William Ou 歐家昂

PhD student at @ZoologyUBC | Ecology and Evolution of Thought | Collector of Stories | Trembling at The Edge of Chaos 😨 | He/Him/他｜台灣囡仔 🇹🇼

[William Ou 歐家昂 @jiaangou]

@Athmanathan25 @raf_dandrea @Ecology_Letters 🤩

[Jie Deng @jie_eco]

Why do ecological systems typically develop from fast- to slow-growing species? Why do species tend to appear one by one instead of all at once? We found that this developmental path is most likely to emerge as species minimize environmental resistance to enhance their survival.

[William Ou 歐家昂 @jiaangou]

Hi #ecology friends, question for you: are priority effects a niche or neutral process?

[William Ou 歐家昂 @jiaangou]

@mdesiervo1031 The Genetic Basis of Evolutionary Change - Lewontin 1974 p269 :D

[William Ou 歐家昂 @jiaangou]

"Equilibria annihilate history. It is the nature of an equilibrium point that all paths [] lead to it (at least locally), so that the particular history of change is irrelevant and, once the system is at equilibrium, there is no trace of historical information"

[Jake Lawlor @Jake_Lawlor1]

Hey #dataviz tweeters, I've noticed a lot of really pleasing circle-pack-along-an-axis plots lately, especially in interactive news or "pop" data vis.

Do we have a good way to replicate these in #RStats or #Shiny? ggbeeswarm gets close, but not quite

#datavisualization #R

[William Ou 歐家昂 @jiaangou]

"we better clarify what competition is fundamentally: [...] how rates of consumption affect the amount of time a renewable resource is made unavailable to future consumers" 💯

[Jawad Sakarchi @sakarchi_]

Excited to share a new preprint w/ @gerlame!

Here we demystify MacArthur’s consumer resource model and share insights its provided to our mechanistic understanding and biological intuition of how competition and coexistence operate.

https://t.co/hNEVuKUtmQ

[Pawel Pachniewski @pwlot]

R.I.P. Daniel Dennett 1942-2024

"There is no such thing as philosophy-free science; there is only science whose philosophical baggage is taken on board without examination."

—Daniel Dennett, 1995

[William Ou 歐家昂 @jiaangou]

“Our editorial team is well aware of the traditional challenges in this space and aims to embrace new, weird, and creative perspectives.” 🥹🥹🥹

[Laurent Hébert-Dufresne @LHDnets]

The path of complexity: It's been a long journey but the presses are now running to offer a small curated venue for weird papers that could scare disciplinary journals.

https://t.co/nEGdplXnx7

[Nicole Bison @NicoleBison]

Very excited to share work for my first PhD chapter on variation in leaf carbon economics, energy balance and heat tolerance traits in a common garden!

https://t.co/WTkuXQ3T7r

[Shaili Mathur (she/her) @MathurShaili]

We're running some fun experiments and are curious what your expectations are:
How many generations in the past do you think yeast "remember" environmental change?

[William Ou 歐家昂 @jiaangou]

@SonjaSaine @KoneenSaatio Congrats!!! 🎉

[William Ou 歐家昂 @jiaangou]

Highly recommend letting Snoop Dogg tell you what life is

[William Ou 歐家昂 @jiaangou]

@biocomplexed Hang in there! The academy needs you :)

[Chang-Yu Chang 張昌祐 @changyu_chang]

Glad to see this one finally out. Huge thanks to the amazing coauthors @metaboli3am @sylvieestrela @jccvila @asanchez_lab

[William Ou 歐家昂 @jiaangou]

Lewontin’s (1983) famous equation found in Rosen (1975) 👀

[Yohan J. John @DrYohanJohn]

"If an event results from the joint operation of a number of causative chains, and if these causes “interact” [...], it becomes conceptually impossible to assign quantitative values to the causes of that individual event."

Levins & Lewontin, 'The Dialectical Biologist' Ch 4

[William Ou 歐家昂 @jiaangou]

@wc_ratcliff Robert Rosen calls it mimetics: https://t.co/6QuXr34YGc
But here's a more recent review by Roli et al (2022): https://t.co/H5D7XostqT

[William Ou 歐家昂 @jiaangou]

Thomas Park (1962) quoting #Whitehead while trying to understand, what appears to be, historically-contingent competition in flour beetles 😍

[Chuliang Song @Chuliang_Song]

I'm thrilled to share that I'll be joining @UCLAEEB as an assistant professor in summer 2024. Very much looking forward to this new adventure! #NewPI