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Tiago A. Marques

@talom.bsky.social

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Researcher in ecological statistics, teacher of stats to ecologists, citizen of the world, dog owner & dad. Love and trust science. Intolerant to science deniers. Hate people who hate other people. Worried about climate emergency.

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Tiago A. Marques @talom.bsky.social · Apr 29

😂😂😂

Tiago A. Marques @talom.bsky.social · Apr 29

Could not help myself but laughing when I saw what the drop down menu offered me today as suggestions, no doubts based on past choices, regarding personal profile keywords in a journal's reviewer system

Tiago A. Marques @talom.bsky.social · Apr 25

Hundreds of small acts of courage that together shaped the future of a country in democracy. Assuming you live in a Democracy, take the day to celebrate/appreciate/enjoy your freedom in a time where winds from the West remind us that those who go to sleep in democracy might wake up in dictatorship.

Tiago A. Marques @talom.bsky.social · Apr 25

Or the story of how a woman, Celeste Caeiro, that was going to the market to sell flowers, blood red carnations, and put one in the barrel of a gun, to show that the people did not desire war, and how that set the tone to many others doing it, with the revolution gaining its name.

Tiago A. Marques @talom.bsky.social · Apr 25

Another story where a single captain Rui Rodrigues, with a very small group of men, secured the airport on his own, by saying that the regime troops had to surrender to him as the regime had fallen (this was not true, not yet at least) and reinforcements were on the way.

Tiago A. Marques @talom.bsky.social · Apr 25

Salgueiro Maia's nerves of steel, who stood in front of the regime forces, a tank directly pointed at him, and survived the order given twice to shoot him, which the soldiers at the other side refused to obey. A true act of courage that might have represented one of the major blows on the regime.

Tiago A. Marques @talom.bsky.social · Apr 25

Those guys were truly evil, often sadistic bastards with a free license to do the worst of things to other men, and I suspect they would not go down without a fight, fearing the repercussions of years of torture and selective killings they led. There are endless small stories within the big story.

Tiago A. Marques @talom.bsky.social · Apr 25

This was an amazing event were a group of low rank officials decided to change the course of history. There were barely any casualties, and those that happened, 6 if I recall correctly, were the consequence of a stand off gone wrong with the political police.

Tiago A. Marques @talom.bsky.social · Apr 25

Not been here for a while, I though I would today to commemorate the 25th of April 1974. If don't know what it represents for Portugal, visit the website that was built to commemorate the 50 years of the revolution (which was last year) which includes lots of information about it:
50anos25abril.pt

Homepage - Comissão Comemorativa 50 Anos 25 Abril

Até 2026 celebramos 50x2, 50 anos de liberdade e de democracia.

50anos25abril.pt

Tiago A. Marques @talom.bsky.social · Mar 4

#JustDoIt #Nike #dogs

Tiago A. Marques @talom.bsky.social · Jan 27

#MondayVibes #Dogs

Tiago A. Marques @talom.bsky.social · Jan 24

O problema do país parecem ser os imigrantes criminosos, com valores de criminalidade residual, e os deputados do chega, onde a proporção de criminosos ronda os 20% www.publico.pt/2025/01/22/p... não os podemos mandar fazer as malas 😝 e enviar para o país deles? Aí, espera... o pais deles é o nosso.

Quase um quinto dos deputados do Chega teve ou tem problemas na Justiça

Pelo menos nove dos 50 deputados eleitos do Chega já tiveram processos na Justiça. Miguel Arruda é o caso mais recente.

Tiago A. Marques @talom.bsky.social · Jan 15

A cool example of using a model for (multi) species abundances to reconstruct an image (unrelated to species abundances!), by treating the RGB channels as 3 different species. It's remarkable how you can get a good idea about the overall picture just from RGB values on a very small sample of pixels.

Javier Fernández-López @javi-ferlop.bsky.social · Dec 30

spAbundance package (Doser et al. doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.14332) was published this year at
@methodsinecoevol.bsky.social! It fits a variety of single/multispecies abundance models using Bayesian Inference allowing also for hierarchical frameworks. Let me show you a funny example 🧵👇(1/6) #rstats

Tiago A. Marques @talom.bsky.social · Jan 4

It is disturbing how a few men are now capable of electing a President in what was once an example of democracy, and worse, that they can silence the "free" press about it without consequences. That seems the theme of the century. No consequences, no accountability open.substack.com/pub/anntelna...

Why I'm quitting the Washington Post

Democracy can't function without a free press

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Tiago A. Marques @talom.bsky.social · Jan 4

Great diversity. I might be quite marine mammal biased... I'll go with bowhead whale, Commerson's dolphin, polar bear, narwhal and chimpanzee.

Trevor A. Branch @trevorabranch.bsky.social · Jan 4

What are the 5 most memorable wildlife sightings of your life? I've had some incredible encounters: aardvark, platypus, velvet worms, blue whales, honey badger

Tiago A. Marques @talom.bsky.social · Jan 4

Warning: look away or you might die of cuteness...

Tiago A. Marques @talom.bsky.social · Dec 31

Happy 2025 to all. A very funny year, numerically speaking.
2025 = 45² =
(0 + 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 + 6 + 7 + 8 + 9)² = (0³ + 1³ + 2³ + 3³ + 4³ + 5³ + 6³ + 7³ + 8³ + 9³)

a black background with fireworks and the words happy new year 2025

ALT: a black background with fireworks and the words happy new year 2025

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Tiago A. Marques @talom.bsky.social · Dec 30

I had never seen one so obvious, but this is a fungi of the genus Phallus. Suitably named I guess 😁

Tiago A. Marques @talom.bsky.social · Dec 27

Culpa dele !

Tiago A. Marques @talom.bsky.social · Dec 26

Insightful post from Peter Ellis on the relation between depression levels at the US county level and proportion of Trump voters. Code to gather data + run analysis available. Cool analysis illustrates how logistic regression might severely underestimate precision freerangestats.info/blog/2024/12...

Depression incidence by county and vote for Trump

Multi-level modelling with spatial auto-correlation! I look at county level data on incidence of depression in 2020, and voting for Trump in the 2024 US Presidential election, and conclude that there'...

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Tiago A. Marques @talom.bsky.social · Dec 23

Animal movement workshop alert! A line of speakers difficult to beat with John Fieberg, Marie Auger-Méthé, Brett McClintock & Inês Silva and the location is definitely a place that makes you "move" for it: lovely Madeira. 19-23 May 2025. Just after the ECS in Azores. It's PT islands 2025. See you?

Animal movement workshop

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Tiago A. Marques @talom.bsky.social · Dec 23

Usei o meu primeiro block nesta rede, já me bastou o que tive de aturar no Twitter...

Tiago A. Marques @talom.bsky.social · Dec 20

Is that a problem ?

Tiago A. Marques @talom.bsky.social · Dec 19

Today was the last day of Ecological Modelling classes, I "offered" the students a full day workshop where I would work with them and their final assignment models. Yesterday we had a little get together to celebrate end of term. What a great class. #WorkHardPartyHarder

Tiago A. Marques @talom.bsky.social · Dec 18

I began the public defense with a "conflict of interests" statement: "I am conflicted about being objective given your boyfriend crashed into me 20 mins ago" The student turned red, then purple, then green, finally yellow. Still, she passed 😀 A story to remember forever. A once in a Universe event?