Duncan O’Brien

National Environmental Monitoring Conference - British Ecological Society The NEMC returns for its second year focusing on: From insight to impact: building the UK environmental monitoring community

Join a UK-wide environmental monitoring community at #NEMC2025 to help shape the future of evidence-based environmental action.

Session proposals welcome on habitat condition, plastics, forever chemicals, impacts on people & wellbeing & urban monitoring.

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Interested in doing a PhD? We have a paid opportunity to join us for a Research Experience Placement - a ~2 month project with some fun data collection and analysis on Manx shearwaters. You need to be a registered undergraduate to apply. Deadline 25th June, starts in July. Get in touch, link below!

Data Analyst - Ecological Modelling | 02 April, 2025 | Jobs and careers with West of England Combined Authority Jobs and careers with West of England Combined Authority - The West of England Mayoral Combined Authority (MCA) is seeking to appoint on a fixed term basis (until September 2026) a data analyst/scient...

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Looking for someone interested in modelling biodiversity trends to work on the interface between academia and policy.

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EcologicalNetworksDynamics.jl: A Julia package to simulate the temporal dynamics of complex ecological networks Species interactions play a crucial role in shaping biodiversity, species coexistence, population dynamics, community stability and ecosystem functioning. Our understanding of the role of the dive...

Get simulating! #Biodiversity / #foodweb dynamics with #julialang. Classic bioenergetic model, consolidation of lots of add-ons & super fast.

Very happy to share this, a result of amazing collaborators and a rich history of model development.

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Poster of PhD advert about role gulls play in spreading disease and antimicrobial resistance. More info: https://www.findaphd.com/phds/project/what-role-do-gulls-play-in-spreading-disease-and-anti-microbial-resistance-nerc-gw4-dtp-phd-studentship-for-september-2025-entry-ref-5431/?p178297

Exciting PhD opportunity with @neeltjeboogert.bsky.social , @padpadpadpad.bsky.social (Exeter) and myself (Bristol) on gulls, their microbiomes, and role in transmitting disease.

Details below - deadline 13 January!

Bayesian Modeling and Causal Inference for Multivariate Longitudinal Data Easy-to-use and efficient interface for Bayesian inference of complex panel (time series) data using dynamic multivariate panel models by Helske and Tikka (2024) <doi:10.1016/j.alcr.2024.100617>. The ...

Would dynamite (docs.ropensci.org/dynamite/) help with this or is it too far removed from the SEM framework?

Stage introducing the time lag session

Looking forward to what is (in my opinion) the most under appreciated component in ecosystem management/conservation - time lags #BES2024

Heading up to #BES2024 today in Liverpool. Hopefully see lots of you there, and if you are going to be around why not drop in and see some of the group's talks (on #resilience, #seabirds, and #rewilding)

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I highlighted this in the paper for ordered beta regression, but I think many don't know this:

you can estimate ordbetareg *just fine* without obs at the bounds (0 or 1).

Maybe your current sample doesn't have 0/1s... but future samples could! Ordbetareg works fine for *any* bounded data.

#rstats

Feature 1 would be my new feature preference. Very excited to hear that it’s (potentially) coming.

Planktonic functional diversity changes in synchrony with lake ecosystem state Using species-level plankton trait and abundance data from five highly monitored lakes, we determined the timing of functional diversity change relative to ecosystem state/functioning. Simple cross-c....

Completely agree, and it’s likely the challenge of empirically estimating them. I’ve had a few ideas on how to do so (doi.org/10.1111/gcb....), but think many methods are inappropriate for most ecological time series.

Do you have any opinions about the best approaches for identifying time lags?

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¿Porqué no los dos?

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It’s time for mixture models.

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