I love R for everything statistics, but I've always been a little jealous of statisticians using SPSS Complex Samples or SAS SURVEYSELECT to design their samples.
So I decided to build samplyr, a tidy and pipe-friendly grammar for survey sampling design in #rstats.
dickoa.gitlab.io/samplyr/inde...
Une planche photographique de Ficalbia uniformis (Theobald, 1904)
🦟 Cette semaine, découvrez les ornementations uniques de Ficalbia uniformis (Theobald, 1904) ⬇️!
Voir les détails et la distribution sur le GBIF🌱: https://www.gbif.org/species/1649366 .
Fascinante diversité des #moustiques !
Photos de @nil-rahola.bsky.social
#Entomologie #Biodiversité
A photographic plate of Ficalbia uniformis (Theobald, 1904)
🦟 This week, discover the unique ornaments of Ficalbia uniformis (Theobald, 1904) ⬇️!
Explore details and distribution on GBIF🌱: https://www.gbif.org/species/1649366 .
Fascinating diversity of #mosquitoes !
Photos by @nil-rahola.bsky.social
#Entomology #Biodiversity 🧪🌐
Book cover for https://oliviergimenez.github.io/banana-book/
📘 New book out soon !
I’m excited to share that 𝐁𝐚𝐲𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐚𝐧 𝐀𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐲𝐬𝐢𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐂𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞-𝐑𝐞𝐜𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐃𝐚𝐭𝐚 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐇𝐢𝐝𝐝𝐞𝐧 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐤𝐨𝐯 𝐌𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐥𝐬: 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐨𝐫𝐲 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐂𝐚𝐬𝐞 𝐒𝐭𝐮𝐝𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐑 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐍𝐈𝐌𝐁𝐋𝐄 is being published by Chapman & Hall / CRC Press
Hope it’s useful to students, researchers, and practitioners
#StatisticalEcology #NIMBLE
A photographic plate of Aedes geniculatus (Olivier, 1791)
🦟 This week, discover the unique ornaments of Aedes geniculatus (Olivier, 1791) ⬇️!
Explore details and distribution on GBIF🌱: https://www.gbif.org/species/1651525 .
Fascinating diversity of #mosquitoes !
Photos by @nil-rahola.bsky.social
#Entomology #Biodiversity 🧪🌐
Une planche photographique de Aedes geniculatus (Olivier, 1791)
🦟 Cette semaine, découvrez les ornementations uniques de Aedes geniculatus (Olivier, 1791) ⬇️!
Voir les détails et la distribution sur le GBIF🌱: https://www.gbif.org/species/1651525 .
Fascinante diversité des #moustiques !
Photos de @nil-rahola.bsky.social
#Entomologie #Biodiversité
most probably for mate recognition (wing scales are main taxonomic characters e.g. in Anopheles). Another hypotheses include predator escaping, see doi.org/10.3762/bjna...
the scales on the legs allow walking on water: doi.org/10.1103/Phys...
Hello Kyle. The photographic plates posted by @arimcollection.bsky.social were made for educational purposes and do not illustrate individual specimen from the collection. In fact, several individuals may be used to create a plate (this is the case here).
13.01.2026 17:38 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Une planche photographique de Culex quinquefasciatus Say, 1823
🦟 Cette semaine, découvrez les ornementations uniques de Culex quinquefasciatus Say, 1823 ⬇️!
Voir les détails et la distribution sur le GBIF🌱: https://www.gbif.org/species/1652950 .
Fascinante diversité des #moustiques !
Photos de @nil-rahola.bsky.social
#Entomologie #Biodiversité
A photographic plate of Culex quinquefasciatus Say, 1823
🦟 This week, discover the unique ornaments of Culex quinquefasciatus Say, 1823 ⬇️!
Explore details and distribution on GBIF🌱: https://www.gbif.org/species/1652950 .
Fascinating diversity of #mosquitoes !
Photos by @nil-rahola.bsky.social
#Entomology #Biodiversity 🧪🌐
Graphic: Annual mean temperature difference (∆T) between areas covered 100% by urban vegetation and areas covered 100% by built-up surfaces, for 3 types of urban vegetation (trees, grasslands, croplands) and for 4 environments (tropical, temperate, boreal, arid)
Clues for cooling our cities:
Urban trees, urban grasslands & urban crops cool cities in most environments (negative values), except in arid conditions where only trees are effective. Shrubs likely behave as trees, I guess.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
🧪🌍🌐🌳🪴🍁 EnvSci botany #plantscience
Une planche photographique de Coquillettidia richiardii (Ficalbi, 1889)
🦟 Cette semaine, découvrez les ornementations uniques de Coquillettidia richiardii (Ficalbi, 1889) ⬇️!
Voir les détails et la distribution sur le GBIF🌱: https://www.gbif.org/species/1648899 .
Fascinante diversité des #moustiques !
Photos de @nil-rahola.bsky.social
#Entomologie #Biodiversité
A photographic plate of Coquillettidia richiardii (Ficalbi, 1889)
🦟 This week, discover the unique ornaments of Coquillettidia richiardii (Ficalbi, 1889) ⬇️!
Explore details and distribution on GBIF🌱: https://www.gbif.org/species/1648899 .
Fascinating diversity of #mosquitoes !
