Nich Martin
@ecological-nich.bsky.social
Ecologist, Entomologist, Evolutionary and Mathematical Biologist. Stats nerd.
Florida Museum of Natural History
Opinions are my own
Florida Museum of Natural History
Opinions are my own
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My paper was proved wrong. After a sleepless night, here’s what I did next:
- Don’t take it (too) personally
- All in for open and reproducible science
- Science works in increments
- Science is a human endeavour
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/d41...
- Don’t take it (too) personally
- All in for open and reproducible science
- Science works in increments
- Science is a human endeavour
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/d41...
February 18, 2025 at 2:50 PM
My paper was proved wrong. After a sleepless night, here’s what I did next:
- Don’t take it (too) personally
- All in for open and reproducible science
- Science works in increments
- Science is a human endeavour
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/d41...
- Don’t take it (too) personally
- All in for open and reproducible science
- Science works in increments
- Science is a human endeavour
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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5calls.org
5 calls makes it very easy to call your representative on whatever issue you have an opinion about. They even have starter scripts that you can use. Remember, one call=one issue. Don't be complacent, this DOES MATTER.
5 calls makes it very easy to call your representative on whatever issue you have an opinion about. They even have starter scripts that you can use. Remember, one call=one issue. Don't be complacent, this DOES MATTER.
5 Calls
Spend 5 minutes. Make 5 calls. Make your voice heard.
5calls.org
February 22, 2025 at 4:12 PM
5calls.org
5 calls makes it very easy to call your representative on whatever issue you have an opinion about. They even have starter scripts that you can use. Remember, one call=one issue. Don't be complacent, this DOES MATTER.
5 calls makes it very easy to call your representative on whatever issue you have an opinion about. They even have starter scripts that you can use. Remember, one call=one issue. Don't be complacent, this DOES MATTER.
Kid 1 heard that if you feed crows they will eventually start bringing you gifts. She’s been doing that for a bit, and it finally happened.
February 8, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Kid 1 heard that if you feed crows they will eventually start bringing you gifts. She’s been doing that for a bit, and it finally happened.
Getting closer to submitting the first draft of my dissertation. These books were invaluable to the process.
I’d love to see what books were most important to your professional development.
I’d love to see what books were most important to your professional development.
February 2, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Getting closer to submitting the first draft of my dissertation. These books were invaluable to the process.
I’d love to see what books were most important to your professional development.
I’d love to see what books were most important to your professional development.
A hill I will probably die on, model selection should only be used if the goal is prediction. I will admit though, I do use Baye's Factor when I have two mechanistically different models that use the same parameters.
I like this paper too, but (horn-tooting alert) alternatively, consider not doing model selection at all? doi.org/10.3390/e260... (FWIW I do feel a bit bad about publishing in an MDPI special issue [!!] - long story, I agreed to do it and then felt uncomfortable backing out - wouldn't do it again)
Multimodel Approaches Are Not the Best Way to Understand Multifactorial Systems
Information-theoretic (IT) and multi-model averaging (MMA) statistical approaches are widely used but suboptimal tools for pursuing a multifactorial approach (also known as the method of multiple work...
doi.org
January 29, 2025 at 8:47 PM
A hill I will probably die on, model selection should only be used if the goal is prediction. I will admit though, I do use Baye's Factor when I have two mechanistically different models that use the same parameters.
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1/7 Sexual antagonism arises when males and females face different selection pressures for a trait influenced by shared genes. This is thought to drive balancing selection and maintain genetic polymorphism. We challenge this view in our recent paper :
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/evlett/qrae059
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/evlett/qrae059
The maintenance of genetic polymorphism underlying sexually antagonistic traits
Abstract. Selection often favors different trait values in males and females, leading to genetic conflicts between the sexes when traits have a shared gene
doi.org
January 24, 2025 at 2:52 PM
1/7 Sexual antagonism arises when males and females face different selection pressures for a trait influenced by shared genes. This is thought to drive balancing selection and maintain genetic polymorphism. We challenge this view in our recent paper :
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/evlett/qrae059
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/evlett/qrae059
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Very excited this paper is now out in Ecology Letters onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.... #causalsky
January 20, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Very excited this paper is now out in Ecology Letters onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.... #causalsky
At the risk of losing all credibility as a scientist, I’m extremely sympathetic to epistemological anarchism.
January 14, 2025 at 12:04 AM
At the risk of losing all credibility as a scientist, I’m extremely sympathetic to epistemological anarchism.
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New research in the @animalecology.bsky.social explores how animals use a combination of colour patterns, like eyespots that resemble the eyes of larger animals, and specific behaviours to protect themselves from predators.
January 9, 2025 at 1:30 PM
New research in the @animalecology.bsky.social explores how animals use a combination of colour patterns, like eyespots that resemble the eyes of larger animals, and specific behaviours to protect themselves from predators.
