Emily Lines

Job losses at research-intensive universities double in two years - Research Professional News Exclusive: Scale of redundancies revealed branded a “disaster” for UK research capacity

Job losses at UK research-intensive universities double in two years.

Exclusive: Scale of redundancies branded a “disaster”.

www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...

I would like an email auto response plugin that automatically scans for LLM content then replies and deletes. If you expect me to read something is it too much to ask that you actually write it?? 🤬🤬

GitHub - Art-n-MathS/PlotToSat: PlotToSat can extract time-series from Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 at multiple to thousands of plots (circular regions) PlotToSat can extract time-series from Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 at multiple to thousands of plots (circular regions) - GitHub - Art-n-MathS/PlotToSat: PlotToSat can extract time-series from Senti...

📢PlotToSAT on-site workshop at ForestSAT conference (@forestsat.bsky.social)!
Includes demonstration of new feature of extracting time-series at multiple regions defined in .shp & GEE intro.
Check the details here: carlos-alberto-silva.github.io/silvalab/For...
Github: github.com/Art-n-MathS/...

The fast and the focused: Balancing timely and accurate classification of deforestation and degradation drivers using remote sensing Identifying drivers of deforestation is crucial for developing targeted conservation and land management strategies, and satellite data provide a long time series of data to understand deforestation d...

Although multi-year data was useful for slow growing land cover, we found that single images from the year following loss can provide high quality information across almost all drivers of deforestation- evidence for rapid and accurate monitoring.

>>Paper here journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

In our latest paper, led by Amandine Debus (& with Emilie Beauchamp) we test how long we need to wait to get good classification of drivers of deforestation in Cameroon, using our previously developed deep learning model Cam-ForestNet, which detects drivers of deforestation tailored to Cameroon.

There is a tension between using satellite data for fast vs accurate monitoring. Monitoring drivers of deforestation with satellite data can help targeted interventions and management, but if long time series of data are needed for classification, the wait can make findings too late to be useful.

🚨3 Lectureships in Biology 🚨

Come join us in Bristol @bristolbiosci.bsky.social!

We are looking for new collegues working across a broad spectum of topics in biology, including ecology & environmental change. Get in touch if you have Qs!

Apply here by 8 March: www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...

It's like Mandelson and Starmer watched and learned from the Tory VIP Lane:

💷 Privileged access ✅
💷 Personal benefit ✅
💷 No competition ✅

Mandelson benefitted financially through his stake in Global Counsel.

New chatbot ‘outperforms PhDs on literature reviews’ Cheap research round-ups by ‘hallucination-free’ OpenScholar model preferred by experts, says Nature study

So have we just given up understanding that the purpose of a literature review is not the production of writing, but rather the production of knowledge about a subject?

www.timeshighereducation.com/news/new-cha...

You won't want to miss this! Keep your calendars free and hopefully see you in Switzerland in October 🌳🍁🌐🧪

Three weeks on. Still no response.

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

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

ah I misunderstood your point. But I agree with this.

I'm not sure that's true - pretty much all the colleges admit student for all the subjects taught at Cambridge. There are some subjects at Cambridge that are rarer in state schools (for example Classics) and that's reflected in admissions stats: www.undergraduate.study.cam.ac.uk/sites/defaul...

Students slam Cambridge over handling of sexual misconduct cases Don in charge of student welfare at Trinity Hall gave evidence on behalf of male student accused of rape

(from the same college as this behaviour, reported a few years ago: www.theguardian.com/education/20...)

Cambridge college to target elite private schools for student recruitment Exclusive: Trinity Hall’s new policy described as a ‘slap in the face’ for state-educated students

The intake of Trinity Hall & Cambridge (& Oxford & other elite universities) is still hugely biased. 93% of children in the UK attend state schools, our state intake is 71% - we miss out on so many bright students. This is a sad, misguided & harmful decision.

www.theguardian.com/education/20...

😅

A news headline reading: 'Font of 'wasteful' diversity: Trump's state department orders return to Times New Roman.

Obviously very far from the worst thing they're doing, but definitely seems they're trying to be terrible in every possible way...

This is insane. 🤦‍♂️

Why do tech giants like Elon Musk and Bill Gates keep on saying such dumb things about climate change?

They have access to the best possible experts, who could actually teach them something, if they would only ask and listen…

Screenshot from email about taking mental health “seriously” in academia

My favorite thing about these mental health in academia emails is that they never address the fact that the pressure stems from the consequences to one’s career if you don’t meet those goals

Creating woodland through natural processes: Current understanding and knowledge gaps in Great Britain Natural colonisation can successfully create structurally diverse, locally adapted woodlands in Britain, but the outcomes of this process can vary considerably. Combining natural colonisation and tre...

New OA publication from TreE_PlaNat project @uktreescapes.bsky.social in Ecological Solutions and Evidence: Creating woodland through natural processes: Current understanding and knowledge gaps in Great Britain besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

I know its that time of year but today I've received 5 PhD enquiries, and most are garbled LLM nonsense. I try to respond to everyone regardless, but this honestly feels insulting.

How many #lidars is too many lidars?

Dunno, but I've definitely got room for this one - very exciting to be getting involved in the low cost lidar world

ah the leaves are turning and the men are giving each other prizes again the first whispers of winter

oh I would. if all the deadlines weren't tomorrow....

Our new perspective on what TLS can (& can't) do in forest research www.nature.com/articles/s41... - led by Eduardo Maeda w lots of great colleagues including @kimcalders.bsky.social @emilyrlines.bsky.social @louiseterryn.bsky.social @benjaminbrede.bsky.social (apols for any I don;t have @ for)

yeah sure I can write a paper and a proposal on two totally different topics today, on 3 hours sleep and massively jetlagged.

my brain is not happy with me.

Having a great time at Silvilaser this week, full of inspiring talks&research on forest lidar. But it is heartbreaking to hear how many presenters are absent bcos they couldn't get Canada visas. We're missing out on great science and collaboration bcos of short sighted&cruel geopolitical decisions.

Every single time.
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