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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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Javier Fernández-López @javi-ferlop.bsky.social · 21h

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Szymek Drobniak @szymekdr.bsky.social · 6d

Our newest paper is out in Methods in Ecol Evol @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social :) amazing team effort - we show that the traditional way of analyzing comparative data lacks finesse. besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/action/oidcS... w/ @itchyshin.bsky.social Yefeng Yang, Losia Lagisz & Ayumi Mizuno

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Szymek Drobniak @szymekdr.bsky.social · 3d

Our recent paper looks at location-scale interfaces in comparative data. But predicting variance in variance extends much further - if you still have not have a look here onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... (another recent paper in @globalchangebio.bsky.social). We show how extending the idea

Location‐Scale Meta‐Analysis and Meta‐Regression as a Tool to Capture Large‐Scale Changes in Biological and Methodological Heterogeneity: A Spotlight on Heteroscedasticity

Meta-analyses are widely used to understand how species and ecosystems respond to global change, but most assume that variability among studies is constant. This assumption can hide important biologi....

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Javier Fernández-López @javi-ferlop.bsky.social · 3d

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Olivier Gimenez 🦦 @oaggimenez.bsky.social · 6d

📢 Nous recrutons 😉😇
🔍 Ingénieur-e surveillance de la faune sauvage 12 mois 📸 🗺
📅 Candidature jusqu’au 24/10/25 (début contrat 15/01/2026)
🔗 emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...

@osuoreme.bsky.social @cnrsecologie.bsky.social @cnrsoccitanieest.bsky.social @chamaillejammes.bsky.social

Portail Emploi CNRS - Offre d'emploi - Ingénieur-e surveillance de la faune sauvage (H/F)

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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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Javier Fernández-López @javi-ferlop.bsky.social · 7d

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Richard McElreath 🐈‍⬛ @rmcelreath.bsky.social · 8d

Was asked about collinearity again, so here's Vahove's 2019 post on why it isn't a problem that needs a solution. Design the model(s) to answer a formal question and free your mind janhove.github.io/posts/2019-0...

tl;dr

Collinearity is a form of lack of information that is appropriately reflected in the output of your statistical model.
When collinearity is associated with interpretational difficulties, these difficulties aren’t caused by the collinearity itself. Rather, they reveal that the model was poorly specified (in that it answers a question different to the one of interest), that the analyst overly focuses on significance rather than estimates and the uncertainty about them or that the analyst took a mental shortcut in interpreting the model that could’ve also led them astray in the absence of collinearity.
If you do decide to “deal with” collinearity, make sure you can still answer the question of interest.

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Albert Morera @albert-morera.bsky.social · 8d

Hackathon @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social completed 🧑‍💻 Amazing to share with so many people in such a unique environment

We’ve been testing whether published data/code are truly reproducible. +1200 papers reviewed. Now waiting for the results 👀 and hoping it helps move towards a more open science

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Burrito Justice @burritojustice.bsky.social · 8d

quick while the government is shut down let’s all switch to metric

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Instituto de Investigación en Recursos Cinegéticos (IREC) @irec-csic-uclm.bsky.social · 7d

🆕 #OfertaDeTrabajo ‼️ Se ofrece contrato predoctoral FPI de 4 años entre el Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (MNCN) y el IREC para hacer la #TesisDoctoral en #Ecología del comportamiento 🐦‍⬛✅

Toda la info aquí 👉 https://www.irec.es/noticias/proyecto-birdbond-oferta-contrato-predoctoral-fpi/

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Instituto de Investigación en Recursos Cinegéticos (IREC) @irec-csic-uclm.bsky.social · 10d

🆕 Analizan cómo las nuevas tecnologías están revolucionando la #monitorización de las #aves marinas, destacando las oportunidades que ofrecen estas herramientas y los desafíos que plantean, muchos aplicables a otros grupos de #FaunaSilvestre 👩‍🔬✅👉 https://cutt.ly/KrMPTHDF

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Instituto de Investigación en Recursos Cinegéticos (IREC) @irec-csic-uclm.bsky.social · 11d

⁉️ ¿Te gustaría hacer la #TesisDoctoral en #Ecología y #Biología de la Conservación? 🤔👩‍🔬 El IREC y el CTFC buscan candidato/a para hacerla en ecología espacial y demografía de la #CodornizComún 🐦💚

ℹ️ Info aquí 👉 https://www.irec.es/noticias/se-busca-candidato-beca-predoctoral-ecologia-biologia-uclm/

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Javier Fernández-López @javi-ferlop.bsky.social · 13d

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Jaime Muriel @jaime-muriel.bsky.social · 15d

📢Thrilled to share that our article “Host species and age-specific variation on #Hepatozoon prevalence and its effect on body condition in two Neotropical #crocodiles” is now part of the Disease Ecology Special Issue @wildlifebiology.bsky.social @nordicoikos.bsky.social ! 🐊✨
doi.org/10.1002/wlb3...

