New paper out on data standards for vector traits 🦟
📣 Useful publication alert!
If you're collecting or sharing vector trait data 🦟🦠, this new paper from @vectorbyte.bsky.social introducing the MIReVTD (Minimum Information for Reporting Vector Trait Data) standard is for you:
doi.org/10.1093/giga...
#FAIRData #DataStandards #DataSharing #Traits
Thanks for the heads-up! We've offered Bayesian TPC fitting pipelines since 2015 (doi.org/10.1890/13-1...) and training through vectorbite.org since ~2018, but uptake by the community has been slower than expected. Great to see folks are starting to adopt Bayesian methods for these systems ;)
Will you be at AMCA 26? Come find @vectorbyte.bsky.social and chat to us about our databases, workshops, data management, and let @samrund.bsky.social give you stickers, perhaps?
#AMCA26
No problem. MEE has strict word limits so we weren't able to include a lot of relevant refs throughout the paper. Thanks for the suggestions!
📖Published📖
Sorek et al. present bayesTPC, an R package for fitting Thermal performance curves to trait responses using the nimble language and machinery as the underlying engine for Markov Chain Monte Carlo 🌎 🧪 👇
Woo!
New @vectorbyte.bsky.social preprint: Modeling asymmetric Thermal Performace Curves for proportion data - led by Prof Leah Johnson, with Paul Huxley @phuxley.bsky.social, Cat Lippi @lippikiyay.bsky.social, and Prof Sadie Ryan @sjryan3.bsky.social.
LINEX TPC: your next fit!
Our new preprint (ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...) describes✨AedesTraits✨ (zenodo.org/records/1514...) - A global database on temperature-trait responses in Aedes mosquitoes. #AedesTraits holds >31,000 rows of fully open data extracted from published literature (1930s to 2025)!
Our paper for bayesTPC, an #R package for #Bayesian thermal performance curve fitting is OUTTT! Special credit to lead author Sean Sorek
for his splendid work on this + John Smith and Leah Johnson.
Paper: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/WQZEWI... Blog to follow soon: vectorbyte.org/blog