Laura Dee @lauradee.bsky.social
@LauraEllenDee
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Associate Prof @CUBoulder EBIO. Studying conservation ecology, ecosystem services, climate change, natural resource econ. Aspiring Cheese broker. She/her
Boulder, CO
Joined March 2012
🧵on my recent paper w/ an great team (see 👇), motivated by 2 questions -What is the effect of biodiversity on productivity in natural ecosystems? -How can we quantify causal relationships in observational data to answer that Q? https://t.co/PoG5JTVcSZ
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Nature Communications - Isolating the relationships between biodiversity and ecosystem functioning in natural ecosystems is challenging. Here, the authors apply a causal inference approach to...
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In the sciences, some people are still arguing about bayes-vs-frequentism. Last was last century folks. These days backprop and gradient methods are tearing up the economy and stimulating existential dread. Let's get with the distopian program! P.S.: Bayes rulez freq droolz
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Controlled burns reduce wildfire risk, but they require trained staff and funding − this could be a rough year @ConversationUS @LauraEllenDee
https://t.co/g9QRZnVkUI
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Uncertainty from Washington along with staff and budget cuts have created turmoil for the US Forest Service’s fire management efforts.
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Controlled burns reduce wildfire risk, but they require trained staff and funding − this could be a rough year https://t.co/k49CjG0cvs via @ConversationUS
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Uncertainty from Washington along with staff and budget cuts have created turmoil for the US Forest Service’s fire management efforts.
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ICYMI: A paper on how remote sensing can help scale-up causal ecological relationships... but only if confounding variables & measurement errors are carefully addressed https://t.co/AUsHcn62R5 Team led by @ElisaVCleemput (Leiden U + INSTAAR alum) includes @KatharineSuding
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Climate change is intensifying wildfires, windstorms, and heatwaves, and essential services are paying the price. 🌪️ A new model predicts timber production in Minnesota could drop by 50% due to windstorms. Learn more. ↓ https://t.co/hPef6aXlww
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https://t.co/9hAZDzzfE1 Quantifying disturbance effects on ecosystem services in a changing climate @nature
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Nature Ecology & Evolution - A generalizable, functional-trait-based approach for quantifying the effects of disturbances to ecosystem services and economic outcomes, including under climate...
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The flying public needs answers. How many FAA personnel were just fired? What positions? And why?
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DOGE’s access to classified data - including the sensitive personal information of Americans - is unprecedented and deeply concerning. I joined my Senate Intel Committee colleagues to demand answers on this major threat to American privacy and national security.
It’s a huge threat to your privacy and national security to let unvetted DOGE bros paw through government payments and Americans’ bank account numbers. I’m leading Intel Committee members to press directly on the White House about this absurd overreach.
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The Secretary of Defense forgot to turn his Venmo friends private. United Health Execs and Defense Contractors abound.
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Hold the fuck on — the Department of Government Efficiency, the entity which claims its mission is to end “wasteful spending”, was given SEVEN MILLION TAXPAYER DOLLARS to cover its “expenses” in the span of a single week?!?! Are you fucking kidding me?!?
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WH Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt says that Elon Musk, whose companies have received over $15 billion from the U.S. government, will personally decide when there’s a conflict of interest involving him and DOGE. So reassuring
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I genuinely do not understand the logic of these tariffs. Analysis shows will raise US prices, lower US GDP. What possible strategic benefit could there be? Asking for a friend.
WSJ ed board: "President Trump will fire his first tariff salvo on Saturday against those notorious American adversaries . . . Mexico and Canada. They’ll get hit with a 25% border tax, while China, a real adversary, will endure 10%. This reminds us of the old Bernard Lewis joke
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Hearing that Trump is about to double down on the constitutional crisis. A President cannot eliminate an appropriated federal agency by executive order. That’s what a despot - who wants to steal the taxpayers money to enrich his billionaire cabal - does. Watch USAID tonight.
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This weekend, Trump's 25% tax increase will kick in on every American. He's doing this by implementing import taxes on America's biggest allies and trading partners. Here's a list of common food items that you can expect to increase in price: From Mexico: 🥑 Avocados (+25%) 🍅
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The president can veto or support legislation. He can make recommendations to Congress. But he doesn't have the unilateral right to change laws. Trump has very little respect for the rule of law & our Constitution. He is moving us toward authoritarianism. We must stop him.
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by freezing all federal grants, trump is fundamentally transforming the relationship between the executive and congress. he is asserting dictatorial authority over federal spending, transforming congress's lawmaking powers into advisory authority. it is a constitutional crisis
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🥳 Great paper by great people, check it out!
Foundations and future directions for causal inference in ecological research now out in @Ecology_Letters with @kjohannetsiegel - full thread on bluesky https://t.co/o31zLdSId2 🧵 https://t.co/9tRNbxAVsy
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