This is actually insanely helpful.

Ecologists I need a favor! 🌎🌍🌏
I am teaching a GIS class for freshmen. I want to zoom in for like 15-20 min with other ecologists that are using drones, uav, collars, biologgers, telemetry, or any type of sensors to study wildlife. 1️⃣

The Oxford energy institute with a Kremlin problem The Oxford Institute for Energy Studies is cited across UK media as an independent expert on oil and gas. Now its Russian ties are under scrutiny.

🧵 Oxford Institute for Energy Studies often cited in UK media stories on oil and gas

But how independent is it?

Its staff includes director of major sanctioned Russian gas firm and researcher accused of pushing Kremlin talking points

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Is there a gift link for this article?

I don't think people fully appreciate how apocalyptic things are for US science. I haven't had any new funding since 2024, but I'm still ok since typical grants are for three years. This means next year I will be completely out of funding and will have to fire everyone in the lab. It's not great.

Dear #Rstats , I know someone who studies/works in psychology, and they are interested in getting more into the statistics side of things.

Is there a really good psychology-focused statistics conference that they should keep on their radar?

Homepage of the R Mailing List Archives showing a search bar, three popular lists (R-help with 398,500 messages, R-devel with 63,425, and R-package-devel with 12,125), and a full directory of core lists and special interest groups.

29 years of #rstats community knowledge was sitting in hard-to-search pipermail archives. So I built a more modern home for it.

Introducing the R Mailing List Archives: 631,000+ messages from 32 lists, fully searchable and available as open data.

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DOGE employee, who, in his twenties, made decisions to cut aid based solely on personal judgement, according to him.

JSDM curious*... Man i wish we had an edit button on here, so i didn't have to permanently live with my typos 😭

I know there are a lot of ecologists out there who are JDSM curious, but get scared off by how technical the primary literature is...

Here's your chance to learn how they work. Strongly recommend this to anyone who is interested in species distribution modelling.

#Rstats

The genAI listed one of my colleagues as a coauthor on one of this guy's fictional papers about fish population genetics.

This guy with a bachelor degree uploaded 120 research items back dated since Jan 2020, covering medicine, AI, engineering, physics, pop genetics ...

All with the same awful AI template.

Researchgate already felt stagnant... but i don't see how it can survive in the academic-AI-slop era.

A colleague of mine came across this when the gen AI used their name in the coauthor list and they got a notification about it.

Hey #stats folk, I'm looking for some great (but concise) YouTube vids about likelihood functions & estimation (MLE, properties, Fisher information, std errs).

These would serve students taking my Bayesian course that didn't take the preceding likelihood course (that is taught by someone else).

John Fieberg's online text could be a nice supplement to what felix posted.

Not a youtube video... But his section on maximum likelihood is extremely beginner friendly.

statistics4ecologists-v3.netlify.app/10-maximumli...

Meet three scientists who said no to Epstein The warning signs included a web search, a mother’s doubts, and inklings of a “sexist attitude”

Many of the scientists Jeffrey Epstein courted were already well-established and well-funded. So why didn’t they all just say no? Science talked with three who did just that.

Here’s how Epstein approached them, and why they refused to have anything to do with him. ⬇️ https://scim.ag/40qbXnv

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Join me at 1700 (CET; 1600 UCT) today for two hours of GAM goodness 🤤

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Under Review with Dr Elisabeth Bik - Research fraud detection, papermills and that rat. YouTube video by Andy Tattersall

I've been really pleased with the reception of my Under Review podcast. Last week's episode with @elisabethbik.bsky.social has been viewed on YouTube almost 800 times as well as a good number on Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=l254...

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Is there any way for my colleagues to express interest (other than harassing you on here :p)?

#Rstats Are there any workshops planned this year on the topic of applying JSDMs via the gllvm package?

I see @vdveenb.bsky.social hosted an online course last year.

I have some colleagues interested in using the doing JSDMs, and it would be great to point them towards a workshop.

However, for distributing this to others... your docker solution sounds like the right approach... it would be great to completely insulate the user from having to worry about wine versions.

For my own work, I only need vdat to extract the csv files and I clean up the files with bash scripts before I load them into R, so the wine wrapper approach is working fine for me.

have you asked any of them about this? I'm interested to know if there is an actual reason for not doing this... or rather they just don't do it because nobody is asking (loudly enough).

Would some of them consider at least making their DLL source code available, so we can just compile it ourselves and write our own interfaces that don't suck?

as if wine weren't confusing enough... half the time when I google an issue, I just end up with search results relating to wine *tasting* 😔

interesting! Why was dotnet 452 required here? (`winetricks -q win10 dotnet452 dotnet48`)

It didn't occur to me that I should try installing multiple versions of dot net (wine is still dark magic to me).

Does anyone have better solutions for extracting the contents of vdat files on Linux? Perhaps that don't involve a slightly finicky wine prefix?

Screenshot of the linked gitlab repository readme.

Here's my take on a Linux wrapper for Innovasea's Fathom Connect software. Seems to work fine on Ubuntu 24.04 for converting vdat files to csv.

gitlab.com/RTbecard/fat...

Shout out to @obrien.page for discovering that Fathom Connect works in wine.

#AcousticTelemetry

Rainforest to Reef - by Steve Simpson

5 days, 5 reasons to apply for a Lectureship @bristolbiosci.bsky.social (Day 3):

Ecology & Reversing the Biodiversity Crisis

Our research includes mapping ecosystems, monitoring ecological change & restoring biodiversity

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Obsessed with this journal for publishing caricatures of “prominent ornithologists,” which no academic today is brave enough to do