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Programmers of the SQuID simulation package at work @vdVeenB Joel Pick

The animal model group is meeting while the students have beers

So far, our teaching focused on: 1.Building an equation of variance 2.Understanding fixed effect (interactions) 3.Using mixed models to understand biology 4.Random intercept and random slope models Halfway the workshop now, so time to stretch our legs

Very interesting account Joel Pick Jarrod Hadfield on how prevalent phenotypic skew can be (including meta-analysis on avian tarsus length) + decomposition of the skew shows it is of env. rather than genetic origin yet may often lead to h² overestimation nature.com/articles/s4155…

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SQuID meeting this week near Montpellier for another workshop (organised by Anne Charmantier @BA_Class and Celine Teplitsky) to study how to educate biologists in mixed-model analyses, and teach statistics to local students

Instructors of the Montpellier workshop this week

First day of the workshop. @KateLaskowski Anne Charmantier and Niels Dingemanse teaching how to interpret interactions, and the importance of centering in linear (mixed) models

😀😃 Needed that after talking stats for a whole day

Day 2 of the SQuID workshop in Montpellier adds a bit complexity. Today we focus on random regression: mixed-models fitting random intercepts and slopes @DenisREALE Ned Dochtermann Niels Dingemanse

This morning the SQuID Montpellier group took a little break and explored the surrounds of the workshop site

The Montpellier 2022 SQuID workshop has been a blast. For their last afternoon, the students are discovering simulations with squidSim package before the farewells..

Celine Teplitsky givie the final evening lecture, focusing on how to differentiate between plasticity and micro-evolution in datasets with temporal trends in lay dates of blue tits at SQuID Montpellier

SQuID is doing another workshop. This time the meeting is organised by @KateLaskowski at UC Davis. Today we plan this and future workshops, after which we kick off with the teaching tomorrow

Our workshop is starting right now!

Today our students worked on random intercept and random slopes models with Ned Dochtermann Rose O'Dea, Niels Dingemanse and Dave Westneat. Exciting evening lecture by Joel Pick, focusing on predicting evolution in the wild

An exciting last day of the workshop where Joel Pick shows the students how to use the squid-simulation tool to investigate how study design decisions affect parameters estimated in mixed model