Ooh arXiv paper from @matthholden.bsky.social @katehelmstedt.bsky.social about embedding sustainability in undergraduate maths with case studies 👀 Looks very actionable! arxiv.org/abs/2508.07594

Job alert: 2.75 -3 yr postdoc in Mathematical ecology/epidemiology or Decision Sci at the University of Queensland on the value of information for decisions with @hugepossum.bsky.social @katehelmstedt.bsky.social Katriona Shea & myself #MathSky 🌍 uq.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/uqcareers/jo... please share

What information is most useful to make better decisions based on a model? @katehelmstedt.bsky.social explains how Value of Information can inform which marine invasive species should be monitored in Antarctica AND which uncertainties in our ecosystem models should we be resolving? #ICCB2025

🚨 Datavis Job Alert! 🚨 Permanent Senior Lectureship in Data Visualization. Exciting opportunity to join us @ giCentre, London to teach & research #datavis including our £11m Centre for Doctoral Training in Visualization. Feel free to DM for informal chat. www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/about/jobs/a...

Strength to all trans women today. The bigots are out in force, but always remember their hate says everything about them not you. Trans women are women, and a bigot is always a bigot.

The US has three bases in Antarctica. Besides the important science done there, they're a proxy for geopolitical power. China just built its fifth base in Antarctica, so if the US pulls back, guess who will take over?

A player who has shared the most votes with a jury member is ~37% more likely to get their vote. And more votes, more likely. At this stage, Kaelan has the highest jury favorability, and Myles is critically low. This is a strong indicator, but not deterministic. A few more things 🧵 1/ #SurvivorAU

We're hosting an early International Women in Maths Day event in Brisbane next Monday - come hang out and eat lunch. All genders welcome, but you gotta like maths and women killing it. Research talks from women, professional development discussions, free food smp.uq.edu.au/event/sessio....

The total Australian Research Council budget is $1bn.

I’m the Canadian who was detained by Ice for two weeks. It felt like I had been kidnapped

Job alert: 3 Aotearoa New Zealand Postdoctoral fellowships in complex systems www.tepunahamatatini.ac.nz/2025/03/07/p...

In the final stretch of my PhD thesis on nests, I keep thinking about this pigeon's masterpiece. It doesn’t have to be perfect, just done. Let’s do this! 🐦🪶 #PhD #PhDsky 🧪

He’s not wrong #brisbane

We introduce a method to quantify how extreme events affect ecosystem function and services. Paper out today in @natureecoevo.bsky.social - very fitting on a day that Cyclone Alfred is looming off the coast of my city!

Brief interruption in my/our doom scrolling/posting to share a paper I'm really proud of that has taken almost a decade with the very patient @exconomist.bsky.social @katehelmstedt.bsky.social P. Reich, S. Polasky & K. Boersma www.nature.com/articles/s41... 1/n

For a long time I've joked that Antony Green is immortal and will never retire. He is sharp, fast, funny, and it has been such a privilege to have a front row seat to the master at work for so long. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-02...

This week the ARC should release Expressions of Interest outcomes for Discovery Projects. Should be Wed–Fri. They’re not public, so my bot cannot track them. The ARC should email applicants, and maybe tweet(?), to say outcomes are available in RMS.

Yess this conference in Nepal is going to be awesome. Maths, environment, natural resources, lots of biodiversity conservation focus. Can’t wait

Another one for important work on climate change and its effects (presumably on the Great Barrier Reef), Luz V. Pascal from Queensland University of Technology presents: "When does non-stationarity matter for threatened ecosystems?" #ANZIAM2025 1/6

Congratulations @kleshnina.bsky.social!! The award every academic in the room was vying for. The students were right - her talk on game theory, resilience, and inequality was impressive. Read the paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Next for Tuesday's #ANZIAM2025 is Grace Robinson from Queensland University of Technology: "Balancing competing priorities: optimising land usage allocation" Mmm, practical optimisation! The type of optimisation I like! 1/4

We can all go back to knowing ARC grant outcomes within 17 seconds of them being posted, thank god

Yep, when you hear that mining is huge, remember they mean the profits are huge... The Hospitality industry pays more wages to Australians than does mining.

The Palisades fire in LA overlaid on a map of central London. calmatters.org/environment/...

NEW: 2024 has just been confirmed as the warmest year on record, and the first to breach the 1.5C threshold. We used a ridgeline (Joy Division inspired) chart to visualise daily temperature anomalies since 1940. 2024 clearly stands out with 100% of its days above 1.3C and 75% above 1.5C.

