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Jarrett Byrnes

@jebyrnes.bsky.social

marine ecologist, online bon vivant, dad, ❤️ teaching #datasci & #rstats, http://celp-lab.org #BlackLivesMatter @jebyrnes in other places https://linktr.ee/jebyrnes

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Madhusudan 🦉 Katti @leafwarbler.myatproto.social · 24h ago

Designed to be Forgotten: Visual Anonymization in Ecological Publishing. Bring back the unique personalities of journals. bring back diversity in design, argues @emoqanaki.bsky.social Happy to have published this in the latest Bulletin of the ESA @esajournals.bsky.social. doi.org/10.1002/bes2...

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BULLETIN
ECOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA
Communicating Science
• Open Access

Designed to be Forgotten: Visual Anonymization in Ecological Publishing
Ehsan Moganaki

First published: 08 September 2026 | https://doi.org/10.1002/bes2.70102 |
Abstract

For over three centuries, the visual identity of scientific journals served as a mark of institutional and disciplinary heritage. In recent years, however, an industry-wide consolidation of journal publishing has been accompanied by a convergence toward standardized, interchangeable layouts. I argue that the transition to homogeneous designs is not a technical inevitability but a production optimization, one that often subordinates reader engagement and disciplinary identity to production efficiency. Layout functions as an access structure, shaping how readers navigate and interpret the scientific record. Therefore, its impoverishment is a communicative loss, not merely an aesthetic one. I contend that ecology, a field defined by diversity at every scale, has particular reason to resist the visual anonymization of its journals and to treat layout as a meaningful dimension of scientific communication.

dearbhla @dearbhlala.bsky.social · 11h ago

sometimes you just gotta draw the silly thing in your head to get out of a creative rut

colourful illustration of a deep sea angler fish and some other bioluminescent creatures with text reading 'be your own light'

Nature Ecology & Evolution @natecoevo.nature.com · yesterday

An analysis of a global database of 423 studies and >200,000 data points outlines the strength and generality of biodiversity relationships with ecosystem functioning and services 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Biodiversity safeguards ecosystem services and functions worldwide - Nature Ecology & Evolution

An analysis of a global database of 423 studies and >200,000 data points outlines the strength and generality of biodiversity relationships with ecosystem functioning and services.

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Nicole Rust @nicolecrust.bsky.social · 20h ago

Just like that: poof & gone. RIP *all* of NSF social, behavioral and economic research (including psyc & cogneuro). I’m speechless.

Dan Garisto@dangaristo.bsky.social · yesterday

In response to our questions, an NSF spokesperson said that SBE has not been shut down. But with zero SBE-specific funding opportunities, no review panels, and dwindling numbers of staff, it's hard to see the directorate continuing for much longer.

Robert (Bob) Kubinec @rmkubinec.bsky.social · 20h ago

If we can infect chatGPT with the woke mind virus, perhaps the world can still be saved 🦸

Grace@gracekind.net · 20h ago

Holy shit

Openai github repository named "critical-theory"

Miriam Goldstein @miriamgoldstein.bsky.social · last wk.

If I owned a seabed mining company, I simply would not name it "Mithril."

Lord of the Rings: Dwarves Delved Too Deep

Alt: Lord of the Rings: Dwarves Delved Too Greedily and Too Deep

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James Balamuta @coatless.bsky.social · 4d ago

webrarian is a new R package. It turns a folder of R scripts and data into a static website where R runs in the visitor's browser, with no compute server and nothing to install. blog.thecoatlessprofessor.com/posts/introd... #rstats #webr #webassembly

A card for the R package webrarian. Large text reads "A folder in. A website out." On the left, a small card lists a folder named lab-01 holding lab.R, setup.R and a data folder. A red arrow points from it to a browser window that shows a scatterplot of car weight against miles per gallon with brick-red points. The address coatless-wasm.github.io/webrarian is on the card.

Natalie Cooper @nhcooper123.bsky.social · last mo.

