Dear colleagues, We are excited to announce the new edition of Transmitting Science course: "Model-Based Statistical Inference in Evolutionary Biogeography" Instructor: Dr. Nick Matzke [1] (University of Auckland, New Zealand). This course is of interest to researchers studying the biogeographic story of a particular clade, including its phylogeny. Schedule: Online live sessions on October 14th, 17th, 22nd, 24th, and 25th, 2024. From 8:00 to 12:00 (Madrid time zone). Programme: Basics: * Intro to R and phylogenies * How to read and use phylogenies * A short history of historical biogeography methods and assumptions * Likelihood-based statistical model choice * Phylogenetic biogeography * New probabilistic models for historical biogeography in BioGeoBEARS. * Using BioGeoBEARS and interpreting results. Advanced: * Biogeographical stochastic mapping. * Including geographical and environmental distance in models. * Integrating biogeography with traits -- trait-dependent dispersal * Running analyses over multiPhylo objects (posterior distribution) and interpreting results. * State-dependent Speciation/Extinction models (SSE) basics in R * State-dependent Speciation/Extinction models (SSE) for large biogeography problems in Julia * Integrating GIS & paleogeography data (e.g. GPlates) Help session for student projects. Wrap-up. You can check the full information (and registrations) here: https://www.transmittingscience.com/courses/evolution/model-based-statistical-inference-evolutionary-biogeography-2/ Or write to courses@transmittingscience.com if you have any questions. Best wishes Sole Soledad De Esteban-Trivigno, PhD Director Transmitting Science www.transmittingscience.com Twitter @SoleDeEsteban Orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2049-0890 Under the provisions of current regulations on the protection of personal data, Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of 27 April 2016 (GDPR), we inform you that personal data and email address, collected from the data subject will be used by TRANSMITTING SCIENCE SL to manage communications through email and properly manage the professional relationship with you. The data are obtained based on a contractual relationship or the legitimate interest of the Responsible, likewise the data will be kept as long as there is a mutual interest for it. The data will not be communicated to third parties, except for legal obligations. We inform you that you can request detailed information on the processing as well as exercise your rights of access, rectification, portability and deletion of your data and those of limitation and opposition to its treatment by contacting Calle Gardenia, 2 Urb. Can Claramunt de Piera CP: 08784 (Barcelona) or sending an email to info@transmittingscience.com or http://transmittingscience.com/additional-terms. If you consider that the processing does not comply with current legislation, you can complain with the supervisory authority at www. aepd.es . Confidentiality. - The content of this communication, as well as that of all the attached documentation, is confidential and is addressed to the addressee. If you are not the recipient, we request that you indicate this to us and do not communicate its contents to third parties, proceeding to its destruction. Disclaimer of liability. - The sending of this communication does not imply any obligation on the part of the sender to control the absence of viruses, worms, Trojan horses and/or any other harmful computer program, and it corresponds to the recipient to have the necessary hardware and software tools to guarantee both the security of its information system and the detection and elimination of harmful computer programs. TRANSMITTING SCIENCE SL shall not be liable. Links: [1] https://www.transmittingscience.com/instructors/nick-matzke/ Soledad De Esteban-Trivigno (to subscribe/unsubscribe the EvolDir send mail to golding@mcmaster.ca)