Photos by @nil-rahola.bsky.social
#Entomology #Biodiversity 🧪🌐
Book cover for Reproducible Code guide. The cover has a red background with a large yellow-bodied black-headed stag beetle.
Excited to launch the new improved Reproducible Code guide from @britishecologicalsociety.org @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social FREE online here! www.britishecologicalsociety.org//wp-content/... Amazing work by some very talented ECRs. We hope it’s useful!
16.12.2025 15:03 — 👍 313 🔁 197 💬 6 📌 9
PCI Statistics and Machine Learning (@PCI_StatML) is now open for submissions!! https://statml.peercommunityin.org/
For an updated list of all the thematic PCIs, visit https://peercommunityin.org/current-pcis/
A photographic plate of Aedes fowleri (Emmerez de Charmoy, 1908)
🦟 This week, discover the unique ornaments of Aedes fowleri (Emmerez de Charmoy, 1908) ⬇️!
Explore details and distribution on GBIF🌱: https://www.gbif.org/species/1651108 .
Fascinating diversity of #mosquitoes !
Photos by @nil-rahola.bsky.social
#Entomology #Biodiversity 🧪🌐
Une planche photographique de Aedes fowleri (Emmerez de Charmoy, 1908)
🦟 Cette semaine, découvrez les ornementations uniques de Aedes fowleri (Emmerez de Charmoy, 1908) ⬇️!
Voir les détails et la distribution sur le GBIF🌱: https://www.gbif.org/species/1651108 .
Fascinante diversité des #moustiques !
Photos de @nil-rahola.bsky.social
#Entomologie #Biodiversité
Now on CRAN !
cran.r-project.org/web/packages...
#rstats #mosquitoes
Une planche photographique de Mimomyia mimomyiaformis (Newstead, 1907)
🦟 Cette semaine, découvrez les ornementations uniques de Mimomyia mimomyiaformis (Newstead, 1907) ⬇️!
Voir les détails et la distribution sur le GBIF🌱: https://www.gbif.org/species/1652540 .
Fascinante diversité des #moustiques !
Photos de @nil-rahola.bsky.social
#Entomologie #Biodiversité
A photographic plate of Mimomyia mimomyiaformis (Newstead, 1907)
🦟 This week, discover the unique ornaments of Mimomyia mimomyiaformis (Newstead, 1907) ⬇️!
Explore details and distribution on GBIF🌱: https://www.gbif.org/species/1652540 .
Fascinating diversity of #mosquitoes !
Photos by @nil-rahola.bsky.social
#Entomology #Biodiversity 🧪🌐
Une planche photographique de Anopheles sergentii (Theobald, 1907)
🦟 Cette semaine, découvrez les ornementations uniques de Anopheles sergentii (Theobald, 1907) ⬇️!
Voir les détails et la distribution sur le GBIF🌱: https://www.gbif.org/species/1650851 .
Fascinante diversité des #moustiques !
Photos de @nil-rahola.bsky.social
#Entomologie #Biodiversité
A photographic plate of Anopheles sergentii (Theobald, 1907)
🦟 This week, discover the unique ornaments of Anopheles sergentii (Theobald, 1907) ⬇️!
Explore details and distribution on GBIF🌱: https://www.gbif.org/species/1650851 .
Fascinating diversity of #mosquitoes !
Photos by @nil-rahola.bsky.social
#Entomology #Biodiversity 🧪🌐
Just published in Research Synthesis Methods
How to be more accurate than humans at abstract screening tasks using several small open-weight LLM?
doi.org/10.1017/rsm....
We actually circumvented the "LLM lie and hallucinate" problem for simple text analysis tasks !!
Let me explain
⬇️1/8
🌦️ main predictors of presence were meteorological factors (temp, atmo pressure, rainfall)
🌱 low (<3m) vegetation drives abundances,
🌳 more mosquitoes in urban parks and residential (with gardens) areas than in densely built areas.
#rstats #randomforest #openscience
🌿🦟 New paper out !
We investigated how urban vegetation and other environmental factors shape the presence and abundance of Aedes albopictus in Montpellier, the second greenest city in France. 🧪 🌐
🔗 buff.ly/lI0AQ7p
#UrbanEcology #Mosquitoes #PublicHealth #UrbanGreening #Dengue #VectorBiology
🦟" #Culex #mosquitoes found in stables in South #Iceland 🇮🇸"
www.natt.is/is/frettir/2...
Now published in Peer Community Journal, #infections section: Green cities and the risk for vector-borne disease transmission for humans and animals: a scoping review
07.11.2025 11:00 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
🌿🦟 New literature review out in @peercomjournal.bsky.social !
Exploring the links between urban vegetation and vector-borne disease risks — mosquitoes 🦟 and ticks 🕷️ included. 🧪 🌐
📄 Read here:
📸 Huge thanks to Nil Rahola and Luciano Mucci for their outstanding macrophotography work.
🔗 All publications are freely available on Zenodo.
#Entomology #Mosquitoes #Culicidae #Anopheles #Toxorhynchites #Biodiversity #Taxonomy #VectorBiology #Zenodo #Research #Afrotropical
This work is part of the ANR DIV-YOO project (“Mosquito diversity in West Africa: determinants of a probable decline and implications for vector-borne disease epidemiology and control”), coordinated in collaboration with the Medical Zoology Unit of Institut Pasteur de Dakar.
@ird-fr.bsky.social
