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Videos by @alexhhchan.bsky.social

What skills we should keep teaching is one question, but there's no way around starting to teach prompting, critically evaluating and prompting to critically evaluate AI. Should be in every curriculum. AI is here and avoiding it is just as useful as avoiding a calculator or R for that matter.

Statistics in the era of AI How do we mentor, teach, and do stats when AI can do so much of the work?

Y'all. I just got ChatGPT to do everything in R for this manuscript. I mean EVERYTHING. And it's all legit and reproducible. I'm shook.

How are we mentoring our trainees in statistics now? Who needs to learn coding in R line by line, and who doesn't?

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Biodiversity & Health Symposium 2025 | Copenhagen Join leading experts in Copenhagen for a one-day symposium on the critical links between biodiversity, climate change, and health. Register now.

I am organizing a one-day symposium (no online option) on Biodiversity and Health in a Warmer World

Learn more here www.biodiversityhealth2025.com

I’ve been awarded the ZSL Scientific Medal 😃🥳 Still pinching myself! Best bit - this tiny card and flowers I found next to my bed when I went up last night 🥹🥰

BIRDBASE dataset tracks ecological traits for 11,589 species of birds Çağan Şekercioğlu was an ambitious, but perhaps naive graduate student when, 26 years ago, he embarked on a simple data-compilation project that would soon evolve into a massive career-defining achiev...

"Right now, if one of my students came to me and said, 'Hey, as part of my Ph.D. I want to enter the world's birds into a dataset,' I'm like, 'No, you're not doing that. You'll never finish your Ph.D.' "

Too true omg 😂

Anyway, this is a very exciting dataset!

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📖Published📖

Check out our new research article by Santoro et al. 👉 Essential tools but overlooked bias: Artificial intelligence and citizen science classification affect camera trap data 📸 🌍 🧪

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I'm in the final throes of writing a Turing Interdisc Fellowship, thinking of it as buying an unlikely raffle ticket for the total of 12 that will be funded across ALL disciplines. Already feeling like this to have got through the internal round 😂 Good luck y'all #InItToWinIt

The Crown Princess Victoria Professorship in Biodiversity - Academic Positions Seeking an internationally recognized scientist for a prestigious professorship in biodiversity. Lead groundbreaking research, interdisciplinary collaboratio...

University of Gothenburg announces a strategic professorship in biodiversity with an interdisciplinary profile
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Yes! My MSc was in Primate Conservation so she was definitely part of opening the route into science for me - a fantastic role model for so many of us

a life lived in defiance of patriarchy and human supremacy

There will never be another Jane.

RIP Queen

'An extraordinary legacy': Tributes after chimpanzee expert Jane Goodall dies age 91 - follow live The primatologist was a

What an inspiration and a wonderful legacy www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c9... Pioneered animal behaviour with empathy - she was first person to give the animals she studied names rather than numbers and a tireless fighter for conservation 💪😥

Want to do disruptive science? Include more rookie researchers Papers from research teams with a substantial number of beginners are highly disruptive and innovative, study shows.

Cool - newbie scientists less stuck to old ideas so can be more innovative www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Artificial intelligence (AI) for environmental science phase one Secure funding to deliver new world-leading data science and AI approaches to tackle critical environmental challenges. Interdisciplinary collaboration within and beyond environmental science is encou...

Does anyone have intel on why the new NERC AI call is explicitly "terrestrial ecology"? www.ukri.org/opportunity/...

An image of an ocelot. Photo credit Gwen Argawal.

More than 100 businesses from 21 countries are now sharing biodiversity data through @gbif.org . 🌱

Find out what companies are publishing here: https://www.gbif.org/

Will Coral Reef Collapse Make Fish Less Intelligent? Marine biologist Annabell reveals how coral reef collapse could affect fish intelligence, with insights on what reef degradation means for underwater life.

Cool article on our PhD student Annabell Klinke's research, asking are fish less smart on less structurally complex reefs? womenlovetech.com/world-first-... @lec-reefs.bsky.social

Density dependent habitat selection in response to habitat loss in a coral reef fish Habitat loss triggers a social chain reaction: adult reef fish crowd onto remaining coral, then spill over onto dead coral—and juveniles follow. This study reveals a novel, socially driven ‘bandwagon...