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Multiple Long‐Term, Landscape‐Scale Data Sets Reveal Intraspecific Spatial Variation in Temporal Trends for Bird Species | onlinelibrary.wiley.... | Ecology Letters | #ornithology 🪶
January 8, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Multiple Long‐Term, Landscape‐Scale Data Sets Reveal Intraspecific Spatial Variation in Temporal Trends for Bird Species | onlinelibrary.wiley.... | Ecology Letters | #ornithology 🪶
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Evolution journal editors resign en masse to protest Elsevier changes
The mass resignation is the 20th such episode since early 2023, according to our records.
The mass resignation is the 20th such episode since early 2023, according to our records.
Evolution journal editors resign en masse to protest Elsevier changes
All but one member of the editorial board of the Journal of Human Evolution (JHE), an Elsevier title, have resigned, saying the “sustained actions of Elsevier are fundamentally incompatible with th…
retractionwatch.com
December 27, 2024 at 3:03 PM
Evolution journal editors resign en masse to protest Elsevier changes
The mass resignation is the 20th such episode since early 2023, according to our records.
The mass resignation is the 20th such episode since early 2023, according to our records.
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Since it is inefficient to attempt to educate every reviewer individually, I am yeeting into your feed this clear paper from Gelman, Hill, and Yajima on how Bayesians can do even better than correcting for multiple comparisons. arxiv.org/abs/0907.2478
Why we (usually) don't have to worry about multiple comparisons
Applied researchers often find themselves making statistical inferences in settings that would seem to require multiple comparisons adjustments. We challenge the Type I error paradigm that underlies t...
arxiv.org
November 26, 2024 at 9:11 AM
Since it is inefficient to attempt to educate every reviewer individually, I am yeeting into your feed this clear paper from Gelman, Hill, and Yajima on how Bayesians can do even better than correcting for multiple comparisons. arxiv.org/abs/0907.2478
Very cool (mathy) paper. I hope this gets accepted wherever they sent it to. I want to see the appendix.
The general version of Hamilton's rule https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.11.25.625193v1
The general version of Hamilton's rule https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.11.25.625193v1
The generality of Hamilton's rule is much debated. In this paper, I show that this debate can be res
www.biorxiv.org
November 27, 2024 at 12:11 AM
Very cool (mathy) paper. I hope this gets accepted wherever they sent it to. I want to see the appendix.
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SSE is sponsoring three symposia at #Evol2025! Applicants can submit proposals for a virtual or in-person symposium. Check out previously funded symposia and learn how to apply on our website. Deadline January 6! https://buff.ly/3V0mh34
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November 25, 2024 at 12:22 PM
SSE is sponsoring three symposia at #Evol2025! Applicants can submit proposals for a virtual or in-person symposium. Check out previously funded symposia and learn how to apply on our website. Deadline January 6! https://buff.ly/3V0mh34
@evolmtg.bsky.social
@evolmtg.bsky.social
This! Regardless of your field it is so important to analyze your data through the lens of theory.
Theorist bridge trolls barking at you to formally connect theory to data? Wondering how, without troll magic? We can help! "Bridging theory and data: A computational workflow for cultural evolution" With @dominikdeffner.bsky.social @natyfedorova.bsky.social Jeff Andrews. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
November 20, 2024 at 12:24 AM
This! Regardless of your field it is so important to analyze your data through the lens of theory.
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Have you had part of your dissertation published in Evolution or Evolution Letters this year? You may be eligible for this award! Papers must have been included in a 2024 issue to be eligible. Submit your nomination by Jan. 31: shorturl.at/CnVo6
@journal-evo.bsky.social @evolletters.bsky.social
@journal-evo.bsky.social @evolletters.bsky.social
November 14, 2024 at 11:50 PM
Have you had part of your dissertation published in Evolution or Evolution Letters this year? You may be eligible for this award! Papers must have been included in a 2024 issue to be eligible. Submit your nomination by Jan. 31: shorturl.at/CnVo6
@journal-evo.bsky.social @evolletters.bsky.social
@journal-evo.bsky.social @evolletters.bsky.social
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Hey all, please RT this new starter pack for locating our fellow ecological modellers on Blue Sky! And please reply to this post if you'd like to be added to the starter pack!
go.bsky.app/EfUQaM2
go.bsky.app/EfUQaM2
November 13, 2024 at 11:35 PM
Hey all, please RT this new starter pack for locating our fellow ecological modellers on Blue Sky! And please reply to this post if you'd like to be added to the starter pack!
go.bsky.app/EfUQaM2
go.bsky.app/EfUQaM2
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For a while now, @lauradee.bsky.social and I have been working on a guide to introduce Ecologists to causal inference tools for observational data that has problematic unobserved confounding variables lurking in the background. And now it's up as a preprint!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
February 29, 2024 at 9:27 PM
For a while now, @lauradee.bsky.social and I have been working on a guide to introduce Ecologists to causal inference tools for observational data that has problematic unobserved confounding variables lurking in the background. And now it's up as a preprint!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...