🎙️ New Podcast! @sarahlotspeich.bsky.social & I are launching Regression to the Mean Girls where we go way too deep into silly data side quests! In our first episode Sarah deep dives on time to first kiss in romance novels! open.spotify.com/episode/73wC... regressiontothemeangirls.com

Romance by the Numbers: First Sparks Across Tropes

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Reread my blog post on the biggest problem in statistics. On re-read, I still don't think it is terrible (other than the typos and things). So I'll repost. timcdlucas.github.io/the-biggest-...

🦇 Registration is now open for the 10th SECEMU Bat Conference! If you’re interested in learning more about bats or sharing your latest work with these fascinating animals, don’t miss it. 📍 Lobios, Ourense 🔗 More info: secem.es/.../x-jornad...

Nice explainer of many widespread #statistics misuses! With real examples

Dr Mircea Zloteanu 🌺🌞🍃@mzloteanu.bsky.social · last wk.

#statstab #602 Factors associated with: problems of using exploratory multivariable regression to identify causal risk factors Thoughts: You mean I can't just add covariates and hope for the best!? #primer #causalinference #table2 #methods #regression bmjmedicine.bmj.com/content/4/1/...

My new book, Phylogenetic Biology, is now published. Available online for free at dunnlab.org/phylogenetic... . Physical copies can be purchased at shop.lightningsource.com/b/085?params... or your favorite bookstore.

🐺 Un estudio revela que la clave para comprender el conflicto entre ganaderos y el #lobo puede ser una cuestión de escala espacial: la percepción a escala local es muy diferente a la nacional 🐑🐂👉 https://www.irec.es/publicaciones-destacadas/conflicto-lobo-en-espana-escala-espacial/

We’ve added instructions on our webpage: statisticalecology.org/registration/ Early bird deadline is Sept 30. 🦜

Species’ traits, climatic niches or home ranges are naturally described as distributions in continuous spaces. In this new preprint we present a framework for measuring and partitioning diversity in these spaces using equivalent numbers and probability density functions doi.org/10.64898/202...

🚨 New preprint! 🌀🎲 We explore the interplay between chaotic dynamics and demographic noise in finite populations. Interestingly, we find that the strange attractor persists despite constant perturbations from noise. @theobioarne.bsky.social G.Datseris #evosky 👉📄: arxiv.org/pdf/2504.00028

#statsmeme

I am making my group read @kokkonut.bsky.social primer on continuous time models in ecology (doi.org/10.1111/2041...). Clearest presentation of Gillespie algorithm I've seen.

Survey Statistics: wanting workflow statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2026/08/11/s...

Scariest page to look at 🥹

{shinyelectron} is on CRAN. install.packages("shinyelectron") Turn an R or Python Shiny app into a desktop app your users double-click. macOS, Windows, Linux. One export() call builds the installer. cran.r-project.org/package=shin... #rstats #python #rshiny #pyshiny

shinyelectron: Export 'Shiny' Applications as Desktop Apps using 'Electron'

Provides tools to export 'Shiny' applications written in 'R' or 'Python' as standalone desktop applications using 'Electron'. The applications run as native, cross-platform programs. Depending on the ...

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📢 New paper out! 🐦🩸 Does sampling hour matter when measuring avian leukocyte profiles? In our new paper in Journal of Avian Biology, we show that it does. 👇 doi.org/10.1002/jav.... @behavecol-lab.bsky.social

Sampling hour matters: diel variation in leukocyte profile of red‐legged partridges

Leukocyte counts are widely used as integrative biomarkers of immune function and physiological condition across ecological and biomedical sciences. However, their reliability can be compromised by s...

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When not assuming a normal distribution is it worthwhile to parametrically fit a distribution? Or better to just go with the empirical cumulative distribution function (ECDF) and its generalization - cumulative prob. ordinal regression? New blog article: fharrell.com/post/ecdf #Statistics #StatsSky

Parametric Models vs. Empirical Distributions and Ordinal Regression – Statistical Thinking

A primary goal of this article is to compare the accuracy of empirical cumulative distribution functions (ECDFs) and their logical extensions—cumulative probability ordinal regression models—with that...

