Ethan Deyle
@nonlinearnature.bsky.social
At the intersection of math, ecology, and (marine) stewardship | Research Asst. Prof at BU Biology (EBE) and BUMP | Views are my own.
Busy several days with lots of different interconnections and differed news emerging. Realizing I'm still missing many of the "social network" connections I'd have used in the past to talk about these though. Many collaborators to shout out but I haven't found them yet!
August 28, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Busy several days with lots of different interconnections and differed news emerging. Realizing I'm still missing many of the "social network" connections I'd have used in the past to talk about these though. Many collaborators to shout out but I haven't found them yet!
Popping into bsky to find a few folks I met at the NSF CoPe Virtual Awardee Conference. Somehow I thought that I'd be more active on the new platform than the old platform, but it's been 4 months between activity.
July 2, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Popping into bsky to find a few folks I met at the NSF CoPe Virtual Awardee Conference. Somehow I thought that I'd be more active on the new platform than the old platform, but it's been 4 months between activity.
Just learned from my students taking @rmcelreath.bsky.social online "Rethinking" course about the brewsy history of the t-test.
www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-...
www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-...
How the Guinness Brewery Invented the Most Important Statistical Method in Science
The most common test of statistical significance originated from the Guinness brewery. Here’s how it works
www.scientificamerican.com
February 12, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Just learned from my students taking @rmcelreath.bsky.social online "Rethinking" course about the brewsy history of the t-test.
www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-...
www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-...
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🎉🚨 🧪 Huge congrats & thanks to @elliotgould.bsky.social Hannah Fraser Tim Parker @itchyshin.bsky.social for leading this important paper
Glad I played a small part as 1 of 300+ analysts & reviewers
With analyst buddy 🤗 Trishna Dutta, European Forest Institute, Bonn as team "DiggeRs"
Glad I played a small part as 1 of 300+ analysts & reviewers
With analyst buddy 🤗 Trishna Dutta, European Forest Institute, Bonn as team "DiggeRs"
The first many-analysts study in ecology is finally published! 🥳🙌
300+ coauthors and 5+ years, this was a massive effort by @elliotgould.bsky.social Hannah Fraser Tim Parker and co.
Open access 👉 bmcbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
300+ coauthors and 5+ years, this was a massive effort by @elliotgould.bsky.social Hannah Fraser Tim Parker and co.
Open access 👉 bmcbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
February 12, 2025 at 4:53 PM
🎉🚨 🧪 Huge congrats & thanks to @elliotgould.bsky.social Hannah Fraser Tim Parker @itchyshin.bsky.social for leading this important paper
Glad I played a small part as 1 of 300+ analysts & reviewers
With analyst buddy 🤗 Trishna Dutta, European Forest Institute, Bonn as team "DiggeRs"
Glad I played a small part as 1 of 300+ analysts & reviewers
With analyst buddy 🤗 Trishna Dutta, European Forest Institute, Bonn as team "DiggeRs"
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Alexander von Humboldt was an incredible naturalist who transformed how we see mountains. Now, he has inspired a collaboration between art & science that transforms how we visualize seamounts. So excited to share this beautiful piece with the world… on a newly explored seamount in US waters!
See the First Detailed Illustration of an Ancient Deep-Sea Mountain
A BU-led team of scientists analyzed a Pacific Ocean seamount that is teeming with biologically diverse corals and sea creatures
www.bu.edu
January 28, 2025 at 6:11 AM
Alexander von Humboldt was an incredible naturalist who transformed how we see mountains. Now, he has inspired a collaboration between art & science that transforms how we visualize seamounts. So excited to share this beautiful piece with the world… on a newly explored seamount in US waters!
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Defunding NOAA, which Republicans call a source of the "climate alarm industry," was proposed in Project 2025.
(NOAA monitors hurricanes, by the way.)
(NOAA monitors hurricanes, by the way.)
Closely study this document. It provides a list of programs w/ major appropriations but expired authorizations -- so possible targets for reprogramming.
On the list:
- Major DOE programs (incl. loans)
- NOAA
- Violence Against Women Act
- 21st Century Cures Act
www.cbo.gov/publication/...
On the list:
- Major DOE programs (incl. loans)
- NOAA
- Violence Against Women Act
- 21st Century Cures Act
www.cbo.gov/publication/...
