American colleagues I feel for you...!

What the...?

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Can't access the paper? PM me, or ask for a copy on ResearchGate:
www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Our plea to ecological interation network (EINs) researchers and managers/decision-makers to _explicitly_ integrate the science into practice! Yes, there's is a LOT of uncertainty, but we've come far in our knowledge about EINs and have far more data than before. The time is NOW
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I made one for stats papers

Uh oh

phys.org/news/2024-11...

Grant-funded labs are incentivized to admit students who already know how to do research to serve as cheap labor. That puts students who’ve had the most access and resources at a major advantage. This shapes admissions practices more than people are willing to admit but yelling about testing is easy

A Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor position is available in the Plant Biology Department at SLU, related to how plants grow, develop & interact with their environment. Come join us in a welcoming and dynamic department in Uppsala, Sweden! More info below:
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Is it me, or do I see many of my colleagues joining Bluesky post/during US elections?

Also, I feel for you US ecologists... Stay strong

Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Centre (CIFFC) is looking for a Director of Resiliency & Partnerships Director of Resiliency & Partnerships - Remote - Indeed.com

Great opportunity.

#Climate models predict abrupt intensification of northern #wildfires due to permafrost thawing phys.org/news/2024-09...

“a global heritage that should be permanently safeguarded for future reference. Here we provide a set of recommended best practices for the sustainable, equitable and ethical sampling of herbarium specimens” www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧪🌎🌾

#Arctic sea ice extent is currently the 4th lowest on record (JAXA data)

• about 340,000 km² below the 2010s mean
• about 1,190,000 km² below the 2000s mean
• about 2,030,000 km² below the 1990s mean
• about 2,770,000 km² below the 1980s mean

Plots: zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-i...

Not that it's an insult by default, but commenting on strangers' sexual preferences is not the nicest thing to do.

Jeez. I wonder if I'd been able to prevent myself from pointing back and clearly saying "low IQ"

Oh I thought they literally supported magical creatures -- I'd have taken that as a massive compliment, big Harry Potter fan

We also demonstrated the importance of rapid and integrated validation to judge model quality. "More data" and "more complex calibration" were not ubiquitously best, and the more data-hungry model actually performed worse at predicting simple forest properties.

By integrating data sourcing, data prep., model calibration and prediction/forecasting, validation and visualisation, we were able to more easily transfer and adapt our modeling workflows to new contexts and new data.

Our paper provides demonstrations of how integrated modelling workflows can be developed in R with the aid of the SpaDES suite of R packages, which bring useful tools like caching and automated (spatial and aspatial) data downloading and munging to ecologists

I am so proud to announce that our 2023 MEE paper won ESA's Ecological Forecasting Outstanding Publication Award 2024. This is a huge honour for me and my co-authors, after many years dedicated to developing tools that help ecologists create integrated, repeatable and transparent modelling workflows

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