🚨A new publication is out! 🚨 My first foray into chemical ecology and plant insect interactions.

Agroecology Uprooted Episode One: System Failure As the war in Iran squeezes fertilizer and fuel supplies, there is renewed attention on the vulnerability of global food systems. But the roots of this current crisis go much deeper.

🌱Episode 1 of Agroecology Uprooted by @iatp.bsky.social looks at the current food system and the potential for a radically sustainable approach to food and agriculture: Agroecology.

🎧 Listen here: www.iatp.org/agroecology-...
#Agroecology #FoodSystems #FoodSystemsTransformation

Climate Change Can Generate Enemy‐Free Space for Crop‐Feeding Herbivores

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If anyone has thoughts on the questions at the end of the post, let me know! I'm currently trying to fit ML models to clustered data.

Mindful Modeler | Christoph Molnar | Substack Better machine learning by thinking like a statistician. About model interpretation, paying attention to data, and always staying critical. Click to read Mindful Modeler, by Christoph Molnar, a Substa...

I just found a great resource to learn more about ML from @christophmolnar.bsky.social. For more, you can check out Christopher's amazing Substack: mindfulmodeler.substack.com?utm_campaign...

How to deal with non-i.i.d data in machine learning Ignoring this common problem can lead to data leakage, overfitting, and overly optimistic evaluation.

How to deal with non-i.i.d data in machine learning
open.substack.com/pub/mindfulm...

Will collaborative editing be possible in Positron/RStudio?

How would hedge rows heat up your house??

Every PI

The automation code worked! I made an edit to my publication list, and my website auto-updated it on the first of the month.

How far can frugivorous birds disperse seeds during migration? Abstract. Long-distance seed dispersal plays a crucial role in shaping plant distributions. The annual migration of millions of frugivorous birds holds sub

How far do birds spread plant #seeds? Here's a cool paper that answers that very question.

Dispersal range across plant species:
- mean = 9–45 km
- max = 58–521 km

In the context of #agriculture, this means constant weed seed rain.
#ecology

royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...

Efficient Pollination Stinks: Corpse Flowers Use Floral Trapping and Persistent Emissions Sulfur compounds dominated the female flowers of a Titan arum bloom, while the male flowers had more chemically diverse floral emissions We identified evidence toward the use of floral trapping d...

Fun paper on the infamous corpse flower.

One of the most interesting findings was that pollution degraded plant volatiles.

Potentially, some interesting links to urban ecology, where pollution could reduce plant-insect interactions. 🤔
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

I'm pulling publications from the Semantic Scholar profile (which I linked to my ORCID) because Google Scholar was blocking some of my automated requests. I also like that Semantic Scholars doesn't include conference abstracts.

Fresh new website, coded with the help of #Claude! Theoretically, my publications and code will update automatically every 30 days! Amazing what AI can do. urielmenalled.github.io/lab-website/

I access Claude through GitHub‘s copilot. Work great for me!

True confession of a nerd 🤓: Is anyone else obsessed with GitHub? I just get so much satisfaction from seeing all my #rstats code in a tidy repo.

Epic! Thanks!

Agroecology and the Future of Farming YouTube video by Unsustainable

I am honored to have been interviewed about #agroecology by Unsustainable magazine, a publication dedicated to exploring human interactions with the #environment and promoting #sustainability.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsQS...

Nice! Now that I’ve gotten past the initial learning curve of using an HPC, I don’t see myself going back to buying more SSD storage or having R run for days on my laptop. Enjoy! 🤖

Ps. I checked out your lab website, seems like you do some really cool stuff!

I ran into a similar issue recently. Fortunately, I was able to move my work onto my university’s high-performance computer cluster. Perhaps that will work for you too?

Now with a News & Views: "Novel crop rotation via de novo pennycress domestication" rdcu.be/e2vpe

A new winter-rotation oilseed crop has been generated from a freeze-tolerant wild field pennycress by de novo domestication.

New Article: "Creating a new oilseed crop, pennycress, by combining key domestication traits using CRISPR genome editing" rdcu.be/e0NAR

De novo domestication by identifying and stacking CRISPR-induced mutations to create a new intermediate off-season oilseed crop.

ICYMI with a quick screenshot as sales pitch. Simply feed your estimation a bunch of .parquet files on disk and run it as normal.

This example takes 180m rows of NYC taxi data and computes the model in < 1 second.

On a laptop.

I was hoping for a la lme4. Alas, a boy can dream!

This looks really cool! Is there a way to run generalized linear models and/or include random effects terms?

El derecho de vivir en paz YouTube video by Música Espacio Kuyen

Victor Jara's song "El Derecho de Vivir en Paz" (The Right to Live in Peace) is a good reminder that everyone has the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness because, as our nation's forefathers astutely pointed out, we are all created equal.

youtu.be/V_xRSfjCyrg?...

Thanks!!

One (perhaps naive) question, @andrew.heiss.phd, are there any major tradeoffs to using matching and IPW compared to a model that accounts for confounders through fixed/random effects? For example:

lm(malaria_risk~nets+health+income+temperature)

Currently binging your Matching and IPW videos. Really great material! Thanks!

Models are used to explore the global #foodsystem, incl. implications for #nutrition, with unclear confidence. In a #SensitivityAnalysis of a model, variations in the calculated supply of some nutrients led to qualitative changes from sufficient to insufficient global supply: doi.org/10.1007/s125...