Expired and Expiring Authorizations of Appropriations for Fiscal Year 2024
NotesNotesAll years referred to in this report are federal fiscal years, which run from October 1 to September 30 and are designated by the calendar year in which they end. Numbers in the text and tab...
www.cbo.gov
January 28, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Defunding NOAA, which Republicans call a source of the "climate alarm industry," was proposed in Project 2025.
(NOAA monitors hurricanes, by the way.)
(NOAA monitors hurricanes, by the way.)
"The quasi-religious faith that economic growth will just continue is baked into not only climate economics but also climate policymaking. So-called “mitigation pathways,” models that game out cost-effective policy options, also assume economic growth as a given."
Bankers and policymakers simply don't understand that we risk a 50% GDP loss in our children's lifetimes due to #ClimateChange, because current economic climate models are not even "roughly right," but "precisely wrong."
My latest for @newrepublic.com:
newrepublic.com/article/1905...
My latest for @newrepublic.com:
newrepublic.com/article/1905...
Climate Change Could Cut the Economy in Half. We’re Not Ready for It.
A new study suggests global warming’s effect on GDP has been vastly underestimated. Will it finally break through the religion of infinite growth?
newrepublic.com
January 25, 2025 at 2:28 PM
"The quasi-religious faith that economic growth will just continue is baked into not only climate economics but also climate policymaking. So-called “mitigation pathways,” models that game out cost-effective policy options, also assume economic growth as a given."
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#EnvironmentalJustice was NOT birthed in government or government programs. It sprang from people striving to make America more just for everyone. I'm hopeful and I have faith. But, "faith without work is dead." | Scientific American subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eene.... @BullardCenter
E&E News: Trump scraps Clinton EJ order, calling it ‘discrimination’
The president revoked a 1994 directive requiring agencies to protect minority or low-income areas from pollution and health hazards.
subscriber.politicopro.com
January 24, 2025 at 1:32 PM
#EnvironmentalJustice was NOT birthed in government or government programs. It sprang from people striving to make America more just for everyone. I'm hopeful and I have faith. But, "faith without work is dead." | Scientific American subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eene.... @BullardCenter
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Having a color-blind colleague is a good reminder that we need to be more careful when designing figures for scientific publication 🧪
My lab has found this page especially useful for selecting color palettes, used in combination with different symbols: thenode.biologists.com/data-visuali...
My lab has found this page especially useful for selecting color palettes, used in combination with different symbols: thenode.biologists.com/data-visuali...
Color blind friendly palettes for data visualizations with categories
A discussion of color blind friendly palettes for labeling unique catergories in data visualization.
thenode.biologists.com
December 8, 2024 at 9:48 PM
Having a color-blind colleague is a good reminder that we need to be more careful when designing figures for scientific publication 🧪
My lab has found this page especially useful for selecting color palettes, used in combination with different symbols: thenode.biologists.com/data-visuali...
My lab has found this page especially useful for selecting color palettes, used in combination with different symbols: thenode.biologists.com/data-visuali...
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Temporal changes in taxon abundances are positively correlated but poorly predicted at the global scale https://nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ecog.07195 #TimeSeries #GlobalData #Taxonomy
January 22, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Temporal changes in taxon abundances are positively correlated but poorly predicted at the global scale https://nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ecog.07195 #TimeSeries #GlobalData #Taxonomy
This is a heck of a logo, and while you're there check out the opportunities to do some active marine stewardship while you dive! www.lionfishinvitational.com
Lionfish Invitational Inc | lionfish invitational
The invasion of lionfish in the Gulf of Mexico is a situation of rapidly increasing magnitude. A federal collection permit will be issued for three-day lionfish research cruises onboard the recreation...
www.lionfishinvitational.com
January 23, 2025 at 3:15 PM
This is a heck of a logo, and while you're there check out the opportunities to do some active marine stewardship while you dive! www.lionfishinvitational.com
🦋🦫, 🌱 And it's up! I'm excited to share for two big-picture reasons. (1) It addresses an issue I've grappled with in my work with empirical dynamic modeling for a long time, and (2) it underpins a very interesting real world study coming later this year.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Extending empirical dynamic modeling to cross-sectional data beyond traditional time series.