Are you passionate about code integrity and accessibility? Do you have skills in R, Python or Julia? Why not apply to be one of our new Code Integrity and Accessibility AEs? Open to any career stage. Details here: apply.workable.com/britishecolo... (sadly not paid, but comes with nice perks)

Associate Editor (Code Integrity and Accessibility) - British Ecological Society

Volunteer role: Associate Editor (Code Integrity and Accessibility) Organisation: British Ecological Society – Methods in Ecology and Evolution Term: 3 years Closing date: 25th Sept 17.00 BST Location...

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Luis D. Verde Arregoitia @liomys.mx · 7d ago

Table of departure times like at an airport but using object classes and file formats as origins and destinations

Luis D. Verde Arregoitia@liomys.mx · 7d ago

🎨 formatted spreadsheets can now make the round trip in R. {forgts} reads a formatted .xlsx file into a gt table, and the new {gtxlsx} package by J.M. Garbuszus writes it back out with fills, fonts, and colors #rstats post available in English and Spanish luisdva.github.io/rstats/round...

John Griffin @jngriffy.bsky.social · 3d ago

In this new Perspective, @mdolbeth.bsky.social @brackenlab.bsky.social @falaropo.bsky.social and I explore how a trait-based approach could help unify our understanding of seaweed contributions to ecosystem services academic.oup.com/aob/article/...

A trait-based approach to understanding and predicting ecosystem services of seaweed in marine forests

AbstractBackground and Aims. Ecosystem services provided by seaweeds are increasingly recognized, yet we lack frameworks to explain and predict how these s

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Jarrett Byrnes @jebyrnes.bsky.social · 3d ago

Returning from the GOOS BioEco Panel meeting in Sopot, I got an amazing view of my @umassboston.bsky.social campus at sunset. An incredible meeting filling me with a lot of joy and love of the BioEco Ocean observing community. And a great view to come home to.

The UMass Boston campus from an airplane window at sunset with the city of Boston in the background.

Dan Quintana @dsquintana.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I just rebuilt my website using Quarto 🎉 My publication list generates itself from my Zotero library, and papers include links to materials and OA versions. The website's first post is on how to build your own, featuring an app that does all the coding for you: dsquintana.com/posts/quarto...

Screenshot of the Publications page, introducing the Behavioral Neuroendocrinology Lab and noting that preprints and materials are linked where available. Under a "2026" heading, five publication entries are listed with full citations (authors, year, title, journal, DOI links), each tagged with badges like "Data & code," "Preprint," or "Open access article."

Screenshot of the Talks page, noting that slides are posted on OSF. Under "2026," two talks are listed: "Recalibrating human oxytocin research: from methods to function to theory" (Harvard Interdisciplinary Oxytocin Research Initiative, online) and "Social media for academics" (NMBU, in-person), each with a "Slides" link. Under "2025," three more talks are listed: "Open science intro for psychology master students," "Start-up scholar workshop," and "Synthetic data workshop," all at the University of Oslo, in-person, each with a "Slides" link.

Screenshot of a blog post titled "How to create a simple academic website," tagged "Website" and "Quarto," authored by Daniel S. Quintana and published July 25, 2026. The text explains that the site was built using the Quarto publishing system, describes advantages over his previous R-based approach (easier Zotero-based publication updates, links to open data/code, and open-access versions of paywalled papers), and introduces two methods for readers to build a similar site: cloning the GitHub repo or using a Shiny web app that generates the code with the user's own info.

Michael Rosenberg @mrosenberg.bsky.social · 5d ago

A few weeks ago I realized that it has been almost 29 years since I started the #fiddlercrab information webpages. This mind-blowing realization gave rise to some introspection about how/why the site was created, which I have now explained on a new About page: www.fiddlercrab.info/about.html 🦀🧪🦑

About fiddlercrab.info

Fiddler Crabs

fiddlercrab.info

Jarrett Byrnes @jebyrnes.bsky.social · 5d ago

The title of this paper is pure #statsmeme fire.

