Xin Chen
@xincheneco.bsky.social
Working on probabilistic graphical models and Dirichlet Process | NASA BioSCape🇿🇦🇺🇸
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When you can’t get adequate sleep, 20 minutes of exercise or a 90-minute nap can help protect your ability to store new memories. Exercise facilitates efficient neural processing, whereas napping makes the brain state conducive to new learning. In PNAS: https://ow.ly/htC850ZzWcy
August 14, 2026 at 7:00 PM
When you can’t get adequate sleep, 20 minutes of exercise or a 90-minute nap can help protect your ability to store new memories. Exercise facilitates efficient neural processing, whereas napping makes the brain state conducive to new learning. In PNAS: https://ow.ly/htC850ZzWcy
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new diamond open-access Journal of Statistical Ecology launched 🎉🎉🎉 jse.centre-mersenne.org @fredbarraquand.bsky.social @oaggimenez.bsky.social @marieaugermethe.bsky.social @vianeylb.bsky.social (apologies to any Bsky editors I missed)
Journal of Statistical Ecology Journal of Statistical Ecology
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June 10, 2026 at 4:11 PM
new diamond open-access Journal of Statistical Ecology launched 🎉🎉🎉 jse.centre-mersenne.org @fredbarraquand.bsky.social @oaggimenez.bsky.social @marieaugermethe.bsky.social @vianeylb.bsky.social (apologies to any Bsky editors I missed)
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👀Behind the Paper👀
Author Maria Vittoria Mazzamuto examines reproductive behavioural traits in Eurasian red squirrels to understand how they have adapted from forest to urban landscapes🐿️
Read it here👇️
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Author Maria Vittoria Mazzamuto examines reproductive behavioural traits in Eurasian red squirrels to understand how they have adapted from forest to urban landscapes🐿️
Read it here👇️
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Maria Vittoria Mazzamuto | When traits don’t translate: Rethinking success in city-dwelling squirrels
In this week’s blog post, the old saying remains the same; we are products of our environments! From their paper: “Functional trait interactions in a human-dominated world: Urbanization and reprodu…
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May 22, 2026 at 2:00 PM
👀Behind the Paper👀
Author Maria Vittoria Mazzamuto examines reproductive behavioural traits in Eurasian red squirrels to understand how they have adapted from forest to urban landscapes🐿️
Read it here👇️
buff.ly/U18cjfW
🧪🌍️
Author Maria Vittoria Mazzamuto examines reproductive behavioural traits in Eurasian red squirrels to understand how they have adapted from forest to urban landscapes🐿️
Read it here👇️
buff.ly/U18cjfW
🧪🌍️
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onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
New ms published in GEB!
The overarching structure of ecological networks is mainly determined by climate, excepting seed-dispersal. Meanwhile, the influence of human impact on network structures depends on the taxa involved.
New ms published in GEB!
The overarching structure of ecological networks is mainly determined by climate, excepting seed-dispersal. Meanwhile, the influence of human impact on network structures depends on the taxa involved.
The Multifaceted Effects of Anthropogenic and Climatic Factors on Ecological Networks
Aim Biotic interactions, such as pollination, seed dispersal, and parasitism, are key for biodiversity and ecosystem function. Ecological networks quantify the structure of biotic interactions, prov...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
May 16, 2026 at 3:38 PM
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
New ms published in GEB!
The overarching structure of ecological networks is mainly determined by climate, excepting seed-dispersal. Meanwhile, the influence of human impact on network structures depends on the taxa involved.
New ms published in GEB!
The overarching structure of ecological networks is mainly determined by climate, excepting seed-dispersal. Meanwhile, the influence of human impact on network structures depends on the taxa involved.
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Check out the new and improved newsletter from @biogeography.bsky.social. It's a great way to keep abreast of all the happenings in biogeography and beyond. And if you like what you see and are not yet subscribed, do so on their website! www.biogeography.org/news/news/ne...
TIBS Newsletter – Spring 2026
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April 8, 2026 at 8:38 PM
Check out the new and improved newsletter from @biogeography.bsky.social. It's a great way to keep abreast of all the happenings in biogeography and beyond. And if you like what you see and are not yet subscribed, do so on their website! www.biogeography.org/news/news/ne...
