Statistics, lizards, computers, (macro)evolution, comparative methods, stochastic processes. Jazz, saxophone, Zen #rstats #julialang (she/her) 🏳️⚧️
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30 Oct 2024
Excited for this new pre-print from my lab. Please enjoy and re-tweet!
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30 Mar 2023
My last PhD chapter is now out there ready to be criticized - and cited, hopefully for good reasons! 🤞
An evaluation of performance and an attempt to "reconciliate" linear and geometrics morphometrics and their treatment of size and allometry.
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2 Jan 2023
Sometimes, it can be hard to know what resources you should read if you are just joining the #JuliaLang community, so this article covers 10 you might want to read 📚:
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2 Jan 2023
I profoundly disagree with the smearing of the journal @ASNAmNat by @RichardDawkins and @Evolutionistrue: I am a (proud) long-term member of the editorial board of American Naturalist which is still one of our most important journals in evolutionary biology 1/n
30 Dec 2022
American Naturalist used to be a great journal. Very sad. How could they sink so low?
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17 Dec 2022
Had a great time at #AES2022 . Thanks to all the organisers and of course the presenters. So much interesting science! Was also impressed by the diversity of the attendees, especially the students and ECRs. Everyone was very supportive. Planning to attend this conference again!
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5 Nov 2022
Switching to Mastodon for work related stuff. Follow me at @Simone66B@ecoevo.social
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2 Nov 2022
I got laid off from Twitter this morning with no notice. I was the lead paleontologist responsible for promoting content about placing fossils in phylogenetic trees every time someone tweeted a paper featuring macroevolutionary analysis of extant species alone.
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18 Oct 2022
Read Julia’s essay if you think that trans kids are increasing in the population. Spoiler: they probably aren’t.
17 Oct 2022
so @google, you should know that this anti-trans activist & "big pharma" conspiracy theorist is falsely reporting an essay of mine that is still relevant & was just cited on @LastWeekTonight – here's the essay in question, can you please fix this?: juliaserano.medium.com/trans…
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15 Oct 2022
That's a wrap!
If you found this thread valuable:
1. Follow me @codewithvoid for more of these
2. RT the tweet below to help other developers
15 Oct 2022
Every programming tip I have after over decade of writing software:
1. Coding is the last step of the process
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7 Oct 2022
Paper comparing methods to estimate population density
#cameratraps VS live trapping VS genetic
Differences in precision, cost, and effort
▶️#Cameratrapping least effort
▶️#Genetics most expensive & most precise
▶️#Livetrapping cheapest, most time-cons & less precise
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7 Oct 2022
Read the entire discussion! It’s great! TSG was very influential to me. It really shaped the way I think about evolution. I teach it to my students although we also teach them critical thinking about it too. But I disagree strongly with this opinion.
7 Oct 2022
I think 'The Selfish Gene' by Richard Dawkins has done untold damage to so many people's understanding of evolutionary biology. It teaches hyper-adaptionist thinking and completely wrong ideas (e.g. "genes = units of selection"). Possibly the most damaging popsci book of all time
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7 Oct 2022
I think 'The Selfish Gene' by Richard Dawkins has done untold damage to so many people's understanding of evolutionary biology. It teaches hyper-adaptionist thinking and completely wrong ideas (e.g. "genes = units of selection"). Possibly the most damaging popsci book of all time
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4 Oct 2022
Also, while I'm at it, computer programs are code, not codes. Spies have codes. Programmers write code. #RStats #julialang
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4 Oct 2022
twitterverse: Is anyone else annoyed by the term "functional diversity" which ecologists seem to equate with "disparity" in macroevolutionary studies? Also, isn't "functional diversity" (disparity) a property of ecosystems, not taxa?
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28 Sep 2022
VERY interesting paper on modelling macroevolution has just caught my eye. Just come out in print but has been available online for a while. It provides a rigorous definition of a model that appears to have wide applicability. Plus, the figures look nice!
rdcu.be/cWs11
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16 Aug 2022
Biological examples of sex diversity in animals. It’s not a binary, people!
15 Aug 2022
Super excited to share this review on sex-specific morphs in @NatureRevGenet. Sex-specific morphs expand the study of sex differences beyond bimodal comparisons of male and female averages, and allow us to study a more expansive range of sexualization nature.com/articles/s41576-0…
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10 Aug 2022
Short but interesting and informative Obituary in @sse_evolution about Dick Lewontin's enormous influence on philosophy of biology, and as mentor for prominent philosophers like Elliott Sober, @pgodfreysmith, William Whimsatt, Elizabeth Lloyd and others:
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5 Aug 2022
fantastic post-doc opportunity for a vertebrate paleontologist.
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