Ceres Barros
ceresbarros.bsky.social
Ceres Barros
@ceresbarros.bsky.social
Ecological modelling; ecosystem resilience and stability to global change; international rep @ BESMacroecology SIG; AE @ Ecological Solutions & Evidence; Research Scientist @ Canadian Forest Service
Views and opinions are my own
October 14, 2025 at 11:37 PM
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October 14, 2025 at 11:36 PM
American colleagues I feel for you...!
October 2, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Not that it's an insult by default, but commenting on strangers' sexual preferences is not the nicest thing to do.
July 25, 2024 at 10:36 PM
Jeez. I wonder if I'd been able to prevent myself from pointing back and clearly saying "low IQ"
July 25, 2024 at 9:12 PM
Oh I thought they literally supported magical creatures -- I'd have taken that as a massive compliment, big Harry Potter fan
July 25, 2024 at 9:10 PM
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.
July 25, 2024 at 9:08 PM
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.
July 25, 2024 at 9:04 PM
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
July 25, 2024 at 9:03 PM