Our new study “Human and apex predators shape lower trophic levels through top-down control”, led by Ye Htet Lwin and conducted in in Htamanthi Wildlife Sanctuary, northwestern Myanmar, now out in Biological Conservation www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

deep neural networks in one line of R code, with convenient options for automatic hyperparameter tuning, xAI and bootstrapping.

The current CRAN version supports only fully connected DNNs, but our development version on GitHub also includes CNNs and multi-modal architectures.

Looking for a simple way to do #deeplearning in #Rstats? Check out cito, available on #CRAN via cran.r-project.org/web/packages... and presented in this recent Ecography paper nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Cito is an interface to torch for R and supports building and training

But why does the effect appear in the first place? We believe the reason is that as mutualism rates are predicted by latitude, mutualism and latitude are perfectly nonlinear confounded. Using only a linear model, nonlinear effects of latitude create spurious effects of mutualism.

The main issue we see is that the mutualism covariate is not measured, but predicted by a very simple model that only depends on latitude (R2 = 0.14). Predicting mutualism rates with a more precise model (R=0.39) removes any effect of this covariate in the main regression.

Well, I've heard it said that great minds think alike ... ;)

Our study "Analyzing longitudinal trait trajectories using #GWAS identifies genetic variants for kidney function decline" led by Simon Wiegrebe and Iris Heid just published via www.nature.com/articles/s41...

On my way back from a short visit at Uni Birmingham! Thanks Juliano Sarmento Cabral for inviting me!

Our preprint "Calibration, sensitivity and uncertainty analysis of ecological models -- a review" with Anne Malchow now available at doi.org/10.22541/au.... Comments welcome!

DHARMa v0.4.7 #rstats package for #glmm residual diagnostics now available on #CRAN. Among other things, this version includes a new residual test for #phylogenetic correlation, as well as support for the #phylolm package. cran.r-project.org/web/packages...

Our study "Latitudinal patterns in stabilizing density dependence of forest communities" now out in nature.com/articles/s41... . See also tread by first author @lisahuelsmann.bsky.social below

Our new preprint "Environmental DNA captures the internal structure of a pond metacommunity" led by Wang Cai with Maximilian Pichler, Jeremy Biggs, Pascale Nicolet, Naomi Ewald, Richard A. Griffiths, Alex Bush, Mathew A. Leibold, Florian Hartig, Douglas W. Yu www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

I had always assumed that this is intentional and aims at visualising that "something bad" is going to happen if we transgress the boundary (i.e. societal costs increase nonlinear with the axis displayed here). However, not sure how explicit this was made in the various boundary papers.

Come work with us - I am looking to fill a 3-yr position for a statistical postdoc / scientific programmer to continue the development of the DHARMa #Rstats #CRAN package for #glmm residual diagnostics. Full job advertisement is here uni-regensburg.de/assets/biolo...