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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

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A huge anti-Erdoğan protest tonight in Istanbul, defying a four day national ban on protests, to denounce the arrest of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu.

"Break down those barricades without harming the police. Take to the streets and squares", Ozgur Ozel, an opposition leader, told protesters.

"Our study presents a robust case of both space-for-time and time-for-space substitutions validated through the integration of pan-Antarctic satellite observations and extensive long-term capture data..." 🐧
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Ecological Forecasting Initiative March 2025 Newsletter Email from Ecological Forecasting Initiative EFI Newsletter Issue 48| March 3, 2025 Trouble viewing this email? View as Webpage This newsletter features this year's EFI Steering Committee elections, s

Issue 48 of the EFI Newsletter is out!

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There are lots of activities to explore including a statement of support for the EFI community, elections for the EFI Steering Committee, upcoming seminars, updates from working groups, and new teaching and coding resources.

If you run a university research lab please reach out to your folks today to explain any impacts the OMB grant pause memo will have on them, both short-term (will they get paid next week) and medium-term. Communication with your folks is important even if you're still figuring out the details.

Ecologists (or similar)!!! Apply for the @asn-amnat.bsky.social Student Research Awards by March 14!! Ten awards of $2K each will be given to research that advances the the conceptual unification of ecology, evolution, or behavior. More here: bit.ly/asn_grant_25

Ha I’m from İzmir too! I would have subscribed to the Verge if I didn’t already😬

Turkish tea?! And with a proper glass!?!!? And the correct kind of kettle?!?! I’m crying with happiness 😭

Ridgeline chart showing the distribution of global daily air temperature differences from the pre-industrial reference period (1850-1900), for every year between 1940 and 2024. Each individual year resembles a hill, shaded in a darker shade of red and further to the right for warmer years. The trend is clearly towards warmer years, with 2024 standing out as first year above 1.5C.

NEW: 2024 has just been confirmed as the warmest year on record, and the first to breach the 1.5C threshold.

We used a ridgeline (Joy Division inspired) chart to visualise daily temperature anomalies since 1940.

2024 clearly stands out with 100% of its days above 1.3C and 75% above 1.5C.

I could settle for more sleep😬

Sam Altman and Aaron Swartz Saw the Future by David Moore The inaugural class of the YCombinator venture capital/startup accelerator was photographed in 2005. YCombinator provides seed money and advice to promising startups in exchange for ...

I think this is the best thing anybody has written about ChatGPT or AI

by @davidrussellmoore.bsky.social for @flaminghydra.com

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A streamlined pipeline to enhance geospatial modeling accuracy, addressing issues like imbalanced data, spatial autocorrelation, prediction errors, and the nuances of model generalization and uncertainty estimation.

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The 11th Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Symposium (#EEBST2025) will be hosted by Hacettepe University in Ankara, Türkiye, from July 9–11, 2025. 🌿🐾🧬 Symposium website: eebst.ekoevo.org. Save the date and stay tuned for updates!

New from me on what the rage and glee on public display after the killing of a healthcare CEO portends.

I suspect the corporate world will respond with more security and retreating even more into their gated lives.

They would be advised to read up on history.

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New research demonstrates the potential of species distributions models to distinguish source/sink dynamics of animal populations. 🦌 🌏 🧪
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New research article now out! Detecting stochasticity in population time series using a non-parametric test of intrinsic predictability 🧪 🌎 👇

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