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In 2017 I made a note on my phone: 'write a song about friendship'. Barely 8 years later I took a music production course so I could deliver this only months after the second line went out of date. Refresh. youtu.be/ZPm3OWnxooM?...

Combining long-term ecological monitoring with AI-analysis and field experiments to model biodiversity responses to climate change at University of Southampton on FindAPhD.com PhD Project - Combining long-term ecological monitoring with AI-analysis and field experiments to model biodiversity responses to climate change at University of Southampton, listed on FindAPhD.com

If you ♥️ barnacles, time-series, fieldwork, modelling, and AI, apply for a PhD with myself, Phil Fenberg, @michaeltburrows.bsky.social, and Steve Hawkins @thembauk.bsky.social www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Characterizing Rocky Intertidal Biodiversity Using Environmental DNA Metabarcoding From Local to National Scales We assess the resolution of eDNA metabarcoding for detecting rocky intertidal taxa across three spatial scales—national, regional, and local. Distinct eDNA signals were observed at each scale, with c...

Groundbreaking work on the use of eDNA for characterizing intertidal biodiversity, comparing it to my MarClim time-series from @dinathebiologist.bsky.social, myself, Tom Webb, Helen Hipperson, and Matt Spencer @thembauk.bsky.social @livuniresearch.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Green Careers Conference 2025, hosted by British Ecological Society at Linnean Society on November 5, 2025.

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Characterizing Rocky Intertidal Biodiversity Using Environmental DNA Metabarcoding From Local to National Scales We assess the resolution of eDNA metabarcoding for detecting rocky intertidal taxa across three spatial scales—national, regional, and local. Distinct eDNA signals were observed at each scale, with c...

🚨 NEW PAPER: eDNA in the Intertidal 🧬

We explored how eDNA reveals marine biodiversity across UK rocky shores from local patterns to national trends 🌊

Read it in Journal of Environmental DNA 👉 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

#eDNA #Intertidal #Biodiversity #PhDlife

On the edge of my seat here to see what happens next!

Delighted with my past self for pre-ordering this beautiful book from @stevehaddock.bsky.social, then promptly forgetting about it, so that its arrival yesterday was a lovely surprise!

Abstract submissions for @wcmb2026.bsky.social are now OPEN!

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@unoceandecade.bsky.social @vliz.be #WCMB2026 #marinebiodiversity

Personally I'm surprised how small and furry they used to be (assuming the thumbnail is an accurate reconstruction?)

(label_wrap was new to me too!)

Thanks for sharing! A related thing I recently discovered is using free() in patchwork if you use the switch-x-and-y-axes technique and don't want subsequent plots you're assembling to leave a massive white space where the long axis labels are - see patchwork.data-imaginist.com/reference/fr...

OMG I have this problem All. The. Time. A great post outlining useful strategies. Did not know about label_wrap either! OOOO!

OIST is seeking up to four tenure-track or tenured faculty in Ecology, Environmental Science, Earth Science, and Oceanography. Application deadline: Oct 15. Please share. Thx!
www.oist.jp/careers/facu...

Periodic reminder of the magic of apache arrow / parquet:

arrow::write_parquet(`5.7M row x 10 col dataframe`,
sink = here::here("data",
"somehow only a 10MB file.parquet"),
compression = "gzip")

2025 mood

Watching this live I said 'I'm sure that's been shown to be untrue' - another illustration of how following @fullfact.org on here can win you the admiration and respect of your family and friends…

Good luck! I was gutted that I was unable to meet our internal deadline, although on the plus side it got me out of writing one…

A critique of pure stupidity: understanding Trump 2.0 If the first term of Donald Trump provoked anxiety over the fate of objective knowledge, the second has led to claims we live in a world-historical age of stupid, accelerated by big tech. But might th...

Interesting long read about the deep hole we’re in. All we have to do now is dig up.
www.theguardian.com/news/2025/oc...

🌍📢 Postdoc alert | 3-yr starting 1/1/26

Understand how ecosystem stability is changing across space and through time using niche modelling, pinpoint at-risk species/regions, and build tools that drive conservation action🌿🧭📈

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#Ecology #Jobs #Biodiversity #RStats

Yes I think a few links are dead - e.g. Sean Anderson's really useful post on gamma glms does not seem to exist any more (at least not where it is linked). Still a useful starting point though!

I do of course have 'spare rough code.R' or similar inside every project. But I take it one step further and have a dedicated r-doodling.RProj for stuff where I'm not even sure yet what project it fits into…

an old building with climbing plants around the door with purple flowers. The sign above the door says school of botany 1907

Come work with us - The School of Natural Sciences at Trinity College Dublin is looking for a tenure track assistant professor in plant biodiversity and conservation 🧪🌏🌾 my.corehr.com/pls/trrecrui...

Drop me a message if you want to chat about what it's like to work here or live in Ireland.

Separating Macroecological Pattern and Process: Comparing Ecological, Economic, and Geological Systems Theories of biodiversity rest on several macroecological patterns describing the relationship between species abundance and diversity. A central problem is that all theories make similar predictions f...

Classic macroecological laws-long held as signatures of biological systems-also emerge in economic and geological systems. The real signal lies not in the static universal patterns, but in how those patterns shift with scale 🌐🧪 #scaling #macroecology journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

Useful overview of R packages / functions for modelling different kinds of response variables (continuous, proportional, counts, bounded, zero-inflated, etc.) in a regression framework, with mixed models and Bayesian options too: strengejacke.github.io/regressionmo...

My son and I bond over Brooklyn 99. He's been a bit unwell, and I've been channeling Captain Holt in my messages. It comes surprisingly easily to me.

Hmm. On reflection you're right - we perhaps don't want to go too far down this route…

www.sams.ac.uk/vacancies/pd...

You're doing it down. It's also very useful when you have to write something that you know no-one is ever going to read.

Really interesting paper. And, as an aside - quite pleasing to see birds chucked into an 'other vertebrates' category, for a change…

Just uploaded my talk - really looking forward to this conference!