Rooney’s old account @girls_can@social.cleverlibre.org

Linear time is a convenient illusion

Hi everyone!

My name is Luka Negoita and I run the online school R for Ecology where my mission is to make learning R as easy and accessible as possible for ecologists (and related fields).

This account will be dedicated to sharing resources and other cool and useful information about R. 👨‍💻 🌱 🌻

#introduction #rstats #ecology #datascience #learning

One of my favourite bird photos: a red-bellied woodpecker. From 2011 (!) –time flies. Not my first entry into #iNaturalist but yes my oldest by observation date. With a Canon Powershot SX40 HS at 35x optical zoom and no tripod.

Melanerpes carolinus https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/30876327

#birds #photography #nature #woodpecker

This is a new Mastodon social media account for the Joint Annual Meeting of the Canadian Society for Ecology and Evolution and Canadian Botanical Association, Winnipeg, 11-14 June, 2023/ Réunion Annuelle Conjointe d’Société Canadienne d’Ecologie et d’Evolution Association Botanique du Canada , Winnipeg, 11-14 Juin, 2023

Hashtags to find us
#CSEE_SCEE2023 #CBA_ABC2023

Over 20 yrs ago, using an exponential decay model, we showed that North American freshwater animals were disappearing 5 times faster than land animals & 3 times faster than coastal marine mammals. We found that North American freshwater ecosystems are losing species at a rate comparable to tropical rainforests (http://redpath-staff.mcgill.ca/ricciardi/Ricciardi&Rasmussen1999.pdf). This received much media attention at the time. The alarm was rung many times since. Yet #freshwater ecosystems are rarely the focus of #conservation campaigns.

@Ecoinvasions @alienspecies
Great idea!

In general I am interested in macroecological patterns of biological invasions and the drivers that govern these patterns in space and time.

Mainly working with plants from the #GloNAF database but also other groups are fine.

Lately, I also work on future scenarios of biological invasions in the #AlienScenarios project.

And I also contribute to the @ipbes invasive alien species assessment which will hopefully be adopted next year.

A new report from Stanford argues for changing how we teach science in the face of rampant disinformation. “…the goal of science education must be to make “competent outsiders” of all students.”

Focus should be on how to determine whether a source is credible.
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abq8093

Full report: https://sciedandmisinfo.sites.stanford.edu/sites/g/files/sbiybj25316/files/media/file/science_education_in_an_age_of_misinformation.pdf

One of the world’s longest-running experiments has been going for 143 years!

In 1879, botanist William Beal wanted to find out how long seeds could remain viable underground. So he buried bottles with different kinds of seeds in a secret spot somewhere on the Michigan State University campus, knowing the experiment might outlive him.

It did! Every 20 yrs, a small group scientists still dig up the bottles and seeds continue to germinate 🌱 https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/21/science/beal-seeds-experiment.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare #science