Mat Bell’s eye-catching photograph is one of the shortlisted entries for the Australian Geographic nature photographer of the year 2026 . An Adélie penguin to propel itself from the water to the safety of an iceberg. Photograph: Mat Bell/Australian Geographic

"a ‚significant' p-value between 0.01 and 0.05 should be interpreted with the expectation that the effect is exaggerated by more than 50% (median 1.56) and that an exact replication has about a one-in-three chance of also being significant." evidenceinthewild.com/p-value-look...

The P-Value Got a Lecture. It Needed a Lookup Table.

Ten years after the ASA told us to stop misusing p-values, we're still arguing about thresholds. Erik van Zwet and colleagues did something different: they asked 23,000 clinical trials what a p-value ...

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Ich suche eine neue KollegIn als Co-RedaktorIn der Fachzeitschrift "Ornithologischer Beobachter". Es handelt sich um eine unbefristete 40%-Stelle an der Schweizerischen Vogelwarte Sempach. Bitte bewerben oder weiterleiten! www.ala-schweiz.ch

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Ich suche eine neue KollegIn als Co-RedaktorIn der Fachzeitschrift "Ornithologischer Beobachter". Es handelt sich um eine unbefristete 40%-Stelle an der Schweizerischen Vogelwarte Sempach. Bitte bewerben oder weiterleiten! www.ala-schweiz.ch

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Ala Schweizerische Gesellschaft für Vogelkunde und Vogelschutz, Ornithologischer Beobachter

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Are you looking for a Post-doc related to biodiversity? We might have just the role for you! @anthropocenebio.bsky.social are curently advertising 10 (yes!) post-docs covering natural & social science of biodivesity. Come work with us & share with anyone appropriate! sites.google.com/york.ac.uk/l...

LCAB Postdoctoral recruitment

The Leverhulme Centre for Anthropocene Biodiversity (LCAB) is a major research centre funded by the Leverhulme Trust to increase knowledge of how the relationship between humanity and the natural worl...

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This is my favorite climate change chart. Japanese monks, aristocrats, and emperors kept meticulous records of cherry blossom festivals for 1,200 years and accidentally built the world's longest climate dataset.

Ecologists! I have received four sets of paper reviews back in the last month, and two had obviously AI generated reviews: @plos.org and @journalofecology.bsky.social. We also have reviews from @journalofecology.bsky.social that I strongly suspect were AI. Our peers are intellectually lazy.

A perfectly timed capture wins @nhm-london.bsky.social #WPOTY Nuveen People’s Choice Award. 📸 🎉 Huge congratulations to photographer Josef Stefan on this incredible capture of an Iberian lynx playing with its prey.

Power is not the ‘probability of obtaining a statistically significant result.’ It is this probability only if the true effect is equal to the alternative hypothesis used for power calculation and if all model assumptions are correct. Giving less power to statistical power doi.org/10.1177/0023...

Power is not the ‘probability of obtaining a statistically significant result.’ It is this probability only if the true effect is equal to the alternative hypothesis used for power calculation and if all model assumptions are correct. Giving less power to statistical power doi.org/10.1177/0023...

New paper led by @alperyelimlies.bsky.social (1st chapter of his thesis!) in Animal Behaviour: Alper discovered that female Galapagos yellow warblers commonly sing solo songs and duets with their mates but mostly during the non-breeding season. doi.org/10.1016/j.an... #ornithology

Today we set up two insect monitoring stations in the glorious sunshine as part of a Masters thesis project. We will be comparing this with traditional monitoring to improve our understanding of the role of AI to supplement and enhance insect monitoring 🐝🪰🦋💚 @globalchangeeco.bsky.social

"The number of birds captured in mist nets plummeted by 40% between 2001 and 2014. Likewise, bird numbers fell by 50% during systematic surveys of birds by sight and sound. The most severe declines occurred among species that feed on insects."

Birds are vanishing from tropical forests. Is another ‘silent spring’ coming?

As mysterious bird declines crop up in the Amazon and beyond, scientists suspect climate change may be to blame

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We promote relaxing long-held views of what a statistical interval does, or should, represent and see interpreting confidence or credible intervals as compatibility intervals as a step in this direction. Giving less power to statistical power doi.org/10.1177/0023...

A successful study should result in useful information about how compatible the data (and background assumptions) are with values large (or small) enough to be deemed practically important. Giving less power to statistical power doi.org/10.1177/0023...

My book is now published! 🌏🎶🧪
 You can download it for free at academic.oup.com/book/62353 - I’d be grateful if you do! I also published an accessible summary with audio/video today in @nature.com: www.nature.com/articles/d41... Try reading that first, then give the whole book a read if you like it!

“Giving less power to statistical power” statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2026/02/22/g...

ERROR RATES ARE HYPOTHETICAL!! "They seem to bring an air of objectivity and comfort to an otherwise challenging and messy research process; but their roots inhabit the same soil as statistical hypothesis tests that have been criticized for decades"

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Giving less power to statistical power (Higgs & Amrhein) doi.org/10.1177/0023...

Giving less power to statistical power (Higgs & Amrhein) doi.org/10.1177/0023...

Die, Dichotomy. www.linkedin.com/pulse/die-di... A brief post encouraging you to read the original paper with @erik-van-zwet.bsky.social and @f2harrell.bsky.social . onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

Die, Dichotomy

We have studied 21 435 unique randomized controlled trials (RCTs) from the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (CDSR).Of these trials, 7224 (34%) have a continuous (numerical) outcome and 14 211 (...

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An Empirical Assessment of the Cost of Dichotomization of the Outcome of Clinical Trials

We have studied 21 435 unique randomized controlled trials (RCTs) from the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (CDSR). Of these trials, 7224 (34%) have a continuous (numerical) outcome and 14 211....

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Remarkable photo illustrating (American) Woodcock visual field macaulaylibrary.org/asset/616675...

ML616675248 - American Woodcock - Macaulay Library

Macaulay Library ML616675248; © Karim Bouzidi; Longueuil, Quebec, Canada

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I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)

YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen

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Good overview of the history, Gosset mentioned, he worked at Guiness and had to publish as Student, hence Student t-test, he was interested in the problems associated with small sample sizes. peerj.com/articles/3544/

Nightingales are masters of imitation! New research shows: During territorial contests, a male matches a rival’s song in real time by tracking and imitating both, pitch and syllable duration. This shows a remarkable precision in hearing and v... weiterlesen

Redefine soil health: Nature conservation needs soil degradation. @jaliedtke.bsky.social has published her first preprint – we are looking forward to comments and discussions! dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn...

Redefine soil health: Nature conservation needs soil degradation. @jaliedtke.bsky.social has published her first preprint – we are looking forward to comments and discussions! dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn...

We wrote the Strain on scientific publishing to highlight the problems of time & trust. With a fantastic group of co-authors, we present The Drain of Scientific Publishing: a 🧵 1/n Drain: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820 Strain: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/... Oligopoly: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...

The CNRS is breaking free from the Web of Science www.cnrs.fr/en/update/cn...

The CNRS is breaking free from the Web of Science

From January 1st 2026, the CNRS will cut access to one of the largest commercial bibliometric databases, Clarivate Analytics'

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I like to think that if the military r&d had instead gone into solar we'd be where we are now by like 1992