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Melina Leite
@melinaleite.bsky.social
Ecologist & Data Scientist
Postdoc Theoretical Ecology Lab - Uni Regensburg
Brazil - Germany
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Pra você que usa GLM/GLMMs, fique atento a problemas de dispersão!! E leia o preprint pra saber como testá-los! 🤓 /

For you that uses GLM/GLMMs, attention on dispersion problems! Read the preprint to know how to test for ir 🤓
Dispersion tests in generalised linear mixed-effects models - a methods comparison and practical guide
doi.org/10.32942/X23...
Pra você que usa GLM/GLMMs, fique atento a problemas de dispersão!! E leia o preprint pra saber como testá-los! 🤓 /

For you that uses GLM/GLMMs, attention on dispersion problems! Read the preprint to know how to test for ir 🤓
Dispersion tests in generalised linear mixed-effects models - a methods comparison and practical guide
doi.org/10.32942/X23...
November 15, 2025 at 5:58 AM
Reposted by Melina Leite
We are hiring: 4 PhD Positions in Ecology / Data Science and one Ecological Data Scientist. For more information, see www.uni-regensburg.de/universitaet...
We are hiring: 4 PhD Positions in Ecology / Data Science and one Ecological Data Scientist
We are looking for 4 PhD Positions and one Scientific Programmer / Ecological Data Scientist to join the AG Hartig (Theoretical Ecology)
www.uni-regensburg.de
November 13, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Reposted by Melina Leite
#PhD position!

I’m looking for a PhD Student (1+3 years) to model insect populations using statistical models + deep learning at #TheoreticalEcology, Regensburg (Germany).

Join our team - please RT!

Details: karriere.uni-regensburg.de/tg7w9

#Insects #Ecology #DeepLearning #Ecology #Monitoring
November 11, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Reposted by Melina Leite
Evento gratuito e aberto ao público lusófono para se familiarizar com a @sortee.bsky.social (o que é, qual a nossa missão e o que fazemos), e como podemos ajudar a ampliar a conversa sobre Ciência Aberta na sua comunidade!

📅 07/10 às 15:00
tinyurl.com/sortee-socia...
September 18, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Is the audience gender-blind? Smaller attendance in female talks highlights an imbalanced visibility in academia

www.nature.com/articles/s44...
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Is the audience gender-blind? Smaller attendance in female talks highlights an imbalanced visibility in academia - npj Biodiversity
npj Biodiversity - Is the audience gender-blind? Smaller attendance in female talks highlights an imbalanced visibility in academia
www.nature.com
August 5, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Recuperando um texto meu sobre modelos mistos em ecologia e partição de variâncias (em português):
"Modelando a variabilidade: o maravilhoso mundo dos modelos mistos"
melinaleiteblog.netlify.app/2025/06/19/m...
Modelando a variabilidade: o maravilhoso mundo dos modelos mistos* - A Hugo website
melinaleiteblog.netlify.app
June 19, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Adding 🌐 to the global ecology feed
Our paper was nicely recommended in @peercommunityin.bsky.social Ecology #PCI-Ecology!🎉
"Is the audience gender-blind? Smaller attendance in female talks highlights imbalanced visibility in academia"
ecology.peercommunityin.org/articles/rec...
May 21, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Our paper was nicely recommended in @peercommunityin.bsky.social Ecology #PCI-Ecology!🎉
"Is the audience gender-blind? Smaller attendance in female talks highlights imbalanced visibility in academia"
ecology.peercommunityin.org/articles/rec...
May 20, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Reposted by Melina Leite
To all PhD-, Master- and Bachelor students in ecological modeling:

Consider applying for this year's Young Modellers in Ecology (#YoMos) workshop in Ilmenau, Germany and exchange with enthusiastic young modellers in ecology!

Would be great to see you there!
February 20, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Finalmente posso divulgar o vídeo da minha tese (defendida em 2022) que ganhou o prêmio Teses Destaque USP 2023!! demorou mas chegou 😄https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWsvBHIzrOM
Prêmio Teses USP 2023 - Incorporando a variabilidade: o uso de modelos de efeitos mistos em ecologia
YouTube video by Melina de Souza Leite
www.youtube.com
February 27, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Super cool paper on Preprints in EcoEvo!
Happy to be part of the EcoEvoRxiv committee!
January 30, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Reposted by Melina Leite
A interesting paper on preprints in Ecology and Evolution! 📄 "The Promise of Community-Driven Preprints in Ecology and Evolution" - If you're interested in the impact of preprints in our field, it's definitely worth checking out: 🔗 royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
The promise of community-driven preprints in ecology and evolution | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
Publishing preprints is quickly becoming commonplace in ecology and evolutionary biology. Preprints can facilitate the rapid sharing of scientific knowledge establishing precedence and enabling feedback from the research community before peer review. Yet, ...
royalsocietypublishing.org
January 30, 2025 at 1:55 PM
First post (in Port):
Tutorial em português sobre diagnóstico de GLMs usando pacote DHARMa: 🤓
rpubs.com/melinataritu...
dúvidas sobre o DHARMa? só falar! 🙃
January 27, 2025 at 4:44 PM