New #OpenAccess work in #RESInsectConsDiv finds that #DistributionModels of polysphinctine #parasitoid wasps (#Ichneumonidae) reveal sampling bias & flag potentially overlooked host #interactions doi.org/10.1111/icad.70077 @riosdeciencia.bsky.social @marceloog3.bsky.social @manusaunders.bsky.social

It's in print! My opinionated dive into the definition of "coevolution" is officially out in the December issue of @journal-evo.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/evol...

Dunbar's hugely influential social bonding hypothesis for the evolution of human language, music, & dance is based on the putative increase in primate grooming time with group size. These are the supporting data, including a confound with substrate pointed out by others 🧪 #BioAnth 1/3

Daily posts here with text that include #rstats, from Aug 1 thru yesterday. Excludes the CRAN package update bot. Data pulled with the {bskyr} #rstats 📦 christophertkenny.com/bskyr/ Data wrangled with dplyr & purrr, visualized with ggplot2

#statistics thought of the day:Is an EHR randomization defective? Simple example contrasting frequentist and Bayesian inference. Would you rather have Pr(getting MORE heads than what we observed if a coin is fair),or Pr(Pr(heads) is outside [0.48, 0.52])? #stats #rstats hbiostat.org/bayes/bet/ev...

Would love to see your syllabus! I’m teaching Sexual Selection next spring. Some more recent ones - Eberhard on cryptic female choice, Parker on sperm competition, Jennions and Petrie 97, Phil Trans 2012 issue on social selection, Prum evolution of beauty and Patricelli et al response