Host species and age‐specific variation on Hepatozoon prevalence and its effect on body condition in two Neotropical crocodiles

Many populations of species belonging to the order Crocodilia are threatened due to illegal trafficking, indiscriminate hunting, and habitat loss and degradation affecting crocodilian health and para...

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cameratraps @ppalencia.bsky.social · 16d

New paper! We show how #cameratraps can do more than track wildlife—they can also detect pathologies. A non-invasive, scalable way to monitor animal health & boost conservation 📸🌍💡 #OneHealth

In @jappliedecology.bsky.social

besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Pixelated pathologies: Camera trapping as a tool for monitoring wildlife health

Given the increasing emergence of diseases, some with conservation and public health implications, improving and expanding wildlife health surveillance strategies is imperative. Camera trapping is pa...

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Instituto de Investigación en Recursos Cinegéticos (IREC) @irec-csic-uclm.bsky.social · 16d

🆕 #OfertaDeTrabajo ‼️ Se ofrece contrato predoctoral FPI de 4 años entre el Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (MNCN) y el IREC para hacer la #TesisDoctoral en #Ecología del comportamiento 🐦‍⬛✅

Toda la info aquí 👉 https://www.irec.es/noticias/proyecto-birdbond-oferta-contrato-predoctoral-fpi/

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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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Manlio De Domenico @manlius.bsky.social · 19d

Can a Netflix series teach us something important not about the ancient past, but about how we create and evaluate knowledge today?

Göbekli Tepe, underground cities, ancient deluges and Bayes theorem.

An unusual #ComplexityThoughts essay this week. Curious?
👉 open.substack.com/pub/manlius/...

Lost civilizations and the science of knowing what we don’t know

The most extraordinary claims need the most extraordinary evidence

open.substack.com

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Andrew Gelman et al. @statmodeling.bsky.social · 20d

“Why probability probably doesn’t exist (but it is useful to act like it does)”
statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/09/18/w...

“Why probability probably doesn’t exist (but it is useful to act like it does)” | Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science

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GBIF España/Spain @gbif.es · 23d

¿Quieres aprender a crear mapas de ocurrencia con datos de GBIF? 🌍
Apúntate al Data Use Club “Making occurrence maps” y descubre cómo hacerlo con la API de GBIF, R y Python 👇

GBIF @gbif.org · 23d

🦀 Have you registered for the next GBIF #DataUseClub?

Join Matt Blissett and John Waller from the Secretariat for our next Data Use Club practical session: Making occurrence maps. 🗺️

📍 23 September 2025, 15:00 - 16:30 CEST

🔗 gbif.link/DUC_mapping

Cream coloured graphic with an illustration of a crab and pink text reading data use club practical sessions: making occurrence maps

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Sandra Díaz Sánchez @sdiazsanchez.bsky.social · 25d

📢 We offer a fully funded 4-year #PhD position to work on tick #microbiota 🦠 dynamics using #genomics 🧬 at @irec-csic-uclm.bsky.social, supervised by @sdiazsanchez.bsky.social. For requisites and contact info, please check 👇

www.irec.es/noticias/pro...

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Olivier Gimenez 🦦 @oaggimenez.bsky.social · 27d

🌿 Le Centre d’Écologie Fonctionnelle et Évolutive à Montpellier (lnkd.in/erpreW-F), recherche sa/son DU 😉
👉 lnkd.in/etM5tXEP

🌿 The Centre for Functional and Evolutionary Ecology in Montpellier (lnkd.in/e9JBQNai) is looking for its next director. Come and join us 😉
👉 lnkd.in/etM5tXEP

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Environmental Information: Use and Influence (Dalhousie Univ.) @eiui.bsky.social · Sep 8

Laboratory and field studies are often presented as “either-or approaches” with distinct advantages and challenges. Binning et al. argue for “working across the lab-field continuum” to conduct research that can “better inform #policy and practice” @conphysjournal.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/conp...

Title, authors’ names, and abstract from a paper about the advantages and challenges of laboratory-based and field-based conservation physiology research for informing policy and practice

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