Misc morning
- Site trouble, again. requested migrating servers. Done. hope we’re more stable now.
- Checking in with Peter about migrating site domain. Sent request to Matt.
- Looking over NERSC PI application, see first allocation instructions. Emailed Mary Ann w/ questions on forms.
- SMB 2012 is at NIMBioS!
- Nick to join ropensci. Coordinating launch, advisers, etc. Karthik and Scott have done a great job editing my intro post and sprucing up the site. more later.
- wp-minify messes up certain graphics, like the quotations in this theme. better-wordpress-minify is, well, better.
Reading
- Sam just pointed out the MOTMOT package on CRAN and it’s paper in Methods in Ecology and Evolution Thomas & Freckleton, 2012. A “Medusa” for traits algorithm. Does a handful of different BM-like models (because it’s always easier to transform the tree than to actually solve a new likelihood equation). Rather worried about the proliferation of these non-Bayesian approaches when they don’t compute confidence intervals.
- Clever! wordclouds in R.
Upcoming conferences
- DataCite conference, Berekely, 24-25 of August. (Wed-Thurs)
- Maybe: the Santa Barbara for EIM 2011 is the 28-29 September, though I’d probably spend 27 & 30th on the train. (Tues-Fri). Could probably couple this with a chance to visit some of the labs in Santa Barbara, re post-doc options, etc. Should speak to Alan about this.
Next year:
- Science Online: January, sometime
- Evolution: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada - July 6-10
- CSGF: not scheduled
- SMB: Knoxville, TN: July 26-28
- ESA: Portland, OR, August 5 - Friday, August 10, 2012
ESA presentation
Still working on this, see scripts and slides for details.
Do I have time to do explain ROC curves, or stick with parameter distributions?
Manuscript/Appendix
In separate entry… delayed release.
- Motmot: Models of Trait Macroevolution on Trees, Gavin H. Thomas, Robert P. Freckleton, (2012) Methods in Ecology And Evolution, 3 10.1111/j.2041-210X.2011.00132.x