Bert van der Veen
@vdveenb.bsky.social
Postdoc in Statistical Ecology @unibayreuth.bsky.social | (model-based) Ordination, mixed-models and some ecology #GLLVM | https://github.com/BertvanderVeen
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Dear colleagues, we are searching for candidates to fill a Full W3 Professorship for Plant #Ecology at the University of Regensburg, Germany. For details, see www.nature.com/naturecareer... 🌐 🌎 #AcademicJobs
Professorship W3 for Plant Ecology - Regensburg (Stadt), Bayern (DE) job with Universität Regensburg | 12851147
UNIVERSITÄT REGENSBURG The Faculty of Biology and Pre-Clinical Medicine invites applications for a Full Professorship W3 for Plant Ecology Th...
www.nature.com
January 29, 2026 at 3:00 PM
Dear colleagues, we are searching for candidates to fill a Full W3 Professorship for Plant #Ecology at the University of Regensburg, Germany. For details, see www.nature.com/naturecareer... 🌐 🌎 #AcademicJobs
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Check out this advertised professorship in Bern with my colleagues at the Institute of Plant Sciences! Please share widely to reach candidates from across the world and beyond our local academic bubbles. 🫧
#QueerInSTEM #DisabledInSTEM #BlackInSTEM #WomenInSTEM #CarersInSTEM #AcademicSky #HigherED
#QueerInSTEM #DisabledInSTEM #BlackInSTEM #WomenInSTEM #CarersInSTEM #AcademicSky #HigherED
🌿🌱 We’re hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor (potentially open rank) at the Institute of Plant Sciences
@unibe.ch in Plant Population Ecology 🌻🌳
Be our colleague and join us in beautiful Bern, Switzerland
Apply by Jan 23 2026 👉 ohws.prospective.ch/public/v1/jo...
@unibe.ch in Plant Population Ecology 🌻🌳
Be our colleague and join us in beautiful Bern, Switzerland
Apply by Jan 23 2026 👉 ohws.prospective.ch/public/v1/jo...
November 5, 2025 at 10:18 AM
Check out this advertised professorship in Bern with my colleagues at the Institute of Plant Sciences! Please share widely to reach candidates from across the world and beyond our local academic bubbles. 🫧
#QueerInSTEM #DisabledInSTEM #BlackInSTEM #WomenInSTEM #CarersInSTEM #AcademicSky #HigherED
#QueerInSTEM #DisabledInSTEM #BlackInSTEM #WomenInSTEM #CarersInSTEM #AcademicSky #HigherED
This is actually great for trait-based analyses... @bobohara.bsky.social
#gllvm can now handle multiple response types at the same time (different data types for different species; presence-absence and counts, or counts and overdispersed counts, counts and biomass, ..., for example), thanks to a massive coding exercise by Jenni Niku!
January 22, 2026 at 12:05 PM
This is actually great for trait-based analyses... @bobohara.bsky.social
#gllvm can now handle multiple response types at the same time (different data types for different species; presence-absence and counts, or counts and overdispersed counts, counts and biomass, ..., for example), thanks to a massive coding exercise by Jenni Niku!
January 22, 2026 at 11:37 AM
#gllvm can now handle multiple response types at the same time (different data types for different species; presence-absence and counts, or counts and overdispersed counts, counts and biomass, ..., for example), thanks to a massive coding exercise by Jenni Niku!
I hope our session proposal doesn't feel lonely @maximilianpichler.bsky.social.
Deadline extended! 🎉
You now have until 31 Jan to submit a Thematic Session proposal for NSO-GfÖ 2026 (14–17 Sept, Odense).
Got an ecological topic you think deserves the spotlight? We want to hear it. 💡🌿
Guidelines: vist.ly/4nbus
Submit: vist.ly/4nbuv
You now have until 31 Jan to submit a Thematic Session proposal for NSO-GfÖ 2026 (14–17 Sept, Odense).
Got an ecological topic you think deserves the spotlight? We want to hear it. 💡🌿
Guidelines: vist.ly/4nbus
Submit: vist.ly/4nbuv
January 21, 2026 at 3:00 PM
I hope our session proposal doesn't feel lonely @maximilianpichler.bsky.social.
