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If you’re at #AOS_SCO23 there’s an excellent round table today (08/11)
Bird name-a-thon: Categorizing birds names using crowd sourcing
Organized by Erin Morrison and Allison Shultz. Featuring some analyses of these categories as well. In Ballrooms 4&5 at 12 pm!
Friday evening preprint drop:
https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/qx7ku/
It is a paper slightly different from our usual fare, but deals with a topic close to home: why our students appear to be more and more overcommitted. This is something that I suspect many faculty (at least in US campuses) have observed. 1/
Give me your tired... of Melon Husk's vanity nonsense...
Your poor... and those with plenty of money but who refuse to fork over $8 to a billionaire...
Your huddled masses yearning... for a space where kind, intelligent, and compassionate people interact minus conspiracy nuts, climate denialists, and literal Nazis...
Leave the wretched refuse of society to circle-jerk themselves into oblivion...
and find me here: @tinosaurs.
An opioid expert from Texas A&M gave a guest lecture and mentioned that Texas lieutenant governor Dan Patrick’s policies were costing lives. Within hours, Patrick’s office got her suspended, formally censured, and nearly fired.
https://www.texastribune.org/2023/07/25/texas-a-m-professor-opioids-dan-patrick/
The professor, an expert on the opioids crisis, was placed on paid administrative leave and investigated, raising questions about the extent of political interference in higher education, particularly in health-related matters.
This study combines automated behavioral tracking of ants with multi-omics, revealing that individual behavior, brain gene expression, and gut microbiota composition are all more strongly correlated with social network position than they are with one another, indicating that social interactions likely regulate social behavior and underlying physiology.
I'm happy to report that the third edition of my textbook Evolution, coauthored with @LeeDugatkin, is now available from W. W. Norton and Co.
The new edition features expanded coverage of anthropogenic evolution as well as a strengthened focus on data literacy and data reasoning.
If you're an instructor in this field or training to become one, drop me a DM or email, and I can get you an evaluation copy.
More about the book: https://wwnorton.com/books/9781324033714
Wondering who's here on Mastodon posting about R? I made myself a tool to see who's posted multiple times with the #rstats hashtag in the past month or so, and I'm happy to share it:
https://apps.machlis.com/shiny/rstats/
Any accounts with nobot or nobots in their profiles have been removed, as have people on instances where the admin has asked me not to scrape. If you otherwise want off, let me know.
cc @rstats
Trends in Ecology & Evolution
Erol Akcay
Tim O'Connell
Carl T. Bergstrom
PLOS Biology
Ben Bolker
Sharon Machlis