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Karl Andraczek
@karlandraczek.bsky.social
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Postdoctoral researcher @Synthesis centre sDiv. Studying BEF-relationships, feedbacks, climate extremes, belowground plant traits

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Karl Andraczek @karlandraczek.bsky.social · 29d
I had the honour to write a @newphyt.bsky.social commentary on this fantastic paper — summarizing its key insights and exploring exciting directions for future research. Hope it may spark new ideas and helps the community! ✨
🔗 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Trajectories of alpine plant communities under climate change.

Reposted by Karl Andraczek

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Richard McElreath 🐈‍⬛ @rmcelreath.bsky.social · 1d
So many nonsense ad hoc pipelines could be prevented by requiring that they work on synthetic data.

I tend to think of experiments as special cases of inference, since most of the problems I work on cannot be studied in experiments. But I get that many researchers see experiments as base analogy.
adamjkucharski.bsky.social Adam Kucharski @adamjkucharski.bsky.social · 1d
"Validate With Simulated Truth: A first habit is to test whether an analytical pipeline can recover known conditions."

Very good advice below. So much COVID nonsense (e.g. 'immunological dark matter') basically came down to a non-identifiable model that hadn't been properly tested.
Modelling Like an Experimentalist
Dahlin et al. (2024) apply experimental thinking to a model of mosquito-borne disease transmissions.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Go Belowground! @exfumo.bsky.social · 1d
When fire digs deeper 🔥🌹🌱 A new on our blog ▶️ 1url.cz/oJSXO Even in fire-adapted grasslands, too much fire can erode resilience! by @alinebombo.bsky.social
#GoBelowground #ExFuMo #Brazil #CamposRupestres #Resilience #buds #regeneration #rhizome #root
@ibotcz.bsky.social @czechacademy.bsky.social
When fire digs deeper: How changing fire frequency reshapes the belowground world of campos rupestres
New research by Aline Bertolosi Bombo at the Lab of Vegetation Ecology, São Paulo State University (UNESP). Above are views of the stunning campos rupestres in southeastern Brazil — ancie…
1url.cz

Reposted by Ben Bond‐Lamberty, Neil Pederson, Katherine Siegel , and 1 more

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Shersingh Joseph Tumber-Dávila @josephtumber.bsky.social · 4d
The Tumber-Dávila Lab and Michael Cox are looking for a postdoctoral Fellow to join the Environmental Studies Department at Dartmouth through the Society of Fellows Program
🌎🧪🌳🍁

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Reposted by Malte Jochum, Karl Andraczek

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Jarrett Byrnes @jebyrnes.bsky.social · 10d
Damn - this is really good. Modeling plant communities with Dirichlet regression. I use beta and ordered beta (thanks, @rmkubinec.bsky.social!) a lot, but this is very cool. Something I'd normally use gllvm for, but maybe... ecogambler.netlify.app/blog/plant-c...
Compositional modeling of plant communities with Dirichlet regression | GAMbler
Compositional data appears everywhere in scientific research, yet many analysts fall back on problematic approaches that ignore fundamental mathematical constraints. I demonstrate how Dirichlet regres...
ecogambler.netlify.app

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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 14d
When researchers bring up confounders without ever having declared the actual analysis goal
Goose chase meme. Panel 1, goose says: confounder of what? Panel 2, goose chases person, yelling: CONFOUNDER OF WHAT

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Karl Andraczek @karlandraczek.bsky.social · 14d
Me too! Thanks a lot for putting this list together! 🌟

Reposted by Maria Paniw, Karl Andraczek

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Billur Bektaş 🍃 @billurbektas.bsky.social · 15d
🧊 Did your model freeze in time? Let’s bring it back to life!
Join our hands-on workshop “Building Near-Term Iterative Forecasting Workflows” at #TIBS2026 – Aarhus, 6 Jan 2026 🌍
We’ll explore how to turn static predictions into dynamic, self-updating forecasts. @paniw.bsky.social

Reposted by Jens‐Christian Svenning, Oliver L. Phillips, Simon L. Lewis , and 19 more

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Brian J. Enquist @bjenquist.bsky.social · 21d
Please pass along, I’m recruiting PhD students to join our Macroecology Lab @uofa-eeb.bsky.social We study phys ecology, macroecology, biodiversity - spanning scaling, trait-based ecology, theory, comparative biology & ecoinformatics. Several avenues for funding. Please reach out if interested🧪🌐🌾

Reposted by Helmut Haberl, Tobías Plieninger, Daniel Müller , and 14 more

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Guy Pe'er @guypeer.bsky.social · 22d
Open Letter by scientists to the Council:
"Climate Neutrality Is Europe’s Greatest Economic Opportunity”.
Ahead of the European Council meeting on 23.10.2025,
2,178 scientists urge EU Heads of States & Governments to take ambitious decisions for the 2040 targets.
zenodo.org/records/1739...

Reposted by Meelis Pärtel, Akira Mori, Ben Bond‐Lamberty , and 4 more

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DroughtNet @droughtnet.bsky.social · 25d
The latest DroughtNet paper is out in Science today! Using coordinated experiments across six continents and 74 sites, the International Drought Experiment found differences between the effects of extreme droughts and more typical droughts... (1/3) www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Drought intensity and duration interact to magnify losses in primary productivity
As droughts become longer and more intense, impacts on terrestrial primary productivity are expected to increase progressively. Yet, some ecosystems appear to acclimate to multiyear drought, with cons...
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Karl Andraczek @karlandraczek.bsky.social · 26d
#roots, #alpineecosystem, #climatechange, #acclimation, #plasticity
karlandraczek.bsky.social Karl Andraczek @karlandraczek.bsky.social · 29d
I had the honour to write a @newphyt.bsky.social commentary on this fantastic paper — summarizing its key insights and exploring exciting directions for future research. Hope it may spark new ideas and helps the community! ✨
🔗 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Trajectories of alpine plant communities under climate change.

Reposted by Karl Andraczek

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Billur Bektaş 🍃 @billurbektas.bsky.social · 29d
This came as a beautiful surprise! What an amazing feeling reading a commentary on your paper, especially if you put soooo much work on it! Thank you @karlandraczek.bsky.social and @newphyt.bsky.social !

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Karl Andraczek @karlandraczek.bsky.social · 29d
Many thanks to @newphyt.bsky.social for inviting me to write this commentary, and to @joanabergmann.bsky.social, and my colleagues at @agwirthweigelt.bsky.social, and @idiv-research.bsky.social for their feedback and support! 🙏🌿

Reposted by Billur Bektaş

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Karl Andraczek @karlandraczek.bsky.social · 29d
Predicting how climate warming reshapes plant communities and their functioning is crucial. But how can we unearth its effects — especially in rapidly warming alpine systems? ⛰️🥵
👉 @billurbektas.bsky.social et al. shed light on this in an inspiring study: nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Traits and functions of alpine plant communities respond strongly but not always sufficiently to in situ climate change
Increasing climate warming and summer droughts are known to affect mountain plant communities, their functional traits and life strategies. However, little is known about how strongly and efficientl...
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

Reposted by Tommaso Jucker, Malte Jochum, Alba Anadon‐Rosell , and 3 more

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BugNet @bugnet.bsky.social · Oct 10
Our first paper from the Bug-Network (BugNet) is out! 🎉

BugNet is a global network studying how invertebrate herbivores and fungal pathogens shape plant diversity & ecosystem functioning worldwide. The paper reports on the methods of the experimental part:

📄 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
The Bug‐Network (BugNet): A Global Experimental Network Testing the Effects of Invertebrate Herbivores and Fungal Pathogens on Plant Communities and Ecosystem Function in Open Ecosystems
The Bug-Network (BugNet) is a novel global collaborative research network that implements standardized consumer-reduction experiments in herbaceous- or shrub-dominated ecosystems to assess the impact...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com

Reposted by Monica G. Turner, Ben Bond‐Lamberty, Ghislain Vieilledent , and 3 more

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Tim Curran @timcurran.bsky.social · Oct 8
Great PhD opportunity with an excellent supervisor:

Quantify traits of tree species across the western US to determine how tree populations and forest communities will respond to drought and fire.

plant-traits.net/lab-openings/
Lab openings | Laughlin Research Lab
plant-traits.net

Reposted by Richard Shaw, Jill A. Jacobson, Karl Andraczek

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Richard McElreath 🐈‍⬛ @rmcelreath.bsky.social · Oct 1
Was asked about collinearity again, so here's Vahove's 2019 post on why it isn't a problem that needs a solution. Design the model(s) to answer a formal question and free your mind janhove.github.io/posts/2019-0...
tl;dr Collinearity is a form of lack of information that is appropriately reflected in the output of your statistical model. When collinearity is associated with interpretational difficulties, these difficulties aren’t caused by the collinearity itself. Rather, they reveal that the model was poorly specified (in that it answers a question different to the one of interest), that the analyst overly focuses on significance rather than estimates and the uncertainty about them or that the analyst took a mental shortcut in interpreting the model that could’ve also led them astray in the absence of collinearity. If you do decide to “deal with” collinearity, make sure you can still answer the question of interest.

Reposted by Michael Barnett, Dorothy Bishop, Ben Bond‐Lamberty , and 12 more

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Thomas Lin Pedersen @thomasp85.com · Sep 11
I am beyond excited to announce that ggplot2 4.0.0 has just landed on CRAN.

It's not every day we have a new major #ggplot2 release but it is a fitting 18 year birthday present for the package.

