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Roozbeh Valavi
@rvalavi.bsky.social
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Scientific software, species distribution models, ecological statistics, geospatial analysis, machine learning, DevOps, Rust, C/C++, Python, R

GitHub: https://github.com/rvalavi

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Blas M. Benito @blasbenito.com · 17d
{collinear} 3.0 is now on CRAN (yay! 🥳)

This #rstats package automates multicollinearity management to improve model robustness and interpretability.

You can learn more at blasbenito.github.io/collinear/, but here's a summary of the most exciting new features: 🧵 1/5
collinear: Automated Multicollinearity Management
Provides a comprehensive and automated workflow for managing multicollinearity in data frames with numeric and/or categorical variables. The package integrates five robust methods into a single functi...
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Jakub Nowosad @jakubnowosad.com · Nov 12
tmap or ggplot2 for maps? 🗺️

David O’Sullivan breaks down the trade-offs in a blog post.

URL: dosull.github.io/posts/2024-1...

#RStats #RSpatial #Maps #tmap #ggplot2
tmap vs. ggplot2 for mapping – Geospatial Stuff
For me at least the choice between ggplot2 and tmap is an ongoing question. Here are my latest thoughts on the subject (with code).
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Fernando T. Maestre @ftmaestre.bsky.social · Oct 8
In #drylands, plants don’t grow randomly — they self-organize into disordered hyperuniform patterns that help them use water wisely & endure extreme aridity. A beautiful hidden logic of nature, revealed in a new @pnas.org study doi.org/10.1073/pnas... including #Maestrelab alumni

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Roozbeh Valavi @rvalavi.bsky.social · Sep 25
Just installed mine yesterday! Unfortunately I don’t have any magic solutions. You shouldn’t need C++/Rtools, but for R itself just the installer from CRAN is pretty much what you need.

Reposted by Jens‐Christian Svenning, Ana S. L. Rodrigues, Ben Bond‐Lamberty , and 12 more

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Tommaso Jucker @tommaso-jucker.bsky.social · Sep 5
Only a pre-print for now, but after 4 years of hard work I couldn't resist sharing this!

The Global Canopy Atlas: analysis-ready maps of 3D structure for the world's woody ecosystems

📜: doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Huge team effort led by the brilliant Fabian Fischer!
Global distribution of forest landscapes covered by airborne LiDAR

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Roozbeh Valavi @rvalavi.bsky.social · Jun 11
When taking things for granted! I still so many of their videos in my wish list 🤦🏻‍♂️

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Brian J. Enquist @bjenquist.bsky.social · Jun 10
“observed patterns of island biodiversity … demonstrate that neutral models can make accurate predictions of higher-order diversity statistics. “ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1... 🧪🌐
Quantitatively Testing Predictions From Mechanistic Models: A Case Study for Island Biodiversity
A key test of an ecological model is whether it can quantitatively predict unseen aspects of the data not used in model fitting. Here, we test whether a model fitted only to island alpha diversity ca....
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Holly English @hollyenglish.bsky.social · Apr 4
I'll talk about this more next week but can't resist finishing my Friday with this update

Our paper is online now in early view! Sara Gomez, Luca Börger & I led a fantastic team of researchers in this review:
Understanding and predicting animal movements and distributions in the Anthropocene
Understanding and predicting animal movements and distributions in the Anthropocene
This review provides a framework to better understand and predict animal movements and distributions in human-modified environments. Bridging the gap between movement models and management/conservati...
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Macroecology lab @unipotsdam @zurelllab.bsky.social · Nov 25
Listen to AI podcast on Kass et al. „Achieving higher standards in SDM“ earthskysea.org/ecocast-podc... by @earthskysea.bsky.social

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Adam B. Smith @earthskysea.bsky.social · Nov 24
Scores of SDM packages for R... what should I do? Out now, lead by the indefatigable Jamie Kass, our paper in
@ecography.bsky.social on the SDM Software Universe! doi.org/10.1111/ecog... Alternatively, listen to the paper @ earthskysea.org/ecocast-podc...
Achieving higher standards in species distribution modeling by leveraging the diversity of available software
The increasing online availability of biodiversity data and advances in ecological modeling have led to a proliferation of open-source modeling tools. In particular, R packages for species distributi...
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