Michel Laforge
@MamlSpatialEcol
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Moving to Bluesky: @m-laforge.bsky.social Assistant Professor and Chair of caribou populations and habitat at Lakehead University.
Thunder Bay, ON
Joined February 2017
I'm looking to hire a graduate student to examine plasticity and individual differences in movement and habitat selection of caribou to disturbance. Please see the attached ad and share!
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I am currently looking for an MSc student to join my research group for September 2025 to investigate moose habitat selection in the context of apparent competition in Ontario's Far North. Please share and contact me for further details!
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Hi all, posting again because I think my last post with a link may have gotten blocked or downranked. I'm moving to the other place where the sky is blue. Please look me up there: m-laforge.
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Not a fan of current management here, so trying to migrate to Bluesky. Please follow me there! https://t.co/jHRrEL7GRP
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I am currently recruiting two graduate students (PhD or MSc) to work on caribou habitat management in Ontario at Lakehead University. Please repost and circulate to interested parties, and please contact me for further details!
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I’m excited to announce that I’ve started as an Assistant Professor at Lakehead University! I’m looking for two PhD students to join my new lab. If you are interested in investigating how disturbance affects caribou in Northern Ontario, please apply! And please spread the word!
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Very excited to see the 2nd chapter of my thesis out in @AnimalEcology!
Animals match life history events to when resources are abundant. @MamlSpatialEcol, @webber_quinn and @wildlifeevoeco show that caribou acclimate timing of migration and parturition to timing of snow melt and green-up. Photo credit : Maegwin Bonar https://t.co/FYLJO5AYRy
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Our new group paper from @WildOnTheMove on paper citations is now out in @wildlifesociety Journal of Wildlife Management!
Is your team working on a paper or recently published some great science? Yay! 🥳 Our new paper, now out in @wildlifesociety, can help authors prepare & disseminate their research to maximize its influence/incorporation into wildlife management! 1/8 https://t.co/S5F3QV1hGH
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Is your team working on a paper or recently published some great science? Yay! 🥳 Our new paper, now out in @wildlifesociety, can help authors prepare & disseminate their research to maximize its influence/incorporation into wildlife management! 1/8 https://t.co/S5F3QV1hGH
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If you suggest that voters will determine if a leader is a "dictator" **at the next election**, then spoiler alert you've already answered your own question 🙄
Worth noting: Conservative MP Rachael Thomas (née Harder) on Monday in the House of Commons said "many Canadians" hold the view that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau fits the definition of a dictator. She did not cite a poll.
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@Migratinghooves is hiring a mapping scientist to help create a world atlas of ungulate migrations, working with the Merkle Research Group at the University of Wyoming. Apply here: https://t.co/zqZOFS3GVK
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I am humbled and honoured to have been selected by @CSEE_SCEE for this award, and am excited for the opportunity to share my research in the symposium! Congratulations to all the other award recipients and runners-up!
🏅The winners of the 2021 CSEE Excellence in PhD Research Award are.... Chloé Schmidt, Peter Soroye, Francisco Henao Diaz, Amber Gigi Hoi, and Mike LaForge Congratulations!
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The R2 value of the full model (fit using the r2 function of package "performance") has a value of 0.45. Anyone have any ideas as to why this model is performing so poorly in terms of AIC? And how a model that purportedly has an R2 so high can fail against a null model? 3/3
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According to AIC, the models are essentially indistinguishable (all within 2), with the null model having (barely) the lowest AIC (same, if not worse, for AICc or BIC). And yet the full model (6 terms) has two parameters significant at a < 0.05 and two more at a < 0.10. 2/3
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Hey #Rstats Twitter! I have a model selection question. I'm comparing survival models fit using Cox proportional hazards. The AIC is telling me one thing, but model output and R2 tell a very different story. 1/3
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We would also like to acknowledge the island of Newfoundland where our data was collected as the ancestral homeland of the Beothuk and Mi’kmaq peoples. Paper link: https://t.co/v5XbYnnUjS 14/14 – end.
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We acknowledge contributions from the NL Wildlife Division and funding from @NSERC_CRSNG. Thanks to colleagues in @wildlifeEvoEco and @WildOnTheMove. 13/14
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We conclude that tracking changing resource phenologies is not limited only to “consumable” resources (food) but can be extended to other phenological changes such as melting snow, expanding our definition of resource tracking broadly. 12/14
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The results support the conclusion that migratory animals in northern climates use melting snow as a cue to time spring migration in order to give birth at the optimal time when forage resources are most abundant to support raising young. 11/14
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