As noted in my previous post, I will be starting as an assistant professor at Frostburg State University this fall. However, the process of getting hired was not an easy or fun one. I will just share a little bit of my experience and links to information I found useful in case it helps anyone…
I’m excited to share that I received the USGS Mendenhall Postdoctoral Fellowship!!! I will be based at the USGS S.O. Conte Anadromous Fish Research Lab in Turners Falls, MA. It actually doesn’t change my research too much as it was a proposal to work with the same collaborators that I have been working with as…
Originally posted on JAGS News:
Xavier Fernández i Marín, who maintains the jags package on Gentoo Linux, writes to tell me he is developing the R package ggmcmc. This package is for visualizing Markov Chain Monte Carlo output using ggplot2 graphics and should complement the existing plots for base and lattice graphics provided by coda.…
Postdoctoral Research Position: Extreme event effects on stream fish and salamanders There is a new postdoc position available with the lab group I work in with Ben Letcher and Evan Grant. Below is a copy of the posting. I’ve just been part of the group for a couple months but I love it. The people…
In Praise of Exploratory Statistics If you haven’t seen it, you should definitely check out the latest post by Brian McGill at Dynamic Ecology. It’s a great post on the use of exporatory statistics. While it may be impossible to get an NSF grant with an analysis framed in terms of exploratory statistics, reviewers should…
Daniel J. Hocking 