Ben Kawam
@benkawam.bsky.social
Primatologist lost in a Markov chain | benkawam.github.io.
I’m especially proud of this article I wrote about Gaussian Processes for the Recast blog! 🥳
GPs are super interesting, but it’s not easy to wrap your head around them at first 🤔
This is a medium level (more intuition than math) introduction to GPs for time series.
getrecast.com/gaussian-pro...
GPs are super interesting, but it’s not easy to wrap your head around them at first 🤔
This is a medium level (more intuition than math) introduction to GPs for time series.
getrecast.com/gaussian-pro...
October 16, 2025 at 5:50 AM
Thanks to everyone involved: @danielredhead.bsky.social, @primbehavecol.bsky.social, and @rmcelreath.bsky.social!
September 30, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Thanks to everyone involved: @danielredhead.bsky.social, @primbehavecol.bsky.social, and @rmcelreath.bsky.social!
Thanks to everyone involved—@danielredhead.bsky.social, @jgyou.bsky.social, Dan Franks, Connor Philson, Marijtje van Duijn, @jordanhart96.bsky.social, MB McElreath, @rmcelreath.bsky.social, @eapower.bsky.social, Sebastian Sosa, Cody Ross, @steglich.bsky.social, Michael Weiss & @ljnbrent.bsky.social!
September 10, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Thanks to everyone involved—@danielredhead.bsky.social, @jgyou.bsky.social, Dan Franks, Connor Philson, Marijtje van Duijn, @jordanhart96.bsky.social, MB McElreath, @rmcelreath.bsky.social, @eapower.bsky.social, Sebastian Sosa, Cody Ross, @steglich.bsky.social, Michael Weiss & @ljnbrent.bsky.social!
If you’re interested in the use of causal diagrams for animal social network analysis (I promise it quickly starts to make sense!), we also have this paper out, bringing causal graphs together with Bayesian multilevel models.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
A causal framework for the drivers of animal social network structure
A major goal of behavioural ecology is to explain how phenotypic and ecological factors shape the networks of social relationships that animals form with one another. This inferential task is notoriou...
www.biorxiv.org
September 4, 2025 at 3:23 PM
If you’re interested in the use of causal diagrams for animal social network analysis (I promise it quickly starts to make sense!), we also have this paper out, bringing causal graphs together with Bayesian multilevel models.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...