The foundation of Empirical dynamic modeling (EDM) is in representing time-series data as the trajectory of a dynamic system in a multidimensional state space rather than as a collection of traces of ...
www.biorxiv.org
January 15, 2025 at 5:59 PM
🦋🦫, 🌱 And it's up! I'm excited to share for two big-picture reasons. (1) It addresses an issue I've grappled with in my work with empirical dynamic modeling for a long time, and (2) it underpins a very interesting real world study coming later this year.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Kicking off the New Year with a new pre-print! ... but looks like a link will have to wait the weekend for bioarxiv screening.
Stay tuned!
Stay tuned!
January 11, 2025 at 12:52 AM
Kicking off the New Year with a new pre-print! ... but looks like a link will have to wait the weekend for bioarxiv screening.
Stay tuned!
Stay tuned!
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What is a species "shadow distribution"?
This infographic helps communicate "shadow distributions" with stakeholders and environmental managers.
We used species distribution models to quantify this conservation concept for Swiss fishes.
🌐🌎 #macroecology
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
This infographic helps communicate "shadow distributions" with stakeholders and environmental managers.
We used species distribution models to quantify this conservation concept for Swiss fishes.
🌐🌎 #macroecology
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
December 3, 2024 at 12:59 PM
What is a species "shadow distribution"?
This infographic helps communicate "shadow distributions" with stakeholders and environmental managers.
We used species distribution models to quantify this conservation concept for Swiss fishes.
🌐🌎 #macroecology
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
This infographic helps communicate "shadow distributions" with stakeholders and environmental managers.
We used species distribution models to quantify this conservation concept for Swiss fishes.
🌐🌎 #macroecology
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
I now have a new favorite play ground. At Pier 25 in Manhatten, two enormous sturgeons have been constructed for the purpose of play and education. The kids demanded we return the next day.
December 1, 2024 at 11:41 PM
I now have a new favorite play ground. At Pier 25 in Manhatten, two enormous sturgeons have been constructed for the purpose of play and education. The kids demanded we return the next day.
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The #climatecrisis is not a cliff edge
It is a slow motion disaster
Every tonne of CO2 is worth fighting for
Because every tonne saved reduces human suffering
It is a slow motion disaster
Every tonne of CO2 is worth fighting for
Because every tonne saved reduces human suffering
November 6, 2024 at 9:54 AM
The #climatecrisis is not a cliff edge
It is a slow motion disaster
Every tonne of CO2 is worth fighting for
Because every tonne saved reduces human suffering
It is a slow motion disaster
Every tonne of CO2 is worth fighting for
Because every tonne saved reduces human suffering
In our toughest battles for marine stewardship, the resilience of our spirit may well become a critical component of the resilience of the natural systems where we work.
Lisa and Fragments of Hope are on the front line. Please read her World View peace below:
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Lisa and Fragments of Hope are on the front line. Please read her World View peace below:
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Is it time to give up trying to save coral reefs? My research says no
Scientists are increasingly arguing that coral-reef restoration is a lost cause — but done right, it can still benefit ecosystems and local communities.
www.nature.com
October 26, 2024 at 12:57 PM
In our toughest battles for marine stewardship, the resilience of our spirit may well become a critical component of the resilience of the natural systems where we work.
Lisa and Fragments of Hope are on the front line. Please read her World View peace below:
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Lisa and Fragments of Hope are on the front line. Please read her World View peace below:
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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🪸New study: Scripps Oceanography scientists have provided a first-of-its-kind glimpse into coral “bleaching” responses to stress. Using imaging tech, they pinpointed coral survival rates following multiple bleaching events off of Maui from 2014-2021. scripps.ucsd.edu/news/3d-mode...
July 31, 2024 at 6:59 PM
🪸New study: Scripps Oceanography scientists have provided a first-of-its-kind glimpse into coral “bleaching” responses to stress. Using imaging tech, they pinpointed coral survival rates following multiple bleaching events off of Maui from 2014-2021. scripps.ucsd.edu/news/3d-mode...
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Back by popular demand - the list of Ecology/Evolution/Marine Bio Labs recruiting grad students for Fall 2025!
PIs - Enter your position info here: forms.gle/adBbhEBqYUg5...
Prospective students (and PIs not recruiting) - share the composite list: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
Please share!
PIs - Enter your position info here: forms.gle/adBbhEBqYUg5...
