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New preprint: a toolkit for species distribution modelling, in #JuliaLang. The result of many years of work with fantastic people including @gabdans.bsky.social and @mdcatchen.bsky.social - a quick thread 🧪🌏 ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...

First, you can head over to the documentation website: poisotlab.github.io/SpeciesDistr... It has tutorials, small how-to explainers, and a reference for the many packages that make up the full toolkit.

Many packages? Yes! The core design philosophy is that things should be easy to maintain, easy to upgrade, and should not break. Although the toolkit is currently seven packages, there are only three hard dependencies. The rest is all methods overloading, and well-documented interfaces.

It also plays nice with docs.makie.org/dev/ - and most of the objects the package knows about can be plotted directly. This is nice. I love @makie.org , favorite plotting package ever, 12/10.

But one of my favorite things that the package can do is explanations: I collected a lot of functions I wrote to teach data science into a small package to do simple SDMs, and it's sort of bare bones but very easy to use, so learners can experiment with it.