Tanya Strydom

SORTEE Webinar: The Risks and Rewards of Large Language Models in (Open) Scientific Research SORTEE Workshop & Webinar Series

Happy to announce the next edition of the @sortee.bsky.social Workshop & Webinar series on October 27 at 16:00UTC, ‘The Risks and Rewards of Large Language Models in (open) Scientific Research’ with @tanyadoesscience.bsky.social !! Sign up here:
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Whoever decided to host the poster session in the Natural history museum you are my hero! 🤩

Cat croissants! 🐱🥐

Photo of a name tag for a conference about palaeontology. The name tag also features a collection of stickers related to palaeontology

Stickers placed = conference mode loading 🤓🤓🤓

Looking forward to learning about DINOSAURS!!!

Best of both worlds? Start with the Smörgåstårta, followed by Fish n Chips (with mushy peas obvi), and round it out with the Prinsesstårta. Simple!

They've done it again... This time with adding (unnecessary) visual detail to the zero commit days. Inconsolable 😭😭😭

A photo of a cup of tea next to a plate with a selection of different biscuits as well as a tin of Fortnum & Mason breakfast blend tea

“Back in time for tea and medals”

Celebrating the end of a fun fieldwork campaign the British way™

I feel like GitHub has (very subtly) modified the gradient they use for ones contributions calendar... I am going to need 2-4 business days to come to terms with this…

New paper! (arxiv.org/abs/2503.14093) I haven’t been this excited about one in a while, and I think the theory @mhab.bsky.social develops here will be a big step forward for the field. Why? Let me explain 🧵...

I had a class of 4th graders and 10th graders! And yeah for sure! 🥰 Or they're asking 'big questions' and you're questioning why we as a field haven't thought of it yet!

Thanks @gracielle.science for passively convincing me to register! xx

I've just had two @skypeascientist.bsky.social sessions today, and honestly it might just be the most rewarding part of this job. 🥲 Highly recommended for anyone who has the bandwidth/time for some science outreach

Reporting from the trenches - i.e., emerging after a battle trying to use excel formulas and conditional formatting... Why does it all have to be one line though??

EcologicalNetworksDynamics.jl: A Julia package to simulate the temporal dynamics of complex ecological networks Species interactions play a crucial role in shaping biodiversity, species coexistence, population dynamics, community stability and ecosystem functioning. Our understanding of the role of the dive...

Get simulating! #Biodiversity / #foodweb dynamics with #julialang. Classic bioenergetic model, consolidation of lots of add-ons & super fast.

Very happy to share this, a result of amazing collaborators and a rich history of model development.

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Current me: Right I’ve said yes to this review I’m going to get it done in the next few days and submit my comments nice and early

Me in a fortnight: Submitting my review the day before the deadline counts as early right?

The lack of post it notes is disappointing… :p

I recently made the jump to using Quarto (which you can host via GitHub pages). Quarto is also handy if you’re also keen on the reproducible reports (think Rmd manuscripts) space. It’s a bit of a learning curve but a fun one!

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Photo of a name tag for a conference. There are multiple stickers added to the name tag

I promise I’m a functional adult... Anyway if anyone wants to see me unspool the crazy catch me talking about food webs at poster session one tomorrow #BES2024

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The dream TBH…

Digital artwork featuring a roadrunner, mountain lion, and a family of Gambel’s quail

Food web and southwest critter content for #BES2024 loading…

The Julia Type System™ giveth but also taketh #JuliaLang

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Am I too late to join the cool kids?

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Combined a ‘thinking day’ with a day out in the Peaks. Can’t ask for a better office

Getting that annual itch to do a personal website overhaul… 🙈🙈🙈

This! Important work in terms of helping us to get (be) better in terms of how we are defining and delimiting networks

🧪 Very cool results on food webs by lab members:

[1] Banville et al.: what does it mean to use probabilities to represent interactions?

[2] @gabdans.bsky.social et al.: local reconstruction of regional food webs

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[2] royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

A screenshot of a slack message. Along with the text “mood board for the meeting this morning see_no_evil emoji” there is also the ‘I’ve connected two dots’ and ‘Pepe silva’ meme

You know it’s going to be a good meeting when this is the premise…

Missing the southwest a bit more than usual today as a result of the British ‘summer’ so played around with some of my favourite critters and shapes

Digital drawing showing a food web of some African mammals

It’s conceptual figure time! Featuring the bravest lion that ever was (being at the top of the food web has triggered his fear of heights)