Prospective students (and PIs not recruiting) - share the composite list: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
Please share!
Ecology/Evolution/Marine Biology labs recruiting for Fall 2025
Please complete this form if you are a PI recruiting graduate students for a Fall 2025 start. If you are NOT recruiting, feel free to share the response sheet with prospective students looking for lab...
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June 10, 2024 at 11:05 PM
Back by popular demand - the list of Ecology/Evolution/Marine Bio Labs recruiting grad students for Fall 2025!
PIs - Enter your position info here: forms.gle/adBbhEBqYUg5...
Prospective students (and PIs not recruiting) - share the composite list: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
Please share!
PIs - Enter your position info here: forms.gle/adBbhEBqYUg5...
Prospective students (and PIs not recruiting) - share the composite list: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
Please share!
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I’ve just ordered volumes 1 and 2 of David Krakauer’s new edited volumes of Foundational Papers in Complexity Science, published under the auspices of @sfiscience.bsky.social.
Volumes 3 and 4 to come this summer.
The tables of contents for both volumes look great!
🧪🦫🦋🐋🌱🗃️🧠 #HistSTM #PhilSci
Volumes 3 and 4 to come this summer.
The tables of contents for both volumes look great!
🧪🦫🦋🐋🌱🗃️🧠 #HistSTM #PhilSci
Foundational Papers in Complexity Science
www.foundationalpapersincomplexityscience.org
May 13, 2024 at 3:40 PM
I’ve just ordered volumes 1 and 2 of David Krakauer’s new edited volumes of Foundational Papers in Complexity Science, published under the auspices of @sfiscience.bsky.social.
Volumes 3 and 4 to come this summer.
The tables of contents for both volumes look great!
🧪🦫🦋🐋🌱🗃️🧠 #HistSTM #PhilSci
Volumes 3 and 4 to come this summer.
The tables of contents for both volumes look great!
🧪🦫🦋🐋🌱🗃️🧠 #HistSTM #PhilSci
Grant submitted! Means I finally had a minute to repair this fellow:
May 6, 2024 at 7:28 PM
Grant submitted! Means I finally had a minute to repair this fellow:
Exciting news to announce! Prof. Suchi Gopal and I have been named Faculty Research Fellows at the Pardee Center. We'll be leading a Coupled Human And Natural Systems investigation into the future blue economy of the Gulf of Maine as driven from the bottom-up as . www.bu.edu/pardee/commu...
March 19, 2024 at 1:51 PM
Exciting news to announce! Prof. Suchi Gopal and I have been named Faculty Research Fellows at the Pardee Center. We'll be leading a Coupled Human And Natural Systems investigation into the future blue economy of the Gulf of Maine as driven from the bottom-up as . www.bu.edu/pardee/commu...
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"It's not just that the global-average sea surface temperature has been record-breaking every single day… but it's the absurdly-large margins by which the records have been broken."
www.axios.com/2024/03/19/w...
www.axios.com/2024/03/19/w...
Global ocean temperatures have been record warm for a year
Climate scientists have not yet explained why ocean temperatures have skyrocketed.
www.axios.com
March 19, 2024 at 11:49 AM
"It's not just that the global-average sea surface temperature has been record-breaking every single day… but it's the absurdly-large margins by which the records have been broken."
www.axios.com/2024/03/19/w...
www.axios.com/2024/03/19/w...
+1 for society journals (again). Got a very nice note from an editor for a review I wrote in the fall. Maybe just me but it's nice feeling appreciated instead of exploited (:
December 23, 2023 at 3:42 PM
+1 for society journals (again). Got a very nice note from an editor for a review I wrote in the fall. Maybe just me but it's nice feeling appreciated instead of exploited (:
Last Friday I had the privilege of visiting @jebyrnes.bsky.social and the Biology Department at UMassB for seminar. Thank you for all the great discussion. In case whoever asked about it is on this humble little platform, the paper I mentioned in Q&A is:
journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...
journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...
December 5, 2023 at 2:35 PM
Last Friday I had the privilege of visiting @jebyrnes.bsky.social and the Biology Department at UMassB for seminar. Thank you for all the great discussion. In case whoever asked about it is on this humble little platform, the paper I mentioned in Q&A is:
journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...
journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...