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📖Published📖
In this study, authors propose DeepMaxent, a new species distribution models method for presence-only data that generalizes Maxent to multi-species deep neural networks with a direct relationship to a Poisson count loss 🌍 🧪 Read here 👇
In this study, authors propose DeepMaxent, a new species distribution models method for presence-only data that generalizes Maxent to multi-species deep neural networks with a direct relationship to a Poisson count loss 🌍 🧪 Read here 👇
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April 6, 2026 at 2:03 PM
📖Published📖
In this study, authors propose DeepMaxent, a new species distribution models method for presence-only data that generalizes Maxent to multi-species deep neural networks with a direct relationship to a Poisson count loss 🌍 🧪 Read here 👇
In this study, authors propose DeepMaxent, a new species distribution models method for presence-only data that generalizes Maxent to multi-species deep neural networks with a direct relationship to a Poisson count loss 🌍 🧪 Read here 👇
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Climate niche models underestimate the speed with which species move in response to climate change, according to comparisons between the models and observed shifts for more than 3,500 species. Median rates were four times faster than predicted. In PNAS: https://ow.ly/Mokn50YCqty
April 3, 2026 at 4:01 PM
Climate niche models underestimate the speed with which species move in response to climate change, according to comparisons between the models and observed shifts for more than 3,500 species. Median rates were four times faster than predicted. In PNAS: https://ow.ly/Mokn50YCqty
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Thrilled to share our new paper out in @science.org, led by François Leroy and Petr Keil! Using the Breeding Bird Survey, we document not only a continent-wide decline in bird abundance since the 1980s — but, crucially, the acceleration of these declines over time. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Acceleration hotspots of North American birds’ decline are associated with agriculture
Human activities might have accelerated declines of population abundance, but this acceleration remains underexplored. Using 1033 North American Breeding Bird Survey routes, we analyze abundance chang...
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February 26, 2026 at 8:29 PM
Thrilled to share our new paper out in @science.org, led by François Leroy and Petr Keil! Using the Breeding Bird Survey, we document not only a continent-wide decline in bird abundance since the 1980s — but, crucially, the acceleration of these declines over time. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Predicting the combined impacts of future management and climate change on moorland bird species
This new study study illustrates the value of combining predictions of the impacts of management and climate change on animal populations 🌍 🕊️
Read more: buff.ly/dLXctAf
This new study study illustrates the value of combining predictions of the impacts of management and climate change on animal populations 🌍 🕊️
Read more: buff.ly/dLXctAf
December 5, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Predicting the combined impacts of future management and climate change on moorland bird species
This new study study illustrates the value of combining predictions of the impacts of management and climate change on animal populations 🌍 🕊️
Read more: buff.ly/dLXctAf
This new study study illustrates the value of combining predictions of the impacts of management and climate change on animal populations 🌍 🕊️
Read more: buff.ly/dLXctAf
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Studying interspecific population synchrony: current status and future perspectives vist.ly/4hda9 #Asynchrony #SpeciesCovariances
December 5, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Studying interspecific population synchrony: current status and future perspectives vist.ly/4hda9 #Asynchrony #SpeciesCovariances
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And another cool paper from @biogeography.bsky.social's Frontiers of Biogeography, this time onn biogeographi c expansion of magnoliid genus. Check it out!
biogeography.pensoft.net/article/1599...
biogeography.pensoft.net/article/1599...
December 4, 2025 at 6:40 PM
And another cool paper from @biogeography.bsky.social's Frontiers of Biogeography, this time onn biogeographi c expansion of magnoliid genus. Check it out!
biogeography.pensoft.net/article/1599...
biogeography.pensoft.net/article/1599...
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Study area shape matters when tracking species range shifts & we may underestimate longitudinal range shifts to the benefit of latitudinal range shifts, potentially undermining drivers other than T°C 🌡
🌐🌏🌎🌍🧪🐠🐍🦋🦉🦇🌳🌲
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🌐🌏🌎🌍🧪🐠🐍🦋🦉🦇🌳🌲
shorturl.at/prp63
Global bias towards recording latitudinal range shifts - Nature Climate Change
The authors consider studies reporting species range shifts and demonstrate a geometric bias in sampling along latitudinal, rather than longitudinal, gradients. This bias may favour the corroboration ...
