Sal Keith (she/her)

Fun science times at iDiv this week working on sMacrobehaviour 🤗

Today our Applied Data Science for Biodiversity MSc students took a trip to our underwater Coral Crisis Centre to coordinate a rapid response to an upcoming heatwave. Ready to dive? 👌 @lec-reefs.bsky.social @dsilu.bsky.social @lancasteruninews.bsky.social

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Fellowship proposal submitted! Whatever happens now, I've made some great new connections with project partners. Happy to be off the grant writing carousel for a while now

a group of people are crawling through the mud . Alt: a group of people are crawling through the mud .

Marie Curie fellowships are madness this year. A score of 97% required for funding. To all those who didn't succeed - you and your project are probably brilliant, hang in there and keep trying

Is the public actually talking about biodiversity? 🐾

Our new #OA paper in @ConBiology introduces an automated NLP pipeline to measure wildlife saliency and attitudes from digital media

Essential for tracking GBF targets! 📈

conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

#ConservationScience #AI

We've got ISSUES. Literally.

We scraped >100k special issues & over 1 million articles to bring you a PISS-poor paper. We quantify just how many excess papers are published by guest editors abusing special issues to boost their CVs. How bad is it & what can we do?

arxiv.org/abs/2601.07563

A 🧵 1/n

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Is anyone out there currently marking coursework managing to NOT do it in their "free" time?

Our journals @dev-journal.bsky.social, @jcellsci.bsky.social & @jexpbiol.bsky.social offer Travelling Fellowships of up to £3,000 to graduate students and post-doctoral researchers wishing to make collaborative visits to other laboratories. Apply by 6 February 2026.
biologists.com/grants/trave...

JOB OPPORTUNITY: Aquarist - South Bimini, Bahamas (MSC Foundation)

Learn more here: careers.msccruises.com/gb/en/job/16...

#coralreefs #jobs #aquarist #careers #bahamas #bimini #coral #nature #coralreefecology #coralrestoration #coralresearch #marinebiology

Marine biology scientist recognised by Fellow status in world’s oldest ecological society - Lancaster University A Lancaster University marine biologist has been recognised with prestigious Fellow of the British Ecological Society (BES) status.

Very excited to be one of the new Fellows of the BES! It has always been the society where I feel I belong the most 🥰 www.lancaster.ac.uk/news/marine-... @britishecologicalsociety.org @lec-reefs.bsky.social @dsilu.bsky.social @macrobehaviour.bsky.social @lancasteruninews.bsky.social

Super excited to be part of this! I’ve been a member since the 1st year of my PhD and love this society 🥰

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📖 Big news! We just released the first five chapters of our new book, Hello Data Science. It is a fully open-access resource written for beginners. Please help us spread the word! A few points about the book are below 👇

🔗 www.hellodata.science

#rstats #datascience #tidyverse

This is a great group to get involved with. Particularly looking for ECRs and people based outside the Uk to apply. But everyone welcome!

A data collection mission that began in 2012 is finally released as AVONICHE.

Designed as a companion to AVONET bird trait database and updated to Avilist taxonomy, it’s an Open Access dataset providing updated diets and a detailed breakdown of foraging behaviours used by all bird species.

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And another of my old papers (from my MSc…. ancient 😉) which suggests subduction zones + archipelago formation linked to vocal diversity of gibbons www.researchgate.net/profile/Sall... (not the GIF species!)

Faunal breaks and species composition of Indo-Pacific corals: the role of plate tectonics, environment and habitat distribution Abstract. Species richness gradients are ubiquitous in nature, but the mechanisms that generate and maintain these patterns at macroecological scales remai

For anyone at #TIBS2026 in the geology symposium, here is our (now fairly old) paper on the role of plate tectonics in determining global faunal breaks for tropical corals royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article... @biogeography.bsky.social In case it’s peaked your interest in this stuff!

Bayesian modelling and computation utilising directed cycles in multiple network data - Statistics and Computing Modelling multiple network data is crucial for addressing a wide range of applied research questions. However, there are many challenges, both theoretical and computational, to address. Network cycles...

Cool new method by Anastasia Mantziou to explore directed cycles in networks, using some of our butterflyfish data as inspiration link.springer.com/article/10.1... Collaboration between mathematicians + ecologists!

Seasonal differences in predation risk among seagrass epifauna species stabilize community-level predation over time https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.01.05.697804v1

On my way to @biogeography.bsky.social #TIBS2026. Ouch, it’s early! See you there biogeographers 🐠🌏

📢Please share📢 We have an opening for an exciting fully-funded PhD project on computer vision and machine learning applied to biodiversity monitoring with amazing Serge Belongie @belongielab.org and @aicentre.dk. Application deadline coming up on 15 January!
phd.tech.au.dk/for-applican...

The first global pandemic treaty — and the woman who made it happen Precious Matsoso is part of Nature’s 10, a list of people who shaped science in 2025.

Precious Matsoso, a public-health official based in Pretoria, South Africa, brokered the world’s first pandemic-preparedness treaty after years of hard-fought negotiations. She’s part of Nature’s 10 for 2025. 🧪

Closing out my year with a journal editor shocker 🧵

Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...

Post-doc positions:
"Academic freedom is under pressure today. This requires rescue havens of free research. ... [we] invite early career researchers, whose work is restricted due to political pressure in the USA..."

uni-freiburg.de/frias/call-f...

Book cover for Reproducible Code guide. The cover has a red background with a large yellow-bodied black-headed stag beetle.

Excited to launch the new improved Reproducible Code guide from @britishecologicalsociety.org @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social FREE online here! www.britishecologicalsociety.org//wp-content/... Amazing work by some very talented ECRs. We hope it’s useful!

We’ve reached proof of concept stage with our octonauts inspired marine heatwave scenario in the data immersion suite, I’m loving the portholes 🐠

Thanks Tom! It’s a bit heavy to wear, otherwise I would of course have it on all the time 😉 It is gorgeous 😍

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Still can't believe this - ZSL thought I've done good ;) portal.lancaster.ac.uk/intranet/new... @lec-reefs.bsky.social @dsilu.bsky.social 🥰 (I was awarded a medal!)

Secondly, to Dr Sally Keith @lancasteruni.bsky.social for her research in the field of macrobehaviour, and commitment to advancing of our understanding of whole biological systems of coral reefs 🏆 @salkeith.bsky.social

The ZSL Scientific Medal is presented to researchers for outstanding contributions to their field, made within 15 years of completing their PhD. This year, 3 Medals were awarded 👇

The ZSL Marsh Award for Conservation Biology is awarded to Professor Tim Blackburn, @ucllifesciences.bsky.social, for his pioneering work in macroecology, contribution to invasion biology, and profound scientific and policy impact ⭐️🌍 @mothyblackburn.bsky.social