i dont knoe eho needs to hear this (but someone does)

you should not use file.choose()

BUT IF YOU DO
PLEASE DO NOT PUT IT IN A RMARKDOWN FILE

1. We ( @jbakcoleman.bsky.social, @cailinmeister.bsky.social, @jevinwest.bsky.social, and I) have a new preprint up on the arXiv.

There we explore how social media companies and other online information technology firms are able to manipulate scientific research about the effects of their products.

and the best data from a great student i was lucky to collaborate with and who will get my comments on her draft MS today

Will spend the next year fixing typos and integrating ideas from using it this semester & adding content on

-Other linear models (Regression, ANCOVA, Types of Sums of Squares, Interactions etc)
- Causal Inference,
- Experimental Design
- GLM
- Mixed effect models
- Robust stats
- Model Evaluation

Proud of the latest edition of my free intro biostats book.

gitrepo: github.com/ybrandvain/b...
book: ybrandvain.github.io/biostats/

Not complete but at a good point to take a break, and I think its quite usable

dm me with comments , ideas etc

Really excited to share our new paper on #causalinference & #climatechange attribution out in #EcologyLetters today!

Are you asking "how much" or "if" climate change has impacted your system, then this paper is for you!

🧪🌏🌐🍁🌺🌱🌿
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

another way to think about this:

-should someone else spend a month modeling the process of soliciting tenure evaluations, hoping to uncover some interesting problems of scale?

if no, some publication seems worthwhile. Although perhaps some future REsearcher may do the study after missing your pub

working on my material for next semester.
this one ended up on the cutting room floor

Starting now on @Twitch
-- twitch.tv/realgoodai

I'll be discussing teaching, learning, feedback adn textbooks in the llm era with
@RealGoodAi
realgoodai.org

Fauci is not exactly Vavilov but Lysenkoists in charge might send him to an El Salvadorian gulag

Two research teams from @cnrs.fr @sbroscoff.bsky.social carried a comparative analysis in flowering plants that supports the prediction that inbreeding, such as self-fertilization, selects for higher recombination rates:

doi.org/10.1093/jeb/...

Brazier et al.
(@romanstet.bsky.social)

Just made promptdown public. It's a plain-text interface for working with LLMs using literate programming.

See and edit the full prompt each turn.

No cramped input boxes, no hidden context, no append-only chat.

Still early alpha, feedback welcome!

github.com/t-kalinowski...

"illustrates how marvellously flexible plant reproductive systems can be." ...discovery that sunflower seeds can develop without fertilization and endosperm (!) 🌾🧪https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00904-8

Really excited to see this work, led by Mike Grundler, published! It's a new method for inferring the geographic locations of shared genetic ancestors. In the paper, we and use it to infer the geographic history of human genetic ancestry

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Our department (@EEBUofT) is searching for a Post-Doc! Post-docs funded by this fellowship are independently supported, with research funds available. We invite applications from innovative, collaborative candidates. See the job ad here:

eeb.utoronto.ca/wp-content/u...

For true DMI afficiandos, we also were intrigued by results on the genotype combinations under selection at different incompatibilities. Any comments welcome and thanks to many co-authors including @gilrosenthal.bsky.social @ybrandvain.bsky.social @pandolfatto.bsky.social & others not on bluesky

ugh

If you happen to be interested in the coexistence of diploids and tetraploids given modern coexistence theory and stochastic population dynamics - Check out our #JustAccepted paper at @asn-amnat.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1086/734411

Roses are red,
Tulips are too,
Predict for a BLUP,
Estimate for a BLUE.

Argh, is bookdown.org...down?
504 Gateway Time out from here

#bookdown

I just told my stats class

"To use LLMs to help understand things you do, rather than to help do things you dont understand"

and that might be my new AI policy

I've always been super curious about bird chromosome evolution.

Clicked with interest and then got more excited to see Heath Blackmon (a scientist I was luck enough to advise during his postdoc) was partly behind this

🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥Cant wait to read !🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

From Micro to Macro: Avian Chromosome Evolution is Dominated by Natural Selection https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.11.29.626112v1