Pedro Peres-Neto

🪪📐Species identity and spatial scale drive context‑dependent tree diversity effects in a Finnish forest experiment

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#DBH #NeedleTraits #NorwaySpruce #ScotsPine #SpeciesDiversity #TreeDivNet

☁️🗺️Meteorological versus spatial drivers of the spatial synchrony of forest insect pest outbreaks in North America

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#BarkBeetle #defoliation #MoranEffect #Outbreak #PopulationDynamics #SpatialSynchrony #TreeMortality

🗺️🦌On the spatial clustering of behavioural phenotypes: matching movement tactics with landscape structure in a large herbivore

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#Boldness #Habitat #LandscapeComposition #LandscapeHeterogeneity #MovementSyndrome #PersonalityEnvironmentAssociation

I’m launching a blog series for @oikosjournal.bsky.social , “View from the Editor’s Desk” - the first post is now live.

These pieces reflect my personal perspectives on different aspects of the publication system and not official journal policy.

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I wasn't referring to publishing rubbish. I was referring to the lifetime limit.

I’m already a proud card-carrying member of the club; I was just trying to think about potential loopholes to boost the membership; though with a hint of reality 🙂.

There are, however, some issues to consider. It's defensible that some researchers need the ability to publish more to potentially overcome disadvantages in funding, institutional prestige, or language barriers, among other factors.

I’m now curious about the founding principles. One idea: cap co-authorship at 3–5 papers per year. It would give club members time to offer meaningful input on colleagues’ work (without having skin in the game) and, perhaps more importantly, to actually read and learn from others’ publications.

Sign me in! At least in Canada, there is a strong emphasis on training ECRs, and demonstrating successful training is often reduced to publication metrics and their own success. The issue is that outputs are "optimized" rather than investing in deeper training in many cases.

I like some big numbers but not too many. I also like tiny numbers. I was wondering if there is a good guide for scientists to communicate numbers to non-experts.

Some numbers really surprise me!

The amount of heat added to the world’s oceans in the past 25 years is equivalent to about 3.6 billion Hiroshima-style atomic bomb explosions, i.e, 12 Hiroshima-sized atomic bombs exploding every second!

📢 Postdoc opening in avian biogeography & macroecology (Olomouc, CZ)
Vladimír Remeš (excellent scientist and mentor) is hiring a postdoc to study bird diversity across biomes, linking species pools, traits, climate & history using big data, fieldwork, and modelling.
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@ericjpedersen.bsky.social would agree, and so do I. Although Eric has already spent much time on the Tweedie distribution.

Why not publish your research with a Society Journal? 🧪🌍

The Linnean Society is committed to publishing high-quality and ground-breaking scientific research across the four themes of botany, zoology, biology and evolution, striving to make these accessible & engaging to a global audience. 🧵(1/4)

Last week I introduced to my Biostatistics students the expression ‘the cognitive discomfort of statistical thinking,’ which I think captures a deep and recurring tension in how statistical reasoning operates, regardless of the school of inference.

Our cover for February! 🐝

A 27-year, continent-wide study of fig wasps by Souza et al. (2025) shows that communities linked to Neotropical fig trees change dramatically across space, with high species turnover driven by host specialization, competition, and local adaptation.

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Do you want to help advance the profile of #ecology, #evolution, & #conservation in Canada? Do you want to be part of a team that gets things done on behalf of a broader community? Run for CSEE Council! Nominations due April 26. Learn more here: csee-scee.ca/elections/

Do you want to scare an academic colleague?

Ask them, “What’s the unit of the variance?” … and then quietly leave their office.

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📖 Big news! We just released the first five chapters of our new book, Hello Data Science. It is a fully open-access resource written for beginners. Please help us spread the word! A few points about the book are below 👇

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#rstats #datascience #tidyverse

💥🌸Ignite: Are early blooming plant species more phenologically responsive?

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#ClimateChange #Flowering #Phenology #SpringEphemeralSpecies

We're hiring a full-time research software engineer for biodiversity & bioacoustics!

Position offers a strong research component with independence + research pub opportunities and real-world impact.

expected salary range $111K - $116K.

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GOP, MAGA and the Gulag…they also share a “g” in common…😉

Very few urban things are more Canadian than 👇

My favourite kind of Sci-Fi; one with Shannon entropy as a security measure for surveillance 😳

Sorry if my earlier messages came across that way; I was just trying to be brief as some say that they can be long & convoluted at times. Will do better next time.

Your problem also made me think about non-stationarity & about how interactions among linear coordinates translate into a reduced space

Postdoctoral Research Associate | King's College London

I'm hiring 2 postdocs on my Wellcome project "How Did Infectious Diseases Become Wild?: Plague, Yellow Fever, and Disease Ecology in the Brazilian Hinterland (1920-1975)"

Department of Global Health and Social Medicine
King's College
3 years 01/10/26- 30/09/29
Deadline: 01/02/26
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Come work with us! The History Department at the University of Guelph has launched our search for a tenure-track position in the History of the Middle East.

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A PCA on predicted values of separate multiple regressions for each response on the 3 coordinates is an RDA.

Then an RDA triplot would be useful, as @ericjpedersen.bsky.social suggested. If the arrows for the X/Y coordinate point in a similar direction, then the gradient is horizontal/planar; If Z has a strong loading, then the gradient has a vertical/depth component.

If your 3D coordinates are not well correlated, then PC1 won’t be useful as it may represent only one set; and, as a general rule, don’t use PCs as predictors unless you’ve a very specific goal in mind. Can you provide more details on your desired output (e.g., predicted values, model fit)?