PAPER hints at ecological traps for damselfish settlement - dead corals chosen for settlement if an adult is present, could cascade to bad ends! besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... Led by @lisabe.bsky.social @lec-reefs.bsky.social @animalecology.bsky.social

Site-level variation in field of view is associated with altered anti-predator responses in farming damselfish The structure of a habitat affects how animals respond to predators. By recording the anti-predator behaviour of reef fish at sites with different levels o

Field of view affects damselfish anti-predator responses BUT other metrics of structural complexity do not. Implications for how we measure structure & predict its effects academic.oup.com/beheco/advan...
@jamesboon.bsky.social is on fire today! @lec-reefs.bsky.social @envisiondtp.bsky.social

Deeper Caribbean reef fish communities show greater taxonomic and functional change in dominance structure over a nine-year period - Coral Reefs Fish communities at greater depths on a reef are thought to be less affected by disturbances that more strongly impact shallower areas. As a result, these deeper communities might be expected to show ...

New PAPER shows greater depths NOT correlated with more stable communities on Caribbean reefs, contrary to expectations. Led by @jamesboon.bsky.social link.springer.com/article/10.1... @lec-reefs.bsky.social @envisiondtp.bsky.social @opwallscience.bsky.social

Thanks Barry, I have a lead now thanks to your email :)

Does anyone have a contact at @cefasgovuk.bsky.social who I can talk to abut possible research collaboration please? It's related to Turing Interdisc Fellowship application around remote monitoring & #AI

Restoration cannot be scaled up globally to save reefs from loss and degradation - Nature Ecology & Evolution An assessment of existing coral restoration projects finds that accessibility drives the choice of restoration sites more than environmental and ecological factors, and most restored reefs have been o...

It's all in the title: Restoration cannot be scaled up globally to save reefs from loss & degradation www.nature.com/articles/s41... Comprehensive analysis of current + projected future success of reef restoration. Most important predictor of site selection is accessibility, not ecological factors

Songbirds play optical tricks to make their feather colors ‘pop’ Concealed black or white bands on feathers boost the vibrancy of bird plumage

Pick an idiom: "more than meets the eye", "beauty more than skin [feather] deep" etc.

In work led by Rosalyn Price-Waldman, we describe a hidden (and ignored!) black or white layer found below the visible surface of bird feathers which helps make bird colours so striking!

🧪 🪶 #colsci

We can't wait to hear Dr.Brian McGill's talk for this month's Funk lecture! Learn more and register here: www.biogeography.org/news/news/se...

Familiarity mediated by body size predicts intraspecific aggression in farming damselfishes - Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology Abstract Aggressive territoriality can have significant benefits for resource acquisition yet is a costly behaviour. Selection should therefore favour mechanisms that allow individuals to modify their...

PAPER: Territorial damselfish are more aggressive to neighbours if their neighbour is larger, but this weakens If they don't know each other link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Led by my awesome former PhD student @sheppardcat.bsky.social @lec-reefs.bsky.social @envisiondtp.bsky.social #FishInBottles

Familiarity mediated by body size predicts intraspecific aggression in farming damselfishes - Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology Abstract Aggressive territoriality can have significant benefits for resource acquisition yet is a costly behaviour. Selection should therefore favour mechanisms that allow individuals to modify their...

New paper by Catherine Sheppard et al. examining aggressive behaviour in damselfish in the coral reefs of Honduras. Results showed predicting aggressive responses can be complex, extending beyond simply whether the subject of the aggression is a “neighbour” or a “stranger”: tinyurl.com/mr3vhef9

Come join us in the @biology.ox.ac.uk at @ox.ac.uk! New Associate Professor position in Animal Behaviour, with Merton College:

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Take a look at our new data and code guidelines for quality control below! This was a great collaboration between data editors from multiple ecology and evolution journals and @sortee.bsky.social!

Brilliantly led by @joelpick.bsky.social and @eivimeycook.bsky.social!

Tenure-track Assistant Professor in Bioacoustic Physiology - Ledig stilling på Aarhus Universitet Ledig stilling ved Institut for Biologi - Zoofysiologi, Aarhus Universitet

Breaking News 🚨: Our #bioacoustics 🔉🐬🦇lab seeks a permanent new colleague in a tenure-track assistant professor 🥷position. Excited? Then join our vibrant group of 15 researchers, postdocs and PhD students at AU who work with #marinemammal #acoustics, #conservation #physiology and #effectsofnoise!

Important article by Tara McAllister and her co-authors. We at Stanford University is encouraged by this paper as we launch a new faculty search in the field of Traditional Ecological Knowledge (applications by Sept 30, 2025):

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