New perspective out today in @jappliedecology.bsky.social. We reflect on co-producing evidence in an effort to bridge the implementation gap, for evidence based, impact focused predator control. What worked, what didn't and where barriers to implimentation still remain. You can't win them all... 🧪

Congrats to @ambercowans.bsky.social and @abonetb.bsky.social on this important contribution. It was an absolute pleasure watching you both operate, and terrific to see this work from your Stats Ecology MSc out! 💯

📝 Are you using multispecies occupancy models to investigate interactions in species occupancy (i.e. co-occurrence)? 🦁🦓 Check out our new paper for advice on the number of sites you need to reliably detect interactions under different scenarios ⬇️

not VIFs specifically, but I recently posted this list of papers I like about "why you shouldn't worry about multicollinearity so much": github.com/idworkin/McM...

Check our @theconversation.com article, alongside @chrissuthy.bsky.social and @lambin-ecology.bsky.social (special mention to @kennyafc.bsky.social). Where we breakdown the entire diversionary feeding project!

My first @uk.theconversation.com article with @jackantbam.bsky.social and @lambin-ecology.bsky.social and @kennyafc.bsky.social "Surprisingly effective way to save the capercaillie: keep its predators well-fed" theconversation.com/a-surprising...

🚨 New publication 📝 Out today in the royal society proceedings B. We find that diversionary feeding boosts productivity of cappercaille from 0.82 to 1.90. Indicating that this impact based method can effectively reduce the influence of predation. Read all about it here: shorturl.at/QRb76

We are hiring a chair/professor in our Ecology and Environmental Modelling group at @uniofstandrews.bsky.social. Scotland is a lovely place to work, and my colleagues are fantastic! Reach out if you are interested in joining the CREEM family ☺️ vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk/Vacancies/I/...

We are hiring a chair/professor in our Ecology & Enviro Modelling group at @uniofstandrews.bsky.social. Scotland is lovely, and my colleagues are fantastic! Reach out if you are interested in joining the CREEM family ☺️ Working link this time 👇 www.vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

Really excited to share this new article from the lab. We synthesize the profound importance of movement and connectivity for conservation and provide a vision for future policy and management. Let's work toward a well-connected planet for biodiversity and people: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

We are hiring a chair/professor in our Ecology & Enviro Modelling group at @uniofstandrews.bsky.social. Scotland is lovely, and my colleagues are fantastic! Reach out if you are interested in joining the CREEM family ☺️ Working link this time 👇 www.vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

Looking for your first quantitative ecology post-doc? Then get in touch. I will be co-supervising a post-doc with Lourens Swanepoel (based in SA: @Univenofficial). You will have access to many awesome data sets and the focus will be on applying hierarchical models.

Last call for expressions of interest in a Quantitative Ecology post-doc based mostly in South Africa. If you are interested, drop Lourens and me a line 👇 www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/jaxqx...

We are hiring a chair/professor in our Ecology and Environmental Modelling group at @uniofstandrews.bsky.social. Scotland is a lovely place to work, and my colleagues are fantastic! Reach out if you are interested in joining the CREEM family ☺️ vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk/Vacancies/I/...

Last call for expressions of interest in a Quantitative Ecology post-doc based mostly in South Africa. If you are interested, drop Lourens and me a line 👇 www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/jaxqx...

New paper alert ⚠️ Using #AI tools like #megadetector and #birdNET to process camera trap images or audio recordings? Read our perspective piece for some considerations and guidance on 📊 working with 0-1 confidence scores 🤔 making thresholding decisions 🧑‍💻 and navigating AI-labelling errors

Looking for your first quantitative ecology post-doc? Then get in touch. I will be co-supervising a post-doc with Lourens Swanepoel (based in SA: @Univenofficial). You will have access to many awesome data sets and the focus will be on applying hierarchical models.

🌈 rainbowR meet-up: Wednesday February 26th, 5pm UTC 🌈 - connect with other LGBTQ+ people who code in #RStats 🏳️‍🌈 - ask questions about R 🙋 - tell us about an R package you like 📦 - show us something R-related you’ve been working on 💻 ➡️ Registration via rainbowr.org/meetups

Illicit releases of controversial wild animals can undermine public trust in evidence-based conservation and inflame already-sensitive discussions about what species to conserve, how, and where. 👉 go.nature.com/4guJdzr @chrissuthy.bsky.social @lambin-ecology.bsky.social @kennyafc.bsky.social

We wrote a letter, about the #lynx release. www.nature.com/articles/d41... @lambin-ecology.bsky.social @kennyafc.bsky.social

We wrote a letter, about the #lynx release. www.nature.com/articles/d41... @lambin-ecology.bsky.social @kennyafc.bsky.social

Now accepting applicants for 25-26 intake of our #StatisticalEcology MSc: bit.ly/3ooHNyc. A unique opportunity to develop skills at the interface of #statistics and #ecology (some partial scholarships available too). Please help me share!

