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Early versions of ChatGPT overrepresented certain words like "delve," and those words exploded in scientific lit. But certain words were underrepresented, too. Here's the top 4: arxiv.org/abs/2406.11583

“A Post Mortem on the Gino Case”: “Committing fraud is, right now, a viable career strategy that can propel you at the top of the academic world.” statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/03/08/a-p…

Information Theory, formalised by Claude Shannon in the 1940s, is one of the planks of 20th & 21st century science. You can now watch all 8 lectures we're showing from Sam Cohen's popular 3rd year Oxford Mathematics course. Unless that's too much information. youtube.com/playlist?list=…

Just back from the Future for Butterflies & Moths meeting in Wageningen. It's been definitely one of my favorite conferences - a truly lovely and supportive community. 100% recommended. It was great to catch up with so many colleagues 🦋

Finally had a chance to make a profile on the other side. You can find me at "riva-ecology" 🦋

Recently had a debate about two-way fixed effects and how it pretends to magically solve causal inference problems by just changing to a different DV than the one we actually care about. Here's that explained visually. Here's raw annual city temperature:

We visited Bologna :)

We did a good hike this weekend. It might have been too early for Swiss butterflies, but lovely nonetheless

Check out our latest review on niche truncation in species distribution models besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/13…

Scoop from GBH: Harvard — in a historic move — has revoked HBS professor Francesca Gino's tenure. Gino was investigated for research misconduct after data sleuths alleged that data in at least four of her studies had been manipulated. wgbh.org/news/education…

Our viewpoint made the cover of BioScience! Beautiful picture from Jean Marie Twambaze academic.oup.com/bioscience/art…

What do spiders do for us? More than you think! 🕷️ Discover their ecosystem superpowers: 🔗doi: 10.1111/brv.70044 Pedro Cardoso cardosopmb.bsky.social Stefano Mammola CIÊNCIAS ULisboa CE3C #NatureBasedSolutions #Spiders #EcosystemServices #Biodiversity #conservation

This year, at #ICCB2025, I will share our research on butterfly migration. If you are around, come and say hi! Also, feel free to reach out if you are looking for a PhD position. You can find more about our research here: shawanchowdhury.com.

Jack White claims he can name any Beatles song in just one second. And then he starts to name them.

New in Scientific Data - Spatial occurrence records and distributions of tropical Asian butterflies nature.com/articles/s4159… collab w/ many great colleagues, led by Eugene and Emily… optimistic that the data will lead to concrete conservation actions for Asian butterflies

“Springer Nature Portfolio has launched a “Discover” series of journals that seem to deliberately and systematically mimic the MDPI brand.” …in-on-scientific-publishing.github.io/website/posts/…

Please share. We have a fully-funded PhD position on animal migration. If interested, please apply by 27 July. More about us: shawanchowdhury.com. iDiv Biodiversity Research Monash Science School of Biological Sciences, Monash #PhDposition #Ecology #Conservation #Migration #Rstats #AcademicTwitter

Lluís Brotons Pau Costa Foundation CREAF Observatori del Patrimoni Natural i Biodiversitat 👉 Com es recuperen els processos naturals alterats o perduts en benefici de la societat …. ‘Restaurant els règims d’incendis… ’ Current Biology CREAF CTFC wildE cell.com/current-biolog…

Honored of the opportunity to talk about habitat fragmentation w/ Cristina Banks-Leite at the last #ATBC conference. If you are curious, the conversation is available on YouTube: youtube.com/live/5GiMAPegD…. (also a good reason to take some days off and explore Mexico 🇲🇽!)

conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/co… "To guide meaningful conservation action in fragmented landscapes, we recommend using simple, direct measures of fragmentation and separating the effects of habitat configuration from the effects of habitat amount" (Martin, Galán-Acedo et al)