Workshop notifications have now all been sent out.

To say we were overwhelmed with incredible proposals is an understatement. Compared to previous ISECs, we received > 3x the # of proposals.

Look out for information on the accepted workshops next week! #StatisticalEcology 🇲🇽🐆🦋

Book cover for https://oliviergimenez.github.io/banana-book/

📘 New book out soon !

I’m excited to share that 𝐁𝐚𝐲𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐚𝐧 𝐀𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐲𝐬𝐢𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐂𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞-𝐑𝐞𝐜𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐃𝐚𝐭𝐚 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐇𝐢𝐝𝐝𝐞𝐧 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐤𝐨𝐯 𝐌𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐥𝐬: 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐨𝐫𝐲 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐂𝐚𝐬𝐞 𝐒𝐭𝐮𝐝𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐑 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐍𝐈𝐌𝐁𝐋𝐄 is being published by Chapman & Hall / CRC Press

Hope it’s useful to students, researchers, and practitioners

#StatisticalEcology #NIMBLE

What if you are good at many things as a scientist from #fieldecology to #statisticalecology but you just cannot grasp scientific English language? What if you make strong collaborations by doing on-ground conservation actions without trying to spend hours writing about it in English?

Comparison between true state probabilities, stationary approximation, and periodically stationary distribution for three different simulated Markov Chains. The bias of the stationary distribution is severe.

Overall dwell-time distribution in the active state of the fruit flies in two light conditions. Both distributions deviate substantially from a geometric one.

Using #simulations and a case study on #fruitflies 🪰, we show that
- the widely used stationary approximation can be severely biased! ❌
- dwell-time distributions can deviate substantially from a #geometric shape.

#HMM #MarkovChain #seasonality #diel #stats #rstats #StatisticalEcology #behaviour

Should Comparative Models Be Weighted when Accounting for Phylogenetic Uncertainty? - Evolutionary Biology Phylogenies are a foundation for studies of phenotypic evolution, but sometimes phylogenetic reconstruction is poorly supported. To account for phylogenetic uncertainty, it is advisable to run compara...

doi.org/10.1007/s116...
#SPEetologia
#SPEmembers

#Phylogenetics #ComparativeMethods #ModelAveraging #AkaikeWeights #EvolutionaryBiology #TraitEvolution #PGLS #PhylogeneticUncertainty #PhylogenomicMethods #StatisticalEcology

Tell us who to follow!!

Tag 👇🏽 the statisticians, statistical ecologists, ecological statisticians, quantitative ecologists, machine learning researchers with ecological interests, & everyone else we should be following.

#StatisticalEcology 📊🗺️💻🦋🐈‍⬛

A nice thread highlighting key findings from our new paper estimating parameters of #HPAI in subsequent outbreaks in common terns. We developed a Bayesian inference approach to infer parameters from just carcass counts. #seabirds #statisticalecology #diseaseecology

doi.org/10.1111/1365...

New Course – Live & Online
Multivariate Analysis of Ecological Communities using R

Registration:
www.prstats.org/course/multi...

#Ecology #RStats #DataScience #MultivariateAnalysis #EnvironmentalScience #veganPackage #EcologicalModelling
#BiodiversityAnalysis #StatisticalEcology #OpenScience

Learn how to apply linear and generalized linear mixed models using R

www.prstats.org/course/intro...

#RStats #MixedModels #StatisticalModelling #EcologicalModelling #LifeSciences#OnlineCourses #DataScienceTraining #Biostats #GeneralisedLinearModels #RStudio #StatisticalEcology #EcologyCourse

Spillovers and legacies of land management on temperate woodland biodiversity - Nature Ecology & Evolution Data on beetle, bird, plant and mammal occupancy of woodland sites in UK agricultural landscapes demonstrate how contemporary spatial spillovers and legacies of past land use interact to affect specie...

Land Use change and Delayed ecological responses. The ghosts of agricultures past. Our new paper in Nature Ecology out today:

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

#Agriculture #Biodiversity #StatisticalEcology #Lags #Modelling @sbohvm.gla.ac.uk @uofglasgow.bsky.social @unistirarchives.bsky.social

Hidden semi-Markov models with inhomogeneous state dwell-time distributions The well-established methodology for the estimation of hidden semi-Markov models (HSMMs) as hidden Markov models (HMMs) with extended state spaces is …

My paper is out! 🎉 I explore hidden semi-Markov models with covariate-dependent state dwell-time distributions — because sometimes Markov just isn’t enough.
Case study: Arctic muskox movement! 🦬📊
🔗 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

#stats #TimeSeries #HSMM #StatisticalEcology #rstats

There's just over a week left to apply for these two(!) Ecological Statistician vacancies in our Offshore Renewables group- don't miss your chance to apply! 📆

#StatisticalEcology #OffshoreRenewables #Statistics #DataScience #Seabirds #MarineMammals #Vacancy #Job

🚨NEW VACANCIES!🚨

Our Offshore Renewables group are seeking TWO ecological statisticians to join the growing team.

Both are permanent roles- more info: www.bioss.ac.uk/vacancies/ec...
📆Deadline: 27th Mar 2025

#StatisticalEcology #OffshoreRenewables #Statistics #DataScience #Seabirds #MarineMammals

Now accepting applicants for 25-26 intake of our #StatisticalEcology MSc: bit.ly/3ooHNyc. A unique opportunity to develop skills at the interface of #statistics and #ecology (some partial scholarships available too). Please help me share!

Are we using this platform for #Rstats help yet? I’m trying to figure out why my stochastic population simulation is running away instead of declining steadily like it does in the matrix format. Any #populationecology or #statisticalecology folks who can help? 🧪

📢Just 1 week left to apply for this position in our Ecology and Environmental Sciences team!

#statisticalecology #statistics #statsjobs

We've extended the application deadline by a week, so there's some extra time to get your application in!

📆Updated deadline: 27th November

#statsjobs #statisticalecology #academicjobs

Vacancy advert: Statistician specialising in applied spatial statistics

🔉NEW VACANCY!
We are recruiting for a Statistician, specialising in Applied Spatial Statistics. This is a permanent position, based in our Offshore Renewables Group. Deadline: 20 Nov More info: www.bioss.ac.uk/vacancies/st...
#statistics #statsjobs #statisticalecology #spatialstats

À l’@OFBiodiversite, @SaraGomez a commencé l’analyse des données de migration prénuptiale des Bécassines des marais récoltées par balises GPS depuis 2017 ! #birdmigration #Animalbehaviour #statisticalecology

Great fun, relaxed discussion yesterday at #ESA2020 #StatisticalEcology Section with @mcdietze, Joshua Fowler, Muyang Lu, @howell_pe, @AlisonKetz, @philmrchnd & @EdwardTekwa