Entitled jerks who think they know more than the actual experts are their own special kind of plague reservoir.

Yesterday I successfully defended my dissertation. #firstgen

My paper was proved wrong. After a sleepless night, here’s what I did next:
- Don’t take it (too) personally
- All in for open and reproducible science
- Science works in increments
- Science is a human endeavour

🔗 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

5 Calls Spend 5 minutes. Make 5 calls. Make your voice heard.

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5 calls makes it very easy to call your representative on whatever issue you have an opinion about. They even have starter scripts that you can use. Remember, one call=one issue. Don't be complacent, this DOES MATTER.

Kid 1 heard that if you feed crows they will eventually start bringing you gifts. She’s been doing that for a bit, and it finally happened.

Getting closer to submitting the first draft of my dissertation. These books were invaluable to the process.

I’d love to see what books were most important to your professional development.

A hill I will probably die on, model selection should only be used if the goal is prediction. I will admit though, I do use Baye's Factor when I have two mechanistically different models that use the same parameters.

The maintenance of genetic polymorphism underlying sexually antagonistic traits Abstract. Selection often favors different trait values in males and females, leading to genetic conflicts between the sexes when traits have a shared gene

1/7 Sexual antagonism arises when males and females face different selection pressures for a trait influenced by shared genes. This is thought to drive balancing selection and maintain genetic polymorphism. We challenge this view in our recent paper :

🔗 doi.org/10.1093/evlett/qrae059

Very excited this paper is now out in Ecology Letters onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.... #causalsky

I’m inclined to agree. That said, can you think of anything that could be considered a universal epistemic standard in science broadly?

At the risk of losing all credibility as a scientist, I’m extremely sympathetic to epistemological anarchism.

New research in the @animalecology.bsky.social explores how animals use a combination of colour patterns, like eyespots that resemble the eyes of larger animals, and specific behaviours to protect themselves from predators.

Nocturnal camouflage through background matching against moonlight | PNAS Camouflage is often considered a daytime phenomenon based on light and shade. Nocturnal camouflage can also occur, but its mechanistic basis remain...

#ornithology
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Multiple Long‐Term, Landscape‐Scale Data Sets Reveal Intraspecific Spatial Variation in Temporal Trends for Bird Species | onlinelibrary.wiley.... | Ecology Letters | #ornithology 🪶

Evolution journal editors resign en masse to protest Elsevier changes All but one member of the editorial board of the Journal of Human Evolution (JHE), an Elsevier title, have resigned, saying the “sustained actions of Elsevier are fundamentally incompatible with th…

Evolution journal editors resign en masse to protest Elsevier changes

The mass resignation is the 20th such episode since early 2023, according to our records.

Could you add me as well?

Why we (usually) don't have to worry about multiple comparisons Applied researchers often find themselves making statistical inferences in settings that would seem to require multiple comparisons adjustments. We challenge the Type I error paradigm that underlies t...

Since it is inefficient to attempt to educate every reviewer individually, I am yeeting into your feed this clear paper from Gelman, Hill, and Yajima on how Bayesians can do even better than correcting for multiple comparisons. arxiv.org/abs/0907.2478

Very cool (mathy) paper. I hope this gets accepted wherever they sent it to. I want to see the appendix.

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Beat me to it.

Hi. I model a lot of behavioral ecology. Would love to be added.

This! Regardless of your field it is so important to analyze your data through the lens of theory.

I’d love to be a part of it.

Does game theory and dynamic state variable modeling count as qualitative?

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Hey all, please RT this new starter pack for locating our fellow ecological modellers on Blue Sky! And please reply to this post if you'd like to be added to the starter pack!
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She’s the best.

Nich W. Martin ‪University of Florida‬ - ‪‪Cited by 10‬‬ - ‪Evolutionary Ecology‬ - ‪Chemical Ecology‬ - ‪Theoretical Ecology‬

Thanks for doing this.

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