How long should we be investing in technology development for ecosystem conservation? When should we divert our funding to other conservation actions? We try to answer these questions with POMDPs: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
@katehelmstedt.bsky.social @matthew-p-adams.bsky.social and Iadine Chades.
Ooh arXiv paper from @matthholden.bsky.social @katehelmstedt.bsky.social about embedding sustainability in undergraduate maths with case studies 👀 Looks very actionable!
arxiv.org/abs/2508.07594
Job alert: 2.75 -3 yr postdoc in Mathematical ecology/epidemiology or Decision Sci at the University of Queensland on the value of information for decisions with @hugepossum.bsky.social @katehelmstedt.bsky.social Katriona Shea & myself #MathSky 🌍 uq.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/uqcareers/jo... please share
16.07.2025 23:30 — 👍 13 🔁 16 💬 0 📌 0
What information is most useful to make better decisions based on a model? @katehelmstedt.bsky.social explains how Value of Information can inform which marine invasive species should be monitored in Antarctica AND which uncertainties in our ecosystem models should we be resolving? #ICCB2025
17.06.2025 06:15 — 👍 9 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
🚨 Datavis Job Alert! 🚨
Permanent Senior Lectureship in Data Visualization.
Exciting opportunity to join us @ giCentre, London to teach & research #datavis including our £11m Centre for Doctoral Training in Visualization.
Feel free to DM for informal chat.
www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/about/jobs/a...
Strength to all trans women today. The bigots are out in force, but always remember their hate says everything about them not you. Trans women are women, and a bigot is always a bigot.
16.04.2025 23:23 — 👍 373 🔁 70 💬 8 📌 3
The US has three bases in Antarctica. Besides the important science done there, they're a proxy for geopolitical power. China just built its fifth base in Antarctica, so if the US pulls back, guess who will take over?
11.04.2025 01:00 — 👍 86 🔁 30 💬 5 📌 3
A player who has shared the most votes with a jury member is ~37% more likely to get their vote. And more votes, more likely. At this stage, Kaelan has the highest jury favorability, and Myles is critically low.
This is a strong indicator, but not deterministic. A few more things 🧵 1/
#SurvivorAU
So little time to make this call, too. Speed aura reading
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We're hosting an early International Women in Maths Day event in Brisbane next Monday - come hang out and eat lunch. All genders welcome, but you gotta like maths and women killing it. Research talks from women, professional development discussions, free food smp.uq.edu.au/event/sessio....
23.03.2025 23:58 — 👍 9 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0The total Australian Research Council budget is $1bn.
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I’m the Canadian who was detained by Ice for two weeks. It felt like I had been kidnapped
19.03.2025 10:16 — 👍 9253 🔁 4338 💬 515 📌 762Job alert: 3 Aotearoa New Zealand Postdoctoral fellowships in complex systems www.tepunahamatatini.ac.nz/2025/03/07/p...
18.03.2025 02:18 — 👍 3 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0
A pigeon sitting beside its simple nest—just a few twigs, nothing fancy, but it works. One egg rests inside, soon the city will welcome another little pigeon to its flock.
In the final stretch of my PhD thesis on nests, I keep thinking about this pigeon's masterpiece. It doesn’t have to be perfect, just done. Let’s do this! 🐦🪶
#PhD #PhDsky 🧪
The line is a mountain and the bear represents a cave tunnelling through the data to the deeply hidden truth, obviously
12.03.2025 23:21 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
‘This is a fluid situation’, premier says
He’s not wrong #brisbane
09.03.2025 02:48 — 👍 10 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0We introduce a method to quantify how extreme events affect ecosystem function and services. Paper out today in @natureecoevo.bsky.social - very fitting on a day that Cyclone Alfred is looming off the coast of my city!
06.03.2025 03:34 — 👍 27 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 0
Brief interruption in my/our doom scrolling/posting to share a paper I'm really proud of that has taken almost a decade with the very patient @exconomist.bsky.social @katehelmstedt.bsky.social P. Reich, S. Polasky & K. Boersma
www.nature.com/articles/s41... 1/n
For a long time I've joked that Antony Green is immortal and will never retire.
He is sharp, fast, funny, and it has been such a privilege to have a front row seat to the master at work for so long.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-02...
This week the ARC should release Expressions of Interest outcomes for Discovery Projects.
Should be Wed–Fri. They’re not public, so my bot cannot track them.
The ARC should email applicants, and maybe tweet(?), to say outcomes are available in RMS.
Yay!! Congrats Maria!
11.02.2025 03:36 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Yess this conference in Nepal is going to be awesome. Maths, environment, natural resources, lots of biodiversity conservation focus. Can’t wait
11.02.2025 03:36 — 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Luz on the lectern standing next to the title slide of her talk.
Another one for important work on climate change and its effects (presumably on the Great Barrier Reef), Luz V. Pascal from Queensland University of Technology presents: "When does non-stationarity matter for threatened ecosystems?"
#ANZIAM2025
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I loved this construction! I’ll definitely be using it next time I teach queuing theory
07.02.2025 23:25 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Congratulations @kleshnina.bsky.social!! The award every academic in the room was vying for. The students were right - her talk on game theory, resilience, and inequality was impressive. Read the paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
07.02.2025 23:21 — 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Grace is standing on the podium looking at the introductory slide of her talk. The slide is using a very colourful palette of pink-purple combined with many photos of nature and animals.
Next for Tuesday's #ANZIAM2025 is Grace Robinson from Queensland University of Technology: "Balancing competing priorities: optimising land usage allocation"
Mmm, practical optimisation! The type of optimisation I like!
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Impossible to implement. Much easier for us all to have two bluesky apps and find out our futures publicly from a bot
05.02.2025 07:12 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0We can all go back to knowing ARC grant outcomes within 17 seconds of them being posted, thank god
04.02.2025 23:53 — 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0Petition for more thirst traps in ANZIAM plenaries
03.02.2025 03:25 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Yep, when you hear that mining is huge, remember they mean the profits are huge...
The Hospitality industry pays more wages to Australians than does mining.
