Chris Sutherland

We are recruiting several PhD students. If you are interested in conservation conflicts, population ecology, quantitative ecology, or biodiversity, check these projects out (links in the thread, feel free to reach out):

I'm hiring a postdoc to work with myself, Dr Jim Lyons and the entire NOAA Firebird team on the adaptive management part of our larger project focused on the impacts of prescribed fire on Gulf Coast wetlands

Accepting applications until Feb 15th

blogs.illinois.edu/view/7426/19...

This looks handy! Anyone out there willing to share examples of automated CV updating?

Some great PhD opportunities in conservation science/ ecology here.

I've slowly been reformatting notes from my population and conservation genetics course at Montana State University into a web book—a rough draft is now live here: elinck.org/popgen_conge...

QUARTILES DLA CASE: Predicting and managing the spatially asynchronous pulses of herbivorous rodent abundance cascading through ecosystems at University of Aberdeen on FindAPhD.com PhD Project - QUARTILES DLA CASE: Predicting and managing the spatially asynchronous pulses of herbivorous rodent abundance cascading through ecosystems at University of Aberdeen , listed on FindAPhD....

Predicting and managing the spatially asynchronous pulses of herbivorous rodent abundance cascading through ecosystems

🔗 tinyurl.com/mbsj4s7p
🏢 @uniofaberdeen.bsky.social
👥 Xavier Lambin (@lambin-ecology.bsky.social), Paul Caplat (@paulcaplat.bsky.social), Deon Roos (@deonroos.bsky.social), Me

Occupancy, density and the ecology of terrestrial British mammals

Occupancy, density and the ecology of terrestrial British mammals?

🔗 tinyurl.com/ycx9ra9a
🏢 @durham.ac.uk
👥 @prof-r-hill.bsky.social, ME, @ps-wildlife-res.bsky.social

Of woods and waders: balancing the competing benefits of conservation and restoration

Of woods and waders: balancing the competing benefits of conservation and restoration

🔗 tinyurl.com/57m95ncy
🏢 @uniofstandrews.bsky.social
👥 ME, @ps-wildlife-res.bsky.social, Steve Willis, Kenny Kortland (Scottish Forestry), Dave Parish, Lucy Mason

Finding the middle ground: Balancing deer management, ecological recovery, and traditional land use at Durham University on FindAPhD.com PhD Project - Finding the middle ground: Balancing deer management, ecological recovery, and traditional land use at Durham University, listed on FindAPhD.com

Finding the middle ground: Balancing deer management, ecological recovery, and traditional land use

🔗 tinyurl.com/3xxvv9n6
🏢 @durham.ac.uk
👥 @ps-wildlife-res.bsky.social, ME, Flurina Wartmann

Is ‘complexity’ the much-needed link between ecological function and the biodiversity metrics needed to deliver nature positive outcomes? at University of St Andrews on FindAPhD.com PhD Project - Is ‘complexity’ the much-needed link between ecological function and the biodiversity metrics needed to deliver nature positive outcomes? at University of St Andrews, listed ...

Is ‘complexity’ the much-needed link between ecological function and the biodiversity metrics needed to deliver nature-positive outcomes

🔗 tinyurl.com/3v4r5bza
🏢 @uniofstandrews.bsky.social
👥 ME, Petra Minnerop, Kirsty Park, Sallie Bailey (Natural England)

We are recruiting several PhD students. If you are interested in conservation conflicts, population ecology, quantitative ecology, or biodiversity, check these projects out (links in the thread, feel free to reach out):

Excited to host #BES2025 Thematic Session next week! The future of quantitative learning and literacy in ecology. 16 Dec 16:00-18:00 Edinburgh EICC @fiebergjohn.bsky.social @nhcooper123.bsky.social @fergusjchadwick.bsky.social @talom.bsky.social @chrissuthy.bsky.social @britishecologicalsociety.org

Red deer stag (photo: P A Stephens)

📢 Fully funded PhD available:

Finding the middle ground: Balancing deer management, ecological recovery, and traditional land use

Through @netgain.bsky.social, with @naturescot.bsky.social

More info: www.findaphd.com/phds/project... (UK ‘home students’ only)

#phd #wildlife #deer #ecology

@iapetusdtp.bsky.social

A solitary Lapwing stands in the grass.

New PhD opportunity:

Balancing the trade-offs between conservation and restoration in woodland creation and wader protection

Details here: iapetus.ac.uk/studentships...

@chrissuthy.bsky.social
@ps-wildlife-res.bsky.social
@naturescot.bsky.social
@rspbscience.bsky.social

📷Ben Andrew

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! 💯

Sample size considerations for species co‐occurrence models Multispecies occupancy models are widely applied to infer interactions in the occurrence of different species, but convergence and estimation issues under realistic sample sizes are common. We conduc...

📝 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...

A surprisingly effective way to save the capercaillie: keep its predators well-fed – new research Evidence suggests this alternative to culling the bird’s predators is effective.

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!

A surprisingly effective way to save the capercaillie: keep its predators well-fed – new research Evidence suggests this alternative to culling the bird’s predators is effective.

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

a kid in a knight costume is asking who will join us ALT: a kid in a knight costume is asking who will join us

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/...

A well-connected Earth: The science and conservation of organismal movement Global biodiversity targets focus on landscape and seascape connectivity as a foundational component of biodiversity conservation, including networks of connected protected areas. Recent advances allo...

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/...

Working link: www.vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk/Vacancies/I/...

bsky.app/profile/chri...

Consulting Consultant GIF ALT: Consulting Consultant GIF

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...