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🧬 🌱New paper out! We use universal and lineage-specific probes in a Hyb-Seq approach to resolve recalcitrant phylogenetic relationships in clusioids, shedding light on their evolution. @molecology.bsky.social @csic.es 🔗 doi.org/10.1111/1755... #Phylogenomics #HybSeq #Biodiversity #Malpighiales

Enrichment Probe Sets Combining Universal and Lineage‐Specific Targets Help Resolve Recalcitrant Lineages

The combination of target capture sequencing (TCS) with low-coverage whole genome sequencing (lcWGS), an approach known as Hyb-Seq, has allowed the integration of natural history collections into the...

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New in MER! Villa-Machío et al. present the Clusioids626 kit, a custom probe set combining universal and clusioid-specific targets, improving locus recovery and phylogenetic relationships across all clusioid families. @wileyecology.bsky.social 🔗: buff.ly/Svh6V5J #Phylogenomics #Malpighiales

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El calor récord de junio y julio intensificó los incendios de España y Francia, como muestran los datos de Copernicus

Europa occidental experimentó el periodo junio-julio más caluroso desde que hay registros, según datos del Servicio de Cambio Climático de Copernicus (C3S). En julio se produjeron la tercera y la cuar...

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Remember: whether a claim is causal or descriptive is a property of your *question* (and implied theory), not your *analysis*

Ryan Enos@ryanenos.bsky.social · 4w ago

Don't posit a theory that is only interesting because it implies X causes variation in Y, test for a statistical relationship between X and Y, but then say you are not interpreting causally. Of course you are interpreting it causally. That was the whole point of what you just did.

#statsmeme

Ben Harrap@bharrap.bsky.social · 4w ago

What is expected to be one of our strongest El Niños in the historical record continues to unfold. It's very impressive how extensive the warm waters are stretching across nearly the entire central Pacific Ocean now, which is visible in last month's pattern Data: www.ncei.noaa.gov/products/opt... 🌊

MSU EEB Presidential Postdoctoral Fellowship is now accepting applications! Applications are open through November 1, 2026. For more information about the fellowship and application process, please visit our website. Please feel free to share this opportunity with anyone who may be interested.

Postdoctoral Fellowship - Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior

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🆕 La acogida a las medidas de la #PAC para la conservación de las #aves es insuficiente donde hay mayor riqueza de #AvesEsteparias en España: apenas llega al 20% ‼️⚠️ Info aquí 👉 https://www.irec.es/publicaciones-destacadas/acogida-medidas-pac-conservacion-aves-esteparias-insuficiente-en-espana/

How I use statistics and my law degree to fight human-rights abuses www.nature.com/articles/d41...

How I use statistics and my law degree to fight human-rights abuses

Some 50 years after exposing gender discrimination in US academics’ retirement benefits, Mary Gray works as a statistician and social-justice campaigner.

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🦦💦 Très heureux de partager notre article "Médiation scientifique autour de la préservation des zones humides : le bassin versant du Lez (Montpellier, France) et la loutre d’Europe (Lutra lutra) comme cas d’étude" revue-set.fr/article/view...

Yes there’s a solar eclipse and a lunar eclipse coming up this month… but are you ready for 🥧 “Not Quite As Good Pi Approximation Day” 🥧 on 25/8?!

So happy to have seen an Iberian desman, Galemys pyrenaicus, for the first time, a truly remarkable species and one that is currently listed as Endangered by the IUCN. Moments like these are a reminder of how special (and fragile) our biodiversity is 🍃 #IberianDesman #Wildlife #Biodiversity

Check out this work I collaborated with, led by @seh-pang.bsky.social , linking the niche definition with demographic responses. Certainly key for spatiotemporal species modelling!

Sean Pang@seh-pang.bsky.social · 4mo ago

📜New Paper📜@ecography.bsky.social Species distributions aren’t just about where species occur, but how survival, reproduction and development vary across environments. We formalise the Demographic Niche Concept to link niche theory and demography. nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...