🚨🐭🦠 New preprint! Monitoring wildlife disease is expensive, so we need to be smart about where we sample to get as much useful info as possible. We show how SDMs can guide adaptive sampling for zoonotic disease surveillance, using case studies in rodents.

This is, not a joke, one of my favourite papers in a long time. Absolutely stellar co-authors, but also a straight line from "nitpicky little nerds obsessing over sampling" to "translational research with clear implications for management". Go read all about it here: ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...

🧪 New @mdcatchen.bsky.social preprint! Here's how we can decide where to look for wildlife disease, based on combinations of biodiversity, uncertainty, and prevalence data. This is a really cool paper, that is pushing the boundaries of what we can do with sampling and monitoring techniques.

I'm just worried. Even pre-AI, it was really pulling teeth to get some (not all) PhD students to take the time to look up the formula the R package used, make sure its what they actually want to calculate, and validate what R spits out (note: I don't take students like this anymore)

Noteworthy because it was my first time adding a polygon provider using the interface @mdcatchen.bsky.social built for one of our component packages 🎉

One week left to apply to the UVA Biology PhD program! If you or someone you know are interested in contagion from a complex systems perspective, please reach out! I'm looking for a grad student! bio.as.virginia.edu/how-apply-gr...

sometimes you write interesting sentences in ecology

just gonna leave @ecoevorxiv.bsky.social here

And like a brown bird nesting in a Texaco sign I got a point of view

Hi all! I am seeking an ecology or applied math PhD student interested in quantitative ecology, specifically ecological theory, food web modeling, or population dynamics. If you are interested, have a look at our lab website below and reach out to me. resiliencelab.github.io/join/

My friends, don’t you know that I never want this minute to end? And then it ends.

Our software paper on SpeciesDistributionToolkit.jl is now published in @peercomjournal.bsky.social - peercommunityjournal.org/articles/10....

What kind of animal Needs to smoke a cigarette? Grass in the pasture Is sharper than a bayonette Sometimes a pony Sometimes a pony Sometimes a pony gets depressed

When I go downtown, I always wear a corduroy suit, ’cause it’s made of a hundred gutters, that the rain can run right through.

A beautiful visualization of the state space of puzzles, 11 min of joy, h/t @danlarremore.bsky.social

you have been visited by "Le Boulanger Quebecois" repost to receive his blessing

🦠🌿🐦🧪 How can biodiversity monitoring help global efforts in disease surveillance? With ✨ fantastic ✨ colleagues from @viralemergence.org and the @geobon.org working group on One Health, we try to identify three key lessons for the future. 🧵 A short thread! academic.oup.com/bioscience/a...

Poor as a mouse every morning Rich as a cat every night

An update from the team on the uncertain future of our program and the impact of NSF budget cuts. Please share and reach out 🦠

It looks like Breeding Bird Survey data has disappeared from ScienceBase. I've found a copy of the 2022 version on the Internet Archive, but I'm curious if anyone downloaded the most up to date data before the administration change?

One week until Blitz the Gap (www.blitzthegap.org) starts - a Canada-wide event to fill biodiversity data gaps with iNaturalist! @laura-pollock.bsky.social

There were no new ways to understand the world, only new days to set our understanding against.

🐾 #CSEE2025 Workshop Highlight 🐾 "Interpretable machine learning for species distribution modelling" 💻 Discover how to use reproducible ML tools to tackle diverse ecological questions! 🔗 Register here: event.fourwaves.com/scee2025/reg...

What kind of animal Needs to smoke a cigarette? Grass in the pasture Is sharper than a bayonette Sometimes a pony Sometimes a pony Sometimes a pony gets depressed

Boy wants a car from his dad Dad says, "First, you got to cut that hair" Boy says, "Hey, Dad, Jesus had long hair" And Dad says, "That's right, son, Jesus walked everywhere"

People gotta synchronize to animal time

learning interesting things on LinkedIn

All our hardships were just yardsticks then, you know

Bartender says, "Hey, we don't serve robots" And the robot says, "Oh, but someday you will"

word for math typesetting as an indicator of quality simply does not miss

at least i don't have to care about my us credit score anymore. and at the end of the day, isn't that what counts?

really feel like domain researchers have latched on to the concept of "AI" right as the bubble starts to pop

New paper! (arxiv.org/abs/2503.14093) I haven’t been this excited about one in a while, and I think the theory @mhab.bsky.social develops here will be a big step forward for the field. Why? Let me explain 🧵...

New preprint: a toolkit for species distribution modelling, in #JuliaLang. The result of many years of work with fantastic people including @gabdans.bsky.social and @mdcatchen.bsky.social - a quick thread 🧪🌏 ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...

Some postdoc work up now up as a preprint! ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v... Choosing sites for monitoring biodiversity is critical for robust inference - so which algorithm should you use to pick sites? We found similar performance for algos and outline the features that might influence your decision.

One thing about me is that I will fight Nazis until I’m six feet in the ground.

Exciting opportunity - Last minute call for nominations for experts and fellows for the #IPBES methodological assessment of integrated biodiversity-inclusive spatial planning and ecological connectivity Fellows: www.ipbes.net/spatial-plan... Experts: www.ipbes.net/spatial-plan...

Free Curve to the Point - Accompanying Sound of Geometric Curves (rotated), by Wassily Kandinsky, 1925, 📸 by @redwingdgr

fun annual reminder: ESA publishes a journal called Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, which is a real journal that is not affiliated with any other "Frontiers in" journal or the Frontiers publishing group. It just has an unfortunate name

With @schneiderbea.bsky.social @csabavad.bsky.social @zsuzsimrton.bsky.social @hhuong152.bsky.social and others, we showed how connectivity loss affects metacommunities with results from a 4-month long mesocosm experiment just published in @globalchangebio.bsky.social ! shorturl.at/9o9ak

We've now got the green light to revamp this booklet and we're looking for volunteers to write/peer review sections. Express your interest here: forms.gle/ZYFLPaC3k2RF.... We want to feature diverse ECR writers from across the world. Women of colour are especially encouraged!

tapping the sign

Great paper surveying practices around occupancy modeling in ecology doi.org/10.1111/ecog... from @ben-r-goldstein.bsky.social & co. Not a flattering view -- from data collection to statistical methods to peer review we're falling short, but many actionable suggestions here!

Yes! Ask to speak with current *and* former students. In person/on the phone if possible. Ask direct questions about their experiences and lab culture (e.g., "if you were starting over, would you choose this lab again").

I'm gonna shine out in the wild kindness And hold the world to its word

The second part of the #ComplexityThoughts on “model-free” analysis of #ComplexSystems. As usual you have the: Post: open.substack.com/pub/manlius/... Podcast: creators.spotify.com/pod/show/com... RSS: manlius.substack.com/feed Enjoy! 🙏

Predicting missing links in food webs using stacked models and species traits www.biorxiv.org/content/bior...

the sham legacy of Richard Feynman youtu.be/TwKpj2ISQAc

How do we make ecological networks relevant to biodiversity conservation and management? 🌏🧪 In a new preprint, @gabdans.bsky.social & @ceresbarros.bsky.social et al. suggest that the main challenge remains uncertainty and its propagation. But the good news is that they suggest a way forward!

all water is classic water