It's #TransDayOfVisibility! Feels weird to post about it this year considering how visible I've had to become to drive my fundraising. Being visible is a mixture of joy and absolute terror but, more than anything else, it's necessary for me right now 🏳️‍⚧️

I'm building an intro to R course to help students get up to speed on the basics. It's called 'R for Nervous Humans'. Modules 1-4 are up now. No interactivity though, for reasons. Feedback welcomed. arcaravaggi.github.io/r-for-nervou... #statistics #rstats

I’m not sure if I ever shared on Bluesky this article we wrote on how almost everyone giving career advice is susceptible to survivorship bias, but I think it was good and you should read it www.nature.com/articles/d41...

I really want to get more involved on here but it's been a long time since I was consistently active. Since Twitter fell, really. Recommendations for follows, etc., would be much appreciated.

Gotta love AI sometimes. I was looking for the URL for one of my papers (a commentary on reporting ethics for live capture studies) and Google told me this:

📌Welcome to the bat-feed! A place for posts by bat-scientists, ecologists, photographers etc. DM me to ask to be added as a contributor. Then use the 🦇 emoji for posts you want to show up in the feed. Rules in the next post: bsky.app/profile/did:...

Decoding Owl Calls: Refining Occupancy Inference From Passive Acoustic Monitoring | doi.org/10.1002/ece3... | Ecology and Evolution | #ornithology #RaptorResearch 🪶

Let’s set aside the question of whether these edited animals *are* the species they’re claimed to be - what possible argument would there BE for releasing them into a wild that isn’t the ecosystem they went extinct from? It would likely be condemning behaviorally-unequipped animals to slow death.

I've had quite a few students try to use ChatGPT to do their stats but there were serious errors in literally every instance because they didn't know how to do the stats and coding in the first place. I still plan to teach R and stats, supported with the supervised and informed use of AI.

Come and have fun with me! #seabirds

Pine Marten has returned to Exmoor NP after an absence of more than a century:

JOB ALERT: We have an exciting Senior Research Assistant post available for a project tracking predators and prey simultaneously starting early 2026. We need someone with experience tagging adult raptors or wader chicks. This you? app.vacancy-filler.co.uk/salescrm/Car...

More evidence of bats chasing down and eating migratory birds at night 🦇 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

This is important.

Asscoiate Editor: "One of the reviewers has identified many serious problems in your manuscript" Reviewer: "The study design is sound, my major comments revolve around more information required about the methods, and a few thoughts on the analysis." AEs, do better!

🚨New Paper!🚨 Does a wildlife-aircraft collision cause a strike event with other wildlife species? We wanted to find out! ✈️ Have a read: wildlife.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... @uccresearch.bsky.social @dublinairport.bsky.social @atu-ie.bsky.social @thonoir.bsky.social

Having some grub at Chapter with @thonoir.bsky.social. Like old times, but more bass apparently

Wild (non-political) story about how a couple of orcas fucked around and triggered a trophic cascade. I’m fascinated by these sorts of tales, in which *individual* animals, not just wildlife populations, prove powerful enough to alter ecosystems. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Has anyone from the UK taken out travel insurance specifically for #cameratraps? If so, do you have any advice? They're going in additional luggage but I'm unsure as to the level of insurance needed.

Labour’s desperation for growth at all costs including the environment and climate. They’ll fail on all fronts. They’ll be a one term government and let the Tories straight back into Downing Street. This’ll be a very damaging and wasted five years.

1/ New #BTOScience using tracking data shows Nightingales breeding in the UK overwinter in a very small area of West Africa. This unusual degree of migratory connectivity has implications for conservation of this fast-declining species. Read the #OpenAccess paper➡️ bit.ly/nightingale-... #Ornithology

Preliminary results of a pilot program in the Peruvian Amazon providing communities with unconditional conservation basic income (CBI) payments show that the communities have stopped engaging in unsustainable or illegal forest activities. 🌍 news.mongabay.com/2025/01/earl...

