Chris Brimacombe
@chrisbrimacombe.bsky.social
EEB PhD. Studying the application of networks to ecology at the University of Guelph. Probably drinking beer or thinking about cats.
chrisb590.github.io
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Publication‐driven consistency in food web structures: Implications for comparative ecology
Large collections of freely available food webs are commonly reused by researchers to infer how biological or environmental factors influence the structure of ecological communities. Although reusing...
esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
New open-access paper out: Food web structures are shaped more by the researchers who build them than by biological or environmental forces we could detect. Read it here: esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Reposted by Chris Brimacombe
New paper from the lab: how do we make probabilistic species interaction networks more useful and robust? @francisbanville.bsky.social has some thoughts, and went through the literature to map mathematical definitions to ecological concepts.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Deciphering Probabilistic Species Interaction Networks
We review how probabilistic species interactions are defined at different spatial scales. These definitions are based on the distinction between the realisation of an interaction at a specific time a....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
June 26, 2025 at 5:26 PM
New paper from the lab: how do we make probabilistic species interaction networks more useful and robust? @francisbanville.bsky.social has some thoughts, and went through the literature to map mathematical definitions to ecological concepts.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Reposted by Chris Brimacombe
🎉 We have reason to celebrate! Our own Dr. @chrisbrimacombe.bsky.social, Postdoctoral Fellow here at the CEM, has received an NSERC grant to further support his research on ecological networks like food webs 🕸️ Read alllllll about it in our latest blog post: www.ecosystemscience.ca/news/celebra...
Celebrating an NSERC Grant to Support Food Web Research — Centre for Ecosystem Management
We’re pleased to share that Dr. Chris Brimacombe, a newly-arrived Postdoctoral Fellow here at the Centre for Ecosystem Management (CEM), has been awarded a Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Co...
www.ecosystemscience.ca
February 19, 2025 at 6:18 PM
🎉 We have reason to celebrate! Our own Dr. @chrisbrimacombe.bsky.social, Postdoctoral Fellow here at the CEM, has received an NSERC grant to further support his research on ecological networks like food webs 🕸️ Read alllllll about it in our latest blog post: www.ecosystemscience.ca/news/celebra...
Reposted by Chris Brimacombe
Which publication a food web was sourced from was a better predictor of its structure than the ecosystem type (eg, aquatic 🐟 vs terrestrial 🪲) 🫠
Researchers’ decisions (and our forgetfulness about their importance) can have long-lasting downstream effects 😬
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Researchers’ decisions (and our forgetfulness about their importance) can have long-lasting downstream effects 😬
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this blew my mind: food webs constructed from open-source datasets are driven, in part, by their original publication—in other words, published food webs reflect not just the ecological community but also hidden researcher decisions.
doi.org/10.1002/ecy....
doi.org/10.1002/ecy....
Publication‐driven consistency in food web structures: Implications for comparative ecology
Large collections of freely available food webs are commonly reused by researchers to infer how biological or environmental factors influence the structure of ecological communities. Although reusing...
doi.org
December 14, 2024 at 3:04 AM
Which publication a food web was sourced from was a better predictor of its structure than the ecosystem type (eg, aquatic 🐟 vs terrestrial 🪲) 🫠
Researchers’ decisions (and our forgetfulness about their importance) can have long-lasting downstream effects 😬
🧪🌏
Researchers’ decisions (and our forgetfulness about their importance) can have long-lasting downstream effects 😬
🧪🌏
Reposted by Chris Brimacombe
this blew my mind: food webs constructed from open-source datasets are driven, in part, by their original publication—in other words, published food webs reflect not just the ecological community but also hidden researcher decisions.
doi.org/10.1002/ecy....
doi.org/10.1002/ecy....
Publication‐driven consistency in food web structures: Implications for comparative ecology
Large collections of freely available food webs are commonly reused by researchers to infer how biological or environmental factors influence the structure of ecological communities. Although reusing...
doi.org
December 14, 2024 at 1:04 AM
this blew my mind: food webs constructed from open-source datasets are driven, in part, by their original publication—in other words, published food webs reflect not just the ecological community but also hidden researcher decisions.
doi.org/10.1002/ecy....
doi.org/10.1002/ecy....
New open-access paper out: Food web structures are shaped more by the researchers who build them than by biological or environmental forces we could detect. Read it here: esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Publication‐driven consistency in food web structures: Implications for comparative ecology
Large collections of freely available food webs are commonly reused by researchers to infer how biological or environmental factors influence the structure of ecological communities. Although reusing...
esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 22, 2024 at 3:21 PM
New open-access paper out: Food web structures are shaped more by the researchers who build them than by biological or environmental forces we could detect. Read it here: esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Reposted by Chris Brimacombe
🧪 Very cool results on food webs by lab members:
[1] Banville et al.: what does it mean to use probabilities to represent interactions?
[2] @gabdans.bsky.social et al.: local reconstruction of regional food webs
[1] ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...
[2] royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
[1] Banville et al.: what does it mean to use probabilities to represent interactions?
[2] @gabdans.bsky.social et al.: local reconstruction of regional food webs
[1] ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...
[2] royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
July 24, 2024 at 1:58 PM
🧪 Very cool results on food webs by lab members:
[1] Banville et al.: what does it mean to use probabilities to represent interactions?
[2] @gabdans.bsky.social et al.: local reconstruction of regional food webs
[1] ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...
[2] royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
[1] Banville et al.: what does it mean to use probabilities to represent interactions?
[2] @gabdans.bsky.social et al.: local reconstruction of regional food webs
[1] ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...
[2] royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
Reposted by Chris Brimacombe
“We were, like, Holy shit, there are two different people independently faking data on the same paper.”
Excellent reporting from the New Yorker! 🧪
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Excellent reporting from the New Yorker! 🧪
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
They Studied Dishonesty. Was Their Work a Lie?
Dan Ariely and Francesca Gino became famous for their research into why we bend the truth. Now they’ve both been accused of fabricating data.
www.newyorker.com
October 1, 2023 at 5:11 AM
“We were, like, Holy shit, there are two different people independently faking data on the same paper.”
Excellent reporting from the New Yorker! 🧪
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Excellent reporting from the New Yorker! 🧪
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Reposted by Chris Brimacombe
The strain on scientific publishing 📄:
We've got issues. Scientists overwhelmed, editors overworked, constant special issue invites, mass article retractions, journal delistings… JUST WHAT IS GOING ON!?
See: arxiv.org/abs/2309.15884
A 🧵1/n
#AcademicChatter #PublishOrPerish #PhDAdvice #PhDChat
We've got issues. Scientists overwhelmed, editors overworked, constant special issue invites, mass article retractions, journal delistings… JUST WHAT IS GOING ON!?
See: arxiv.org/abs/2309.15884
A 🧵1/n
#AcademicChatter #PublishOrPerish #PhDAdvice #PhDChat
September 29, 2023 at 7:50 AM
The strain on scientific publishing 📄:
We've got issues. Scientists overwhelmed, editors overworked, constant special issue invites, mass article retractions, journal delistings… JUST WHAT IS GOING ON!?
See: arxiv.org/abs/2309.15884
A 🧵1/n
#AcademicChatter #PublishOrPerish #PhDAdvice #PhDChat
We've got issues. Scientists overwhelmed, editors overworked, constant special issue invites, mass article retractions, journal delistings… JUST WHAT IS GOING ON!?
See: arxiv.org/abs/2309.15884
A 🧵1/n
#AcademicChatter #PublishOrPerish #PhDAdvice #PhDChat