Exciting news! We've launched a new MSc in Wildlife Health and Conservation, offering students the opportunity to develop the specialist skills needed to protect wildlife populations and support global biodiversity in collaboration with Chester Zoo! 🦁 Read more: news.liverpool.ac.uk/2026/02/13/n...

Owning a cat can get you past anything challenging in life. #cats #blueskycats

Liverpool folks! (Especially, but also everyone else) We've had snow. Please could you help me out and fill in my survey on attitudes to snow clearing. Pictured: my path, which I haven't done yet...

I am attempting to understand how my case left the UK at 20.3kg and since, nothing additional has been added to it and weighed 20.4kg at the hotel, 22.7kg on one of the scales in the airport, and now 24.9kg at the bag drop. Do they calibrate?

Successful @giscience-conf.bsky.social conference in Christchurch this week, next stop - one week A/L in Auckland visiting family. Ka kite anō, Ōtautahi. See you again, Christchurch. #newzealand #aotearoa

Thank you to everyone who took their time to discuss my research with me and for any compliments too! A great memory for @giscience-conf.bsky.social. p.s. apologies for any mumbling, jet lag is real. #poster #presentation #conference #geospatial #greenspace #quality

Fantastic keynote session from Dr Michelle LaRue, University of Canterbury discussing #remotesensing imagery for monitoring the Antarctic emperor #penguin population. #giscience2025

A slightly creased scientific poster at the #giscience2025 conference, but proud to be in attendance. #phdlife #conferences #geospatial #giscience

In my typical fashion I overestimated the walk and arrived early to an event. First day of the #giscience2025 conference in this beautiful city. A few highlights from the walk below 👇🏻 #Christchurch #Ōtautahi #NewZealand #Aotearoa

It is currently 17:20 NZST and my body still thinks it is 06:20 GMT. I travelled for 45 hours from my home in the UK to the hotel in NZ, sleeping for only 3 hours. Caught up on sleep last night, but tiredness is starting to creep up again. Hopefully I am refreshed for the poster session. #phdlife

My first full-day in Christchurch for the #giscience2025 conference (starting tomorrow for me) and I highly recommend Dosa Kitchen at the #Riverside #Market for anyone into #streetfood. The mixed vegetable Dahl with naan is mouthwatering! And wow! The #Christchurch Botanical Gardens are awesome!

Excitement is building as the #NewZealand trip draws closer for #giscience2025. Academic #poster arriving tomorrow! #greenspaces #phdstudent #phdlife

Airline, hotel and conference booked for #GIScience2025 in Christchurch, NZ. I cannot wait to travel to NZ for an interesting event and to present my research in a poster format. #academia #phdlife #greenspaces

🎓 Are you a marine MSc or PhD student passionate about climate change and biodiversity? Join our Summer School in Ischia, Italy! 📅 Sept 14–20, 2025 📝 Apply by May 26 → bit.ly/42VRjfL 🔬 Explore seawater chemistry, R & GitHub, blue carbon, drone surveys, and photogrammetry — right in the field 🌊🌐🧪🦤

I have taken part in these sessions in previous years with Nick Moran leading a brilliant approach to learn #bird ID from their #songs and calls. I would highly recommend it to anyone with an interest in bird #surveying, whether just starting out or developing birder upskilling. #ornithology 🐦🐦‍⬛

My new #motto in #life: "Wing it like a #lapwing". Also, here is a badger I captured on the camera trap during field work.

Staffing on an ecology field trip and taking the opportunity to be in a remote location by deploying #camera #traps. Otter would be a bonus to capture. #ecology #academic #wildlife #surveying

I am now providing private #tutoring for #naturalsciences, #ecology, #wildlifeconservation and #healthgeography. Including study skills support, guidance and #R tutoring / support.

20 days left of my 20's... I'm not ready to be 30. Where is the rewind button?

Day 3: I am becoming progressively sicker 🤧🤒 while attempting to work on my #PhD from home. It feels as if a boxer has delivered a perfect left hook to my head - pre match.

Thanks #Microsoft, for forcing a #windows update overnight, when my PC should have been running a computationally intensive analysis.

Lazy #sundays with Elsie the #cat

I have clearly been doing sit ups wrong according to #Dalle via #ChatGPT. Next time, I must grow extra limbs.

My #cat looking posh and annoyed.

Sock #cat

Tested #DeepSeek #AGI by asking it to comment out a specific line of code in the correct position. It took 408 seconds to break the #R script instead. #ChatGPT has repeatedly commented the line below and sends the same response each time. AI / AGI be crazy. I guess I will just press Ctrl Shift C.

Entering the #Mersey T Flow lane, the barrier does not open immediately. It lifts and drops again, staying red. I keep creeping forward, not stationary. The tunnel staff signal they are coming, but the van behind ignores this, blaring their horn. Impatience will not make me move faster, Mr Van.

I've been working on several #Next.js sites, integrating #shadcn/ui and #Prisma (with Vercel). Before university and my #PhD, I did a lot of website design. Now, I'm testing the waters and wondering—how much would you pay for a single-page #website?

#Throwback to my #youth. Young Matt always wanted to be a #police constable. I tried that, passed the entire process, and lost the opportunity due to UK budgeting. However, I found my true calling in #ecology, #spatial science, and teaching. Younger Matt would be so proud of my achievements.

Happy Lunar New Year! 🎉🐉 Wishing all our students, staff, alumni, and friends a joyful and prosperous year ahead—whether you're celebrating Chinese New Year, Seollal, Tết, Losar, Tsagaan Sar, or another festival! May this year bring you success, happiness, and good fortune. ✨🏮

🧚‍♀️ Jobs! Our @sdruk.bsky.social Imagery Data Service (code name: Imago) is hiring for our first roles! Come be part of the imagery for social science, health, and policy revolution! 📍 Role 1: Data Service Manager: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLN363/d... (see thread for next role!)

My mother found my Year 1 primary school report, and it is clear I have not changed with #Science and #Geography. Even back then, I knew I would become an ecologist in a geographer's world. I love this line: '...opportunities to look at the local environment and develop simple mapping skills.' #GIS

Does anyone know the worth of these? Action Replay Ultimate Cheats #Pokémon? I am guessing they are #retro #games related.

A neighbour has contacted our #landlord, claiming that we are not approachable. Let us be realistic here: I am a #data #scientist and an introvert, of course. However, to fabricate such a statement to our landlord without having made any effort to contact us is both misleading and unfortunate. 😞

I am a big fan of Randall Munroe and #xkcd—such a comically interesting progression! Could the next stage be Roz from Monsters Inc.?

I have started #writing backwards for my #PhD papers, and I have noticed a clear improvement in my sentence structure, grammar, and flow. I never thought about starting with the #conclusion, but now that I have, I am not going back — only backwards! I highly recommend doi.org/10.1007/s429.... 🧪

Another burst of thunder snow across #Wirral, reported from CH49. Snow remains settled from the previous night with freezing conditions. Icy pathways. Interestingly, weather has triggered the growth of my #daffodils, planted two years ago. No sign of snow falling, settled snow 2/10. #uksnow

Heavy snow in CH49 and sticking really well. Bright night sky and thunder snow, exciting! Hail and lower temperatures earlier in the day too #uksnow 7/10.

Liking this very interactive hosting from livestreamer #weatherelliot reporting on the current #uksnow. Small #YouTube channel deserving recognition and a sub. www.youtube.com/live/KB3vJkx...

In a few days I will be in my 'final' full year of my PhD (funding until March 2026) and I'm both excited and terrified for the amount of work ahead of me.

❄️ Merry Christmas! ❄️ Happy #holidays to everyone globally. How are you planning to celebrate #Christmas this year? 🎁 ⛄🎄

Still plenty of space for the Env Sci #PhD #Students started pack. Are you a #research lab or student? Interested to be included in the pack. Let me know below 👇🏻 #environment #sciences #doctoral #university #geography #ecology #biology #physics #chemistry #geospatial

Super excited to integrate radar image-based data products into our data service “IMAGO” with @darribas.bsky.social & @rsfrankl.bsky.social 🙌🏽. The first batch of Sentinel radar images are out! www.esa.int/Applications...

Me: *been #coding extensively since early teens* Also me: *only just discovers you can use 'ctrl + shift + c' to comment out a chunk of code at 29* I have been going line by line in #R to comment... possibly could have saved hours of time #rdata #rstudio #stats #data #phdfail #alwayslearning

Gaming is one of my hobbies and we finally got a second controller for our #PlayStation because my partner and I were stoked to play Lego Horizon Adventures. She is an avid #Horizon lover and I love the #Lego series. We have both found the game disappointing. Visually stunning, but feels empty.

Weirdly #productive but dragged down by #Winter at the moment. I cannot wait for Spring... the best season.

Love these #kong #squids my partner bought for our #dogs Christmas presents. Mini squid for our #pomeranian @peanutpomeranian.bsky.social and the big squids for our huskies @shenziehuskies.bsky.social 💝

Wonderful weekend with @mayamw.bsky.social in #Chester, #Liverpool and #Wirral. And a lovely photograph she took of #Willow (one of my #cats).