Excited to launch the new improved Reproducible Code guide from @britishecologicalsociety.org @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social FREE online here! www.britishecologicalsociety.org//wp-content/... Amazing work by some very talented ECRs. We hope it’s useful!

The breeding season is in full swing! After some troubles with currawong predation, most of the groups are on their second or third nest, and all the parents are busy provisioning their young 🦗🐦 30 chicks banded so far! #superbfairywren #SFW_ANU #birds #ecology

“Overall, these findings suggest that the value of natural history collections as global research infrastructure is eroding due to decreased collecting of specimen data across species, locations, and time.“ doi.org/10.1038/s414... Interesting analysis based on @gbif.org data.

We need new collections but - most importantly - the future generations of scientists will need new collections. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

In an era marked by rapid climate change and biodiversity loss, it is imperative that we continue to invest in the unique value of natural history collections data "Global sampling decline erodes science potential of natural history collections" 🧪

"Here we show substantial declines in the rates of collection of specimen data over recent decades, from analysis of over 150 million records from the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) spanning more than two centuries" www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧪 #Macroecology #EvoBio #Paleobio

I’m pretty delighted to be part of this awesome group! Can’t wait to work together in this new chapter for HiTOP

Congratulations to everyone elected to our Society's 2026 Executive Committee! President: Miri Forbes President-Elect: Chris Conway Secretary: Kelsie Forbush Treasurer: Len Simms Trainee Engagement Chair: Caroline Balling Membership Chair: Holly Levin-Aspenson Conference Chair: Martin Sellbom

The default prior for the intercept in both {rstanarm} and {brms} are very wide. Counterintuitively - being on the logit scale, this is actually translates to a **strong** prior that p(y=1) is near 1 or near 0. Always check your priors! #rstats

Congratulations to my student, Maggie Ma, for publishing her first #rstats package {ggincerta} on CRAN 🥳 Spatial uncertainty visualisation (bivariate, pixel, exceedance, glyph), like {Vizumap}, but fully integrated with ggplot2 -- a much simpler API with all the advantages of the ggplot2 system.

www.theguardian.com/environment/... Everyone deserves to see this beautiful piece of science communication. 🌏🧪🪶 There are many things I love about this, but I think number one is that it features the story a little known, but amazing seabird species, the Desertas Petrel.

🚨Our new package {galaxias} is released in R & Python today! 🚨 📦 galaxias makes it easy to standardise data to Darwin Core, the accepted format for sharing ecological data with infrastructures like @gbif.org and the Atlas of Living Australia galaxias.ala.org.au #rstats #python 🧪🌏🐟 A thread 🧵👇

We're collecting less than half as many biodiversity specimens as in the 1960s-1980s, at a time when they're more important than ever for climate & ecology science. Natural history collections provide crucial data that no other source can match. Our new paper in Nature Comms: doi.org/10.1038/s414...

📸An incredible start to #IDW2025 today with over 800 delegates joining us in Brisbane/Meanjin and online from across the globe to share knowledge and build connections. #SciDataCon #RDAplenary @codata-isc.bsky.social @worlddatasystem.org @researchdataall.bsky.social w/ @science.org.au

From Cory Doctorow: "AI is the asbestos we are shoveling into the walls of our society and our descendants will be digging it out for generations" damn I wish I had written that line pluralistic.net/2025/09/27/e...

Look no further for an *excellent* overview of HiTOP! This chapter for the upcoming Oxford Handbook of Dimensional Models in Psychopathology does a fantastic job of pulling everything together. Tam Pham is an absolute superstar and I feel very lucky to work with her ✨ osf.io/preprints/ps...

Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity. 1/n

Happy National Wattle Day! 💛💚 Did you know Australia is home to nearly 1,000 species of wattle? From Golden Wattle, our national floral emblem (Acacia pycnantha), to the rare pink-purple blooms of Acacia purpureopetala, wattles are as diverse as the landscapes they grow in. #NationalWattleDay

Current AI UX tricks us into thinking we're talking to something that can make value judgments. We're not. So I tested a prototype UX for an AI that helps users learn to think critically. Students went from vague to sharp arguments in 2hrs. More here: vaughntan.org/aiux

Adam Raine, 16, died from suicide in April after months on ChatGPT discussing plans to end his life. His parents have filed the first known case against OpenAI for wrongful death. Overwhelming at times to work on this story, but here it is. My latest on AI chatbots: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/t...

“The AI in the study probably prompted doctors to become over-reliant on its recommendations, ‘leading to clinicians becoming less motivated, less focused, and less responsible when making cognitive decisions without AI assistance,’ the scientists said in the paper.”

Our new Ecology Letters paper shows how natural history collections can use Bayesian decision theory & VOI to transform sampling and resourcing. Moving beyond taxonomy-focused collecting to strategic approaches, maximising impact for climate science, genomics & conservation doi.org/10.1111/ele.70188

Calling all stats nerds to the heart of Australia to discuss all things #Biometrics! 🐨 at the upcoming Biometrics in the Bush Capital meeting #BIB25 ⚡ Abstract submission has been extended! We'll see you there!

