Simone Blomberg

Statistics, lizards, computers, (macro)evolution, comparative methods, stochastic processes. Jazz, saxophone, Zen #rstats #julialang (she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️

[Simone Blomberg @simoneb66]

Excited for this new pre-print from my lab. Please enjoy and re-tweet!
https://t.co/Rm7YRKzAP3

[Simone Blomberg @simoneb66]

@MoranKenyan @rstatstweet This is true. It’s called the Gambler’s Ruin. If you start off with a finite balance and the “house” has infinite funds and you never leave the game then you will eventually lose it all, with probability of 1.

[Simone Blomberg @simoneb66]

@LilySimpson1312 Haha I read this sitting in my backyard wearing flannel, t-shirt, jeans and trainers. #notTransEnough?

[Pietro Viacava @pietro_viacava]

My last PhD chapter is now out there ready to be criticized - and cited, hopefully for good reasons! 🤞

An evaluation of performance and an attempt to "reconciliate" linear and geometrics morphometrics and their treatment of size and allometry.

https://t.co/FZhHoZBTTp

[Simone Blomberg @simoneb66]

@robcrod @NatureComms @Rob_SalGo @mollykgrace @ecologiaUMH @cayuela_hugo @C_PCarmona Good work team. I hope my contribution was helpful.

[Simone Blomberg @simoneb66]

@brodriguesco @rstatstweet attach() is the spawn of the devil.

[Simone Blomberg @simoneb66]

@AssignedMale You rock, @AssignedMale ! Keep doing your lovely work. There’s a whole lot of good people on your side. Yay!!! ❤️❤️❤️

[Simone Blomberg @simoneb66]

@WaneDrew @PPantsdown Shout out to non-binary folks who seem to get erased in this debate. I support your rights to have a different, unique experience of gender. Enbies rock!

[Simone Blomberg @simoneb66]

@WaneDrew @PPantsdown Because although we are women, men our experience of our gender is different to that of cisgender folks. We are different (everyone is different from everyone else in some way!). Besides, it was cisgender doctors who first described us as trans. We didn’t come up with the label.

[Simone Blomberg @simoneb66]

Ed kuepper is going off! ⁦@EdKuepper⁩

[Simone Blomberg @simoneb66]

@DaniaAlbini @rstatstweet This is not an RStudio issue. Update your R. Then update your packages.

[Simone Blomberg @simoneb66]

@arkfrancis Unlike some fields that require lots of people in a lab. Look for how many papers are first author papers and you will get a better idea.

[Simone Blomberg @simoneb66]

@arkfrancis Don’t worry! It depends on the field. Maths is different because it’s a very individual type of research. Throwing more brains at a problem doesn’t really speed up the research…

[Simone Blomberg @simoneb66]

@arkfrancis There are several genera and a bunch of species in Australia I think. The one commonly known as the house centipede is introduced I think.

[Simone Blomberg @simoneb66]

@arkfrancis Centipede!

[Simone Blomberg @simoneb66]

@arkfrancis Interesting finding though I have always thought these measures to be too dependent on tree topology and branch lengths to be taken too seriously. One of the reasons why I haven’t gone down that rabbit hole. In my own work I spend a lot of time doing simulations to test this

[Simone Blomberg @simoneb66]

@colin_fraser @rstatstweet Also it’s good programming practice to not use global variables unless absolutely necessary. Global variables can be modified by any other part of the code which could lead to some difficult bugs.

[Simone Blomberg @simoneb66]

@Alexander_Lees Universities have been moving away from “ologies” (zoology, ornithology, etc including botany here) to “ics” courses (genetics, genomics, bioinformatics, transcriptomics etc) for quite a while. It means that natural history knowledge is being lost at an increasing rate.

[The Julia Language @JuliaLanguage]

Sometimes, it can be hard to know what resources you should read if you are just joining the #JuliaLang community, so this article covers 10 you might want to read 📚:

https://t.co/FsyReCvjsK

[Erik Svensson @EvolOdonata]

I profoundly disagree with the smearing of the journal @ASNAmNat by @RichardDawkins and @Evolutionistrue: I am a (proud) long-term member of the editorial board of American Naturalist which is still one of our most important journals in evolutionary biology 1/n