LARGE #data volumes can reduce 📉the impact of noise, increase #statistical power 💪and the stability of the estimates.
They improve statistical #significance, but they are NOT ENOUGH to create #robustness. 
Small #datasets 📊are like CANCER🦀!
Not adequately REPRESENTING the broader #population or phenomenon being studied, they lead to BIASED or SKEWED conclusions that do not generalize. They CORRODE your conclusions. #statistics #science #experimentation #scientific #method 
Small #datasets 📊increase #sensitivity 💧to #outliers. They lack the #statistical power 💪 needed to detect SIGNIFICANT effects or relationships, increasing the risk of Type II errors (FALSE NEGATIVE) and #overfitting (doing well only on trained data).
#scientific #method 
The power 💪of LARGE #datasets 📊and INDEPENDENT #replication to create #robustness. A thread 🧵👇
#statistics #science #experimentation #scientific #method 
The power 💪of LARGE #datasets 📊and INDEPENDENT #replication to create #robustness. A thread 🧵👇
#statistics #science #experimentation #scientific #method
I LOVE @OpenAI's #ChatGPT, but it is still FAR from being able to help me READ and EXTRACT #information and #knowledge from a #scientific paper. If anyone has a different experience, I'd love to hear and learn from you.
#Science #AI
I LOVE @OpenAI's #ChatGPT, but it is still FAR from being able to help me READ and EXTRACT #information and #knowledge from a #scientific paper. If anyone has a different experience, I'd love to hear and learn from you.
#Science #AI
“I don't wanna live in a world without #species” I heard once.
That may be the REASON why, in spite of all the PROBLEMS with species definition👇, #researchers insist on it:
"Species provide the most practical metric for distinguishing #habitats and..."
#eDNA #Biodiversity #life https://t.co/vhAoS3sd3Q
“I don't wanna live in a world without #species” I heard once.
That may be the REASON why, in spite of all the PROBLEMS with species definition👇, #researchers insist on it:
"Species provide the most practical metric for distinguishing #habitats and..."
#eDNA #Biodiversity #life https://t.co/vhAoS3sd3Q
“I don't wanna live in a world without #species” I heard once.
That may be the REASON why, in spite of all the PROBLEMS with species definition👇, #researchers insist on it:
"Species provide the most practical metric for distinguishing #habitats and..."
#eDNA #Biodiversity #life https://t.co/vhAoS3sd3Q
"...and tracking progress in exploring #Earth’s #biodiversity. They are as fundamental to biology as elements are to chemistry and particles to physics. [...]
But TRUE #biological #diversity lies on #DNA. Sequence it!
#Species #eDNA #Taxonomy #metabarcode
Obviously, some #organisms are +DIFFICULT to study than others: remote habitats, local endemics, microscopic size. But these alone cannot explain observed BIAS. 'Societal preferences' rather than '#taxonomic research# determines bias.
#Species #eDNA #Metabarcode #biodiversity 
Some #organisms are +likely 2b considered important and raise FUNDS, becoming over-represented. But UGLY creatures matters in #ecosystems!
Plus, #Biomimicry and #bioprospecting + #tech can't be performed when <1% of #species have been studied.
#Taxonomy #Metabarcode #biodiversity 
We LOVE #animals and #plants, but not equally!
#Taxonomic BIAS is pervasive in #biodiversity #research.
Focusing on a few, often CHARISMATIC, #species, has prevented reaching global #conservation plans.
A thread 🧵👇
#Science #Taxonomy #eDNA #Metabarcode 
We LOVE #animals and #plants, but not equally!
#Taxonomic BIAS is pervasive in #biodiversity #research.
Focusing on a few, often CHARISMATIC, #species, has prevented reaching global #conservation plans.
A thread 🧵👇
#Science #Taxonomy #eDNA #Metabarcode
"[higher] #Ocean #biodiversity may be due to great #age, enormous volume, isolation of #seas, stability of the #environment and specialization on particular #sediment types and #water depths (3D space)” Primack 2010
#Metabarcode #eDNA #species #life
"In #CoralReefs and the #DeepSea, #biodiversity is spread over a broad range of phyla and classes. These #marine systems contain 28 of the 35 #animal phyla that exist today. One-third of these phyla are marine EXCLUSIVE, while only 1 is terrestrial exclusive." #Metabarcode #eDNA 
"In #CoralReefs and the #DeepSea, #biodiversity is spread over a broad range of phyla and classes. These #marine systems contain 28 of the 35 #animal phyla that exist today. One-third of these phyla are marine EXCLUSIVE, while only 1 is terrestrial exclusive." #Metabarcode #eDNA
The current #paradigm for #biodiversity is UNSUSTAINABLE and has to CHANGE | We Cannot Conserve Biodiversity that we don't Know https://t.co/yMas79LhXi New #tagomago #blog post.
#Science #Business #eDNA #Ecology #Species #Abundance #Conservation #Territory
Wow! Problems caused by UNCERTAINTY related to #biodiversity are among the #Top3 reasons for #Oil companies delaying reaching #First_Oil.
Do EXPERTS make MISTAKES? Yes!!!
“TRAINED personnel can be expected to achieve 67 to 83% self-CONSISTENCY and 43% CONSENSUS between people in an expert #taxonomic (#specimen) labelling task”.
#species #plankton #marine #biodiversity #science
