Rachel Jade Kuzmich

We are seeking new PhD and MSc students interested in avian physiology and behaviour.

We are looking for new graduate students! Feel free to repost or pass along to prospective students

The second session is all about assessing and detecting stress effects. We are about halfway through with a great talk by @yuwenzhang6666.bsky.social #DendroNet

Roman Zweifel and @daniellecreek.bsky.social showing the flexibility of different dendrometer models for different sized trees and branches #DendroNet

Demo time: dendrometer installation #DendroNet

Shoutout to the weather & fall foliage on campus @uninmbu.bsky.social at coffee break #DendroNet

And just before coffee break, @tommaso-jucker.bsky.social who is mixing things up geographically and sharing miombo tree growth dynamics research in Africa #DendroNet

Research speed talks are starting off with Gaby Inga Guillen, looking at tree growth responses to climate #DendroNet

First keynote from Kathy Steppe at Universiteit Gent disentangling tree growth components 🙌 Understanding sap flow and tree growth is critical in the context of climate change #DendroNet

The amazing @daniellecreek.bsky.social kicking off the first #DendroNet meeting at @uninmbu.bsky.social 👏

Presentation slide entitled 'How do methods of woodland creation affect bird communities and abundance?'

At #EOU2025?

Catch a talk from @rspbscience.bsky.social's Paul Bellamy: “How do methods of woodland creation affect bird communities and abundance?” 🌳🐦

At 14:30 in LR3 as part of the Conservation 2 session
@eounion.bsky.social

The SORTEE Guidelines for Data and Code Quality Control in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology This is a Preprint and has not been peer reviewed. This is version 1 of this Preprint.

Introducing "The SORTEE Guidelines for Data and Code Quality Control in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology"

The first standardised set of data editor guidelines. Led by SORTEE with input from numerous data editors across ecology and evolution.

🔗 doi.org/10.32942/X24...

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Got remote sensing or species distribution data?

I've got a few months to bridge (May-July) between my phd and postdoc and am looking for short-term remote work!

Passed my phd defense last week 🥳🕺😎

Big thanks to my committee for the thoughtful discussion, making the 3 hours fly by.

L-R: Steve Lougheed, Paul Treitz, me 👋, Ross Hill, Erica Nol, and Ryan Danby.

Free bees? Freebies.

So, are you considering your next study system/species? Don’t forget to check your subconscious bias…what are we missing out on by only studying colorful/boldly patterned and geographically convenient species across the tree of life? This is all to say: don't forget about the drab&distant species!

5/🧵 we then examined the changes through time using metrics of unfilling, stability, expansion and overlap.

This confirmed that there was expansion, but that the core niche area was stable, as the Chiffchaff population has grown.

4/🧵 using PCA to represent niche, we could easily visualize that Chiffchaff niche grew through time.

And that our lidar metrics, particularly mean height, foliage height diversity and canopy closure, were particularly important to PC1 which captured 77% of the variance in the data.

3/🧵 we extracted lidar metrics describing horizontal (like canopy closure) and vertical (like mean height) woodland #habitat components at four time steps at Chiffchaff locations.

2/🧵 Species distribution models generally assume that the relationship between a species and their habitat is stationary, but there are a lot of reasons this might not be true.

Like population growth.

Thanks to @btobirds.bsky.social, we know that Chiffchaff population has grown a lot.

1/🧵 Today at #BOU2025, I'm sharing my work using a #lidar time series to examine temporal Chiffchaff niche dynamic.

tl;dr as the population has grown, Chiffchaff niche has expanded.

#remotesensing #ecology 🧪🌎🌳🐦🛰

🙏 @bou.org.uk for the travel award to be here 🙏

🌲Would you like to map the biodiversity of forests from above? 📢 We have an open three-year #postdoc #position in #remotesensing of forest biodiversity🌳🦋🍄🐞@uninmbu.bsky.social Combine eDNA measurements with #lidar and optical data.

Learn more & apply here 👉 bit.ly/4jfLH6E

A dreamy day for a stroll in the countryside revisiting my woodland study sites. Particularly enjoyed noticing all the borders and thought about birds noticing the same.

Fully funded PhD in Plant Ecophysiology at UBC in Vancouver 🍁! Possible topics include leaf physiology, thermal ecology, microclimates, scaling, tree physiology, forest ecology & more. Start Jan/May/Sept 2026. michaletzlab.org
Please share!
#PlantEcoPhys #Ecology #Botany #PhDposition #GradSchool

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Abstract submitted to @eounion.bsky.social where I hope to share my work balancing data-driven #remotesensing approaches with #ecological knowledge to make better habitat models.

🤞 to seeing you in Wales!

We have announced the 2024 Robert May Prize shortlist, our award for early career researchers! 🏆

Follow the link below to see our shortlisted authors and their papers 🌎 🧪 👇

Our next workshop will be presented by SORTEE president Ed Ivimey-Cook:

"Reproducible data analysis in R"

Ed will introduce the basics of reproducible projects, data & code, and conduct a code review.

Register at events.humanitix.com/sortee-works...

#rstats #SORTEEtools #codereview

Abstract submitted to @silvilaser2025.bsky.social about density-driven effects on plot-level ALS metrics describing woodland bird habitat. See you in Quebec City this autumn 😎

Exploring R Package Usage in Academia I am running a quick survey to find out which R packages academics use the most in their research and teaching. The goal is to see which tools are essential, spot any gaps, and maybe even discover som...

Hi there, my student is making a survey about the use of R packages in Ecology, could you please spend two mins on filling it 🥹 Very appreciated! And if you could spread it further (RT), that would be just awesome. ❤️

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...