Post provided by Lotte de Vries Animals and plants exhibit a wide range of patterns of longevity, growth, and reproduction but the general drivers of this enormous variation in life history are poorly understood. Comparative demography uses large demographic databases to attempt to identify patterns in life-history strategies across the tree of life (e.g. this…

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29.03.2024

Detangling NODEs – Methods Blog

I'm Willem Bonnaffé, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Oxford. In my research, I integrate biological data, mathematical modelling, and machine learning. I spend most of my time modelling natural systems with neural ordinary differential equations - NODEs or Neural ODEs for short. In this blog post, I am hoping to shed light on…

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05.04.2024

Measuring the mighty mudsnails with superpixels – Methods Blog

Post provided by Liam MacNeil Collecting data from thousands of biological specimens can reveal wide scale patterns, however, doing this manually is time intensive. In this blog post, Liam MacNeil describes their automated approach to data collection and the insights this provided on mudsnail morphology. Evolution on the beach Charles Darwin begins his masterwork On…

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12.04.2024

Robert May Prize 2023: Winner announced for early career researcher award – Methods Blog

We're excited to announce Willem Bonnaffé as the winner of the 2023 Robert May Prize, celebrating the best article in the journal by an author at the start of their career. Winner: Willem Bonnaffé Research: Fast fitting of neural ordinary differential equations by Bayesian neural gradient matching to infer ecological interactions from time-series data About…

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