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@alexisggk.bsky.social

I study bees and live on a boat and those are the two interesting things about me PhD Royal Holloway on landscape epidemiology of pollinator parasites

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Darwin Birthday Debate 2025
YouTube video by Centre for Ecology and Evolution Darwin Birthday Debate 2025

For those of you that missed the Darwin Birthday Debate by the Centre for evolution and ecology this year they've just uploaded it !

#ecology #academicsky

www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbdT...

01.11.2025 20:43 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
A four-panel meme comparing economists’ debates about John Maynard Keynes.

Top left: An angry man holding Paul Samuelson’s Foundations of Economic Analysis yells, β€œIf Keynes was alive today he would agree with the Neoclassical Synthesis!”

Top right: Another angry man holding Hyman Minsky’s Can It Happen Again? yells, β€œNooo he would support the Post-Keynesian school!”

Bottom left: A black-and-white photo of John Maynard Keynes sitting in a chair, holding a book and a bisexual pride flag, saying, β€œDamn, this β€˜Grindr’ thing is really something, huh?”

Bottom right: The Grindr logo replies, β€œThank you, Mr. Keynes.”

Caption at the bottom: β€œPosted in r/economics memes.”

A four-panel meme comparing economists’ debates about John Maynard Keynes. Top left: An angry man holding Paul Samuelson’s Foundations of Economic Analysis yells, β€œIf Keynes was alive today he would agree with the Neoclassical Synthesis!” Top right: Another angry man holding Hyman Minsky’s Can It Happen Again? yells, β€œNooo he would support the Post-Keynesian school!” Bottom left: A black-and-white photo of John Maynard Keynes sitting in a chair, holding a book and a bisexual pride flag, saying, β€œDamn, this β€˜Grindr’ thing is really something, huh?” Bottom right: The Grindr logo replies, β€œThank you, Mr. Keynes.” Caption at the bottom: β€œPosted in r/economics memes.”

30.10.2025 12:37 β€” πŸ‘ 61    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

In this study the fungicide was actually also another fungus ! Bit like delivering a parasitoid was that parasitises another parasitoid

30.10.2025 08:22 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Really cool concept I hadn't encountered yet - using bees to deliver fungicide treatments to plants via their flowers. It performed almost as well as spraying in this study
#science #ecology #pollinator

academicjournals.org/journal/AJAR...

30.10.2025 08:21 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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2025 @conservoptimism.bsky.social Film Festival takes place tonight @morethanadodo.bsky.social. Sofia CastellΓ³ y Tickell (@sofiaatsea.bsky.social) from @rhulbiology.bsky.social, a co-founder of the festival, welcomes everyone. The festival is livestreamed here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=urvW...

25.10.2025 18:41 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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maxent_scripts/unstack_raster_script at main Β· AlexisGGk/maxent_scripts useful tools for working with Maxent. Contribute to AlexisGGk/maxent_scripts development by creating an account on GitHub.

R Script I wrote to unstack rasters. Hope someone finds it useful

I made it for the bioclim future climate rasters (www.worldclim.org/data/cmip6/c...) but it should work for anything

github.com/AlexisGGk/ma...

#ecology #environmental #ClimateChange #science

22.10.2025 18:07 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Hope it helps! I'll be doing the same for some multi model ensemble climate change layers later on

18.10.2025 15:50 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Long term global mean, max, min and range values for wind, solar radiation and water vapor pressure The Worldclim dataset is the most widely used set of long term bioclimatic data, with long term averages for key bioclimatic variables used in climate modelling, species distribution modelling and cou...

I got frustrated that Worldclim didn't have annual averages and stuff for solar radiation, wind and water vapor pressure so I did it and put it on Figshare. Hope it saves one of you the hassle!

#ecology #environmentalΒ #ClimateChange #science #academicsky

figshare.com/articles/dat...

18.10.2025 15:03 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Preview
useful_r_code/r_workshop_bioclim_pca at main Β· AlexisGGk/useful_r_code Contribute to AlexisGGk/useful_r_code development by creating an account on GitHub.

Some R code you might find useful - it takes occurrence data from any species you specify, extracts bioclimatic data and plots the occurrence points in a PCA
github.com/AlexisGGk/us...

#programming #R #ecology #science

14.10.2025 07:19 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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This is from a paper with 400 citations...

#academicsky

07.10.2025 09:13 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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First of the two @rhulbiology.bsky.social presentations at today's @ceevol.bsky.social Autumn Symposium is by @hannahmcgx.bsky.social who presents her PhD work on effects of oil pollution on guppy colouration

19.09.2025 11:49 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
Text reads: So, if your manuscript is accepted, it will only be edited for future publication after we receive the certificate with proof of English language proficiency.

Text reads: So, if your manuscript is accepted, it will only be edited for future publication after we receive the certificate with proof of English language proficiency.

Don't be this editor. I can't believe we still have to put up with this exclusionary sh*t in academic publishing.

