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Ecoinformática AEET @ecoinf-aeet.bsky.social · 1d

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¿A qué esperas? ✨ ¡Apúntate ya! ¡Te esperamos! 🌍🚀
#30DayMapChallenge #CienciaAbierta #Reto #Mapas #Ecoinformática

Ecoinformática AEET @ecoinf-aeet.bsky.social · 1d

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¿No controlas mucho de mapas? ¡No pasa nada! 🫂 Esto es para todos los niveles. Lo importante es participar, divertirse y sumar al equipo. ¡Hasta puedes probar herramientas nuevas o inspirarte en otrxs!

a kitten looking at a laptop with the words " we do a little hacking " on the bottom

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Ecoinformática AEET @ecoinf-aeet.bsky.social · 1d

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¿Te pica el gusanillo? 🪱 Apúntate en este Excel 👉 tinyurl.com/2ba78kmk y únete a nuestro canal de Slack para organizarnos y charlar sobre el reto. ¡Sin presión, solo ganas de aprender y compartir!

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Ecoinformática AEET @ecoinf-aeet.bsky.social · 1d

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La idea es colaborar entre todxs 🤝: nos repartimos los días, cada quien hace su mapa y lo publicamos desde nuestro GitHub y aquí. ¿Por qué? Porque creemos en una ciencia abierta, colaborativa y diversa 🌈. ¡Y porque mola pasar un noviembre lleno de mapas chulos!

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Ecoinformática AEET @ecoinf-aeet.bsky.social · 1d

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🗓️ ¡Marquen en sus agendas noviembre! El grupo de Ecoinformática se apunta al #30DayMapChallenge 🗺️, un reto mundial donde cada día de noviembre hay que crear un mapa según una temática. ¿Ejemplos? Día 1: mapas de puntos. Día 2: líneas. ¡Incluso hay uno de hacer un mapa en 10 minutos! 😱

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Ecoinformática AEET @ecoinf-aeet.bsky.social · 1d

¡Hola, ecoinformáticxs! 🌍💻 ¿Os gusta hacer mapas? ¿Y si os decimos que podemos unirnos para un reto divertido y colaborativo? Si estás leyendo esto, ¡TE QUEREMOS! ❤️¡Atentos, que esto mola! 👇

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GBIF España/Spain @gbif.es · 8d

Abrimos la convocatoria del VII Taller GBIF.ES online: Manejo, visualización y análisis de datos en ecología con R (nivel iniciación): 👉 gbif.es/talleres/vii...

¡Preinscríbete, tienes hasta el 14 de octubre 🗓️!
#tallerRonline2025 @gbif.org

VII Taller GBIF.ES online: Manejo, visualización y análisis de datos en ecología con R (nivel iniciación)

Descripción Este curso pretende sentar las bases para usar y desarrollar R de una manera autónoma y utilizar el software para manejar, m

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Royal Society Publishing @royalsocietypublishing.org · 16d

From policy to practice: progress towards #data- and #code-sharing in ecology and evolution #ProcB #OpenAccess royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

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apoorva lal @apoorvalal.com · 17d

stats.stackexchange.com/a/140579
Opportunity to plug one of the great StackOverflow answers

Making sense of principal component analysis, eigenvectors & eigenvalues

In today's pattern recognition class my professor talked about PCA, eigenvectors and eigenvalues. I understood the mathematics of it. If I'm asked to find eigenvalues etc. I'll do it correctly li...

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 17d

Yet again, machine learning — even gussied up via the transformer architecture — encodes and reinforces societal biases.

This study reveals that LLM-based peer review relies heavily on author institution in its decisions.

arxiv.org/abs/2509.15122

Prestige over merit: An adapted audit of LLM bias in peer review

Large language models (LLMs) are playing an increasingly integral, though largely informal, role in scholarly peer review. Yet it remains unclear whether LLMs reproduce the biases observed in human de...

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Alfredo Sánchez-Tójar @asanchez-tojar.bsky.social · 22d

📣 Hot off the press at #ProcB!

🔍 Our study checked data/code-sharing policies in 275 eco/evo journals and compliance in Proc B (n=2,340) & Ecology Letters (n=571). Policies exist, but clarity and strictness vary, affecting reproducibility.

🔗 doi.org/10.1098/rspb...

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iBartomeus @ibartomeus.bsky.social · 28d

Últimas plazas para el curso @eco-aeet.bsky.social de Meta-analysis que impartirá mayormente @asanchez-tojar.bsky.social en Sevilla en Octubre: www.aeet.org/events/2025/...

Course Systematic Reviews and Meta-analysis in R

This course provides a practical introduction to modern methods of evidence synthesis, with a focus on systematic review and meta-analysis in ecology and evolution.

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Cassie Speakman @cassiespeakman.bsky.social · Aug 23

The latest paper from the DISCAR synthesis group is out at Ecology Letters! We discuss the key approaches to predicting human impacts on wildlife populations, highlighting avenues for incorporating indirect effects, such as energetic modelling. doi.org/10.1111/ele....

Title and author list for the synthesis paper titled "Understanding and Predicting Population Response to Anthropogenic Disturbance: Current Approaches and Novel Opportunities" published in Ecology Letters.

