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(Part 1, Part II, Part III, Part IV, Part V) Finally, the end of the workshop. Thursday afternoon was spent playing around with BUGS, getting my abundance model to work. Eventually, I gave enough initial values to the simulation (rather … Continue reading →

John Wilkins has managed to shake off his bevy of admiring science blogging groupies long enough to write a post on scientists as historians. I’ll read it later, but now I should be listening to Bill talking about spatial synchrony … Continue reading →

The latest LHC webcam images show it’s a success.

(Part 1, Part II, Part III, Part IV) If I could work out how to get the photo I took last night off my phone, you could all see the monster nan we ate last night before the football.

(Part 1, Part II, Part III) I finally started doing some “real” work. Last night I got data on abundance of butterflies from some regularly surveyed transects. So, this morning I set to work, and by lunchtime I was totally … Continue reading →

(Part 1, Part II) This afternoon we have been talking about what we did in previous workshops. So far I’ve managed to avoid talking about the stuff I did, which is fortunate because I’ve largely forgotten what I did.

(Part 1 on Monday) This morning we got down to work. I helped Elizabeth on her phenology. Her idea is to use the numbers of butterflies counted on a site over a year to model how abundance changes over the … Continue reading →

All this week I am at a workshop in a wet, flooded York. In a fit of enthusiasm I decided to blog the discussions and work, to give the outside world an idea about what we are actually doing.

This is just a quick update before I spend the day wandering the streets of London trying not to think of Ralf McTell. I’m alive, and so are those bloggers I’ve bumped into over the last couple of days. Some … Continue reading →