Abstract submission opened for the Ecological Modelling Global Conference in Kashiwa, Japan, 19–23 October 2025.
#scienceconference #EcologicalModeling #Congress

Science School on Quantitative Ecology
Sep. 15–20 in Czech Republic. For Master and PhD students in ecology and related fields. No participation fees! Apply by May 6th at the latest (better earlier).

All information: https://ondrejmottl.github.io/SSoQE_website/

#summerschool #ecosystemmodel #EcologicalModeling

I think this is the *worst* model diagnostics I've ever seen. I had to laugh out loud when I saw it. What a way to start a friday.

#statistics #GAMs #EcologicalModeling

ISIMIP workshop in May 5–9 in Potsdam, Germany:

“The workshop, while serving as the main annual ISIMIP workshop, will be an activity as part of the Horizon Europe project OptimESM, and an excellent opportunity to connect the climate and climate impact modelling activities with regard to potential inputs to the IPCC Seventh Assessment Report (AR7).”

https://www.isimip.org/outcomes/events/upcoming-cross-sectoral-isimip-workshop-2025/

#Congress #ScienceConference #EcologicalModeling #EarthSystemModeling

Online intensive course for advanced Agent-Based Modelling using NetLogo from 3 to 7 March this year:
https://www.geoversity.io/courses/advanced-agent-based-modeling/
Deadline for registration: 24 February
There's also a student discount for the course fee.
#IndividualBasedModels #NetLogo #EcologicalModeling

Für die "UFZ-Winterschule Ökologische Modellierung" gibt es noch freie Plätze:

Die Winterschule vermittelt Studierenden und Promovierenden die Grundlagen der ökologischen Modellierung in einem 9-tägigen Intensivkurs (6.3. - 15.3.2025).
Nähere Informationen sind im PDF-Dokument hier https://www.ufz.de/export/data/2/293179_UFZ-Winterschule-2025-Poster.pdf oder ausführlicher im Internet unter

http://www.winterschule.ufz.de

Die Plätze werden in Reihenfolge der Anmeldung vergeben, Anmeldeschluss ist der 31.1.2025.
#ecology #summerschool #winterschool #EcologicalModeling #UFZ

Introducing the Computational Ecology Working Group

We connect scientists to advance research in #EcologicalModeling, #EcologicalStatistics, and #TheoreticalEcology, while addressing the impact of #HumanActivities.

📧 Contact AKCompEcol_orga@googlegroups.com
🌐 https://akcomputationalecology.wordpress.com

James Grace just published¹ an interesting piece on causal inquiry in ecology. He provides a framework for drawing together different strands of evidence: from statistics, experiments, and mechanisms.

I think this kind of epistemic thinking is just what ecology needs.

¹ https://doi.org/10.1002/ecm.1628

#epistemology #ecology #CausalInference #EcologicalModeling

Please spread the word! #phd #Mobot #EcologicalModeling #globalchange #conservation

Please spread the word! #PhD #MOBOT #ecology #EcologicalModeling

My Viewpoint article is online: “Model-based experiments as epistemic evidence in paleoecology”
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2024.110895

I condensed some of my learnings from my PhD project: the things I would have liked to be told when starting my project. Oh well… :)

#paleoecology #EcologicalModeling #epistemology #bayesian

Excellent blog post by Nick Clark showing how to work with state-space vector autoregressive models for non-Gaussian time-series, or in less technical terms - most ecological time-series. So if you model ecological time-series definitely go give it a read:

https://ecogambler.netlify.app/blog/vector-autoregressions/

and checkout the mvgam package:

https://nicholasjclark.github.io/mvgam/

#rstats #EcologicalModeling #TimeSeries

#introduction

Greetings! I am an early-career ecological modeler, working with both mechanistic and Bayesian models. I am passionate about scientific best practices, coding, reproducibility, uncertainty quantification, and epistemology. So far, my research has been around large herbivores, Pleistocene megafauna, paleo-climatology, and Neolithic farming.

#megafauna, #paleoclimate, #bayesian, #reproducibility, #archaeology, #mammoth, #EcologicalModeling, #ecology, #Neolithic, #Pleistocene

Oh, and by the way: after the #conference is before the #conference!

I hope to see you all at the #ECEM23 next year in Leipzig! The call for sessions is open until Jan 10. Please let me know in case you are interested in organising something together!

https://ecem23.eu/

#TheoreticalEcology
#EcologicalModeling
#EcologyMetz2022
#sfe2gfoe2022

And another very interesting #network poster! This one shows that higher horizontal #diversity of #autotrophs does not necessarily lead to higher #FunctionalDiversity!

Thanks @lawojcik, it was nice to chat with you!

@networkscience
#InteractionNetworks
#TheoreticalEcology
#EcologicalModeling
#EcologyMetz2022
#sfe2gfoe2022

Wanna see a proud #newPI?
Then come to the „evolution approaches“ sessions today! My team members Malina Palmer and Avril Weinbach will present their work on #ecoevo #feedback and #mutualism!

#coevolution
#metacommunities
#TheoreticalEcology
#EcologicalModeling
#AdaptiveDynamics

#EcologyMetz2022
#sfe2gfoe2022