ÉPICBiodiversity
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We are the laboratoire d'Écologie Prédictive et Interprétable pour la Crise de la Biodiversité.
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🧪 New @mdcatchen.bsky.social preprint!
Here's how we can decide where to look for wildlife disease, based on combinations of biodiversity, uncertainty, and prevalence data. This is a really cool paper, that is pushing the boundaries of what we can do with sampling and monitoring techniques.
Here's how we can decide where to look for wildlife disease, based on combinations of biodiversity, uncertainty, and prevalence data. This is a really cool paper, that is pushing the boundaries of what we can do with sampling and monitoring techniques.
Effective sampling of wildlife disease from biodiversity data | ÉPICBiodiversity
epic-biodiversity.org
December 15, 2025 at 3:05 PM
🧪 New @mdcatchen.bsky.social preprint!
Here's how we can decide where to look for wildlife disease, based on combinations of biodiversity, uncertainty, and prevalence data. This is a really cool paper, that is pushing the boundaries of what we can do with sampling and monitoring techniques.
Here's how we can decide where to look for wildlife disease, based on combinations of biodiversity, uncertainty, and prevalence data. This is a really cool paper, that is pushing the boundaries of what we can do with sampling and monitoring techniques.
We have added support for ESRI administrative areas to our species distribution #JuliaLang package — a lot more stable than GADM (although limited to level 1 divisions).
📗 Read more: poisotlab.github.io/SpeciesDistr...
📗 Read more: poisotlab.github.io/SpeciesDistr...
![using SpeciesDistributionToolkit
const SDT = SpeciesDistributionToolkit
using CairoMakie
# Get the data
const DATA_DOI = "10.15468/dl.7ddsb7"
presences = GBIF.download(DATA_DOI)
# Get the country-level data
borders = getpolygon(PolygonData(ESRI, Places))["Country" => "Tanzania"]
# Make a plot
poly(borders, color=:grey95)
lines!(borders, color=:grey40, linewidth=0.5)
scatter!(presences, color=:white, strokecolor=:forestgreen, strokewidth=1)
current_figure()](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:55yjeft22dumoonnjlzb6ia3/bafkreicyw7zr3uiwfgwg2eceu7ut5cfokahruambkx6p4n3gjrnrp2bwxi@jpeg)
December 11, 2025 at 2:17 PM
We have added support for ESRI administrative areas to our species distribution #JuliaLang package — a lot more stable than GADM (although limited to level 1 divisions).
📗 Read more: poisotlab.github.io/SpeciesDistr...
📗 Read more: poisotlab.github.io/SpeciesDistr...
The impulse to use generative AI as a tool for computational ecology is just another form of statistical machismo (and will destroy the world).
We're a little more nuanced in the actual article, and encourage all ecologists to think about the possible footprint of _every_ computation.
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We're a little more nuanced in the actual article, and encourage all ecologists to think about the possible footprint of _every_ computation.
🧪
AI and the carbon footprint of ecological research | ÉPICBiodiversity
epic-biodiversity.org
November 28, 2025 at 6:46 PM
The impulse to use generative AI as a tool for computational ecology is just another form of statistical machismo (and will destroy the world).
We're a little more nuanced in the actual article, and encourage all ecologists to think about the possible footprint of _every_ computation.
🧪
We're a little more nuanced in the actual article, and encourage all ecologists to think about the possible footprint of _every_ computation.
🧪
Today we'll be at the #OneHealth symposium of @umontreal-en.bsky.social - @ctrlalttim.com will moderate a panel on biodiversity and health, and @francisbanville.bsky.social will talk about the alignment between indicators for biodiversity and the OHHLEP action tracks, part of our @geobon.org work.
November 14, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Today we'll be at the #OneHealth symposium of @umontreal-en.bsky.social - @ctrlalttim.com will moderate a panel on biodiversity and health, and @francisbanville.bsky.social will talk about the alignment between indicators for biodiversity and the OHHLEP action tracks, part of our @geobon.org work.
Climate change may dramatically increase the range of raccoons and skunks in Québec. Good news? Nope. They are two reservoirs of the raccoon rabies virus. In a recent preprint, we discuss how this might play out over the next 80 years. 🧪🧵
Reservoirs on the move: where might raccoon rabies end up under climate change? | ÉPICBiodiversity
epic-biodiversity.org
November 7, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Climate change may dramatically increase the range of raccoons and skunks in Québec. Good news? Nope. They are two reservoirs of the raccoon rabies virus. In a recent preprint, we discuss how this might play out over the next 80 years. 🧪🧵
👋 Bonjour hi!
We've built a whole new website, and @ctrlalttim.com has thoughts about the long-term dynamics of research groups to share.
epic-biodiversity.org/blog/2025/11...
We've built a whole new website, and @ctrlalttim.com has thoughts about the long-term dynamics of research groups to share.
epic-biodiversity.org/blog/2025/11...
Bonjour hi! | ÉPICBiodiversity
epic-biodiversity.org
November 5, 2025 at 2:20 PM
👋 Bonjour hi!
We've built a whole new website, and @ctrlalttim.com has thoughts about the long-term dynamics of research groups to share.
epic-biodiversity.org/blog/2025/11...
We've built a whole new website, and @ctrlalttim.com has thoughts about the long-term dynamics of research groups to share.
epic-biodiversity.org/blog/2025/11...