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November 22, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Study area shape matters when tracking species range shifts & we may underestimate longitudinal range shifts to the benefit of latitudinal range shifts, potentially undermining drivers other than T°C 🌡
🌐🌏🌎🌍🧪🐠🐍🦋🦉🦇🌳🌲
shorturl.at/prp63
🌐🌏🌎🌍🧪🐠🐍🦋🦉🦇🌳🌲
shorturl.at/prp63
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🚀 Tomorrow’s the day! (Thu, Nov 27 (6 PM CET))
We’ll explore practical workflows for geospatial predictive mapping in R: covering interpolation, machine learning, and strategies to make spatial predictions more reliable.
Details: www.meetup.com/rome-r-users...
#RStats #GISchat #RSpatial
We’ll explore practical workflows for geospatial predictive mapping in R: covering interpolation, machine learning, and strategies to make spatial predictions more reliable.
Details: www.meetup.com/rome-r-users...
#RStats #GISchat #RSpatial
R for geospatial predictive mapping, Thu, Nov 27, 2025, 6:00 PM | Meetup
**R for geospatial predictive mapping: practical workflows for reliable spatial predictions** This talk introduces practical workflows for building reliable spatial predic
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November 26, 2025 at 5:05 PM
🚀 Tomorrow’s the day! (Thu, Nov 27 (6 PM CET))
We’ll explore practical workflows for geospatial predictive mapping in R: covering interpolation, machine learning, and strategies to make spatial predictions more reliable.
Details: www.meetup.com/rome-r-users...
#RStats #GISchat #RSpatial
We’ll explore practical workflows for geospatial predictive mapping in R: covering interpolation, machine learning, and strategies to make spatial predictions more reliable.
Details: www.meetup.com/rome-r-users...
#RStats #GISchat #RSpatial
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Applications are open for the Spectral Ecology Summer School (www.specschool.org) a program introducing graduate students and postdocs to hyperspectral and lidar remote sensing using NEON data. This year's application and info is here: forms.gle/ohkeGYvmGQ9C... Applications close December 23, 2025.
SPEC School
spectral ecology summer school
www.specschool.org
November 19, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Applications are open for the Spectral Ecology Summer School (www.specschool.org) a program introducing graduate students and postdocs to hyperspectral and lidar remote sensing using NEON data. This year's application and info is here: forms.gle/ohkeGYvmGQ9C... Applications close December 23, 2025.
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We are hiring: 4 PhD Positions in Ecology / Data Science and one Ecological Data Scientist. For more information, see www.uni-regensburg.de/universitaet...
We are hiring: 4 PhD Positions in Ecology / Data Science and one Ecological Data Scientist
We are looking for 4 PhD Positions and one Scientific Programmer / Ecological Data Scientist to join the AG Hartig (Theoretical Ecology)
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November 13, 2025 at 4:14 PM
We are hiring: 4 PhD Positions in Ecology / Data Science and one Ecological Data Scientist. For more information, see www.uni-regensburg.de/universitaet...
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The next Funk lecture will be Nov 19, 4pm UTC. Dr. Laura Pollock will tackle the issue of the Wallacean gap! Learn more and register here: www.biogeography.org/news/news/no...
November 13, 2025 at 7:17 PM
The next Funk lecture will be Nov 19, 4pm UTC. Dr. Laura Pollock will tackle the issue of the Wallacean gap! Learn more and register here: www.biogeography.org/news/news/no...
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Amazonian hyperdominance exceeds expectations of neutral theory 🧪🌐🌾 besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Amazonian hyperdominance exceeds expectations of neutral theory
Our work demonstrates Amazon-wide hyperdominance necessitating deterministic explanation by first comparing data to the global dispersal neutral model, then establishing this to be a conservative tes....
