I am recruiting a Postdoc in quantitative/statistical ecology to join my lab at NC State! Research topics are flexible but the focus will be on modeling large-scale forest and/or wildlife dynamics. See below for more details and how to apply! https://t.co/rC0pCpRJit

I will start reviewing applications for a MS or PhD-level position in my lab on September 30. See details below!

I am recruiting a graduate student (MS or PhD) for Fall 2025 to join my new Statistical Ecology and Forest Science Lab at North Carolina State University! Please share widely! Details here: https://t.co/XU0yzgzYMQ

🚨There is now a "spOccupancy and spAbundance users" mailing list! This will be the primary place to ask questions on using the two R packages going forward. If you use the packages I encourage you to join the group! https://t.co/aEJuvtx159

I am beyond excited to announce that I will be starting as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Forestry and Environmental Resources at North Carolina State University this fall! More info soon on opportunities for a grad student and postdoc to join the lab!

Had such a great time talking about hierarchical spatial occupancy and abundance models at @Vogelwarte_scie last week in Switzerland with an amazing group of researchers! All workshop lectures and exercises are freely available on GitHub: https://t.co/e3iPUez3Ji.

New paper out now in @ESAEcology! 😍 A multispecies hierarchical model to integrate count and distance-sampling data Multiple species, multiple datasets, and ONE model to bind them! This was a challenging project & I learned a ton https://t.co/dIHIXuJjSY

Super fun application of spAbundance! Thanks for sharing @javi_ferlop!

Thrilled to share our new paper in @MethodsEcolEvol that introduces the spAbundance R package for fitting a variety of single-species and multi-species spatially explicit abundance models! https://t.co/SA9NRIDuqf

Just over 3 weeks left to apply for our spatial occupancy/abundance modeling workshop in Switzerland. More details on course content and how to apply here: https://t.co/EhFQuG25Ma.

I'm excited to share that I published a first version of my Statistics 4 Ecologists book with University of Minnesota Libraries Publishing. You can now download a (FREE) pdf version of the book here: https://t.co/S7NiLarPzC

🚨New paper! We built spatially-varying coefficient occupancy models in spOccupancy to explore spatially-varying species-environment relationships and quantified variation in max temperature effects on grassland birds in the US @ZipkinLab @SarahPSaunders https://t.co/a8M62UHn3x

Can we stop looking at histograms of animal diel activity and trusting our gut to classify species diel behavior (e.g., nocturnal)? Yes! Out today in @AnimalEcology we present a research methods guide for the Diel.Niche R package! #openaccess #rstats 1/7 https://t.co/dJh61JUoRw

Interested in single-visit occupancy models? Check out our new paper for some insights on how reliable model estimates are under a variety of simulation scenarios

Registration is open for a 4-day workshop 24-27 June 2024 @ Swiss Ornithological Institute in Sempach, Switzerland taught by Marc Kéry and myself on hierarchical spatial modeling of species distributions using spOccupancy and spAbundance. Details here: https://t.co/EhFQuG25Ma

Very excited to announce my new R package spAbundance for fitting single-species and multi-species spatially-explicit N-mixture models, distance sampling models, and GLMMs. Includes options for random intercepts/slopes and species correlations. #rstats https://t.co/8GQyTbznqh.

5-day workshop by Marc Kéry, Dusit Ngoprasert, Ngumbang Juat on "Applied hierarchical modelling of species distribution and abundance with R package unmarked and spOccupancy" in Bangkok, Thailand. Registration: https://t.co/U4oKHksZRc

We estimated that birders spent roughly *half a million dollars* to look for the wayward Steller's Sea-Eagle over only a couple of months! 👀 Very fun paper that represents a collision of worlds between my research life and my birding life!!

Some exciting new functionality in spOccupancy is now available on CRAN including: ✅ Multi-species, multi-season occupancy models ✅Multi-species spatially-varying coefficient occupancy models More details: https://t.co/VXqxW1oxYR

Interested in multi-species occupancy models with species correlations and spatial autocorrelation? Check out our new paper in @ESAEcology and our vignette below for fitting the models in spOccupancy: