in collaboration with @ctennie.bsky.social and others @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social [i think the 3 of us are the only ones on bluesky...]

i think one of the biggest values of the course is that this is the only philosophy of science that students get, and the impact of that is less measurable and for which no shortcut exists

but the hope is that there is always a motivated few students who get into it and run with it, and their colleagues ask them for help when they hit a barrier

my concern is that a european phd model isnt well suited towards devoting the effort/time for analysis that is required to do good science--- especially for folks who travel for field research--- and whose advisors either don't care or don't know about the requisite work and just want an answer

i have been thinking about (and asked to) do a PhD level workshop on Bayesian stats and have thought about doing 2 weeks of 4 hour sessions per day, so 40 hours in total.

it seems that every variation is suboptimal for some party, but there are always a few who get really engaged

I taught it at 1/2 speed up til hierarchical models for MS students, and that seemed to work fine. When I did normal speed for PhD students they couldn't all keep up and had too many fieldwork/life obligations to do it over a long period. I have been getting requests for an intensive Bayesian kurs

this was a collaborative effort arising out of multiple conversations and experiences so authorship is in alphabetical order--- don't give me too much credit

with coauthors @kamransafi.bsky.social @safilab.bsky.social @francescafrisoni.bsky.social @zoegoldsborough.bsky.social @animaltracking.bsky.social @livingingroups.bsky.social

@culturalevolsoc.bsky.social

thanks! in case you are curious rock density covaries across space.

I really strongly feel that some fields of research would profit if researchers stopped collecting online data for some time and instead maybe just read a bit outside of their field.