Do you ignore the effects of #ConfoundingVariables in your models? Do you remove correlated variables because of a statistical test rather than causal reasoning? If so, read this paper by @jebyrnes.bsky.social and @lauradee.bsky.social! #AcademicSky 🧪🌏 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

We have a great list of ongoing award, fellowship and grant opportunities that we thought our members might be interested in. 🌍 #conservation #MarineLife #ecology Check it out here: docs.google.com/document/d/1... #conservation #funding #fellowships #awards

Now accepting applicants for 25-26 intake of our #StatisticalEcology MSc: bit.ly/3ooHNyc. A unique opportunity to develop skills at the interface of #statistics and #ecology (some partial scholarships available too). Please help me share!

I get to work with amazing people in our group, mostly extremely talented PhD students. Here is a starter pack with them all. Follow, and you wont be disappointed 🤩 go.bsky.app/HufyKhd

We just posted our first round of fully funded interdisciplinary challege-led projects! netgain.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/phd-projects/ PhDs available at: @aberdeenunilib.bsky.social, @durhamuniversity.bsky.social, @glasgowunisrc.bsky.social, @uniofstandrews.bsky.social, @ukri.org

I get to work with amazing people in our group, mostly extremely talented PhD students. Here is a starter pack with them all. Follow, and you wont be disappointed 🤩 go.bsky.app/HufyKhd

Here are the titles and links to the 10 fully #netgain PhD projects. Follow along for more exciting opportunities in 2025. 1/12

This is an important and useful paper 🤩 Awesome 🥳

The MammalWeb project is not yet on Bluesky, so I'm posting their Winter Newsletter. It highlights some fantastic achievements over the last few months, project updates, and information on a festive competition with £100s of Field Studies Council vouchers to be won. Enjoy! 👉 tinyurl.com/MWDec24

⏰New Research ⏰ We quantified the direct impact of diversionary feeding on capercaillie productivity. We show an increase in the proportion of hen with a brood in DF sites (37% -> 85%) and, as a result, a 131% increase in chicks per hen. Read more here: www.researchgate.net/publication/... 1/7

Second installment of the amazing @jackantbam.bsky.social's diversionary feeding work. Capercaillie are really struggling here in the UK, and this work shows a glimmer of hope!

Second installment of the amazing @jackantbam.bsky.social's diversionary feeding work. Capercaillie are really struggling here in the UK, and this work shows a glimmer of hope!

The value of simulation before analysis: @chrissuthy.bsky.social talks through work led by @ambercowans.bsky.social, yielding some cautionary lessons for users of species co-occurrence models. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #BES2024

Wow! Amazing opportunity here for South Africa based 🇿🇦 researchers to develop their quantitative skills! 🤩💻 Two workshops: • An intro to stats in R • Applied hierarchical modelling The course is FREE! These opportunities rarely come about in 🇿🇦, so share widely & sign up! #conservationscience 🌍

Huge congrats to @ambercowans.bsky.social on the acceptance of her first PhD chapter in @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social: 'Improving the integration of AI into existing ecological inference workflows' It's a perspective piece, but if you cant wait, the preprint is here: biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Huge congrats to @ambercowans.bsky.social on the acceptance of her first PhD chapter in @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social: 'Improving the integration of AI into existing ecological inference workflows' It's a perspective piece, but if you cant wait, the preprint is here: biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

These calls for postdocs in Oslo will be open in April 2025 in case folks want to plan ahead. I am involved in a couple (1) www.uio.no/dscience/eng... (2) www.uio.no/dscience/eng... Postdocs design their own projects! And Oslo is a great place to live, work and play!

Are you interested in species interactions and how we model them? Then this thread is for you! Our new paper in Ecology on the role of abundance in species interactions provides new statistical tools for modelling species interactions. shorturl.at/Sqz9m 🧵(1/13)🧵

Another fantastic starter pack making my feed a pure joy to scroll through. Highly recommend just hitting'follow all' 💙

Another fantastic starter pack making my feed a pure joy to scroll through. Highly recommend just hitting'follow all' 💙

Best starter pack yet 🤓

A problem for a stormy, rainy day: #maths #mathproblems #OPM

📚 Spatial Statistics for #datascience w/ #rstats Chapter 1: Spatial Data Types 🔹 Areal: aggregated number of events (disease counts) 🔹 Geostatistical: observations at known locations (air pollution) 🔹 Point patterns: event locations (fires, trees) Examples 👉 www.paulamoraga.com/book-spatial...

I have a new paper 😇 in which I show how to analyse data collected on stream networks using occupancy models, check it out here onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... 😉 I also have a few slides there that give additional explanations doi.org/10.6084/m9.f...

The Equilibrium Theory of Biodiversity Dynamics: A General Framework for Scaling Species Richness and Community Abundance along Environmental Gradients #macroecology www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

Excited to see @netgain.bsky.social, a new UKRI/NERC "Doctoral Focal Award" PhD training programme on Bsky! St Andrews, Aberdeen, Durham and Glasgow Universities, developing the science and practice of net gain, offsetting, and nature markets. Led by @chrissuthy.bsky.social tinyurl.com/4uyn39vs

We are inviting applications for this cool PhD project (really keen to support people from underrepresented backgrounds!) iapetus2.ac.uk/studentships...