In true academic style, I'm finishing my new years resolutions just before due date. The ideas behind this paper have been my passion project since day 1 of my PhD, and I'm pleased to announce that it's finally published! doi.org/10.1007/s115... @chris-drovandi.bsky.social

I've submitted my abstract. Hope to see you in Nepal to discuss the latest in quantitative modeling to improve the environment! @katehelmstedt.bsky.social

We're hosting our fourth annual 'Environmental Modelling for Better Predictions and Decisions' symposium at QUT on 20-21 January. It's in-person only, always fun, and free! We focus on ECR/student presentations, networking, and panels. I always learn heaps and meet lots of researchers. Register now

This makes me want to re-write my entire data visualisation course (to give this an A+)

We are hiring a postdoc in my lab @colorado.edu to work on this NSF CAREER proposal (tinyurl.com/cak8dkza) to quantify how and when global change (drought, warming) alters the role of biodiversity in ecosystem functioning. Job here: colorado.avature.net/searchhub/Jo... 1/2

I Wrote a Poem about exponential growth...

Looking forward to #ESAus2024 in Melbourne this week! I successfully wrote my talk about optimal learning in Antarctica and the value of information on the plane and now I am ready to party. And learn, I guess (hopefully just by osmosis)

It’s that time of year again. Teaching evaluations are known to be sexist, racist, and xenophobic. They can be mentally harmful (especially for ECRs). Yet our institutions insist on using them. Remember - you do not actually have to read your evaluations. You do not need to volunteer for harm 🫡

Is new data useful for management? We dunno! Sometimes! Sorta! In some cases! Some data! Soon we’ll have better answers for you, I promise. Stoked to work with my mates on this cool science for the next few years

🌊 "Nowhere on Earth is there a greater cause of uncertainty in sea-level rise projections than from East Antarctica, in Australia’s backyard. The East Antarctic Ice Sheet alone holds enough water to raise global sea levels by approximately 50m if completely melted." www.abc.net.au/news/2024-11...

Call for mentors! Join our Mentorship Program to help mentees refine their English presentations for #ICCB2025 + help them build their confidence while you build your leadership skills. Mentors earn a certificate from SCB! @iccb2025.bsky.social #languageaccessibility 🌍 conbio.org/mini-sites/i...

Anyone working at the ARC want to accidentally upload an unmarked pdf to an unlisted page on the depths of the website this weekend?

Who should you nominate as reviewers for your manuscript? After a long chat with a post-grad it appears that there's a lot of misguided advice out there. Thread 👇

Academia runs on contacting other academics out of the blue and saying HEY do you wanna do this COOL THING for essentially NO REWARD and equally certainly NO RECOGNITION from your employer and those people going OH MAN that sounds AWESOME sign me up for the COOL NO REWARD NO RECOGNITION EXPERIENCE.

When do you need to collect more data? ... surprisingly, more data often has little value for decisions. Our new paper unravels why "Value of Information Analyses" can yield surprising results in #ecology doi.org/10.1111/2041... w @katehelmstedt.bsky.social in @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social 🌍

I’ll add the two things I think every academic needs to find: a cleaner and a therapist. Both will improve your life, and neither is a source of guilt

Faculty positions at Princeton in interdisciplinary data science statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2024/11/13/f...

Hey all, please RT this new starter pack for locating our fellow ecological modellers on Blue Sky! And please reply to this post if you'd like to be added to the starter pack! go.bsky.app/EfUQaM2

My mate and inspiration Jas Chambers will be the next president of Science & Technology Australia! She co-founded Oceans Decade Australia - having her at the helm of STA is great news for environmental science and sustainability scienceandtechnologyaustralia.org.au/visionary-st...

This is not factoring in December Vibes, a core element of an academic’s year. Or exam marking. Or all your students and collaborators also using the end of the year as an imaginary deadlines. Or bluesky suddenly getting good. RIP 2024. 2025, I swear I’m gonna treat you better

Apply for this job so I can (1) envy you and (2) have another excuse to visit Boulder. Go work with some of my best and nicest friends! There’s a triceratops on campus! (don’t get the wrong idea - it’s dead)

This is truly amazing!!!

New data can be incredibly informative when planning biodiversity protection. But sometimes we should just act given what we already know. How should we decide between those two options - manage or learn? Deborah Akinlotan introduces ideas and metrics in our new preprint arxiv.org/abs/2309.09452