We updated the Biology PhD Stipend site so we didn't have to pay to host it anymore, the new URL is mlgaynor.com/BiologyPhDSt...

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Commercial software can contain 50+ errors per 1000 lines of code; scientific software, written by relative newbies, is more error prone. I spoke to @tracykteal.bsky.social @amyko.phd @weecology.bsky.social & more to learn best debugging practices @nature.com 🧑‍💻 🐜 ❌ 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Got bugs? Here’s how to catch the errors in your scientific software

Computer scientists share their advice for ensuring that your scientific software does what it’s supposed to do.

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If you live in Georgia, remember to double-check your voter registration. Today's the last day to register for the May 19 elections because GA hates voters. Also, GA has open primaries, so you can vote in either party's primary, probably for the last time before the legislature puts a stop to it.

Congratulations to Neha Senthilkumar on winning the 2nd place ($$$) undergraduate poster prize at @epi.ufl.edu Research Day!! Super proud of your passionate energy for this project and looking forward to next steps of greatness with you!!

We're looking for a postdoc to join our group working on long-term dynamics of wading bird colonies in the Everglades with a focus on either cross-scale drivers of wading bird breeding activity and success or automated drone-based monitoring of nest success using aerial imagery and computer vision 🌎

Join Our Everglades Wading Bird Research as a Postdoc

Join our Everglades Wading Bird project as a postdoc researcher! Explore wading bird breeding, nest success, and drone monitoring opportunities.

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Spring in the desert

New update on the regime shift at our long-term study site from @skmorgane.bsky.social "...our kangaroo rats losing their battle with the forces of dryness, but if you squint real hard you might be able to see them pushing themselves back up. Maybe." doi.org/10.59350/4y0...

Portal Regime Shift Update: How bad can it get?

Well, 2025 was a wild ride. The lack of updates on the potential regime shift at Portal isn’t because it fizzled, but because [wave hands at the world]. And Portal was not immune to [waves hands at…

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Why is the U.S. National Science Foundation important? Please share your stories! Use the hashtags #WithoutNSF or #WithoutScience

#WithoutNSF we wouldn't have been able to train folks in the skills they need for their jobs at: College of Charleston Denison University Instacart Institute for Ecosystems Studies National Ecological Observatory Network Netflix NIH Oregon Department of Human Services ...

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Why is the U.S. National Science Foundation important? Please share your stories! Use the hashtags #WithoutNSF or #WithoutScience

New update on the regime shift at our long-term study site. With a little levity thanks to @skmorgane.bsky.social. "No species was safe, and populations began to drop like characters in a George R.R. Martin book. Only kangaroo rats... were making a valiant stand against the forces of dryness" 🌎 🧪

Regime Shift: A Winter of Grim

Every episode in a tv series starts with a recap. So… Previously, on Portal: the Regime Shift — In fall of 2023, one of the ruling families of Portal — the Desert Pocket Mouse (Ch…

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One of my favourite papers I've been involved in was just published in @peerj.bsky.social. Working with a wonderful team of ecologists at @weecology.bsky.social, we used multivariate ecological forecasts to understand the population dynamics of desert rodents peerj.com/articles/189... 🌎 #rstats

Excited to see @vectorbyte.bsky.social joining Bluesky www.vectorbyte.org

VectorByte (VecTraits and VecDyn databases)

The VectorByte initiative is establishing a global open access data platform to study disease vectors. This project will not only serve as a hub for biological trait and abundance data for human and n...

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Interested in using computer vision to help understand, manage, and conserve nature? We looking for someone to join our team to work on models, software, and community outreach in projects using airborne imagery to monitor and understand nature at scale.

We’re hiring a computer vision developer!

Interested in using computer vision to help understand, manage, and conserve nature? We hiring for a new position to join our team working on models, software, and community outreach in our existing projects using airborne imagery to monitor and understand natural systems at large scales.

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New paper on "Near-term ecological forecasting for climate change action" by a group of folks from the Ecological Forecasting Initiative led by Mike Dietze w/me @skmorgane.bsky.social @cboettig.bsky.social @careylab.bsky.social @waterpotential.bsky.social and lots of other (non-Bluesky) folks 🌎🧪

Near-term ecological forecasting for climate change action - Nature Climate Change

In this Perspective, the authors discuss the current status of ecological forecasting research, its role in helping to address the climate and biodiversity crises facing society and potential future d...

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I tried to build a starter pack for researchers in ecology sensu lato. Who am I missing? go.bsky.app/2MdGeqi I can add more people and spread it around.

Really pleased to share the preprint of Ms Simrik Bhandari's primary thesis paper examining spatial patterns in Nepal's record outbreaks of dengue in 2022 and 2023. (1/n)

medRxivpreprint@medrxivpreprint.bsky.social · 2y ago

Spatial Patterns of Dengue Incidence in Nepal During Record Outbreaks in 2022 and 2023: Implications for Public Health Interventions https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.11.06.24316870v1

If I had known a career in “weecology” was an option, I might have made some very different decisions.

