Dilsad Dagtekin

@wslresearch.bsky.social
@wsl-dme.bsky.social

course schedule as a table. Available at the link in the post.

I'm teaching Statistical Rethinking again starting Jan 2026. This time with live lectures, divided into Beginner and Experienced sections. Will be a lot more work for me, but I hope much better for students.

I will record lectures & all will be found at this link: github.com/rmcelreath/s...

Thanks Gabby 💟

Our goal is to create a SDM tool for stakeholders to use when they are planning conservation and management actions. I am incredibly excited for this opportunity and to contribute applied conservation in CH! 🌲🌸🐛🐸🦉🐐

I will be working as a quantitative ecologist on a federal government funded project together with academia and stakeholder partners for the Swiss Biodiversity Action Plan.

Happy new year everyone, long time no post, but I came with some great personal news. 🤩
I am happy to tell that as of Jan, I got a new joint position as Ecological Modeller at InfoFlora and as Postdoctoral Researcher at WSL@wsl-dme.bsky.social

We are recruiting several PhD students. If you are interested in conservation conflicts, population ecology, quantitative ecology, or biodiversity, check these projects out (links in the thread, feel free to reach out):

Out-of-Anatolia: Cultural and genetic interactions during the Neolithic expansion in the Aegean West Anatolia has been a crucial yet elusive element in the Neolithic expansion from the Fertile Crescent to Europe. In this work, we describe the changing genetic and cultural landscapes of early Hol...

Happy to share our new study from my PhD on the spread of farming across Anatolia and into the Aegean and then into Europe. @compevohumang.bsky.social

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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🧬In Neolithic Çatalhöyük, family was built on social relations rather than blood ties.
Genetic analysis shows that over time, co-residents were no longer genetic relatives. Female subadults were buried with 5x more grave goods.
🔍A surprising story of Neolithic social life.

Colossal Bioscience did not revive dire wolves, despite a sensationalist Time Magazine cover story.

Making genetically modified animals that are cosplaying as extinct species is not de-extinction.

This cover unfortunately reflects the orientalist bias numerous Western observers have against Turkey. If anything, the widespread protests of last week have shown that as much as the government might want to end Turkish democracy, people of Turkey are not willing to give up that easily.+

Turkey live updates: Turkey says 1,133 people arrested in five days and issues warning to protesters The protests began last week when Istanbul mayor Ekrem Imamoglu - a key opponent of President Erdogan - was arrested.

For anyone wondering what's happening in Türkiye right now (from the BBC's perspective): www.bbc.com/news/live/cq...

PhD Candidate in Theoretical Biology The Institute of Environmental Sciences CML and Faculty of Science is looking for:[PhD Candidate in Theoretical Biology]Vacancy number: 15501 We are looking for an enthusiastic and highly motivated Ph...

A theoretical biology PhD position at the University of Leiden on the coevolution of aging and sociality with awesome @lottedevries.bsky.social please spread the word! www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/vacancies...

EEBST2025 will be held from July 9 to 11 at Hacettepe University , Ankara. Looking forward!

eebst.ekoevo.org

Still time to apply for this PhD position with me and @dzchilds.bsky.social - deadline tomorrow!

There is only 1 Person of the Year 2024

Here you go: archive.ph/Jzesz

I have some PhD projects now available for application if you are interested in insect biodiversity change. Please check out the links below and shout if you have questions!

Our latest piece urges the conservation of Central Anatolian grasslands, which are heavily used and now threatened by afforestation. Often misperceived as degraded forests from millennia of human activity, these ecosystems deserve recognition and protection! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

We are looking for contributors to our new series on the Methods Blog, exploring the experiences of ecologists conducting research in remote field stations during the holiday season🎄 Please get in touch if you would like to find out more! 🌎 🧪

My MSc paper is getting lots of hits for the job I did tbh. Don't get me wrong, I think we did a great job, but I think its cited mostly b/c it covers a usually neglected area (Black Sea region, Caucasus, northern Iran). Another reminder that we need to expand the science out of global "northwest".

Wow! Amazing opportunity here for South Africa based 🇿🇦 researchers to develop their quantitative skills! 🤩💻

Two workshops:

• An intro to stats in R
• Applied hierarchical modelling

The course is FREE! These opportunities rarely come about in 🇿🇦, so share widely & sign up!

#conservationscience 🌍

Bending the biodiversity curve: how can we measure success? at UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology - Wallingford on FindAPhD.com PhD Project - Bending the biodiversity curve: how can we measure success? at UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology - Wallingford, listed on FindAPhD.com

I am looking for a PhD student to work with me and @dzchilds.bsky.social on biodiversity indicators www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Starter packs BIOLOGY General Science community https://go.bsky.app/HVYAMEA Research Institutions in Life Sciences https://go.bsky.app/LxXpcvJ LGBTQIA+ in STEM https://go.bsky.app/BFc4wgf LGBTQIA+ in STEM 2 h...

Thank you so much to whoever put this very comprehensive list of #science Bsky starter packs together. This is just amazing: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Excited to be sending the first batch of tags to new collaborators today! Let's see where these urban animals go.

Achieving higher standards in species distribution modeling by leveraging the diversity of available software The increasing online availability of biodiversity data and advances in ecological modeling have led to a proliferation of open-source modeling tools. In particular, R packages for species distributi....

Check out our new paper in @ecography.bsky.social
led by Jamie Kass! big team of #R pkg developers show how to improve analysis standards by combining different pkgs for species distribution models #SDM, provide a #shiny app to catalog & explore them, 3 extensive tutorials. doi.org/10.1111/ecog...

flooded area and there is a sign that says "working together to reduce flood risk" :)

Not all collaborations are equally successful

Colonization and extinction lags drive non‐linear responses to warming in mountain plant communities across the Northern Hemisphere Global warming is changing plant communities due to the arrival of new species from warmer regions and declining abundance of cold-adapted species. However, experimentally testing predictions about t...

What can 44 whole-community transplant experiments from 22 mountain ranges tell us about mountain plant biodiversity? 🌿🏔️ Our first paper from the TransPlant Network is published today in @ecography.bsky.social !

nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

[looking at Bluesky over the past 2 days] So this is what the Cambrian explosion must have felt like