Guess what, @VictorPiercey1 - doing an escape room as a final project came up as an idea in our morning education session at #SMB2018 !! There's a group that is already planning to work on it at the next #qbioed19 meeting at William & Mary.
First talk of the two contributed education talks this afternoon is from Robert Mayes (work w/ @josephdauer ) talking about QM BUGS, a modeling assessment that grew out of a QUBES organized research group at @NIMBioS #SMB2018
Theme of today's plenary speakers: models of ecology and conservation need social science. This afternoon, an understanding of economics/cost and this morning, an understanding of cooperative dynamics. #mathbio meets #socialscience #EcosystemScienceNeedsSocialScience
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In many cases the key to saving the most species is to buy and manage the land that is the cheapest, not necessarily where the most diverse places are says Nature Conservancy Chief Scientist Hugh Possingham @HugePossum #SMB2018
SMB service award goes to Robert Smith?, who is from Sydney! And his family was here to see him receive the award! <3 #smb2018
The business update reminded me that the I didn't tweet out the conference report I wrote for the @ipam_ucla #LatMath meeting (because it is a PDF link), but you can find it here: https://www.smb.org/1753-2/ #smb2018
Congrats to all the social media award winners!!!! Woohoo! #socialmedia #conference #backchannel #smb2018
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Um, where are all the award winners? Hurry and get into 101!!! #SMB2018
Evolution of cod fisheries (traits) in response to anthropogenic pressure. Reminds me of our CAS group chats @tmwaring - I miss those. #smb2018
In the ecological networks session, Uchimi has such great pictures that help explain the hypothesis and model. I need to up my game. #smb2018 Photo credit: Anna Mummert
Iwasa's prize lecture is about coupled natural-human systems exploring how ecosystems benefit from cooperative behavior. #SMB2018
Saw these guys earlier today in the park by the #SMB2018 meeting. Some browsing for identification tonight, and I think it is a Little Corella, which is a cockatoo.
Got the afternoon off, and I'm knocking off my to-do list instead of sightseeing. Got the @qubeshub invited session proposal done for BEER and finished my presentation for Thursday. Oh well - it had to be done, and I'll live vicariously through others' pictures on #smb2018
For those that asked after the women's luncheon, the Special issue for the Journal of Humanistic Mathematics on Mathematics and Motherhood is likely out by next month and will be here: http://scholarship.claremont.edu/jhm/
#AcademicMamas #WomeninSTEM #SMB2018 #MathMamas
Holly Gaff starts off the Women in Modeling session in 107 by sharing her love for soft ticks. All of these talks emerged from a #Women's Math Biology Research #Mentoring Workshop. #smb2018 #WomeninSTEM #mathbio
I was asked by a few folks about who can/should attend the education subgroup activities. Please attend everything if you have an interest in education. :) Spread the word! #SMB2018 @SMB2018 Contributed session Wednesday, full edgroup organized day on Thursday!
Human behavior session and Holden suggests we don't need to know more about elephant ecology at the moment to solve this problem, we need to know more about human behavior. #SMB2018 #BeyondMathandBio
"The University of Sydney acknowledges with great respect the connection to this land for the Cadigal People of the Eora Nation." #SMB2018
Slime mold models and modeling - experiments, mathematical models, and algorithms. What a nice symphony of approaches. #SMB2018 #mathbio
It turns out that that slime mold is a really interesting model organism. Really great plenary by Toshiyuki Nakagaki as he unravels the mysteries of slime mold using mathematics. #SMB2018 #mathbio
Kodikara talked about Bayesian Analysis approaches for uncertain sightings, like the Ivory-billed Woodpecker. Though at first I saw "unicorn sightings." Fruedian reading slip? Lol. #mathbio #bayesian #SMB2018
Really nice talk from Anazawa suggesting a simple mechanism for obseved resource allocation patterns. Now on to Baker to learn about eradication techniques for conservation #SMB2018 #maxent #WhenEradicationIsAGoodThing #modeling #mathbio
When your pest is cannabalistic, you can use a resistant strain for control - Jamieson on #modeling armyworm #smb2018 #mathbio #cannabalism
Only at #SMB2018
Me - Forgot that 0 is ground floor here!
@Shelby_M_Scott - Yes, in Australia they index by 0.
Me - Oh, just like Python!
#ICrackMyselfUp #NerdyJokes
SMB Education subgroup business meeting is at 5 pm today. Agenda: co-chairs, bylaws, listserv, publishing education research, and listening to you! Don't miss the full line-up of education talks on Thursday! @SMB2018 #smb2018 #mathbioed #STEMed
Opted to stay closer to the Harbor. After a long walk/bus ride from U of Sydney, coming back to this was so nice! @MarriottIntl Pier One Sydney Harbour. Oh yes, I ate a chocolate before I stopped to take a picture :) #smb2018
