Question-driven ecologist, now with 40% more epidemiology. Mostly retweets of r tips, jobs and mad animal behaviour.
Cornwall, UK
Joined January 2013
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Ideas about anything at CEC @StuBearhop ?
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A peaceful scene of a wombat wombat-ing for #WombatWednesday
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It's been a busy few days/weeks/months modelling steps 2, 3 and 4 of the #roadmap out of lockdown in England, with my #ateam @_nickdavies @markjit and John Edmunds. A 🧵 on our latest work looking at #step4 🪜👩💻 and a #photodump of some nice things I saw along the way
ALT A photograph of the West pier and Brighton beach with low tide, cloudy skies and the sun setting
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I wrote a short thread on being a racial minority within math academia. I didn’t propose any changes to the status quo or solutions. Just pointed out why I think race is an issue in the context of my experiences. Here are some of the EXTREMELY racist responses I got back. 👇🏾
Forward rolls! The only exercise endorsed by pandas
Why pandas love to roll in poo! This paper published by
@PNASNews reveals that wild #pandas roll in horse manure and use this unusual behavioral #adaptation as a means to stay warm. Recommended by Xin Zhou and Shiqi Luo at China Agricultural University facultyopinions.com/prime/73…
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Why pandas love to roll in poo! This paper published by
@PNASNews reveals that wild #pandas roll in horse manure and use this unusual behavioral #adaptation as a means to stay warm. Recommended by Xin Zhou and Shiqi Luo at China Agricultural University facultyopinions.com/prime/73…
Right now, the biggest red flag of academic spam is that the conferences are still happening #StayHomeSaveLives
Come one, come all! See @CT_Bergstrom take down misleading data viz, one plot at a time. ✨
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My recent podcasting guide has lots of info on how to clean up and edit your audio vocal recordings, which might be useful for all the lecturers and professors who just found out they’re going to have to record audio lectures over the next few weeks... dsquintana.blog/podcast-guid…
Allocating care at crisis point
So #TIL that nuthatches sound like really excited guinea pigs rspb.org.uk/birds-and-wildli…
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PhD graduate student position @ Cornell University. Moose juvenile survival and parasitic threats. $37,300/year plus tuition and health insurance for 4.5 yrs. Come work with myself, Dr. @wildlifeDZeco and Dr. Jacqui Frair. Details here: blogs.cornell.edu/fullerlab/… Please RT.
*Paid* #ecology #internship position. D/l soon!
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Come work with me on Protected Area Management Effectiveness (PAME)! We are looking for a (paid) intern with an analytical mind and a keen eye for detail to join our Conserving Land and Seascapes programme @unepwcmc in Cambridge. 🌍
unep-wcmc.org/vacancies/inte…
Me: Makes plot with standard commands and sits back to bask in its beauty
@marcus_volz : Well, here's this little thing I put together
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If you guys aren’t aware of the existence of this fish, you are now. Monocentris, aka the pineapple or pinecone fish. These amazing things have bioluminescent photophores on their cheeks that house symbiotic bacteria, and are some of the few animals capable of emitting red light.
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Hi #Amsterdam, an alert that there are just a few spaces left for my Dataviz Drawing Class through
@graphichunters on 13 February! Join us and get your hands dirty drawing data and developing custom visualisation methods, details here 👉 graphichunters.nl/data-viz-d…
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@iggiphd has funding for 12 PhDs in games research starting September 2020 in London and York, UK. Closing date 31st January. I hope the IGGI model might spread more widely - and am happy to support bids - we’ve had over 120 studentships in games research 2013-2024