Get an overview of the release in this blog post and be on the lookout for more in-depth posts #rstats
ggplot2 4.0.0
A new major version of ggplot2 has been released on CRAN. Find out what is new here.
www.tidyverse.org

Reposted by Katherine Siegel, Karl Andraczek

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Jon Henn @hennhouse.bsky.social · Sep 8
We're recruiting!! Myself along with Nathan Gill, Dylan Schwilk @schwilk.org, and Katharine Suding are recruiting people for Master's, PhD, and postdoc positions in GrassFire, an NSF funded project examining fuels and fire risk in grassland ecosystems across the Southern Great Plains! 🔥🌿🐮
A grassland on a sunny day near Boulder, CO

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Karl Andraczek @karlandraczek.bsky.social · Sep 8
@danielahoss.bsky.social

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Pete Manning @peteecology.bsky.social · Sep 8
3 year Postdoctoral Research Fellow position in Landscape Multifunctionality here in beautiful Bergen jobbnorge.no/en/available... please repost

Reposted by Oliver L. Phillips, Monica G. Turner, Ingolf Kühn , and 6 more

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Sandra M Durán @sandramduran.bsky.social · Sep 6
Looking for a #postdoct for a NSF project integrating ecosystem productivity, hyperspectral remote sensing and airborne LiDAR to test prominent hypothesis of the effect of #biodiversity on #forest #productivity @fluxnetecn.bsky.social @ngaps.bsky.social Apply at: jobs.colostate.edu/postings/165...

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Andres Bendesky @bendeskylab.com · Sep 3
Biology, what are you doing? Follow the rules.
www.science.org/content/arti...
Ant queen lays eggs that hatch into two species
Bizarre discovery of interspecies cloning “almost impossible to believe,” biologists say
www.science.org

Reposted by Karl Andraczek, Etienne Lalechère

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Jonathan Lenoir 🌳🌲🌴 @jonlen.bsky.social · Aug 27
Very proud & glad to be part of this amazing work led by Étienne on the relevance of lagging dynamics in biotic responses to environmental conditions 🦉🦇🦔🦌🌱🌾🪻🍀🌳🌲

If you interested in modeling species ranges or biodiversity patters in space & time, our paradigm shift should be of interest to you 😉
etiennelalechere.bsky.social Etienne Lalechère @etiennelalechere.bsky.social · Aug 27
Biodiversity doesn’t respond instantly to its driver, yet most assessments assume it does. 🚨

The paradigm shift we propose in considers multiple trajectories of long-term environmental changes and disturbance events that cumulate and push biodiversity into a quasi-permanent non-equilibrium state.

Reposted by Jonathan Lenoir, Joaquín Hortal, Julie L. Lockwood , and 1 more

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Etienne Lalechère @etiennelalechere.bsky.social · Aug 27
Biodiversity doesn’t respond instantly to its driver, yet most assessments assume it does. 🚨

The paradigm shift we propose in considers multiple trajectories of long-term environmental changes and disturbance events that cumulate and push biodiversity into a quasi-permanent non-equilibrium state.

Reposted by Karl Andraczek

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Laura Dee @lauradee.bsky.social · Aug 26
interested in causal inference and ecology? join our Slack to exchange ideas, papers, get feedback, ask and answer questions - let's start a community #causalsky
jebyrnes.bsky.social Jarrett Byrnes @jebyrnes.bsky.social · Aug 26
Chatting with @lauradee.bsky.social about how many different groups of #causality #ecology folk we have to share papers, code and discussions with, and wouldn't it be nice if we all had a place to interact..... so we made a Causal Ecology slack. So.... if you want to join, DM me and I'll add you! 🌍🧪

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Aletta Bonn @alettabonn.bsky.social · Aug 24
Artenfinder #citizenscience data set published 🦋🌼🦎
thanks to many volunteers, the #Artenfinder team and #NFDI4Biodiversity Living Atlas - Nature Germany team www.land.gbif.de
@gbif.org @idiv-research.bsky.social @ufz.de
bdj.pensoft.net Biodiversity Data Journal @bdj.pensoft.net · Aug 1
А quality-checked citizen science dataset published on @gbif.org with more than 1 million georeferenced species records with a geographic focus on the German federal states of Rhineland-Palatinate (Rheinland-Pfalz) and Berlin: doi.org/10.3897/BDJ....

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W. Joel Schneider @w-joel-schneider.bsky.social · Aug 20
Now on CRAN, ggdiagram is a #ggplot2 extension that draws diagrams programmatically in #Rstats. Allows for precise control in how objects, labels, and equations are placed in relation to each other.
wjschne.github.io/ggdiagram/ar...
An arrow with a LaTeX equation Trigonometric functions and a unit circle A bivariate change model with structured residuals A hierarchical model of cognitive abilities

Reposted by Joaquín Hortal, Neil Pederson, Marcos Fernández‐Martínez , and 1 more

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Pete Manning @peteecology.bsky.social · Aug 20
Ot now in @natcomms.nature.com: 'Temporal complexity of terrestrial ecosystem functioning and its drivers'. Led by Marcos Fernandez- rdcu.be/eBqev