Research Analyst @RutgersRCI. Interests: data, conservation, wildlife trade, & maps. Estoy aprendiendo español. #BlackLivesMatter. he/him/his

New Jersey, USA
Joined December 2014
There is a global groundswell of Indigenous-led research on stewardship of lands and waters, providing opportunities for Indigenous and Western knowledges to flourish together. Time to support Indigenous science | Science science.org/doi/10.1126/scie…
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The #EU is a global hub for #wildlife #trade. 12 researchers, inc. WildCRU's @verissimodiogo, propose ways current #regulations could be improved to track all species, observe laws of species’ home countries & ensure sustainability of legal traffic. See: bit.ly/3TvrW0U
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Shocked & distressed that @DukeU & its Dean @susan_alberts, a renowned biologist in her own right, could support dismantling one of the most important plant collections for research & training. It is the largest herbarium in SE USA. A destructive decision. science.org/content/article/…
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MacNeil et al. illustrate image processing and segmentation workflows built upon existing open-access R packages, underlining the potential for wider adoption of computer vision tools among ecologists. buff.ly/4bxvW7Y
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the death of this app has been such a blow to community & info-gathering and I realize I am x-ing this into a void that was once a bustling place but I just want to say it sucks and is fucking up solidarity, learning from each other, trust in media & organizing
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New blog post: Why Effect Sizes Selected for Significance are Inflated daniellakens.blogspot.com/20… I tried to explain this important topic as clearly as I can. I also explain why bias adjusted estimates are somewhat useful, but Type M errors are not, and how to prevent bias.
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Most countries don't publish official sub-national population data. Luckily, there are several geospatial population datasets we can use instead. Here's a list of them (I wish I knew about 5 years ago):
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My newest video explains how to publish your Quarto projects for free to GitHub Pages, using GitHub Actions, *without* the need to render anything locally! Fully automate your Quarto workflow😎 All this in just 6 mins! ⌛️ 🔗youtu.be/arzBRW5XIkg #rstats #QuartoPub #rmarkdown
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Are you an ecologist working with statistical models? this paper might be useful. Now formally published in an @MethodsEcolEvol issue, with many outsatnding colleagues including CREEMinal @ali__johnston with @GordyPopovic responsible for herding the cats besjournals.onlinelibrary.wi…
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I'm excited to share that I published a first version of my Statistics 4 Ecologists book with University of Minnesota Libraries Publishing. You can now download a (FREE) pdf version of the book here: conservancy.umn.edu/handle/1…
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New Post: Learn how to do regressions in Google #EarthEngine and best practices for setting up your machine learning workflow. The post shows how to predict Aboveground Biomass by fusing Sentinel-2 data with GEDI L4A. spatialthoughts.com/2024/02/… (1/n)
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It’s been just over a year since I left my #research and #academia life behind, and just about a year since I started #freelancing full time as a science journalist. Here’s what I’ve been up to since then – professionally and personally. A🧵(1/15)
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📰 The occupancy modelling framework offers tremendous flexibility in estimating species abundance and distribution pattern. Donovan et al. introduce occupancyTuts R package that teach the statistical underpinnings of several occupancy models. buff.ly/3HvcJ9d
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I'm super excited to share the first chapter from my PhD! We examined 14,000 online advertisements to discover which pet birds Australians are interested in, what traits make them popular, and how this relates to the risk of new invasive species 💻🦜🔍 rdcu.be/dtNsV
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#wildlifetrade on the dark web currently serves a niche market for drug use. With open web prevention measures increasing, monitoring the dark web is critical for detecting new trade trends or movements towards it. Congrats @OliverStringham and team. doi.org/10.1002/pan3.10469
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Good news today that our study of #wildlifetrade on the #darkweb has been published: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wi… The work led by @OliverStringham uncovered 153 sp. of plants, animals & fungi for sale. Surface web & social media are still primary avenues for wildlife trade.
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NPR is stepping away from Twitter. It’s the right move and I’m proud of us for taking it. Here’s where you can still find all our content:
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