Hope to process the day’s happenings later, meanwhile just a snapshot of my twitter-stream notes. My own highlights certainly include Steve Pacala’s fantastic plenary session in receiving the MacArthur award, and Mark Urban’s crystal clear presentation on “climate collisions.” I thought I was less tolerant of data-free models with arbitrary assumptions these days, but somehow Mark just swept those concerns away. In pointing out really fundamental concepts, such details just aren’t so important.
My twitter-notes below: note the statistical overview of the conference, quotes from the plenary, links to some papers I hope to look over soon, and the amazing images from Arkive.
cboettig #ESA11 theory mixer was packed. So many brilliant people so little space. Theorists know how to run buisness meetings - mixer was the meetin
NEONInc The average age of a NEON user is shrinking, as evidenced by the fascination of today’s visitor.https://t.co/07VZneQ #ESA
cboettig See Allesina’s results on coexistence of competitor networks in the recent PNAS article https://bit.ly/oXTVIU#esa11
cboettig #esa11 Stefano Allesina predicts coexistence of competitive networks from pairwise interactions that are either deterministic or random
cboettig Wow, great time talking to the @NEONInc folks at #esa11; where did the time go? Check out their poster session 4:30-6:30 tonight!
_inundata DataONE best practices from #esa11https://t.co/NIC2QyY #openscience
cboettig Urban shows vivdly how variation in dispersal rates during climate change results in population “collisions” & resulting extinction #esa11
cboettig Mark Urban species interaction ignored in 92% of species response to climate change studies. #esa11
cboettig Enjoying a talk in education pedagogy & faculty development. Everyone should check out at least one of the >200 edu talks at #esa11
cboettig Matt compares coliniz vs in situ speciation of island anoles. Colinization at any rate obscures pattern of phylo diversity w area #esa11
cboettig Matt helmus builds model of phylogenetic attraction or repulsion to ask how diff patterns change species-area curves #esa11
cboettig Have images of endangered (global redlist) species? check out Arkive’s most wanted list and get involved: https://bit.ly/cvgkbp #esa11
cboettig Totally loving the arkive.org session, presenter is excellent, good disc. of resuse. Check out its flickr group https://bit.ly/oi8aMC #esa11
cboettig https://Arkive.org world’s largest free database of images and video #esa11 spice up your talks and course material with amazing images
cboettig Hal Caswell asks: how about dealing with the processed data? Reproducing from raw data ain’t trivial #esa11. Carley ans: saving the workflow
cboettig .@carlystrasser gives great advice on best practices that can easily be implemented by any researcher in standard spreadsheets #esa11
cboettig Data management session has a bit too much “how” and not enough “why.” Where are examples of these steps leading to better science? #esa11
cboettig RT @rOpenSci: What do you want to see in #rstatspackages to integrate #opensource data with R? Tell us at https://bit.ly/os7OBm #ESA11
cboettig RT @megritude “Young ecologists, you face…a litany of existential crises. When I was a kid, this field was a BLAST!” Pacala #ESA11
recology_ NewPost (#ESA11) rOpenSci: a collaborative effort to develop R-based tools for facilitating Open Science https://bit.ly/nbQ3Zn #rstats
cboettig “Everyone believes the data except the collector. No one believes the model except the modeller” - Pacala shares old adage #esa11
cboettig Pacala encourages ecologists to diversify research MT @jessicablois: “reduce associative mating and increase dispersal” #ESA11
cboettig Pacala calls all of us to reserve at least part of our careers for working on enviro crisis - social contract. #esa11
cboettig Never has so much been asked of so little knowledge… but we must make predictions on the best avail science - Pacala #esa11
DoctorZen Whoa. Pacala is saying the demands on ecology for predictions could outstrip the ability to get evidence. #esa11
cboettig RT @carlystrasser: Data Management Plan tool demo today at #ESA11 SS3- 10am. Plus tips on #metadata, best practices, and example DMPs
cboettig .@JacquelynGill my thoughts exactly. Hmm… Wonder if there’ll be a tweetup at #ESA11?
cboettig Arrived in Austin, check. Badge & textbook-sized program, check. Now walking past Darwin’s Pub. Hello #ESA11, this gonna be good
cboettig From @ethanwhite: tips for navigating #ESA11 https://bit.ly/oXysK1. What’s your strategy?
cboettig A statistical overview of what will be going on at the #ESA11 conference in Austin: https://bit.ly/nRjJtR
cboettig Heading to #ESA11. Excited to be speaking in conservation, policy & theory section where cool math meets real-world problems