Paul Julian

Hey fellow aquatic biologists! You should move to Buffalo! 💧🌎🧪

Whilst writing up a new R-package I had my music playing in the background. This morning was a lovely couple of hours of @classicfm.com. So many great pieces ...

This afternoon required a little more umph, "The Blood of Cu Chulainn" came on, that song always gives me goosebumps.

Truth!!

🚨 #PhD opportunity 🚨
Disturbance Impacts on swamp and forested peatlands in southern Québec

This project will quantify how disturbances affect carbon cycling and hydrology in swamp and forested peatlands of southern Québec

More info here: wetlandresilienceresearchgroup.com/Opportunitie...

Goals!! Time to build the moss and liverwort megacluster :D ;)

I'm so confused ... Apparently I'm in the UK/British corner of the BlueSky-verse ...

Wow!! Those are amazing! All that practice is definitely paying off.

Sometimes the coffee can be just that bad that it warrants a loud (digitally) "audible" scream. ;)

What is the best way to reachout?

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Data, you say? 🤨 ... peatlands! 🤔

Here is my go to ... It's pretty easy, despite the long explanations. If you don't want an unformed loaf you can use a loaf pan and cook it for about 40 mins

Three lab members examining a farm pond covered in bright green duck weed. A bridge extends above the pond in the background.

The USDA postdoc fellowship is back! If you're interested in studying eutrophication issues in working lands, let's write a proposal together. Check my lab webpage for how to get in touch (ecostoich.weebly.com/join.html).

I love it when reviewers think they know what they are talking about to refute the paper but it turns out they dont ... don't challenage me on a statistical approach unless you made the method. If it made it into the paper, there was a lot of effort involved. Don't hate the GAM, hate the player. ;)

Is this only available for IPS members? I didn't see a registration link on the website.

Nice book!! I'm halfway through reading it myself.

Last year I took part in an Evidence Synthesis Training Programme. As part of this training participants conducted a Rapid Evidence Assessment and drafted a policy brief.

Here is a preprint of our work soon to be submitted for peer review.

www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-8...

... somehow magically I got a pre-print rejected from a pre-print server because their screeners have determined that the manuscript type or its content is not suitable for posting as a preprint despite checking all the boxes and is required under the program we are working with. 🤦‍♂️

... and in the 11th hour reviewer #3 asks to include specific authors (but not references) in a manuscript to justify extending the discussion section of an already long paper. If these papers didn't make into the manuscript, you'd think there would be a reason. 😡

#rstats #trend #waterquality friends

Quick question, I'm looking at changes in long-term trends in water quality (~4+ decades) using Kendall and Thiel-Sen (as 1 part). Thinking about doing a bootstrapped Thiel-Sen slope to look at variability... is it overkill?

I thought I remembered something about that!! Definitely frustrating and doesn't give me confidence in the peer review process. Granted I didn't have much in it anyway.

"Had an absolute blast…" ... pun intended? ;) :D

Looks like an amazing trip.

A colleague just came across this in RetractionWatch database showing this author and the general idea was retracted from Frontiers citing "Error in Methods;Investigation by Journal/Publisher;Unreliable Results and/or Conclusions;Upgrade/Update of Prior Notice(s);" ... seems like journal shopping

I still wonder how the original paper made it through peer review

Did you see his response?!? He has dug in even further

"Without a doubt, our changing climate is not just due to fossil fuel emissions. We need to be thinking outside the box for all the possible explanations for a climate in transition..."

My reaction 😶😦😡... straight up loonacy

A small moment of zen from the seasonal stream in our woodland.

Only thing holding me together right now is anxiety, caffeine, my daily escape with @classicfm.com and binging old episodes of Restoration Man with @georgeclarke.bsky.social on YouTube.

Beautiful! Tulikettu greeting the new year!! I just learned about the finnish folklore surrounding the northern lights.

Everyone has their own style of coding and organization (ie I don't like tidy). In the end if it's reproducible I call it a win.

But not everyone like to clear everything which is why when sharing code I don't include that line and I make sure to clear things on my own.

Once I get my code together and analyses run, I rerun the code to make sure I get the same thing.

I've been burned before and wasn't able to replicate results which wasted days of troubleshooting. Eventually I figured it out that there was a carry over from a different chunk of code.

I usually write my scripts to be self contained which makes for long scripts but helps me organize things. I include this on the 1st real line of code to make sure everything is cleared and nothing is carried over from something else in the current session. I'm paranoid about mishandling data.