1/ NEW R PACKAGE! For estimating the impact of potential interventions on multiple mediators in countering exposure effects (led by @cttc101.bsky.social) - Paper👉 tinyurl.com/ye26jsps - Package👉 tinyurl.com/yuh4kens Thread shows published examples of how the method can be used! #EpiSky #CausalSky

Introducing {flawless} - a nested framework for analysing functional time series. Versatile insights for functional data across research domains, including neuroscience & mental health. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40577684/ Super stoked to share our new paper and matching Beyoncé gif 😅🎉💃 #flawless

people are not built for having an evil genie whispering in their ear about how amazing and perfect they are and confirming every bias they ever had, to say nothing of the constant vigilance for lies and misinformation

We also get many emails from people suffering from these delusions at DAIR. www.404media.co/pro-ai-subre...

Looking for a postdoc in stats or a job with computer vision / deep learning? Postdoctoral position in statistics is now out at Australian National University! jobs.anu.edu.au/jobs/postdoc... And also APPN is looking for a data lead @scienceanu.bsky.social jobs.anu.edu.au/jobs/data-le...

Hi #rstats friends! I'm starting consulting! I've had a great journey in academia working with brilliant people, and while it's bittersweet (and a bit scary!), I'm excited for this next step. I'll still be maintaining {greta} and am hoping to be even more involved with the R community. 1/n

🚨 Public health data disappeared. We’re restoring it. 🚨 RestoredCDC.org preserves unaltered CDC content after key pages were removed or changed without notice. Public data belongs to all of us. 🔗 RestoredCDC.org #PublicHealth #ScienceTransparency #RestoredCDC

Francis Collins, the NIH Director for 12 years, led the Human Genome Project and other NIH efforts for 32 years, resigned today. Key words from his resignation letter www.nytimes.com/2025/03/01/u...

It’s not just the USA at risk. Australia, and many other countries, rely heavily on NOAA’s satellites for weather monitoring and forecasting, tracking cyclones, and measuring climate change. www.pbs.org/newshour/nat...

New Microsoft study finds that using generative AI at work makes employees' critical thinking skills "atrophied and unprepared" www.404media.co/microsoft-st...

This is what they were: blog.google/technology/a...

Google has removed its Responsible AI Principles. This is actually a pretty big deal.

Discussions with colleagues @hf.co about "AI agent" were super fruitful. Kudos to @giadapistilli.com for seeing the point about humans *ceding control* as they build more autonomous systems. Very kind of @fdaudens.bsky.social to make a brief video on some of our thinking! Blog: tinyurl.com/7uuc9x34

Ever wondered why presenting more facts can sometimes *worsen* disagreements, even among rational people? 🤔 It turns out, Bayesian reasoning has some surprising answers - no cognitive biases needed! Let's explore this fascinating paradox quickly ☺️

In true academic style, I'm finishing my new years resolutions just before due date. The ideas behind this paper have been my passion project since day 1 of my PhD, and I'm pleased to announce that it's finally published! doi.org/10.1007/s115... @chris-drovandi.bsky.social

✅ Do you use R or Python? ✅ Are you an ecologist/biologist? Then you might find our website ALA Labs useful! ALA Labs is full of how-to articles to visualise or analyse biodiversity data. Some are for beginners, others are advanced/experimental 😀 labs.ala.org.au 🧪🌏 #rstats #python #quartopub

Dear computer vision researchers, students & practitioners🔇🔇🔇 Remi Denton & I have written what I consider to be a comprehensive paper on the harms of computer vision systems reported to date & how people have proposed addressing them, from different angles. PDF: cdn.sanity.io/files/wc2kmx...

large institutions/orgs are integrating AI into critical infrastructures, and most importantly, the public has been sold utopia based on lies and any realty check that points out the failures/harms from AI is framed as pessimism, making pushbacks difficult

Hello 👋 Finally joined this app. Also still on mastodon at @[email protected]. Seeing how many people tried to report me to myself, I don't think I'll leave that space. Also on LinkedIn www.linkedin.com/in/timnit-ge.... I think that's all I can handle for now.

China has been producing open source models that surpass the performance of OS models from other countries on a number of metrics. Today, the model QwQ is measured to outperform OpenAI o1 and Anthropic Sonnet. Chat is here: huggingface.co/chat/models/... Blog here: qwenlm.github.io/blog/qwq-32b...

Awesome to learn about the Murujuga Rock Art monitoring program from Rebecca O’Leary and the team at Curtin Uni, and their work to understand the effects of air quality on petroglyphs. #TIES2024 murujuga.org.au/worlds-large...

How Big Oil "cynically promoted #recycling and clean up efforts, instead of calling for a limit on #plastic production and finding plastic alternatives. It helped shift the blame for plastic waste off the producer and onto the consumer.” My latest for The New Climate. medium.com/the-new-clim...

Excellent plenary by @sarahinscience.bsky.social to kick off The International Environmetrics Society Conference 2024 here in Tarntanya/Adelaide. Excited to learn about environment & ecology stats, spend time with old friends and make new ones! #TIES2024

What is the chance that: if I repeat an experiment (that has a statistically significant result), the repeated experiment also has a significant result? This paper constructs a relationship between p-values and #replication probability for binary classification. jmlr.org/papers/v25/2... #MLsky

Abeba Birhane, the acclaimed researcher who was named as one of the 100 most influential people in AI by Time Magazine last year, is to lead a new research lab based in Trinity College Dublin www.businesspost.ie/tech-news/ab...