeld...

Con motivo del #8M la #ComisiondeIgualdad de la AEET @eco-aeet.bsky.social y #FRACTAL @fractalcol.bsky.social lanzamos una encuesta sobre la importancia de los #CUIDADOS en la carrera científica. Si trabajas en ecología anímate a completarla! aeet-comisionigualdad.limesurvey.net/485287?lang=...

How much does it pay to publish an open access academic book? Read this thread for my story and 💲💰 amounts. 🧵 www.routledge.com/9781032908724

The future of Europe’s forest disturbance regimes– a thread. Tl, dr: Disturbances from wildfire, bark beetles & wind will continue to increase in the coming decades. Under unabated climate change disturbances could more than double by 2100. New paper out in @science.org doi.org/10.1126/scie...

One of those legendary pieces of online statistical lore that everyone needs be aware of.

🆕 BLOG POST There’s so much more to spatial downscaling today than classic LM or kriging. In my new blog post, I show how flexible and powerful GAMs can be for this task. #rstats #dataviz ➡️ dominicroye.github.io/blog/canary-...

Excited to share our new paper in @natcomms.nature.com We synthesize causal discovery & inference approaches across traditions (regression adjustment, quasi-expts, SEMs, Granger causality, convergent cross-mapping, and more) into a unified workflow for ecologists. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Tenemos nuevo #SeminarioEcoinformático !! Esteban Alonso (IPE-CSIC) nos hablará sobre supercomputación y paralelización de tareas 💻🔀 *Esta vez no habrá grabación del seminario, así que os animamos a asistir! ¡Os esperamos a todas y a todos! 📆 jueves 12 marzo 2026, 16:00h 🔗 shorturl.at/G9efC

New paper out in @jappliedecology.bsky.social! We investigated how forest structural heterogeneity and climate influence temperate dung beetles in production forests. 🪲

☀️Hotter and drier conditions under ongoing climate change are causing tree mortality events and altering forest dynamics worldwide. 🧑‍💻Learn more in the webinar: ☀️Limits and opportunities in predicting drought-induced forest mortality 🗓️24 March 2026; 🕓4:00 pm CET 🔗 zoom.us/meeting/regi...