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A few weeks ago I rambled on about carrying capacity as a concept. The day after I posted that, I stumbled across a paper by James …
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About a year ago I disclosed my depression to the interwebs. It seems timely to revisit the topic.
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I often hear the phrase, “This population is below \(K\) so …”. But what does the trajectory of such a population look like? I think it …
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I’m excited to finally announce EnTyrely Too Much after an overly long gestation period. Looking at the fantastic pages put …
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Metadata are good. Everyone should create metadata. But writing raw XML is bad. rOpenSci created the EML package to make this easier.
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I’d like to change the title of this blog, so I solicited suggestions on Twitter and Facebook. There were some great ones! Then I held …
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I now regularly test models using cross validation. I use a “calibration curve” to see whether the predictions from independent data …
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5 out of 10 ecology textbooks on my shelves make this distinction: geometric models are for populations with discrete pulses of births, …
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Awareness of students’ mental health is growing in academia right now. Unsurprisingly, faculty suffer mental illness too, and …
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In 2016 I started thinking about using sum to zero contrasts and wrote a brief blog post about them. Someone read it! I got this email …
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