Was a great event, and very excited for the coming year of activity!

Busy several days with lots of different interconnections and differed news emerging. Realizing I'm still missing many of the "social network" connections I'd have used in the past to talk about these though. Many collaborators to shout out but I haven't found them yet!

Popping into bsky to find a few folks I met at the NSF CoPe Virtual Awardee Conference. Somehow I thought that I'd be more active on the new platform than the old platform, but it's been 4 months between activity.

And Cor-Pop PI at the AWI, Prof. Iliana Baums! hifmb.de/people/ilian...

Already done, but I have been talking it up since.

How the Guinness Brewery Invented the Most Important Statistical Method in Science The most common test of statistical significance originated from the Guinness brewery. Here’s how it works

Just learned from my students taking @rmcelreath.bsky.social online "Rethinking" course about the brewsy history of the t-test.

www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-...

🎉🚨 🧪 Huge congrats & thanks to @elliotgould.bsky.social Hannah Fraser Tim Parker @itchyshin.bsky.social for leading this important paper

Glad I played a small part as 1 of 300+ analysts & reviewers

With analyst buddy 🤗 Trishna Dutta, European Forest Institute, Bonn as team "DiggeRs"

See the First Detailed Illustration of an Ancient Deep-Sea Mountain A BU-led team of scientists analyzed a Pacific Ocean seamount that is teeming with biologically diverse corals and sea creatures

Alexander von Humboldt was an incredible naturalist who transformed how we see mountains. Now, he has inspired a collaboration between art & science that transforms how we visualize seamounts. So excited to share this beautiful piece with the world… on a newly explored seamount in US waters!

Defunding NOAA, which Republicans call a source of the "climate alarm industry," was proposed in Project 2025.

(NOAA monitors hurricanes, by the way.)

"The quasi-religious faith that economic growth will just continue is baked into not only climate economics but also climate policymaking. So-called “mitigation pathways,” models that game out cost-effective policy options, also assume economic growth as a given."

E&E News: Trump scraps Clinton EJ order, calling it ‘discrimination’ The president revoked a 1994 directive requiring agencies to protect minority or low-income areas from pollution and health hazards.

#EnvironmentalJustice was NOT birthed in government or government programs. It sprang from people striving to make America more just for everyone. I'm hopeful and I have faith. But, "faith without work is dead." | Scientific American subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eene.... @BullardCenter

Color blind friendly palettes for data visualizations with categories A discussion of color blind friendly palettes for labeling unique catergories in data visualization.

Having a color-blind colleague is a good reminder that we need to be more careful when designing figures for scientific publication 🧪
My lab has found this page especially useful for selecting color palettes, used in combination with different symbols: thenode.biologists.com/data-visuali...

"The Last Hunt for the Jabberwock: A Feywild Adventure in Ecologic Succession"
From: Andrew D Thaler

So you did!

Interesting! Are you running the game or playing?

Temporal changes in taxon abundances are positively correlated but poorly predicted at the global scale nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ecog.07195 #TimeSeries #GlobalData #Taxonomy

Lionfish Invitational Inc | lionfish invitational The invasion of lionfish in the Gulf of Mexico is a situation of rapidly increasing magnitude. A federal collection permit will be issued for three-day lionfish research cruises onboard the recreation...

This is a heck of a logo, and while you're there check out the opportunities to do some active marine stewardship while you dive! www.lionfishinvitational.com

New technologies are enabling many more measurements to be made of many more components of many more natural systems… but if 30 time-series points are needed to even begin empirical dynamic modeling analysis, we’re stuck waiting. ...Or are we? Have a read!

Here is the crux of my struggle with ecological time-series analysis: we are stuck studying the systems that have already been given the most resources and attention. Conversely, many of the most urgent problems are in systems and regions that have not been privileged with long-term monitoring.

Extending empirical dynamic modeling to cross-sectional data beyond traditional time series. The foundation of Empirical dynamic modeling (EDM) is in representing time-series data as the trajectory of a dynamic system in a multidimensional state space rather than as a collection of traces of ...

🦋🦫, 🌱 And it's up! I'm excited to share for two big-picture reasons. (1) It addresses an issue I've grappled with in my work with empirical dynamic modeling for a long time, and (2) it underpins a very interesting real world study coming later this year.

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Kicking off the New Year with a new pre-print! ... but looks like a link will have to wait the weekend for bioarxiv screening.

Stay tuned!

What is a species "shadow distribution"?

This infographic helps communicate "shadow distributions" with stakeholders and environmental managers.

We used species distribution models to quantify this conservation concept for Swiss fishes.

🌐🌎 #macroecology

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Play structures shown that are designed to look like giant sturgeon fish. A child climbs the side of the larger one.

I now have a new favorite play ground. At Pier 25 in Manhatten, two enormous sturgeons have been constructed for the purpose of play and education. The kids demanded we return the next day.

The #climatecrisis is not a cliff edge
It is a slow motion disaster
Every tonne of CO2 is worth fighting for
Because every tonne saved reduces human suffering

Is it time to give up trying to save coral reefs? My research says no Scientists are increasingly arguing that coral-reef restoration is a lost cause — but done right, it can still benefit ecosystems and local communities.

In our toughest battles for marine stewardship, the resilience of our spirit may well become a critical component of the resilience of the natural systems where we work.

Lisa and Fragments of Hope are on the front line. Please read her World View peace below:

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

A diver surveys coral reefs

🪸New study: Scripps Oceanography scientists have provided a first-of-its-kind glimpse into coral “bleaching” responses to stress. Using imaging tech, they pinpointed coral survival rates following multiple bleaching events off of Maui from 2014-2021. scripps.ucsd.edu/news/3d-mode...

Ecology/Evolution/Marine Biology labs recruiting for Fall 2025 Please complete this form if you are a PI recruiting graduate students for a Fall 2025 start. If you are NOT recruiting, feel free to share the response sheet with prospective students looking for lab...

Back by popular demand - the list of Ecology/Evolution/Marine Bio Labs recruiting grad students for Fall 2025!
PIs - Enter your position info here: forms.gle/adBbhEBqYUg5...
Prospective students (and PIs not recruiting) - share the composite list: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
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I’ve just ordered volumes 1 and 2 of David Krakauer’s new edited volumes of Foundational Papers in Complexity Science, published under the auspices of @sfiscience.bsky.social.

Volumes 3 and 4 to come this summer.

The tables of contents for both volumes look great!

🧪🦫🦋🐋🌱🗃️🧠 #HistSTM #PhilSci

Grant submitted! Means I finally had a minute to repair this fellow:

Exciting news to announce! Prof. Suchi Gopal and I have been named Faculty Research Fellows at the Pardee Center. We'll be leading a Coupled Human And Natural Systems investigation into the future blue economy of the Gulf of Maine as driven from the bottom-up as . www.bu.edu/pardee/commu...

Global ocean temperatures have been record warm for a year Climate scientists have not yet explained why ocean temperatures have skyrocketed.

"It's not just that the global-average sea surface temperature has been record-breaking every single day… but it's the absurdly-large margins by which the records have been broken."
www.axios.com/2024/03/19/w...