David Elzinga

Mathematical & Statistical modeler | Epizoology | Conservation

[David Elzinga @ElzingaDavid]

New publication out today! Check out how climate change is impacting the parasitic relationship between moose and winter ticks, plus how management strategies can help! https://t.co/NlfDLzXCze

[in silico Plants @insilicoplants]

NEW
#Pollen interference emerges as a property from agent-based modeling of pollen competition in Arabidopsis thaliana
https://t.co/kb9HbG08AX

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Declines in #bee populations have been occurring globally for most of the current century. At #SIAMLS22, @ElzingaDavid presented a compartmental model of stressors in social bee colonies to understand degradation and #colonycollapse. Read more! #SIAMAN22 https://t.co/WOmYUie0ss

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When you're reading a really good paper, go to put it in your bibliography, and then see another paper with the title "a comment on < the paper you just read >". I love the academic tea #phdchat

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When you're part of a lab, you tell your lab-mates when there's bugs in your code that cause birds to age in reverse, it helps them feel better about their research #stem

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My students have two assignments due at midnight, here's me trying to defend my email inbox

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Save the prairie dogs! (Shelby Stowe, Leland Russell, and I published our prairie dog/sylvatic plague paper in Natural Resource Modeling!) More info: https://t.co/DbCjEkgMP3

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*Sound on* Wishing you a very happy owliday! We hope it’s as rad as you.❤️🦉
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Video: Festive burrowing and great horned owls get down to some sick beats by Peter Pearsall/ @USFWS @USFWSRefuges #happyholidays2019

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In the past 16 days my students have had: the flu, head colds, throat colds, mono, and bronchitis. Here's a sneak peek of my outfit for the rest of the semester:

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@WichitaState Biostatistics (Biol. 573) with Dr. Russell! Learning experimental design fundamentals, basic biometry, and programming in R - all in one course!

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Hey #AcademicTwitter #AcademicChatter I have an ambitious undergrad student who is looking for summer Fisheries and Wildlife Sciences (or EEB in general) REUs or summer research programs that are accommodating to students who are new to research entirely - any suggestions?

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@boss_graph @Saekhart I'll DM you

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@HodgesAdrianna can this be our boat?

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I've found the only way possible to improve Groundhog Day

*volume on*

#GroundhogDay

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This year the Advent Sundays of Hope, Peace, and Joy nearly coincide with the week before finals, the week after finals, and the week final grades are posted, respectively. Coincidence or divine intervention, let's hope for the latter.

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I'm at a point where I'm on Overleaf and Mendeley more than social media, am I an academic yet?

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Adrianna took a shortcut today but ended up driving her car into a river (she's fine and so is the car), but all I could think of was this

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Study advanced linear algebra they said, it'll be fun they said #math

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Priest: Hardly anyone from the earlier mass came to coffee and donuts, so everyone from this mass needs to take a donut.

Me after mass: