Julen Astigarraga
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Julen Astigarraga
@julenastigarraga.bsky.social

Ecology, forests, global change, biogeography, rstats, data science | Ekosistemetan ematen diren aldaketak ulertzeko ahaleginean

Environmental science 71%
Geography 20%
🎉 labeleR-paper has been published in @ecosistemas-aeet.bsky.social!
👪 Together with @iramosgutierrez.bsky.social @jimenamateomartin.bsky.social & @frodsan.bsky.social!
📃 We briefly explain how to use it, its advantages and possibilities... Take a look! revistaecosistemas.net/index.php/ec...
¿No te ha tocado la lotería?

¡Pues no te preocupes porque desde el grupo de Ecoinformática hemos estado preparando algo especial!🎄

🎁 Sabemos que os habéis portado genial este año, así que qué mejor que comenzar el 2026 apuntándote al taller de elaboración de paquetes de R 🚀
shorturl.at/N6J3V

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It’s the run up to the holidays so there can only be one #MethodologyMonday topic - the scientific way to cut your Christmas cake. Published c1906 in Nature by the statistician Francis Galton 🎂🎄🔪😊 Enjoy!
galton.org/essays/1900-...
{ggview} can print plots to Viewer (Rstudio or Positron) with true scaling. Adjust plot settings and see the final proportions immediately.

Save the plot once 👌

e.g.:
ggplot(...) +
ggview::canvas(width = 220, height = 220*2/3, units = "mm", dpi = 300)

per @nrennie.bsky.social #datavis #rstats
Excited to launch the new improved Reproducible Code guide from @britishecologicalsociety.org @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social FREE online here! www.britishecologicalsociety.org//wp-content/... Amazing work by some very talented ECRs. We hope it’s useful!
🧵 1/5 New paper out at @jappliedecology.bsky.social

We evaluate how #carbon allocation strategies determine the long-term carbon sink potential of large-scale pine reforestations under climate change. We combined #RemoteSensing and #dendrochronological plots

doi.org/10.1111/1365...

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¿Te apetece venirte a trabajar conmigo en Valencia? Tengo una oferta para ti
🚀 Postdoc júnior en la UV (metodología bayesiana: selección/ponderación de modelos).
🗓️ Solicitudes: 9–22 dic 2025.
👉 Info/solicitud: www.uv.es/uvweb/servei...
CPI-25-768
www.uv.es
🚨New paper!🚨 Models predict trees like beech will migrate north as climate warms, but rarely consider tree reproduction. Jessie shows these “refuges” are exactly where climate warming will disrupt seed production the most. They may not be such great climate refuges after all.
doi.org/10.1111/ele....
Comment article: Matthew Fagan, Naomi Schwartz and Ruth DeFries offer three considerations on uncertainties and potential misapplications of global datasets to ensure responsible use of remote-sensing datasets in ecology and environmental science.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
The responsible use of global remote-sensing datasets - Nature Ecology & Evolution
In this age of abundant remote-sensing data, global datasets are increasingly relied upon to analyse the planet at unprecedented scale and resolution. We offer three considerations on uncertainties an...
www.nature.com

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7ª ed. del curso 'Optimizando #Rstats para el análisis de datos en Ecología'

4-8 mayo 2026, Jaca, Huesca

www.aeet.org/events/2026/...
HEY! YOU! ggdibbler 0.6.1 is finally up on CRAN!

harriet-mason.github.io/ggdibbler/in...

You can now pass random variables to any aesthetic in any ggplot geom/stat. If you can express it as a distribution, ggdibbler can plot it. It also works with ggplot extensions, like gganimate. #rstats

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#stats Modelling proportion data? A reminder that adding small values to true zeroes (or subtracting from 1) can severely distort results

Instead, try ordered beta models (or ZOIB) available in brms, ordbetareg or glmmTMB #rstats 📦

Great tutorial: doi.org/10.31234/osf...
Con la humanidad atemorizada por la mortífera segunda ola del coronavirus, una revista científica publicó un estudio con la solución: los amuletos de jade podrían prevenir la covid. Su caída expone el pelotazo de las editoriales en la ciencia
La caída de una megarrevista científica expone el pelotazo de las editoriales en la ciencia
Una de las cabeceras que más estudios publican en el mundo, expulsada del sistema por irregularidades. Su editorial, Elsevier, supera los 1.300 millones de euros de beneficios al año
social.elpais.com

Zorionak Ainhoa!!
Nuestra revista científica @ecosistemas-aeet.bsky.social busca nuevos editores asociados.

Toda la info aquí 👇👇
Just published in JOSS: 'BlueCarbon R package: Estimation of Organic Carbon Stocks and Sequestration Rates From Soil Core Data' https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.08333
Two years ago we got together in a beautiful mountain to learn and develop #rstats packages for ecology

After {labeleR} (ecologyr.github.io/labeleR/) and {BlueCarbon} (ecologyr.github.io/BlueCarbon/), {mappestRisk} is now officially out! See thread by lead author @dario-ssm.bsky.social 👇

Oleee! Enhorabuena Darío y a todo el equipo! Que guay ver que ya está disponible en CRAN🙌

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🗺️🐛 mappestRisk is now on CRAN! We developed this R package to help non-expert R users create pest-risk maps based on experimental data of the thermal biology of crop-pest species.

github.com/EcologyR/map...
GitHub - EcologyR/mappestRisk
Contribute to EcologyR/mappestRisk development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
Team-paper out!
G. Gea led this multidisciplinary study on 2 Mediterranean pines in drought-driven decline. Despite long-term stress, trees still activate strong metabolic defenses under hotter drought. @dendroecologist.bsky.social et al.
@funecology.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/fune...
Climate visuals: Here are all the figures you need for showing the changes in climate in your presentations! by @edhawkins.org
ed-hawkins.github.io/climate-visu...
An additional one here: nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
🧪🌍🌐 #ClimateChange
Climate variations over the last 2000 years provide valuable context and help answer questions about how unusual the recent changes are.

Now with added global sea level rise: climatelabbook.substack.com/p/climate-ch...

Graphics: ed-hawkins.github.io/climate-visu...
Check out our new preprint, led by @melinaleite.bsky.social “Dispersion tests in generalised linear mixed-effects models - a methods comparison and practical guide” ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...

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Excited about sharing our new manuscript. This work is highly relevant to reporting reliable statistics. Nice collaboration with our colleagues from Luke (Finland)

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Evaluation of the performance of forest structural indices under different National forest inventory plot designs
Forest structure encompasses a variety of attributes related to the arrangement of the forest components (e.g., trees, shrubs, deadwood) in both horiz…
www.sciencedirect.com
I'm reminded of how handy the usethis::browse_*() functions are and thought I'd remind people they exist. Choose from a menu of links or go straight to CRAN or GitHub. #rstats

Thanks for the invitation Phil! It was great to learn about the cool research being conducted there and I look forward to future collaborations 😀

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#PhD investigating the Ecology and Evolution of tree size - integrating field ecology, molecular biology, and biogeography to answer how and why giant trees evolved and what are the consequences of gigantism.
www.plantsci.cam.ac.uk/esquivel-mue...

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It was great to host @julenastigarraga.bsky.social at BC3 today. He gave a fantastic talk about improving predictions in ecology and the role of mechanistic models in predicting change in forests. Hoping we can keep the conversations going and collaborate in the near future!