ATTN: We’re hiring a database analyst! The DA will play a lead role in expanding the OTN data system to accept satellite telemetry data, and create & maintain data structure & data ingestion processes purpose-built for satellite data. Closes 06/09/2023. dal.peopleadmin.ca/postings/13639

📦R package hmmSSF now available on GitHub📦 github.com/NJKlappstein/h… To get started, check out a detailed example of the workflow in the vignette. This is work in progress, so please tell us if you have questions or feedback!

New preprint: "Understanding step selection analysis through numerical integration" arxiv.org/abs/2308.15678 Our attempt at clarifying the role of "random/control/available" points when fitting step selection functions. With Natasha Klappstein, Jonathan Potts, and John Fieberg.

#FactFriday Did you know that graduate students holding a Tricouncil award like #NSERC and #SSHRC can't afford to live in a 1-bedroom apartment in the city they study in. How can we expect researchers to make advances in Science when they can't make rent? 😱 #SupportOurScience

Looking for ways to evaluate model fit when conducting step-selection analyses or when fitting hidden Markov models? Check out our new preprint! With Johannes Signer and Smith Freeman #rstats

I am currently advertising two competition-funded PhD projects. Both are based in St Andrews (CREEM_cake) and are collaborative projects. Details below. Please share. Do get in touch with any questions!

Our step selection analysis review now in MEE! We describe choices of "control" points through the lens of numerical integration, to unify them and explain why some work better. Control points are often a numerical tool with no biological interpretation doi.org/10.1111/2041-2…

We are looking for a PhD student, to work on statistical models for animal movement and fisheries science! Feel free to email/DM me if you're interested or have any questions (either about the project or about life in Halifax).

Scheduling all his upcoming obligations for after the winter break, the grad student offloads everything onto his future self.

Curious about the use of GPU computing for massively faster fitting of statistical models (especially state-space models)? Nice paper by my fabulous PhD student Cal Fagard-Jenkin, with some "getting started" components. Paper: doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoi… Code github.com/calliste-fagar…

ISEC 2024 15-19 July in Swansea - do not miss it! More info here: ststisticalecoloy.org

Budget 2024 is currently being finalized - and after 20 years of stagnant funding, it's about time graduate students and postdoctoral scholars are included! Use the link to call, email, and tweet at decision-makers before March 8th👇#SupportOurScience supportourscience.ca/action-budget-…

— ABSTRACT SUBMISSION OPEN — The #ISEC2024 conference will showcase what’s cool and exciting in #statisticalecology. Want to be part of it? 🤓☔️ You can now submit your abstract for talk or poster. Just follow the link on our website: statisticalecology.org

🚨 EXTENDED DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACT SUBMISSION 🚨 March 22 ➡️ March 29 You still have time to submit your abstract for #ISEC_2024_Swansea statisticalecology.org

it comes with an webpage showing how to conduct phylogenetic multilevel meta-analysis for how to do #MetaAnalysis for this kind of multi-species data set collected across the globe - itchyshin.github.io/multimodality/