Quantitative ecologist | Camera traps | Hierarchical models | Urban ecology | Line drawings | 🐦 & 🦝 | Views mine | He/him | masonfidino.comhttps://bsky.app/profile/masonfidino.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/masonfidino.bsky.social/post/3m5jmqgf7r22lOut today, a companion article for my autoOcc R package: Estimating species occupancy across multiple sampling seasons with autologistic occupancy models via the autoOcc R package. #rstats 🧪 https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1365-2656.7018413 Nov 2025 16:50 +0000at://did:plc:no6pd6dhfxaortej5yz2szl2/app.bsky.feed.post/3m5jmqgf7r22lhttps://bsky.app/profile/masonfidino.bsky.social/post/3lunnl6hgjc2nTook a little walk just outside @lpzoo.org and came across a family of Cooper’s hawks. There were four flying from tree to tree, got a good picture of two of them!23 Jul 2025 18:29 +0000at://did:plc:no6pd6dhfxaortej5yz2szl2/app.bsky.feed.post/3lunnl6hgjc2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/masonfidino.bsky.social/post/3lun3bzssf22zIn the past I've told people that "I've seen it all" when it comes to conducting an urban #cameratrapping study for 15 years. But today, after literally millions of images collected, we now have our first image of a deer peeing in the woods, so I guess there is still more to see out there 🤣🤣🤣🧪23 Jul 2025 13:01 +0000at://did:plc:no6pd6dhfxaortej5yz2szl2/app.bsky.feed.post/3lun3bzssf22zhttps://bsky.app/profile/masonfidino.bsky.social/post/3ltoqrmz3ak2eApps are open for the 2026 Biota Awards postdoctoral fellowship! My coworkers and I would love to chat about this opportunity with recent PhD grads (or those close to finishing). We've been honored to receive funding from the Walder Foundation in the past! 🧪 https://www.biotaawards.org/2026-application11 Jul 2025 11:33 +0000at://did:plc:no6pd6dhfxaortej5yz2szl2/app.bsky.feed.post/3ltoqrmz3ak2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/masonfidino.bsky.social/post/3lrtc4a62ac2dTiny Diel.Niche R package update, bin.diel.times() outputs the proportion of time diel periods take up over a day (e.g., night, day, twilight) by setting prop.time = TRUE. VERY helpful if you want to quantify use of a given diel period relative to availability! #rstats 🧪 https://github.com/diel-project/Diel-Niche-Modeling17 Jun 2025 20:04 +0000at://did:plc:no6pd6dhfxaortej5yz2szl2/app.bsky.feed.post/3lrtc4a62ac2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/masonfidino.bsky.social/post/3lpwm6es4u22fBy far the largest glue up I’ve done. My shop isn’t great for dimensioning boards this size, so I’ve been putting off doing this for a while. Hopefully this does indeed become the top to my dresser!24 May 2025 16:52 +0000at://did:plc:no6pd6dhfxaortej5yz2szl2/app.bsky.feed.post/3lpwm6es4u22fhttps://bsky.app/profile/masonfidino.bsky.social/post/3lptrmucdp22nReviewing a revised manuscript and the other reviewer linked to this blog post of mine in one of their comments. It's little things like this that makes me think my statistical musings are actually helpful. 🙂 masonfidino.com/camera_days/ https://masonfidino.com/camera_days/23 May 2025 13:51 +0000at://did:plc:no6pd6dhfxaortej5yz2szl2/app.bsky.feed.post/3lptrmucdp22nhttps://bsky.app/profile/masonfidino.bsky.social/post/3lprzqxcp4c2nNew blog post sharing updates on the latest version of the Diel.Niche R package, which we just released about an hour ago. Interested in quantifying if a species is nocturnal with data? Well it is easier than ever now! 🧪 #rstats #cameratrapping https://masonfidino.com/Diel.Niche_updates/22 May 2025 21:11 +0000at://did:plc:no6pd6dhfxaortej5yz2szl2/app.bsky.feed.post/3lprzqxcp4c2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/masonfidino.bsky.social/post/3lpmalj7cf22bArguably the goofiest goose #cameratrapping photo we have collected in over 15 years of biodiversity monitoring throughout #Chicago. Be on the look out for laser eyes here in Humboldt Park! 🧪20 May 2025 13:58 +0000at://did:plc:no6pd6dhfxaortej5yz2szl2/app.bsky.feed.post/3lpmalj7cf22bhttps://bsky.app/profile/masonfidino.bsky.social/post/3lnkwdudme22bMy graduate school held onto this banner for years (I placed in a research image competition while I was there), and now it has made its way back to my office.24 Apr 2025 14:31 +0000at://did:plc:no6pd6dhfxaortej5yz2szl2/app.bsky.feed.post/3lnkwdudme22bhttps://bsky.app/profile/masonfidino.bsky.social/post/3lne3zcmbz22bIn stark comparison to a recent paper I helped lead with over 200 coauthors, I just submitted my first sole authored paper today. VERY DIFFERENT WRITING PROCESSES.21 Apr 2025 21:24 +0000at://did:plc:no6pd6dhfxaortej5yz2szl2/app.bsky.feed.post/3lne3zcmbz22bhttps://bsky.app/profile/masonfidino.bsky.social/post/3ll7ixq2m322dNew publication out this week in @stacksjournal.bsky.social where we looked at the relative roles local and long-distance colonization play on the distribution of striped skunks throughout the Chicago Metropolitan area! 🧪 https://www.stacksjournal.org/article/kase-25001/25 Mar 2025 14:42 +0000at://did:plc:no6pd6dhfxaortej5yz2szl2/app.bsky.feed.post/3ll7ixq2m322dhttps://bsky.app/profile/masonfidino.bsky.social/post/3lkbi7xtxxk2mAh, yes, the joys of cleaning data from large-scale collaborations.13 Mar 2025 16:09 +0000at://did:plc:no6pd6dhfxaortej5yz2szl2/app.bsky.feed.post/3lkbi7xtxxk2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/masonfidino.bsky.social/post/3lj43aqymdc2aSAY CHEESE 🧪 #cameratrapping26 Feb 2025 19:08 +0000at://did:plc:no6pd6dhfxaortej5yz2szl2/app.bsky.feed.post/3lj43aqymdc2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/masonfidino.bsky.social/post/3liyrta77722yI’m down in Argentina right now to teach some workshops on camera trapping, reproducible science, and statistical modeling as well as learn about a lot of research being conducted at @grinbic.bsky.social First day was yesterday, and I’m really looking forward to the rest of the week! 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