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Sonia Illanas

@soniaillanas.bsky.social

Institute for Game and Wildlife Research (IREC, CSIC-UCLM-JCCM) 🦌 📍 PhD 🎓 👩🏽‍💻 MSc in Ecology (UAM-UCM) 🐾🐆🐻🐰🍀 BSc in Natural Environmental Engineering (UPM)

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Chia Hsieh @chiahsieh.bsky.social · last mo.

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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International Statistical Ecology Conference (ISEC)@isec-stats-ecol.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Abstract notifications have now been sent out 🎉🇲🇽🐆 and this may certainly be the largest ISEC ever! The quality of proposals has been incredible and we’re looking forward to putting together engaging talks & poster sessions. Registration opens soon. ¡Nos vemos en México!

Vianey Leos Barajas @vianeylb.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Getting season tickets to the Toronto Tempo was 💯 the right choice 🏀⛹🏽‍♀️ Motivated to recruit a PhD student to work on Bayesian stat/AI methods for women’s sports, starting with basketball. You’d be supervised by me & folks at the Tanenbaum Institute for Science in Sport. Reach out if interested 👩🏽‍💻

Hadley Wickham @hadley.nz · 2mo ago

Read all the details in our blog post at posit.co/blog/migrati..., and please reach out if you have any questions or concerns!

Migrating to Connect Cloud: Posit's unified publishing solution

A thank

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Irene Mendoza @phenogirl.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Nuestro proyecto #ECOECLIPSE recibe atención en el @elpais.com. ¡Muy agradecida a @pflis.bsky.social por la entrevista y artículo! elpais.com/ciencia/2026... Toda la información del proyecto en: eclipseespana.com/ecoeclipse/ @unisevilla.us.es @mncn-csic.bsky.social @airamrodriguez.bsky.social

Así es el proyecto que ‘escuchará’ el eclipse de Sol: ¿qué se oye cuando se apaga el mundo?

Una docena de investigadores repartirá grabadoras por España para registrar cómo reaccionan aves y murciélagos al falso atardecer del 12 de agosto

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Methods in Ecology and Evolution @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social · 2mo ago

We're doing another MEE live! 🚨 Join us on the 23rd July at 3pm BST to learn more about the R package multinomialTS! 🌍 🧪 Find out more and register here 👇 buff.ly/ynJ3nNl

iBartomeus @ibartomeus.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Protecting the bees is political: resjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... Great piece.

Saving bees or sustaining industry? Challenging neoliberal narratives in North American pollinator research and conservation

Pollinator research is increasingly framed around ecosystem services and economic value, reflecting the growing dominance of neoliberal logic in conservation science. Pollinator researchers identify...

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Sonia Illanas @soniaillanas.bsky.social · 3mo ago

I’m so happy to have finally achieved my PhD! It wouldn’t have been possible without my advisors, all the support I’ve received from my friends throughout these years, and my committee members for making such a great effort to be there. THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH 🙂🐾🌍👩🏽‍💻🦌🐗🦊 12 June 2026

Methods in Ecology and Evolution @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social · 3mo ago

📖 Published📖 This paper presents a broadly applicable and computationally efficient tool to quantify barrier permeability for large animal tracking datasets, available in the permeability R package 🌍 🧪 Read more here 👇 buff.ly/fCRrU21

Instituto de Investigación en Recursos Cinegéticos (IREC)@irec-csic-uclm.bsky.social · 3mo ago

🆕 #OfertaDeEmpleo #ContratoDeTrabajo #OfertaDeTrabajo 👉 El IREC oferta un contrato laboral para gestión de proyectos de investigación ‼️ 🗓️ Envío de candidaturas hasta el 30 de junio de 2026 👍 Toda la info aquí 👉 https://www.irec.es/noticias/irec-contrato-laboral-gestion-proyectos-investigacion/

Instituto de Investigación en Recursos Cinegéticos (IREC)@irec-csic-uclm.bsky.social · 3mo ago

🆕 El IREC supera con éxito la segunda fase de la convocatoria MaX-CSIC 2024 con un plan estratégico centrado en la gestión de la #FaunaSilvestre bajo el enfoque «Una Salud» ✅😊 Os lo contamos aquí 👉 https://www.irec.es/noticias/irec-sello-excelencia-aspira-max-csic-investigacion-fauna-silvestre/

The R Foundation @r-foundation.bsky.social · 3mo ago

The 2026 Rousseeuw Prize for Statistics has been awarded to the R Project. #RStats www.rousseeuwprize.org/2026

The Rousseeuw Prize for Statistics

The Rousseeuw Prize for Statistics is a biennial prize to celebrate outstanding contributions to statistics research.

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Nature @nature.com · 3mo ago

A century-old vaccine against tuberculosis helps to regulate blood sugar in people with diabetes go.nature.com/49WsJja

TB vaccine from the 1920s shows promise in diabetes trial

Nature - The shot reduced insulin use for people with type 1 diabetes and another autoimmune condition.