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The International Biogeography Society @biogeography.bsky.social · Aug 31

If you are planning to attend our biennial conference, abstract submission will close Sep 1, so be sure to submit and secure a spot! conferences.au.dk/tibs-aarhus-...

The International Biogeography Society Conference Jan 7-9, 2026 Aarhus

The International Biogeography Society and Aarhus University are excited to welcome you to the 12th Biannual Conference in Aarhus, the city of Smiles.

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Francisco Rodriguez-Sanchez @frodsan.bsky.social · Aug 20

I've added a few new features to {grateful}, the package that facilitates citation of #rstats packages, and I'd love feedback before submitting to CRAN 🧵

grateful: Facilitate citation of R packages

The goal of grateful is to make it very easy to cite R and the R packages used in any analyses, so that package authors receive their deserved credit. By calling a single function, grateful will scan the project for R packages used and generate a BibTeX file containing all citations for those packages.

grateful can then generate a new document with citations in the desired output format (Word, PDF, LaTeX, HTML, Markdown). These references can be formatted for a specific journal, so that we can just paste them directly into our manuscript or report.

Alternatively, we can use grateful directly within an Rmarkdown or Quarto document. In this case, a paragraph containing in-text citations of all used R packages will (optionally) be inserted into the Rmarkdown/Quarto document, and these packages will be included in the reference list when rendering.

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Nature @nature.com · Jul 23

Scientists overwhelmingly recognize the value of sharing null results, but rarely publish them in the research literature

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Researchers value null results, but struggle to publish them

Survey finds that fear of reputational harm and a lack of support and publication platforms are among respondents’ key concerns.

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Florian Hartig @florianhartig.bsky.social · Jul 14

I will soon open up calls for a PhD student (free choice of topic as long as it fits to our group) and a scientific programmer / ecological data scientist. If you know what we are doing and would like to join our team, feel free to get in touch.

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Ecosistemas AEET @ecosistemas-aeet.bsky.social · Jul 17

What do you think about open and reproducible science? In this new post published in the @eco-aeet.bsky.social blog, some of our editors show two cases that represent current challenges in relation to reproducibility. Take a look!
blogaeet.org/2025/07/14/a...

AEET–SIBECOL Pontevedra 2025. Open and reliable science

Below are two cases that represent current challenges that the scientific community faces in relation to open and reproducible science. Reproducibility is understood here as the ability of a study …

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Gary Collins @gscollins.bsky.social · Jul 16

NEW PAPER in @bmj.com "Dealing with continuous variables and modelling non-linear associations in healthcare data: practical guide"

--> www.bmj.com/content/390/...

#methodologymatters #StatsSky #EpiSky

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Ben Bolker @bbolker.bsky.social · Jul 19

not VIFs specifically, but I recently posted this list of papers I like about "why you shouldn't worry about multicollinearity so much": github.com/idworkin/McM...

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Ecoinformática AEET @ecoinf-aeet.bsky.social · Jul 18

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Ecosistemas AEET @ecosistemas-aeet.bsky.social · Jul 17

What do you think about open and reproducible science? In this new post published in the @eco-aeet.bsky.social blog, some of our editors show two cases that represent current challenges in relation to reproducibility. Take a look!
blogaeet.org/2025/07/14/a...

AEET–SIBECOL Pontevedra 2025. Open and reliable science

Below are two cases that represent current challenges that the scientific community faces in relation to open and reproducible science. Reproducibility is understood here as the ability of a study …

blogaeet.org

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Jordan Nafa @jordannafa.bsky.social · Jul 15

Statistics/Causal Inference folks, what are your favorite papers on why VIF is bad?

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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · Jul 16

At this point, I might as well --
Here's an infographic showing different ways to include age as a predictor. The top shows two extremes, just as a plain old numerical predictor (imposes linear trajectory) vs. categorical predictor (imposes nothing whatsoever). And then three solutions in between!

Infographic illustrating different ways to model age.
First panel shows two "extreme" cases; including age as a linear numerical predictor (df = 1) or including age as a categorical predictor (df = number of years of age minus 1).
Second panel shows an intermediate solution in which age is categorized into broader bins (df = number of categories minus 1, here 5 - 1 = 4).
Third panel shows an intermediate solution in which age is included with a polynomial (df = degrees of freedom of the polynomial, here 4).
Fourth panel shows an intermediate solution in which age is modeled with the help of splines (df = degrees of freedom of the splines, here 4).

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Jakub Nowosad @jakubnowosad.com · Jul 16

🌲 New R package: forestdata makes it easy to download forestry and land cover data from multiple sources (Copernicus, ESRI, EU-Trees4F, and more). Supports sf, SpatRaster, and tidy outputs.

Explore it here: cidree.github.io/forestdata/

#rstats #rspatial #forestry #landcover

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GBIF España/Spain @gbif.es · Jul 15

¡Abrimos la preinscripción para el Taller GBIF.ES: Estandarización, documentación y publicación de datos de seguimientos de biodiversidad!
🖊️ gbif.es/talleres/tal...
📆 Apúntate hasta el 9 de septiembre
#tallerGBIFDatosProgramasSeguimiento

Taller GBIF.ES: Estandarización, documentación y publicación de datos de seguimientos de biodiversidad

Descripción La publicación de datos en portales globales como GBIF incrementa significativamente la visibilidad, el impacto y la reutili

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