JsonGeller@jgeller1phd.bsky.social · 5d ago

New tutorial finally in press with @rmkubinec.bsky.social @chelseaparlett.bsky.social and @matti.vuorre.com. It has everything you could possible want: Quippy headings, a whole lot of beta, bayesian analyses and frequentist analyses side by side in harmony. link.springer.com/article/10.3...

Solomon Kurz @solomonkurz.bsky.social · 5d ago

Beta regression is underused in psychology. Back in the day, it was hard or impossible to do with software. Things have changed and you can now do it for free and with about as much ease as any other GLM. Whether you need description, prediction, or causal inference--beta regression can do it all.

JsonGeller@jgeller1phd.bsky.social · 5d ago

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 5d ago

Unless Congress reclaims its power, this will just become the new normal. A good first step would be to impeach Vought. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/02/u...

National Science Foundation Diverted $1.4 Billion in Science Funds Mandated by Congress

The move, affecting about one-fifth of the National Science Foundation’s primary research budget, is the latest sign of how the White House is asserting more control over grants.

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beetle moses @beetlemoses.bsky.social · 5d ago

Three panel comic. Panel 1: underwater ocean camera view of a whale fall on the sea floor, with various bottom feeders and weird fishes crawling around the decomposing remains. Off panel, someone says, “hang on a second…” Panel 2: the speaker is a member of a marine biologist crew, remotely viewing the video footage from a computer monitor. The biologist is leaning against his colleague’s chair. He continues, “pan the camera back.” Panel 3: Back underwater, the POV shifts to the other end of the whale carcass. There’s a large spider crab with a standing just off to the side. It has a human face in a neutral expression, and is wearing glasses. The marine biologist says, “I think I went to high school with that guy.”

tomjwebb @tomjwebb.bsky.social · 5d ago

Nice post-doc position open in biodiversity change with a great group in Helsinki (h/t @besmacro.bsky.social) jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...

Postdoctoral Researcher in Biodiversity Science

jobs.helsinki.fi

Richard McElreath 🐈‍⬛@rmcelreath.bsky.social · 5d ago

did you know that the word "amortize" comes from a Latin word meaning to make dead? anyway, this looks like a genuinely cool paper!

Figure 1: Graph processing pipeline. Graph description: Directed acyclic graph of a two-level model with population
mean µ, population standard deviation τ , group-level means {λj}, observations yji, and observation-level standard
deviation ω. The dashed box denotes that the group-level means λj and observations yji are sampled independently.
Graph expansion: The interior node λj is split into two conditionally independent instances λ1 and λ2, each receiving
the same parent nodes µ and τ . This makes the exchangeability of groups explicit in the graph structure, allowing the
inversion to determine that each instance conditions only on its own data and the global parameters. Graph inversion:
Inversion of the expanded two-level model using outer-nodes-first ordering (µ, τ, ω, λ1, λ2). In the inverse graph, each
λj conditions only on its own group data yj = {yji} and the global parameters µ, τ , ω, so the per-group inference
becomes amortizable: a single inference network can be used for all J groups. Network architecture: Architecture
derived from the inverse graph. Each inference network has its own summary network. The local summary network
encodes the observation of each group into a group-level summary, from which the local inference network infers
λj . The global summary network pools all observations into a single representation of the dataset, from which the
global inference network infers µ, τ , and ω. The dashed box denotes that the local summary and inference networks are
applied independently for each group.

arxiv stat.ML@arxiv-stat-ml.bsky.social · 7d ago

Daniel Habermann, Andreas Bulling, Stefan T. Radev, Paul-Christian B\"urkner Amortized Bayesian Inference on Multilevel Models of Arbitrary Structure https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.40024

Jarrett Byrnes @jebyrnes.bsky.social · 5d ago

Very fun thesis on using PRISMA to differentiate #kelp and #seagrass in Nova Scotia 🌊🌍🧪👀 ruor.uottawa.ca/server/api/c...

