Thomas Cornulier

Haunted lately by @galaxyproject.bsky.social CO₂e estimates for jobs. This one MEGAHIT assembly: ~450g CO2e. I've run this ~150k times on HPC, ~75 tonnes of CO2e 😬. Perhaps ARC/NHMRC would accept Australian Carbon Credit Units as part of the grant cost for offset? What others are doing in AUS/INT?

Increasing canopy cover elevates vehicle collision risk for barbastelle bats (Barbastella barbastellus) at roads - Scientific Reports Scientific Reports - Increasing canopy cover elevates vehicle collision risk for barbastelle bats (Barbastella barbastellus) at roads

📢 New paper from my PhD! 🦇

Using 3D reconstructions of barbastelle bat flight paths over roads, we found that increasing canopy cover leads to lower flight heights, elevating collision risk.

@vincentwt.bsky.social @sussex.ac.uk
#PhD #Bats #Ecology #Conservation

🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Denmark has banned 8 more #pesticides containing #PFAS

The main reason: these pesticides can break down into #TFA a small chain PFAS scientists are increasingly concerned about.

Fidra research earlier this year found #TFA widespread in UK rivers 💧

Read more ▶️ www.pan-europe.info/blog/denmark...

“if you can’t draw the line at genocide, you probably can’t draw the line at democracy”

The Battle of Cable Street - Historic UK On 4th October 1936 the people of the East End of London halted the march of Oswald Mosley's Blackshirts through Stepney, in what became known as The Battle of Cable Street...

“as the number of fascists was growing, so too was the opposition against them”

Almost exactly 89 years ago, the Battle of Cable Street - against fascists who were supported by the police & right-wing press
www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/Hi...

Image of a deceased Puffin lying on the ground. White wording on an orange background reads: Please report sightings of dead birds.

⚠️ Please report sightings of dead birds for possible testing for Avian Influenza. ⬇️

📌 In England, Wales & Scotland: www.gov.uk/guidance/...
📌 In Northern Ireland: www.daera-ni.gov.uk/...
📌 In Republic of Ireland: aviancheck.apps.serv...

#UKBirding #BirdingWales #BirdingScotland

Our newest paper is out in Methods in Ecol Evol @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social :) amazing team effort - we show that the traditional way of analyzing comparative data lacks finesse. besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/action/oidcS... w/ @itchyshin.bsky.social Yefeng Yang, Losia Lagisz & Ayumi Mizuno

We’re delighted to announce the 2025 #WainwrightPrize Winners!

From powerful storytelling to vital conservation work and bold illustration, this year’s winners reflect the richness, urgency, and joy of writing about the natural world.

wainwrightprize.com

#StoriesThatConnect

Banksy satirised the state silencing those opposed to Israel’s genocide.

The state then inadvertently made his artwork genius.

Timing shapes flyway selection in juvenile white storks at the European migratory divide - Journal of Ornithology Migratory divides are junctures where populations of the same species following different migratory routes intersect. In white storks (Ciconia ciconia), migration strategies differ between the western...

Now online in Journal of #Ornithology

Timing shapes flyway selection in juvenile white storks at the European migratory divide

Open access

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

This survey on the current state of freshwater monitoring in the UK is still open.

Have your say, and please share...

💦🧪 #freshwater #monitoring #UKCEH_AquaEco #data #evidence

Police cover up a Banksy image of judge beating a protester faster than you can say "one of the many Boris Johnson Downing Street parties during covid restrictions which the Met police ignored"

Palestine flag flown alongside Irish flag, as seen in many places in Rep of Ireland.

A hugely refreshing and too short time away from UK's insanity. Not everything is green in Rep of Ireland, but the people and government do have some decency.

We are doing a Hackathon! 💻 Together with senior editor @nhcooper123.bsky.social , we'll be discussing and testing a protocol to check whether published data/code is actually reproducible... (1/2)

60,000 Gazans have been killed. 18,500 were children. These are their names. Palestinian children have been killed at a rate of more than one per hour since the war began.

The Washington Post just published the names of more than 18,500 children in Gaza killed by Israel.

www.washingtonpost.com/world/intera...

Looking forward to speaking at the event - I've found Wikipedia really useful in my Hons. class to help the students select important information from published papers and synthesis it as Wikipedia entries - we have been slowly ticking off all the African Raptor species, which often lack good info.

System: a set of things working together as parts of an interconnecting network

Ecosystem: a biological community of interacting organisms and their physical environment

There is no need for other sectors to appropriate & redefine ‘ecosystem’ in an affected way

‘System’ does the job fine.

👏👏👏

Attend ISEC* when it's local to you, for a lightning tour of the state of the art across the breadth of statistical ecology.
(*or similar)

NERC policy on resubmissions This policy only applies to research grant applications.

Really disappointing new policy from NERC banning resubmissions of grant applications

Many of us, including me, have won grants on resubmission,

using the reviews to improve the application

This is is neither fair nor productive
www.ukri.org/councils/ner...

Israel is deliberately massacring civilians it’s deliberately starving.

There are few crimes more depraved.

Some new #rstats packages need a plug more than others. So, here it is.

📖Published📖

Sources of uncertainty in DNA metabarcoding of whole communities: Implications for its use in biomonitoring 🧬 🌍 🧪 Find the article here 👇

buff.ly/6zJRh9R

British Ecological Society Annual Meeting 2025, 15-18 December, Edinburgh. Abstract submission and early bird registration are now open.

✨New science, new ideas, new friends. 

Our much anticipated BES Annual Meeting is here!  Join ecology's global community at the BES Annual Meeting, which brings together over 1,200 ecologists from around the world.

Want to expose corruption & defend the environment with your reporting?

Mongabay is hiring an Investigative Researcher & Reporter. Remote, full-time.

Apply now: form.jotform.com/251814627309...

Is this connected to genAI fake papers? Otherwise unlike in the arts, genuine repetition adds a lot of value to science. But a positive of the AI crisis in the arts and science alike could be to force a deep rethink of what makes quality and how we evaluate it.

Decreasing Stem Growth in Common European Tree Species Despite Earlier Growth Onset Our findings reveal that elevated winter and spring temperatures led to earlier attainment of annual growth levels, indicating an earlier onset of tree growth driven by early season warming. Despite ...

Our new results challenge the expectation that climate warming will offset carbon losses caused by heat and drought with a longer growing season in forests: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Bivariate turning angle and step length kernels for step selection functions

Gaza: Doctors Under Attack review – this crucial film is the stuff of nightmares. But the world needs to see it The film the BBC refused to air shows the targeting, detainment and torture of medics in Gaza. Its relentless timeline of horrors will never leave you

It has been a long, slow decline. But this is the moment the BBC died as a public service broadcaster. www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...