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GBIF España/Spain @gbif.es · 3mo ago

El declive de los insectos empezó antes de lo que creíamos. Un estudio con 90 años de datos, disponibles en @gbif.org, y la participación de @ebdonana.bsky.social revelan cómo la intensificación del siglo XX dejó una huella profunda que aún condiciona nuestros ecosistemas: ▶️ doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Un estudio que cambia nuestra línea de referencia ecológica
El declive de los insectos empezó antes de lo que pensábamos y el baseline shift nos hace aceptar como normales paisajes ya empobrecidos.
Foto: Rosalia alpina. Autor: Pierre Bornand (https://spain.inaturalist.org/people/pierrebornand). Licencia: CC BY-NC 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/)

Noventa años de datos que revelan un pasado frágil
Las series históricas muestran descensos rápidos de mariposas y escarabajos en las décadas de mayor intensificación agrícola: la intensificación del paisaje aceleró estos declives.
Figura: Cambio en la riqueza de especies de escarabajos saproxílicos y mariposas desde 1930, diferenciada por biozonas.

Impacto desigual en función del paisaje
Las zonas más transformadas por la agricultura pierden más especies que las menos intensificadas, lo que demuestra que la crisis de biodiversidad depende del tipo de paisaje y de su gestión.
Figura: Resultados del modelo de regresión que relacionan las tendencias de riqueza relativa con las condiciones ambientales (y sus cambios).

Rasgos que ayudan a prever quién está en riesgo
Las especies más especializadas, con poca capacidad de dispersión o ligadas a hábitats raros sufren mayores declives, lo que permite anticipar cómo futuros cambios cambios ambientales pueden agravar las pérdidas.
Figura: Cambio en la riqueza de especies de escarabajos saproxílicos y mariposas desde 1930, diferenciada por rasgos.

Sociedad Ibérica para la Conservación y Estudio de los Mamíferos @secem-sicem.bsky.social · 3mo ago

The data behind the MOMAT Project are now openly available through SECEM web. Six standardised datasets bring together mammal records collected across Spain and detected through non-invasive monitoring methods (camera trapping, pellet analysis and track surveys). 📸: by macrovector / Freepik (mod.)

Natalie Cooper @nhcooper123.bsky.social · 3mo ago

If you're keen to look up a certain journal/year you can explore the data in different ways using this Shiny app www.lewisajones.com/shiny-bes-ha... (thanks to @bethanyjallen.bsky.social @lewisajones.bsky.social and @willgearty.bsky.social!).

BES Data & Code Archiving

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Natalie Cooper @nhcooper123.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Excited to share our new paper in @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social on data and code archiving at @britishecologicalsociety.org journals. TL;DR: Data archiving rates are high, code archiving rates are low, documentation needs to be improved! besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.....

Data‐ and code‐archiving in the British Ecological Society journals: Present status and recommendations for future improvements

Data- and code-archiving are important components of open science, as both make research more transparent, reproducible, accountable and credible, allowing future researchers to build on previous ...

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Javier Fernández-López @javi-ferlop.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Este fue mi acercamiento "naif" al Spatial+... pero sigo sin ver del todo eso de "la temperatura sin el espacio" jajajaja @pacevedo.bsky.social @soniaillanas.bsky.social @biodiversal.bsky.social

Francisco Rodriguez-Sanchez @frodsan.bsky.social · 3mo ago

{easystats} is not only highly functional and powerful, but their help is also a goldmine of accessible #statistics advice. Here explaining how to address high VIF values (hint: generally not by removing predictors, as often done) easystats.github.io/performance/... Thanks @easystats.github.io

High VIF values indicate that coefficient estimates may be unstable and have inflated standard errors. However, removing predictors with high VIF values is generally not recommended as a blanket solution (Vanhove 2021; Morrissey and Ruxton 2018; Gregorich et al. 2021). Multicollinearity is primarily a concern for interpretation of individual coefficients, not for the model’s overall predictive performance or for drawing inferences about the combined effects of correlated predictors.

Consider these points when dealing with multicollinearity:

If your goal is prediction, multicollinearity is typically not a problem. The model can still make accurate predictions even when predictors are highly correlated (Feng et al. 2019; Graham 2003).

If your goal is to interpret individual coefficients, high VIF values signal that you should be cautious. The coefficients represent the effect of each predictor while holding all others constant, which may not be meaningful when predictors are strongly related. In such cases, consider:
Interpreting coefficients jointly rather than individually
Acknowledging the uncertainty in individual coefficient estimates
Considering whether your research question truly requires separating the effects of correlated predictors

For interaction terms, high VIF values are expected and often unavoidable. This is sometimes called “inessential ill-conditioning” (Francoeur 2013). Centering the component variables can sometimes help reduce VIF values for interactions (Kim and Jung 2024).

Consider the substantive context: Sometimes, multicollinearity reflects important aspects of your data or research question. Removing variables to reduce VIF may actually harm your analysis by omitting important confounders or by changing the interpretation of remaining coefficients (Gregorich et al. 2021).