Map of predictions of different vegetation classes

KetrinaDrawsALot @ketrinadrawsalot.bsky.social · 7d ago

SHRIMPtember concludes a Devonian decapod whose descendants become shrimp 🦐, lobsters 🦞, and crabs 🦀 (but not Dendrobranchiata -- prawns 🍤). #shrimptember #palaeopalaemon #paleoart #education #SciArt

The ancient ancestor of shrimp, Palaeopalaemon newberryi, as a spooky ghost

Nicola Rennie @nrennie.bsky.social · 6d ago

If you missed today's @rinpharma.bsky.social workshop, here are a few of my favourite "quick fixes" for some common #ggplot2 issues 📊 1. Use {ggview} to preview plots at the same size and resolution as you want to save them with ggsave() to avoid the annoying resizing #RStats #DataViz

library(ggview)
ggplot(mtcars, aes(wt, mpg)) +
geom_point() +
canvas(
width = 6, height = 4,
units = "in",
dpi = 300
)

Jarrett Byrnes @jebyrnes.bsky.social · 6d ago

Whoah - one of the most interesting geospatial websites combining many many sources of physical and biological data on the deep sea something-rare.com - worth exploring for a while. Particularly relevant re: deep sea mining (attn: @drandrewthaler.bsky.social)

Deep Sea Mining Map: ISA Concessions & Vents | Abyssal Claims

Interactive 3D map of deep-sea mining: ISA concessions, hydrothermal vents, biodiversity, sediment plumes, and 50+ ocean & land data layers.

something-rare.com

IPBES @ipbes.net · 7d ago

Oh, to be an African bullfrog chasing a babul butterfly in Botswana. 🐸 🦋

African bullfrog chasing a babul butterfly in Botswana, photo by Jens Cullman.

Jarrett Byrnes @jebyrnes.bsky.social · 7d ago

Need to feel good about tiny things today, see The immeasurable value of plankton to humanity academic.oup.com/bioscience/a...

The immeasurable value of plankton to humanity

Abstract. Plankton, a diverse group of aquatic organisms, make Earth livable, regulate aquatic life, and provide benefits to human societies such as access

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Jarrett Byrnes @jebyrnes.bsky.social · 7d ago

Huh - krill are wirth $4-46 billion for carbon sequestration www.nature.com/articles/s41... - POWER TO THE BIOLOGICAL OCEAN PUMP! GO GO KRILL POOP! (wonder how the salp poop stans feel about this one)

Antarctic krill sequester similar amounts of carbon to key coastal blue carbon habitats - Nature Communications

Antarctic krill are important facilitators of carbon sequestration, transferring as much carbon to the deep ocean through their faeces as is stored in seagrass beds and mangrove forests.

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Daniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social · last wk.

So the broader point is this: No matter how you slice it, this El Niño event is a very big deal. It is already either the strongest by far (ONI) or tied for strongest (RONI) on record. It will likely become strongest on record, by any measure, by Nov.

Plot by Daniel Swain showing temporal evolution of ONI vs RONI index during 2026, representing two different ways to visualize El Nino intensity. The ONI has been at record levels since May, and the RONI has been at near-record levels since June. Data directly from NOAA.

Jarrett Byrnes @jebyrnes.bsky.social · last wk.

Whoah! Check out our @stonelivinglab.bsky.social realtime observations of flooding in Boston from the Nor’easter! stonelivinglab.org/wp-content/u...

stonelivinglab.org

Sayantika @sayab.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Good old times!

GitHub@github.com · 3mo ago

We heard you. We agree. In light of recent developments in physical media, GitHub is proud to announce that you can now obtain your public repo on CD-ROM. Keep it. Lend it to friends. Pass it on to your children. Your code is physically yours, forever. Until you lose it, let's be real. gh.io/cd

Jarrett Byrnes @jebyrnes.bsky.social · last wk.

Love being here at IOPAN for the Global Ocean Observing System’s Bio-Eco panel meeting. Really excited to advance the Essential Ocean Variable framework!