All reproducible and open: github.com/ibartomeus/Cro… Having a dynamic paper is a dream come true. It shows science is a process and focuses on improving our answers. I hope is a new way to publish general questions.

📣New paper alert 📢
Super Excited to see our new paper out in Methods in Ecology and Evolution w John Fieberg David Wolfson Dongmin (Dennis) Kim on modelling individual variability using step-selection
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#animalmovement #ecology BES Movement Ecology U of MN FWCB University of Minnesota
A small thread...

Do you use logistic regression? If so, you’ll want to read the thread below.

⚠️ Warning: Memes, charts, #rstats , and practical advice ahead.

Looking forward to reading this one!

I'm excited to share that I published a first version of my Statistics 4 Ecologists book with University of Minnesota Libraries Publishing. You can now download a (FREE) pdf version of the book here:

conservancy.umn.edu/handle/11299/2…

Folks! I have two postdoc/analyst openings in my lab that are really exciting. One focused on old-growth forest conservation design (based at UNM) and another on diagnosing drivers of pinyon jay population declines (based at Cornell). Please share!

gavinmjones.com/opportunities/

Looking for advice on statistics in ecology?

Check out this new paper 'Four principles for improved statistical ecology' in Methods in Ecology and Evolution by Popovic et al.

#statistics #ecology

besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/20…

JOB ALERT: If you like 1) being on the leading edge of research-implementation, 2) coordinating large collaborative teams, and 3) helping restore lake ecosystems by controlling aquatic invasive species... THIS is the job for you!! MAISRC
hr.myu.umn.edu/jobs/ext/359338

Bringing the flexibility of GAMs and the convenience of mgcv to step selection functions is exciting!

This allows movement and habitat selection to be modelled as non-linear, time-varying, spatially-varying,
individual-specific, etc. Check out Figure 1 for an overview.

My first PhD chapter is out as a preprint!

We formulate step selection functions as GAM-like models, which can be fitted in mgcv. This allows for the inclusion of non-linear effects/interactions, as well as individual-level and spatial random effects!

doi.org/10.1101/2024.0…

What are your New Year's resolutions? How about applying for #Animove2024 ? We are accepting applications now via our website.
Deadline: 31st of January 2024.
Please spread the word 😀👍🌏
Safi_Lab @[email protected] Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior Universität Konstanz Max Planck Society

We are looking for a PhD student, to work on statistical models for animal movement and fisheries science!

Feel free to email/DM me if you're interested or have any questions (either about the project or about life in Halifax).

Our step selection analysis review now in MEE!

We describe choices of 'control' points through the lens of numerical integration, to unify them and explain why some work better.

Control points are often a numerical tool with no biological interpretation

doi.org/10.1111/2041-2…

📣Our 🆕 paper Causal Inference is Not Just a Statistics Problem is out! Malco`lm()` Barrett (Now on Bluesky and Mastodon), King Ranch @[email protected], and I show that you can have 4 data sets with identical summary stats & visuals but very different data generating mechanisms-statistics alone can't tell you what to adjust for!

“You need 16 times the sample size to estimate an interaction than to estimate a main effect,” explained
statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2023/11/09/you…

An illusion of a macroecological law, abundance-occupancy relationships doi.org/10.32942/X28P5W

Very excited to announce my new R package spAbundance for fitting single-species and multi-species spatially-explicit N-mixture models, distance sampling models, and GLMMs. Includes options for random intercepts/slopes and species correlations. #rstats jeffdoser.com/files/spabunda….

Matthew Kauffman Jerod Merkle John Randolph 👀

Please RT: We're re-posting our colonial wading #bird #postdocposition . The fantastic person who was working on this project is leaving for a new position. Experience w pop estimation & sampling design required. Location is flexible. Open until filled ugajobsearch.com/postings/344346

Great example of collider bias or greatest example?