It sounds trivial and obvious, but are you reading error bars correctly?

Do you know whether you're looking at standard errors (measures of inferential uncertainty), standard deviations (measures of spread of individual observations), or 95% confidence intervals around the mean?

And are your intuitions correct about how to interpret each of these?

Here's a nice primer, refresher, or teaching article.

https://www.nature.com/articles/nmeth.2659

h/t @jakehofman

A short essay on a foundational concept in soil science: profiles and horizons

https://open.substack.com/pub/wonderofsoil/p/soils-form-in-profiles-and-horizons?r=1vim5o&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post

#soil #SoilScience #education #learning #writing

Please consider participating in the U. of Alaska’s Giving Day on February 22 & 23 by donating to #Toolik Field Station’s Early Career Research Support Fund: https://givingday.alaska.edu/amb/toolik

Or sign up to be a champion for the #TUNDRA award and share our efforts with your community over email, social media (#49HoursforAlaska), and word of mouth #arctic #alaska

Come #postdoc with us to test novel, low-cost nutrient sensors & figure out how warm winters change #watershed #nutrient export. It will be fun!

More info: https://www.uvm.edu/news/gund/gund-institute-names-2023-catalyst-award-winners Apply here: https://www.uvm.edu/gund/postdoctoral-fellowships

The Great Lakes have been unusually ice-free this winter. In this image from Feb. 13, ice cover on the lake was 7 percent – the lowest ice cover measured on this date of any year since 1973 when satellite-based record keeping began.

📸 Image by VIIRS on the @NOAA-20 satellite
#NASAEarth