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COW TOOLS COW TOOLS COW TOOLS
Back-scratching bovine leads scientists to reassess intelligence of cows
Brown Swiss in Austria has been discovered using tools in multiple ways – something only ever seen in humans and chimpanzees
www.theguardian.com
January 19, 2026 at 4:06 PM
COW TOOLS COW TOOLS COW TOOLS
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Advance your data analysis skills with our online Generalised Linear Models in R course (23–27 Feb) with @vdveenb.bsky.social
Learn to fit, interpret, and visualise GLMs for diverse data types through practical sessions.
www.physalia-courses.org/courses-work...
#GLMs #Rstats #Statistics
Learn to fit, interpret, and visualise GLMs for diverse data types through practical sessions.
www.physalia-courses.org/courses-work...
#GLMs #Rstats #Statistics
January 14, 2026 at 1:24 PM
Advance your data analysis skills with our online Generalised Linear Models in R course (23–27 Feb) with @vdveenb.bsky.social
Learn to fit, interpret, and visualise GLMs for diverse data types through practical sessions.
www.physalia-courses.org/courses-work...
#GLMs #Rstats #Statistics
Learn to fit, interpret, and visualise GLMs for diverse data types through practical sessions.
www.physalia-courses.org/courses-work...
#GLMs #Rstats #Statistics
The website of the new master in Ecological Forecasting @unibayreuth.bsky.social is live 🤩.
www.uni-bayreuth.de/en/master/ec...
www.uni-bayreuth.de/en/master/ec...
Ecological Forecasting, Master of Science (M.Sc.)
Ob Bachelor-, Master-, Lehramt- oder Jura-Studium: An der Uni Bayreuth findest du sicher den passenden Studiengang.
www.uni-bayreuth.de
January 12, 2026 at 5:52 PM
The website of the new master in Ecological Forecasting @unibayreuth.bsky.social is live 🤩.
www.uni-bayreuth.de/en/master/ec...
www.uni-bayreuth.de/en/master/ec...
There you have it folks, MCMC is hell.
Yep. I do sometimes go to MCMC but mainly because I find it easier to diagnose the problems. Mainly because I’ve been through that hell enough times
December 28, 2025 at 8:25 PM
There you have it folks, MCMC is hell.
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On the first day of Christmas (in about 2014), @duckswabber.bsky.social gave to me - a partridge in a pear tree.
Happy Christmas everyone!
Happy Christmas everyone!
December 25, 2025 at 8:03 AM
On the first day of Christmas (in about 2014), @duckswabber.bsky.social gave to me - a partridge in a pear tree.
Happy Christmas everyone!
Happy Christmas everyone!
Unfortunately, I think I've already reached my conference quotum for next year. Someone should really go and convince the vegetation crowd that model-based ordination is the One True Way #GLLVM
The website for the 68th Annual Symposium of the International Association for Vegetation Science has been launched:
2026gijon.iavs-meetings.org
Many thanks to Borja Jiménez-Alfaro and his colleagues for this invitation.
See you in June in Gijón, on the northern coast of Spain.
2026gijon.iavs-meetings.org
Many thanks to Borja Jiménez-Alfaro and his colleagues for this invitation.
See you in June in Gijón, on the northern coast of Spain.
December 20, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Unfortunately, I think I've already reached my conference quotum for next year. Someone should really go and convince the vegetation crowd that model-based ordination is the One True Way #GLLVM
#gllvm is constantly evolving and expanding, so Pekka Korhonen wrote a paper demonstrating new features in the package since Niku et al. 2019.
peerj.com/articles/203...
We've already been working on even more features, so I suppose eventually a 3.0 paper will have to follow... 🙃
peerj.com/articles/203...
We've already been working on even more features, so I suppose eventually a 3.0 paper will have to follow... 🙃
gllvm 2.0: fast fitting of advanced ordination methods and joint species distribution models
Background Over the past decade, joint species distribution models (JSDMs) and model-based ordination have emerged as powerful tools for the analysis of community ecology data. Generalized linear late...
peerj.com
December 12, 2025 at 8:36 AM
#gllvm is constantly evolving and expanding, so Pekka Korhonen wrote a paper demonstrating new features in the package since Niku et al. 2019.
peerj.com/articles/203...
We've already been working on even more features, so I suppose eventually a 3.0 paper will have to follow... 🙃
peerj.com/articles/203...