Ethan White@ethanwhite.weecology.org · 2y ago

Two days left to apply for our new @weecology.bsky.social PhD position in @skmorgane.bsky.social's lab. If you like mammals, field work in beautiful places, and understanding how ecosystems change using long-term data this might be the graduate position for you!

There are still 5 days left to apply to join me teaching interdisciplinary data analytics at Denison University! It's an exciting place w/ great resources. PhD in any field + ability to teach using R and/or Python; @ Assistant or Associate Professor rank, apply by Oct 7 apply.interfolio.com/151230

We're looking for a PhD student to join us starting Fall 2025 to work on our long-term study (almost 50 years!) of small mammals and plants to understand and predict changes in species abundances and biodiversity in response to changing climate and biotic conditions. 🧪🌎

PhD Student Opening: Small Mammal Community Dynamics

Interested in understanding how ecological systems change through time? Morgan Ernest’s Lab at the University of Florida has an opening for a PhD student to start Fall 2025. The new student will wo…

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I'm looking for a PhD student to join @weecology.bsky.social to study ecological forecasting using wading birds in the Everglades. The position will be focused on data science, time-series modeling, and forecasting. There will also be opportunities for field, drone, and computer vision work. 🌎

PhD Student Position In Ecological Forecasting Of Everglades Wading Birds

Ethan White’s lab at the University of Florida has an opening for a PhD student starting in Fall 2025 to study ecological forecasting of wading birds in the Everglades.

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We're looking for a new #PhD student to join weecology! Come learn and work with us studying ecological forecasting and dynamics with wading birds in the Everglades.

PhD Student Position In Ecological Forecasting Of Everglades Wading Birds

Ethan White’s lab at the University of Florida has an opening for a PhD student starting in Fall 2025 to study ecological forecasting of wading birds in the Everglades.

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New preprint on our work monitoring Everglades wading birds in near real-time using drones, computer vision models, & automated workflows. 🧪🌎 Preprint: doi.org/10.1101/2024... #rstats data viz website: everwatch.weecology.org Open data: zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/... Code: github.com/weecology/ev...

Near real-time monitoring of long legged wading birds using uncrewed aircraft systems and computer vision

bioRxiv - the preprint server for biology, operated by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, a research and educational institution

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We (@weecology.bsky.social) monitor Everglades wading birds using drones & turn this imagery into data in near real-time using computer vision models to detect birds & automated workflows to immediately process new imagery. 🧪🌎 Preprint: doi.org/10.1101/2024... Blog post doi.org/10.59350/b5b...

New NSF Postdoc Fellowship track. “…will support Fellows that leverage large data, such as those from the National Ecological Observation Network (NEON), and innovative approaches, including Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML), and modeling…” www.nsf.gov/pubs/2024/ns...

🧪 Very cool results on food webs by lab members: [1] Banville et al.: what does it mean to use probabilities to represent interactions? [2] @gabdans.bsky.social et al.: local reconstruction of regional food webs [1] ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v... [2] royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

#BeneficialMicrobes day 3 starts with Elizabeth Mallott discussing human gut microbiome. Mallot has a background in sociology and looks outside of race/ethnicity for variables that alter the gut microbiome. Love this shift in microbiome research. Cites this paper: journals.asm.org/doi/full/10....

Chasing Ghosts: Race, Racism, and the Future of Microbiome Research | mSystems

In this article, we argue that a careful examination of human microbiome science’s relationship with race and racism is necessary to foster equitable social and ecological relations in the field. We p...

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We published a dataset of canopy tree maps for 100 million trees in the National Ecological Observatory Network with info on location, species identify, & size 🧪🌍 Paper: doi.org/10.1371/jour... Interactive DataVis: visualize.idtrees.org Data: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... Blog: doi.org/10.59350/zb2...

New dataset on 100 million canopy trees across the National Ecological Observatory Network

New dataset of canopy tree maps for 100 million trees in the National Ecological Observatory Network with information on location, species identify, and size. Paper: Interactive web visualization: …

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We made maps of 100 million trees in the National Ecological Observatory Network with info on location, species identify, and size 🧪🌎 Paper: doi.org/10.1371/jour... Interactive #DataViz: visualize.idtrees.org #OpenData on Zenodo: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... Blog Post: doi.org/10.59350/zb2...

Individual canopy tree species maps for the National Ecological Observatory Network

Detailed maps of tree species can be used for forest analysis, biogeographic research and ecosystem monitoring. This study provides individual tree species maps for 24 sites in the United States Natio...

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Our @skmorgane.bsky.social has been chronically a potentially rapid shift in species composition happening at one of our long-term study sites. Check out her most recent update 🌎🧪

Regime shift cometh? Saga Continues

Welcome back to our next installment of: what the heck is happening with the Portal rodents? For those just tuning in, I might recommend reading our first two installments: Regime Shift Cometh? and…

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