So excited to shared this project lead with @fredericddb.bsky.social and many enthusiastic ecologists. We played as predators and prey and with quite simple rules and were able to reproduce phenomenon observed in nature. doi.org/10.1111/2041...
@methodsinecoevol.bsky.social

Do you teach #rstats? Do your students complain about how lame and old-fashioned dplyr is? Don't worry: I have the solution for you: github.com/hadley/genzp....

genzplyr is dplyr, but bussin fr fr no cap.

Featuring a Desertas petrel that stunned scientists by chasing a tropical storm (see their incredible chase mapped here!), tiny nightingales that cross the Sahara twice a year, and Bewick's swans that have changed their stopovers and diet

The next International Statistical Ecology Conference (ISEC) will take place on January 8-15, 2027, in Mérida, México.

Calls for workshop and roundtable proposals now open, deadline Nov 15, 2025 (anywhere on earth).

Visit statisticalecology.org for more information. 🧪

Please share widely 📈🦋🐾

Large citizen science datasets are powerful tools for biodiversity science, but they may have biases. Nice new paper from @louisbackstrom.bsky.social et al. showing that for eBird and Birdtrack lists there is a tendency for rare species to be over-represented
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

Brilliant trip to Barra and Colonsay (19th-23rd Sep) with @birdingscot.bsky.social, @louisbackstrom.bsky.social, and James Weeks. Some great birds over the course of the trip, with Stuart Beeby's Swainson's Thrush at Cuithir the undeniable highlight, and a lifer for all of us! 1/4
#BirdingScotland

Very pleased to share my first PhD paper, out now in @consbiog.bsky.social:

Backstrom, L. J., Drake, R. L., Worthington, H., & Johnston, A. (2025). Detections of Rare Species Lead Citizen Scientists to Initiate Data Recording. Diversity and Distributions, 31(10), e70103. doi.org/10.1111/ddi.... ⤵️