Brian J. Enquist

bjenquist.bsky.social

13 October 2026 15:40

Please pass along... 🌿 Explore 25.9 MILLION plant trait measurements across 54 traits in BIEN 4.2! Search, visualize & download trait data across species, genera & families. No coding needed! (But code examples given so that you can learn). Try it ... benquist.shinyapps.io/bien-traits-...

Richard McElreath 🐈‍⬛

rmcelreath.bsky.social

11 October 2026 06:48

We really need to make Meng's Big Data Paradox central to teaching, don't we? Researchers don't know this stuff bc they have never been exposed to it. But it is fundamental. (Link to paper PDF statistics.fas.harvard.edu/sites/g/file...)

Dan Warren

danlwarren.bsky.social

09 October 2026 07:15

Reading Statistical Rethinking by @rmcelreath.bsky.social and “If you are confused, it is only because you are trying to understand” is such a great line that I am definitely going to have to quote it when I’m teaching.

Brian J. Enquist

bjenquist.bsky.social

25 September 2026 17:11

"... The very sharp-sighted always find discrepancies and are able to say that there is no generality, only a spectrum of special cases. This diversity of outlook has proved useful in every science, but it is nowhere more marked than in ecology." - R.H. MacArthur 1968 🧪🌐

Alejandro Fábregas-Tejeda

alejandrofabregastejeda.com

23 September 2026 06:40

As simulations grow in complexity, a set of non-trivial issues emerge: diminished identifiability as free parameters become too numerous relative to exp. constraints & difficulties grasping causality. In our new 📄, we point to potential avenues to move #CellBio forward 👇 arxiv.org/abs/2608.06998