We've already been working on even more features, so I suppose eventually a 3.0 paper will have to follow... 🙃
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Registration is open for our GLMs in R course with @vdveenb.bsky.social in February (23-27).
Join us to master Generalised Linear Models in R as a unified, modern statistical framework.
For researchers ready to elevate their #modelling skills.
www.physalia-courses.org/courses-work...
#Rstats #GLM
Join us to master Generalised Linear Models in R as a unified, modern statistical framework.
For researchers ready to elevate their #modelling skills.
www.physalia-courses.org/courses-work...
#Rstats #GLM
December 8, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Registration is open for our GLMs in R course with @vdveenb.bsky.social in February (23-27).
Join us to master Generalised Linear Models in R as a unified, modern statistical framework.
For researchers ready to elevate their #modelling skills.
www.physalia-courses.org/courses-work...
#Rstats #GLM
Join us to master Generalised Linear Models in R as a unified, modern statistical framework.
For researchers ready to elevate their #modelling skills.
www.physalia-courses.org/courses-work...
#Rstats #GLM
If you we only knew someone with a workflow manuscript.. @bobohara.bsky.social
We have a new article type!! 🚨 🌍 🧪
Workflow articles will describe the design testing, and analysis of the performance of complex workflows.
Find our more about workflow articles in our new blog post and in our authors guidelines.
Blog post 👉 buff.ly/R7vcuqT
Author guidelines 👉 buff.ly/VUfAt3x
Workflow articles will describe the design testing, and analysis of the performance of complex workflows.
Find our more about workflow articles in our new blog post and in our authors guidelines.
Blog post 👉 buff.ly/R7vcuqT
Author guidelines 👉 buff.ly/VUfAt3x
December 2, 2025 at 9:31 PM
If you we only knew someone with a workflow manuscript.. @bobohara.bsky.social
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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
We are hiring: 4 PhD Positions in Ecology / Data Science and one Ecological Data Scientist. For more information, see www.uni-regensburg.de/universitaet...
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Congratulations to my student, Maggie Ma, for publishing her first #rstats package {ggincerta} on CRAN 🥳
Spatial uncertainty visualisation (bivariate, pixel, exceedance, glyph), like {Vizumap}, but fully integrated with ggplot2 -- a much simpler API with all the advantages of the ggplot2 system.
Spatial uncertainty visualisation (bivariate, pixel, exceedance, glyph), like {Vizumap}, but fully integrated with ggplot2 -- a much simpler API with all the advantages of the ggplot2 system.
November 16, 2025 at 4:51 AM
Congratulations to my student, Maggie Ma, for publishing her first #rstats package {ggincerta} on CRAN 🥳
Spatial uncertainty visualisation (bivariate, pixel, exceedance, glyph), like {Vizumap}, but fully integrated with ggplot2 -- a much simpler API with all the advantages of the ggplot2 system.
Spatial uncertainty visualisation (bivariate, pixel, exceedance, glyph), like {Vizumap}, but fully integrated with ggplot2 -- a much simpler API with all the advantages of the ggplot2 system.
Oh look @bobohara.bsky.social a statistical analysis of species richness. If only someone had written an article about the issues with doing that...
In our new article led by Gabriele Midolo, published in Ecology Letters, we show that plant species richness in European plant communities generally decreased between the 1960s and 1980s. However, since the 1990s, this trend seems to have stopped or even reversed.
dx.doi.org/10.1111/ele....
dx.doi.org/10.1111/ele....
November 3, 2025 at 8:09 AM
Oh look @bobohara.bsky.social a statistical analysis of species richness. If only someone had written an article about the issues with doing that...
Last time at our cabin in Oppdal for a while, before the big move to Bayreuth. Hopefully we will be back next winter at least, then with snow 😀
October 31, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Last time at our cabin in Oppdal for a while, before the big move to Bayreuth. Hopefully we will be back next winter at least, then with snow 😀
Verkiezingsavond met noorderlicht. Voorbode voor een goed resultaat? 😀
October 29, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Verkiezingsavond met noorderlicht. Voorbode voor een goed resultaat? 😀
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Ron Ronald Togunov, Simen Knutsen Furset, Martin Emil Pettersen, Robert Brian O'Hara
Unbiased likelihood estimation of the Langevin diffusion for animal movement modelling
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.24539
Unbiased likelihood estimation of the Langevin diffusion for animal movement modelling
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.24539
October 29, 2025 at 5:06 AM
Ron Ronald Togunov, Simen Knutsen Furset, Martin Emil Pettersen, Robert Brian O'Hara
Unbiased likelihood estimation of the Langevin diffusion for animal movement modelling
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.24539
Unbiased likelihood estimation of the Langevin diffusion for animal movement modelling
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.24539
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Second PhD alert:
Advertising a second PhD alongside Amanda Lenzi (lead) and Finn Lindgren on: 'Forecasting nature’s calendar: Joint probabilistic models of phenology in space and time'. Also competition funded through the E5 DTP at Uni of Edinburgh.
e5-dtp.ed.ac.uk/project?item...
Advertising a second PhD alongside Amanda Lenzi (lead) and Finn Lindgren on: 'Forecasting nature’s calendar: Joint probabilistic models of phenology in space and time'. Also competition funded through the E5 DTP at Uni of Edinburgh.
e5-dtp.ed.ac.uk/project?item...
Project | E5 Doctoral Training Partnership | E5 Doctoral Training Partnership
The project advertisement
e5-dtp.ed.ac.uk
October 22, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Second PhD alert:
Advertising a second PhD alongside Amanda Lenzi (lead) and Finn Lindgren on: 'Forecasting nature’s calendar: Joint probabilistic models of phenology in space and time'. Also competition funded through the E5 DTP at Uni of Edinburgh.
e5-dtp.ed.ac.uk/project?item...
Advertising a second PhD alongside Amanda Lenzi (lead) and Finn Lindgren on: 'Forecasting nature’s calendar: Joint probabilistic models of phenology in space and time'. Also competition funded through the E5 DTP at Uni of Edinburgh.
e5-dtp.ed.ac.uk/project?item...
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PhD advert alert!
Come work with me at Edinburgh.
I'm advertising a PhD on: "Predicting responses of birds to climate change", competition funded through the E5 DTP. Would suit those with an interest in predicting responses to climate change, birds, or both.
e5-dtp.ed.ac.uk/project?item...
Come work with me at Edinburgh.
I'm advertising a PhD on: "Predicting responses of birds to climate change", competition funded through the E5 DTP. Would suit those with an interest in predicting responses to climate change, birds, or both.
e5-dtp.ed.ac.uk/project?item...
October 22, 2025 at 12:58 PM
PhD advert alert!
Come work with me at Edinburgh.
I'm advertising a PhD on: "Predicting responses of birds to climate change", competition funded through the E5 DTP. Would suit those with an interest in predicting responses to climate change, birds, or both.
e5-dtp.ed.ac.uk/project?item...
Come work with me at Edinburgh.
I'm advertising a PhD on: "Predicting responses of birds to climate change", competition funded through the E5 DTP. Would suit those with an interest in predicting responses to climate change, birds, or both.
e5-dtp.ed.ac.uk/project?item...
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The next International Statistical Ecology Conference (ISEC) will take place on January 8-15, 2027, in Mérida, México.
Calls for workshop and roundtable proposals now open, deadline Nov 15, 2025 (anywhere on earth).
Visit statisticalecology.org for more information. 🧪
Please share widely 📈🦋🐾
Calls for workshop and roundtable proposals now open, deadline Nov 15, 2025 (anywhere on earth).
Visit statisticalecology.org for more information. 🧪
Please share widely 📈🦋🐾
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Call for Workshop Submissions, Deadline Nov 15th -- Submit Workshop Proposal Call for Roundtable Submissions, Deadline Nov 15th -- Submit Roundtable Proposal The International Statistical Ecology Conf...
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October 13, 2025 at 5:52 PM
The next International Statistical Ecology Conference (ISEC) will take place on January 8-15, 2027, in Mérida, México.
Calls for workshop and roundtable proposals now open, deadline Nov 15, 2025 (anywhere on earth).
Visit statisticalecology.org for more information. 🧪
Please share widely 📈🦋🐾
Calls for workshop and roundtable proposals now open, deadline Nov 15, 2025 (anywhere on earth).
Visit statisticalecology.org for more information. 🧪
Please share widely 📈🦋🐾