Tiago A. Marques

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Could not help myself but laughing when I saw what the drop down menu offered me today as suggestions, no doubts based on past choices, regarding personal profile keywords in a journal's reviewer system

Hundreds of small acts of courage that together shaped the future of a country in democracy. Assuming you live in a Democracy, take the day to celebrate/appreciate/enjoy your freedom in a time where winds from the West remind us that those who go to sleep in democracy might wake up in dictatorship.

Or the story of how a woman, Celeste Caeiro, that was going to the market to sell flowers, blood red carnations, and put one in the barrel of a gun, to show that the people did not desire war, and how that set the tone to many others doing it, with the revolution gaining its name.

Another story where a single captain Rui Rodrigues, with a very small group of men, secured the airport on his own, by saying that the regime troops had to surrender to him as the regime had fallen (this was not true, not yet at least) and reinforcements were on the way.

Salgueiro Maia's nerves of steel, who stood in front of the regime forces, a tank directly pointed at him, and survived the order given twice to shoot him, which the soldiers at the other side refused to obey. A true act of courage that might have represented one of the major blows on the regime.

Those guys were truly evil, often sadistic bastards with a free license to do the worst of things to other men, and I suspect they would not go down without a fight, fearing the repercussions of years of torture and selective killings they led. There are endless small stories within the big story.

This was an amazing event were a group of low rank officials decided to change the course of history. There were barely any casualties, and those that happened, 6 if I recall correctly, were the consequence of a stand off gone wrong with the political police.

Not been here for a while, I though I would today to commemorate the 25th of April 1974. If don't know what it represents for Portugal, visit the website that was built to commemorate the 50 years of the revolution (which was last year) which includes lots of information about it:
50anos25abril.pt

#JustDoIt #Nike #dogs

#MondayVibes #Dogs

Quase um quinto dos deputados do Chega teve ou tem problemas na Justiça Pelo menos nove dos 50 deputados eleitos do Chega já tiveram processos na Justiça. Miguel Arruda é o caso mais recente.

O problema do país parecem ser os imigrantes criminosos, com valores de criminalidade residual, e os deputados do chega, onde a proporção de criminosos ronda os 20% www.publico.pt/2025/01/22/p... não os podemos mandar fazer as malas 😝 e enviar para o país deles? Aí, espera... o pais deles é o nosso.

A cool example of using a model for (multi) species abundances to reconstruct an image (unrelated to species abundances!), by treating the RGB channels as 3 different species. It's remarkable how you can get a good idea about the overall picture just from RGB values on a very small sample of pixels.

Why I'm quitting the Washington Post Democracy can't function without a free press

It is disturbing how a few men are now capable of electing a President in what was once an example of democracy, and worse, that they can silence the "free" press about it without consequences. That seems the theme of the century. No consequences, no accountability open.substack.com/pub/anntelna...

Great diversity. I might be quite marine mammal biased... I'll go with bowhead whale, Commerson's dolphin, polar bear, narwhal and chimpanzee.

Warning: look away or you might die of cuteness...

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Happy 2025 to all. A very funny year, numerically speaking.
2025 = 45² =
(0 + 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 + 6 + 7 + 8 + 9)² = (0³ + 1³ + 2³ + 3³ + 4³ + 5³ + 6³ + 7³ + 8³ + 9³)

I had never seen one so obvious, but this is a fungi of the genus Phallus. Suitably named I guess 😁

Culpa dele !

Insightful post from Peter Ellis on the relation between depression levels at the US county level and proportion of Trump voters. Code to gather data + run analysis available. Cool analysis illustrates how logistic regression might severely underestimate precision freerangestats.info/blog/2024/12...

Animal movement workshop alert! A line of speakers difficult to beat with John Fieberg, Marie Auger-Méthé, Brett McClintock & Inês Silva and the location is definitely a place that makes you "move" for it: lovely Madeira. 19-23 May 2025. Just after the ECS in Azores. It's PT islands 2025. See you?

Usei o meu primeiro block nesta rede, já me bastou o que tive de aturar no Twitter...

Is that a problem ?

Today was the last day of Ecological Modelling classes, I "offered" the students a full day workshop where I would work with them and their final assignment models. Yesterday we had a little get together to celebrate end of term. What a great class. #WorkHardPartyHarder

I began the public defense with a "conflict of interests" statement: "I am conflicted about being objective given your boyfriend crashed into me 20 mins ago" The student turned red, then purple, then green, finally yellow. Still, she passed 😀 A story to remember forever. A once in a Universe event?

Near-0 probability event: level unlocked. Today I was the external examiner of an MSc dissertation. Drove to a different uni. A car hit me from behind (really far from the uni!). A few chaotic minutes later... the MSc's student boyfriend was the co-pilot, his cousin the driver. What are the odds??

Talking about GAMMs, does anyone happen to know what are the variables decription in the dataset TurnstoneDataV2.txt, from Chapter4 in Zuur's et al. book on GAMMs. Wanted to give it to students as an example dataset to play with, but can't figure out what some variables are (and don't have the book)

Today in class will be talking about GAMMs and impossible not to point the students to this great paper about "Hierarchical generalized additive models in ecology: an introduction with mgcv". Open access too at peerj.com/articles/6876/

If you're looking for a gentle introduction to fit linear mixed models with R, with lots of examples, data & code available, here's one below. And not just another paper, just realized this one actually cites a Marvel’s comic book: cool-geek level unlocked :) journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

His personal account, which he is happy to share, discussing his move from academia to industry, is a really interesting path for some of the students, above and beyond the actual class contents with several modelling examples! Thank you Pedro #academia #industry