Francisco Rodriguez-Sanchez @frodsan.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Spatial+: a relatively easy way to address spatial confounding doi.org/10.1111/biom... Comparison with other methods: doi.org/10.1007/s131... #statistics #rspatial

Spatial+: A Novel Approach to Spatial Confounding

Abstract. In spatial regression models, collinearity between covariates and spatial effects can lead to significant bias in effect estimates. This problem,

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Francisco Rodriguez-Sanchez @frodsan.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Tips for becoming a better mentor/supervisor, based on survey of 2,600 early-career researchers; eg. regular meetings are super-important Includes tips for institutions and funding bodies to promote good supervision doi.org/10.64898/202... #AcademicSky HT @science.org

What hurts, what helps: mental health in supervisor - ECR relations. Perceived impact of supervisor behavior on mental health and frequency of particular behaviors.

A) Overall perceived impact of supervisors’ behavior on respondents’ mental health. B) Percentage of respondents reporting specific supervisor behaviors with a negative impact. C) Percentage of respondents reporting specific supervisor behaviors with a positive impact. Respondents selected their top three behaviors each category (positive or negative).

Communication as a core element of supervision. Perceived value, quantity, and quality of supervisory meetings.

Bars show respondents’ ratings of A) the importance of regular meetings, B) their frequency, and C) the perceived usefulness of meetings.

Instituto de Investigación en Recursos Cinegéticos (IREC)@irec-csic-uclm.bsky.social · 4mo ago

🆕 Un nuevo estudio demuestra que la #GanaderíaExtensiva mejora la #biodiversidad y reduce el riesgo de #enfermedades que afectan a animales y personas 🐑🐂🐗✅ Os lo contamos aquí 👉 https://www.irec.es/publicaciones-destacadas/ganaderia-extensiva-favorece-biodiversidad-y-reduce-riesgo-enfermedades/

Instituto de Investigación en Recursos Cinegéticos (IREC)@irec-csic-uclm.bsky.social · 4mo ago

🆕 El próximo viernes, 22 de mayo, el ciclo de divulgación científica "¿Qué sabemos de...?", organizado por el CSIC, trae a Ciudad Real a Ignasi Bartomeus, de la EBD-CSIC, para una interesante conferencia sobre su libro “Cómo se meten ocho millones de especies en un planeta” ✅😊 ¡No te lo pierdas! ‼️

CSIC @csic.es · 4mo ago

🧪Una molécula experimental, inspirada en una planta carnívora, degrada el gluten y evita los síntomas de la celiaquía 👨‍🔬Desarrollada por el @ibmb-csic.bsky.social y la @ub.edu, podría ser la base de futuros tratamientos ➡️ http://tiny.cc/xye3101

Blas M. Benito @blasbenito.com · 4mo ago

📦 My new R package {spatialData} is on CRAN! 🎉 Ecological datasets as sf data frames and their companion raster data ready for analysis and modeling. Built as example data for R packages, but great for teaching too! 🔗 blasbenito.github.io/spatialData/ ❗check the Articles section!

spatialData: Cool Spatial Datasets

Provides spatial datasets ready to use for ecological modelling and raster companion data for prediction: Neanderthal presence during the Last Interglacial (Benito et al. 2017 <doi:10.1111/jbi.12845>)...

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Dr. Dominic Royé @drxeo.eu · 4mo ago

On my way to #EGU26, perfect time to drop a new post! 🗺️ Something I've been wanting to write about: Mercator projections still showing up in high-profile journals. So here it is: projections you should stop using (for most things) 👇 #gis #rstats #dataviz dominicroye.github.io/blog/map-pro...

Map projections: a practical guide to common mistakes and how to fix them

Researcher in climate science at MBG-CSIC

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Vizzuality @vizzuality.com · 4mo ago

You're living in Spain, under 30 yo and have a uni degree? You might be the ideal candidate for one of our THREE current openings: 1️⃣ Researcher: vizzuality.bamboohr.com/careers/78 2️⃣ Data Scientist: vizzuality.bamboohr.com/careers/79 3️⃣ Software Engineer: vizzuality.bamboohr.com/careers/80

International Statistical Ecology Conference (ISEC)@isec-stats-ecol.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Abstract submission is open now until May 1 (anywhere on earth) for the International Statistical Ecology Conference: statisticalecology.org We've got 14 workshops, 6 plenary speakers, new partnerships in the works, & we'll have a limited number of scholarships available for students. #ISEC2027

Chia Hsieh @chiahsieh.bsky.social · 4mo ago

New paper out! doi.org/10.1073/pnas... We examined how historical legacies of evolution history, environmental dynamics, and past species losses have shaped today's mammal food webs 🐅🐆🦁 🦌🦓🐗across the globe. #MammalFoodweb #DietaryNiche #Extinction #MacroEcoEvo #EcologicalNetwork

Giants that vanished 10,000 years ago triggered ripple effects that are still felt today, and here’s where

Between 50,000 and 10,000 years ago, many of the world’s largest mammals disappeared. Picture creatures like saber-toothed cats with 7-inch fangs and elephant-sized sloths. A new study reveals h...

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Methods in Ecology and Evolution @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social · 5mo ago

🚨 New Blog Post! Methods in Ecology and Evolution senior editor Natalie cooper discusses the logistics and challenges of running a hackathon🖥️ 🌐 Read the blog here: buff.ly/CrL608A