Patrick Freeman@PTFreeman

Conservation biologist + elephant fanatic. Currently: Scientist with csp-inc.org. 🌈in STEM. Views my own. Avatar: @blackmudpuppy

 San Francisco, CA
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Joined January 2012
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.@POTUS just announced exciting conservation actions to conserve wildlife corridors & build wildlife crossings! Esp. encouraging to see that @WHCEQ’s new habitat connectivity guidance for federal agencies reflects the recs of @largelandscapes + partners. whitehouse.gov/wp-content/up…
Bull elk, National Elk Refuge, WY - Adobe Stock

ALT Bull elk, National Elk Refuge, WY - Adobe Stock
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Alex Braczkowski
@alexbraczkowski
20 Mar 2023
The final kicker: it’s one of the only traps on the market punching this many features for USD$ 100 💴 Needless to say SOLARIS offers both a 1-year warranty and 1-year animal damage guarantee (so if hyenas chew your traps send them back to me!).
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Anyone out there have experience building 'relational event models' - preferably in R using the #relevent package? I have some methods questions I can't sort out based on existing lit. #relationaleventmodel #networks #RStats
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Dr. Jenny McGuire@JennyMcGPhD
8 Feb 2023
Pleased to share our PNAS Special Feature, "The Past as a Lens for Biodiversity Conservation on a Dynamically Changing Planet." Thanks Michelle Lawing @tamueeb, Nils Chr. Stenseth & @sdiazecology for co-editing. I highlight colleagues' papers below. SF: pnas.org/topic/542
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Great news! As part of the #Animove #elearning programme, you are now able to stream 2022 #Animalmovement & #remotesensing course lectures #opensource Follow the link: streaming.uni-konstanz.de/ta… Thanks @unikn_streaming @UniKonstanz for making this possible.
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🚨New paper alert!🚨 We've known for a decade that killer whale moms keep their adult sons alive. But how does this impact the moms? Turns out, quite a lot! Read more here (OA) cell.com/current-biology/ful… and see the thread below...
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Excited to be in Santa Barbara for the @ucsb_nceas Environmental Data Science Summit! Stoked to talk how we can harness the power of #diversity to enhance the field and make it more inclusive.
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Mason Fidino, PhD@masonfidino
27 Jan 2023
Reviewing a paper that uses a shapiro-wilk test to see if their response variable is normally distributed before using linear regression. This is not necessary! Linear regression does not assume a normally distributed response, it's the residuals that are normally distributed.
set.seed(3) n <- 500 # create covariate covariate <- runif(n, -10, 10) # generate response variable y <- rnorm(n, 1 + 2 * covariate, 5) # oh no, not normally distributed (p < 0.05)! shapiro.test(y) # Shapiro-Wilk normality test # # data: y # W = 0.98609, p-value = 0.0001039 # fit linear regession anyways m1 <- lm(y ~ covariate) # get model residuals, this is what we assume to be # normally distributed. m_resid <- resid(m1) # oh wow, normally distributed (p > 0.05)! shapiro.test(m_resid) # Shapiro-Wilk normality test # # data: m_resid # W = 0.99728, p-value = 0.5847

ALT set.seed(3) n <- 500 # create covariate covariate <- runif(n, -10, 10) # generate response variable y <- rnorm(n, 1 + 2 * covariate, 5) # oh no, not normally distributed (p < 0.05)! shapiro.test(y) # Shapiro-Wilk normality test # # data: y # W = 0.98609, p-value = 0.0001039 # fit linear regession anyways m1 <- lm(y ~ covariate) # get model residuals, this is what we assume to be # normally distributed. m_resid <- resid(m1) # oh wow, normally distributed (p > 0.05)! shapiro.test(m_resid) # Shapiro-Wilk normality test # # data: m_resid # W = 0.99728, p-value = 0.5847

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Mary Peltola
@MaryPeltola
28 Jan 2023
This feels like a personal attack
Rep. Jim Jordan
@Jim_Jordan
27 Jan 2023
Maybe we wouldn’t have a debt crisis if the government wasn’t funding plankton and salmon studies.
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The Wildlife Society@wildlifesociety
20 Dec 2022
The Recovering America’s Wildlife Act met its end in Congress after lawmakers were unable to come to an agreement on funding. RAWA supporters hope to bring the legislation back in front of lawmakers next session. bit.ly/3HPk8kY #RecoverWildlife
A Louisiana black bear (Ursus americanus luteolus) forages on Avery Island. Credit: Clint Turnage/USDA

ALT A Louisiana black bear (Ursus americanus luteolus) forages on Avery Island. Credit: Clint Turnage/USDA
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United Farm Workers@UFWupdates
22 Nov 2022
As you shop and prepare your #Thanksgiving meals, we'd like you to know a little more about the work behind the ingredients and the people doing that work to put food on our tables. Here's a thread for everyone who wants to thank a farm worker this week. #WeFeedYou
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Pete Buttigieg
@PeteButtigieg
22 Nov 2022
If you’re a politician or media figure who sets up the LGBTQ community to be hated and feared - not because any of us ever harmed you but because you find it useful - then don’t you dare act surprised when this kind of violence follows. Don’t you dare act surprised.
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Kendall Jones@JendallKones
8 Nov 2022
Anyone with good GIS skills looking for short-term consultancy work? WCS spatial planning team is chasing someone to analyse deforestation patterns in the tropics. Around 1/1.5 months work, and needs to be done this year. DM me if interested.
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PHILADELPHIANS! nearly 3,600 ballots are at risk of being invalidated because of incorrect date issues. Check this list for your name and fix your ballot ASAP if you’re on it! vote.phila.gov/news/2022/11/… #vote #PAVotes #philadelphia
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Anne Simonis@AnneListens
30 Sep 2022
Now recruiting beta-testers for OCEAN VOICES: a new #CitizenScience project 1. Listen to underwater sounds 2. Label humpback whales and ships 3. Let us know how to improve by leaving comments on the "Talk" page buff.ly/3C1Jesx #AcousticEcology #MarineMammals
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Me introducing myself at this fundraising gala I’m about to go to.

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When my SDM finally runs and is more or less sensible

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We're hiring a Sr. Climate Associate (remote) on the science team @audubonsociety! Geoprocessing and spatial data analysis skills a plus. You'll also be working closely with @ZipkinLab researchers on an awesome @NSF funded bird project! 🐦careers-audubon.icims.com/jo…
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Adam ™ Ford@adamTford
28 Sep 2022
The #WiRELab is hiring a Project Manager to support research on deer, cougar, and other wildlife ecology. atford.weebly.com/
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So tired of being forced to live under absurd theocratic maxims. Get your storybook out of my healthcare.
matt bernstein@mattxiv
7 Sep 2022
a texas judge ruled that companies cannot be required to provide coverage for PrEP (an HIV prevention drug) because it violates their “religious freedom.” i guess i missed the part in the bible where god said preventing HIV was a sin.
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