18.09.2025 11:46 β€” πŸ‘ 29    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 10    πŸ“Œ 2

What the actual fuck

18.09.2025 11:46 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The "who has been married twice" really gets me lol

18.09.2025 08:04 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Ecosia (tho you do need to turn the stupid ai summary thing off in settings)

14.09.2025 21:40 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
A very scribbly handwritten letter from Kier Starmer to Angela Rayner about her resignation

A very scribbly handwritten letter from Kier Starmer to Angela Rayner about her resignation

Kier Starmer what is up with your handwriting

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

05.09.2025 13:02 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

One of the things I find most frustrating about AI in education is that it means the only fair way to assess people are probably timed, in person exams. Yet, a few years ago, I would have advocated moving away from these kinds of assessments

31.08.2025 14:30 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Hymenoptera represent!

27.08.2025 07:35 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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@blog.ecosia.org.web.brid.gy
Please stop. I do not want a tab to be able to access a chatbot. You don't need a chatbot you're a search engine

#ai #ecosia

26.08.2025 19:40 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Practice I: Biological and environmental data for Species Distribution Modelling
YouTube video by UCL CBER Practice I: Biological and environmental data for Species Distribution Modelling

Really great free course content on species distribution modelling from @uclcber.bsky.social. Really good for the underlying theory and easy to follow
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8inE...

#ecology #science

19.08.2025 10:33 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Do not.

The water/electricity use is always going to be higher than for a normal search. Also the summaries are bad. The reason I switched back to Ecosia despite the fact that the search results are worse is specifically because it didn't use that stupid AI summary function

15.08.2025 10:28 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Farage promises to build more jails
by Our Reform Correspondent
Nick Money

BRITAIN'S next prime minister, Nigel Farage, has vowed to expand the prison service to deal with the increasing lawlessness in Broken Britain.

Farage said it was imperative that we have more prisons to accommodate law-breakers such as Reform MPs.
Said Farage, "No, let me finish! We are looking at hundreds more Reform MPs after the next election, and with our vetting systems we are guaranteed to have a vast number of criminal members of Parliament, who have stolen public money or pushed their girlfriends down the stairs."

When asked how much all this would cost, the Reform leader explained in great detail that he didn't have a clue and couldn't care less.

Farage also promised to send the worst offenders to El Salvador, following a successful pilot programme sending Reform supporters to live in Dubai.

Farage promises to build more jails by Our Reform Correspondent Nick Money BRITAIN'S next prime minister, Nigel Farage, has vowed to expand the prison service to deal with the increasing lawlessness in Broken Britain. Farage said it was imperative that we have more prisons to accommodate law-breakers such as Reform MPs. Said Farage, "No, let me finish! We are looking at hundreds more Reform MPs after the next election, and with our vetting systems we are guaranteed to have a vast number of criminal members of Parliament, who have stolen public money or pushed their girlfriends down the stairs." When asked how much all this would cost, the Reform leader explained in great detail that he didn't have a clue and couldn't care less. Farage also promised to send the worst offenders to El Salvador, following a successful pilot programme sending Reform supporters to live in Dubai.

When so much of the media rolls out the comfy red carpet for Farage, Private Eye trips him up and milkshakes him.
Be more Private Eye.

24.07.2025 06:23 β€” πŸ‘ 1718    πŸ” 667    πŸ’¬ 75    πŸ“Œ 28
Ecology Live 2021 with Maria Dornelas - Is biodiversity declining?
YouTube video by British Ecological Society Ecology Live 2021 with Maria Dornelas - Is biodiversity declining?

Really nice talk from @britishecologicalsociety.org on biodiversity change by Maria Dornelas!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ee6...

09.07.2025 12:25 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I’m petrified about today’s science news. Genetically modifying crabs to have cheetah genes? This could go sideways fast.

08.07.2025 09:45 β€” πŸ‘ 22673    πŸ” 4113    πŸ’¬ 811    πŸ“Œ 311

I AM ELDEN LORD

05.07.2025 15:18 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

My God it's beautiful

Shame it's not global !

01.07.2025 10:09 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

"Minor disruptions to the central line as eldritch horror rampages through London"

29.06.2025 11:31 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Google search for β€œall you can eat buffet near me”
Al Overview
To find an all-you-can-eat buffet near you, you can use online search engines like Google or Yelp, specifying "all you can eat buffet near me". These searches will typically provide a list of nearby restaurants offering buffet-style dining, including their addresses, contact information, and customer reviews. You can also refine your

Google search for β€œall you can eat buffet near me” Al Overview To find an all-you-can-eat buffet near you, you can use online search engines like Google or Yelp, specifying "all you can eat buffet near me". These searches will typically provide a list of nearby restaurants offering buffet-style dining, including their addresses, contact information, and customer reviews. You can also refine your

The singularity is awesome

28.06.2025 17:18 β€” πŸ‘ 21041    πŸ” 4408    πŸ’¬ 280    πŸ“Œ 303

Excellent title, no notes

26.06.2025 20:59 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Yeah I think that's a little harsh. From my understanding they (or at least liam) joined under Corbyns' labour. It's obviously a pretty different beast now

26.06.2025 09:57 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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