Out now in @nature.com! Our comprehensive meta-analysis of global terrestrial and marine genetic diversity demonstrates rapid loss of genetic diversity and identifies conservation interventions that could mitigate this process www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧪🌍🦤🧬 #consgen #PopGen

I've shut down X and Facebook and I missed my sci peeps so thought I'd try to pick things up again. Throw me follows, engagement tips, etc. and help me get going. Plz? Kthanx.

We often hear about the risks of trees in schools - falling branches or kids falling out of them - but trees can be highly beneficial for children's mental & physical health - and improve learning outcomes 🧪🌏

I'm getting more and more of these AI-generated job invitations via email and WhatsApp. Grumble.

Does anyone else take ridiculous pleasure in developing nice plots? This one has incrementally improved over the last few days. Coded in base #Rstats. Anything else that I could do?

Just back from seeing #TheWildRobot. I'm in the minority apparently but it was... fine. Gorgeous and well acted but totally lacked the heart of the book. Indy enjoyed it but was making the same observations on the drive back.

I accepted an invitation from Frontiers to be an Editor of Bird Conservation and Management as I thought I might be able to help it become a good quality journal. I've been far from impressed with their peer review and editorial processes, however, so have resigned.

Axolotls can regenerate entire lost limbs or even part of their brain. Even weirder, it's possible to graft the head of one onto the body of another and the new head will act independently of the host body. No, you can't try this at home.

Job! We are hiring an acoustic telemetry scientist to help with a project (with lots of field work). It will help us to understand the impacts of offshore wind energy infrastructure construction and operation on the behavior and habitat use of highly migratory fishes (including sharks)! 🧪🦑🌎🦈

🚨Job alert! 🚨Two days left to apply to join us as a Lecturer in Wildlife Ecology at USW. DM if you'd like to chat about it. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DGL357/l...

The number of papers I'm sitting on continues to grow and I continue to lack the time to complete them. Grumble.

*pikachu shocked face*

Amazing belated Xmas Chrimbo from @thonoir.bsky.social !

Fondly recalling the time that I dreamed I was a good cup of coffee and was perfectly content with being a hot beverage.

Why am I not surprised that a toxic organisation does not take even partial accountability?

Predatory publisher: Please submit to our journal. It's great, cheap and great. It's so great that I'm going to dedicate four long paragraphs to how great it is. You're a perfect fit. You hear that? I said you're perfect. We're legit, honest! Narrator: He did not submit.

The second volume (issue 1) of Milvus is printed! It's late(!) but I didn't want to short-cut the peer review process. It's my last publication with WOS, as I've resigned for personal reasons. I hope that the journal and society can go from strength to strength. 🧪

I always appreciate inclusion in the acknowledgements from research students but one, from an MSc student this year... I'm going to print a copy for my desk so that I can refer to it when impostor syndrome comes knocking.

Introduce yourself with some jobs you have done apart from what you do now: - County IT network administrator - Barman - Royal Mint security - Cyber Cafe assistant manager - Pizza cook

What the Editorial Board invitation email says vs what the website says. Seems legit. 🧪

Can confirm, deck.blue is amazing! Highly recommend for making Blue Sky feeds more accessible. Especially on a full screen browser. I gather they’re working on an iOS app, too.

@scrappynaturalist.bsky.social Thank you! Much much appreciated.

Grad students, your PI should never: ⭕️ yell at you ⭕️ try to control your personal life ⭕️ be embarrassed associating with you for your public identity (queer, disabled, etc) ⭕️ spread rumors about you to students/faculty ⭕️ withhold mentorship/feedback ⭕️ tell you to expect to cry in their office

Would anyone be willing to review a paper on livestock depredation by leopards? I'm having realy trouble finding reviewers. 🧪

Repost a meme that lets us get to know you better

"We've rejected your paper because its scope is narrow..." Okay, I guess. "...without novel methodological insights..." I guess. Thought it's not been done in that context before. "...or sufficient advance into the subject area." Bugger off. It's literally novel data! 🧪

Left, non-date matched detections probabilities across all camera traps (i.e., dissynchrony between climate factors). Right, date-matched detection probabilities. 🤷🧪