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October 15, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Amazonian hyperdominance exceeds expectations of neutral theory 🧪🌐🌾 besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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A globally influential area-condition metric is a poor proxy for invertebrate biodiversity 🐛🌏
Highlights the need to incorporate factors beyond habitat type & condition into site evaluations, & to complement metric use with species-based surveys 💭🧪
🔗 doi.org/10.1111/1365...
Highlights the need to incorporate factors beyond habitat type & condition into site evaluations, & to complement metric use with species-based surveys 💭🧪
🔗 doi.org/10.1111/1365...
September 26, 2025 at 3:03 PM
A globally influential area-condition metric is a poor proxy for invertebrate biodiversity 🐛🌏
Highlights the need to incorporate factors beyond habitat type & condition into site evaluations, & to complement metric use with species-based surveys 💭🧪
🔗 doi.org/10.1111/1365...
Highlights the need to incorporate factors beyond habitat type & condition into site evaluations, & to complement metric use with species-based surveys 💭🧪
🔗 doi.org/10.1111/1365...
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September's Funk lecture is just a few days away! Click here to register and learn more about Dr.McGill's talk: www.biogeography.org/news/news/se...
September 22, 2025 at 8:37 PM
September's Funk lecture is just a few days away! Click here to register and learn more about Dr.McGill's talk: www.biogeography.org/news/news/se...
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New Frontiers of Biogeography article! Learn all about the new tabs R package for reconstructing biogeographic shifts over time.
biogeography.pensoft.net/article/1516...
biogeography.pensoft.net/article/1516...
Temporal Altitudinal Biogeographic Shifts (tabs): R package for reconstructing biogeographic shifts in terrestrial and marine systems over time
Past climate fluctuations have profoundly influenced the global distribution of biomes, ecosystems and species, altering their altitude, spatial configuration, area, and connectivity. Notable examples...
biogeography.pensoft.net
September 4, 2025 at 8:13 PM
New Frontiers of Biogeography article! Learn all about the new tabs R package for reconstructing biogeographic shifts over time.
biogeography.pensoft.net/article/1516...
biogeography.pensoft.net/article/1516...
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We can't wait to hear Dr.Brian McGill's talk for this month's Funk lecture! Learn more and register here: www.biogeography.org/news/news/se...
September 4, 2025 at 6:07 PM
We can't wait to hear Dr.Brian McGill's talk for this month's Funk lecture! Learn more and register here: www.biogeography.org/news/news/se...
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Multiple ecology faculty positions at @notredame.bsky.social. Apply at apply.interfolio.com/171650. (1/2). 🌎🌐🧪
August 21, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Multiple ecology faculty positions at @notredame.bsky.social. Apply at apply.interfolio.com/171650. (1/2). 🌎🌐🧪
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Check out this cool work from @andrebellve.bsky.social
Stoked to finally see this one out in the wide world: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Tube-nosed #seabirds in #Aotearoa #NewZealand have been largely driven extinct on the mainland, since the arrival of humans. Our paper shows just how dramatic this collapse likely was...(1/4)
Tube-nosed #seabirds in #Aotearoa #NewZealand have been largely driven extinct on the mainland, since the arrival of humans. Our paper shows just how dramatic this collapse likely was...(1/4)
Burrowing Into the Past: Extending Niche Space Models of Procellariiform Breeding Grounds by Merging Fossil and Historic Data
Aim Predicting species' potential distributions and niches requires multi-scale data encompassing the past and present. Increasingly, researchers have advocated using historical context to inform ec...
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June 5, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Check out this cool work from @andrebellve.bsky.social
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#ESA2025 hey Baltimore! Please share widely! apply.interfolio.com/171620 we are looking for an amazing new colleague !
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August 6, 2025 at 12:45 AM
#ESA2025 hey Baltimore! Please share widely! apply.interfolio.com/171620 we are looking for an amazing new colleague !
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Combined effects of temperature change and natural habitat on the abundance of arthropod trait syndromes in agroecosystems vist.ly/326gz #DietBreadth #HabitatBreadth #Insects #Pollinators
August 4, 2025 at 9:25 AM
Combined effects of temperature change and natural habitat on the abundance of arthropod trait syndromes in agroecosystems vist.ly/326gz #DietBreadth #HabitatBreadth #Insects #Pollinators