I "made" this video (more of a podcast really) by imputing seven of my papers into Google's NotebookLM AI. It's not perfect (those graphs are a mess) but it has a strong narrative, and it's probably more accurate than most science podcasts.
The Birdsong Lab at the University of Lethbridge is seeking 1-2 motivated graduate students to join us starting in Fall 2025. Funding is available. (a🧵1 /6)
We offer a diverse, supportive lab environment that emphasizes curiosity and discovery. Our lab is part of a vibrant animal behavior community at the University of Lethbridge, spanning ethology, behavioral ecology, and behavioral neuroscience in birds, mammals, and inverts. (5/6)
If you’re interested in joining us, please send your CV and a cover letter detailing your interest and suitability for the position to david.logue@uleth.ca by November 1, 2024. Feel free to reach out with any questions! (end 🧵)
How have we studied female bird song? Does female song function the same way as male song? Sometimes. . .
Congratulations to Cristina Barros for summarizing the literature on this topic with @UrbanBirdNerdauthors.elsevier.com/c/1jczN…
Great to see McElreath get the recognition he deserves. This book, and the accompanying YouTube lectures, represent a revolution in applied statistics.
The folks at @ISBA_events tell me my book Statistical Rethinking has won the 2024 DeGroot Prize for its contributions to "statistical inference, decision theory and statistical applications". This is huge honor especially given the previous winners, who have influenced me so much
ALT Cover of 2nd edition of Statistical Rethinking
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Winners of the DeGroot Prize
2021
Nicolas Chopin and Omiros Papaspiliopoulos (2020). An Introduction to Sequential Monte Carlo. Springer.
2019
Subhashis Ghosal and Aad van der Vaart. Fundamentals of Nonparametric Bayesian Inference. Cambridge University Press.
2017
David Banks, Jesus Rios, and David Rios Insua. Adversarial Risk Analysis. CRC Press.
2015
Andrew Gelman, John B. Carlin, Hal S. Stern, David B. Dunson, Aki Vehtari, and Donald B. Rubin. Bayesian Data Analysis, Third Edition. CRC Press.
2013
Noel Cressie and Christopher Wikle (2011). Statistics for Spatio-Temporal Data. John Wiley and Sons.
Kevin P. Murphy (2012). Machine Learning: A Probabilistic Perspective. MIT Press.
2011
Jay Kadane (2011). Principles of Uncertainty. CRC Press.
2009
Giovanni Parmigiani and Lurdes Inoue (2009). Decision Theory: Principles and Approaches. John Wiley and Sons.
Carl Edward Rasmussen and Christopher K. I. Williams (2006). Gaussian Processes for Machine Learning (freely availa
Una oportunidad para financiar servicios de traducción profesionales para autores latinoamericanos que tengan manuscritos casi listos y que quieran traducirlos o revisar el inglés: nabci-us.org/stork-grants-es…
Fellow Canadian birdsong researcher, Dan Mennill, spoke about his pioneering experimental study of cultural evolution during The Golden Age of Animal Communication Networks symposium at ABS last week. #ABS2024
How to handle in-person vs online conferences?
The @AnimBehSociety has a cool approach. The in-person conference was last week. Now we upload videos of talks and posters, accessible to in-person & virtual-only attendees (with virtual office hours & online questions). #ABS2024
The Animal Behavior Society offers awards for (1) North Americans to travel to Latin America to participate in special courses or workshops and (2) Latin Americans to hold conferences in Latin America. Application deadline for both awards is June 1. Link below
This AMAZING workshop for BIPOC graduate student in Animal Behavior is entirely FREE to students from any country. English - Spanish translation will be available. Please retweet! #AnimalBehavior#DiversifyingSTEM
Ph.D. student Juley Vazquez-Cardona and her crew are studying Adelaide's warblers in the non-breeding season. Is vocal performance lower than in the breeding season? Is it true that females are more aggressive and even sing at this time of year? Let's find out!