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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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. 👇🏾
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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…
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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…
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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.
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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…
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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
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Birefringence of Doryteuthis pealeii hatchling—observed through a polychromatic polscope, where ordered structures such as muscle are colored.
More #PhotoContest: bit.ly/399uatg
🔬: @getolympus IX81inverted microscope | 📸 : @olympuscameras DP73 color CCD camera
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Please share: 7 postdoc positions at our Yale Center for Biodiversity and Global Change:
Quantitative Ecology
Global Biodiversity of Plants, Butterflies, Dragonflies, Ants, Bees. bgc.yale.edu/open-positions
Supporting @geobon @EOWilsonFndtn @moldotorg
#biodiversity #macroecology
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This is unholy nonsense of the highest order:
- n=92
- over a dozen uncontrolled t-tests
- NO DIFFERENCE BETWEEN PLACEBO AND CONTROL
- headline findings based on sub-group analyses
- fish oil does bugger all for ADHD
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I'm gonna say it louder for the folks in the back.
INDEPENDENCE IS A LEARNED SKILL.
Been doing this for almost 10 yrs. My sweet, future undergrad, I don't expect you to be independent. I expect you to try and ask questions and learn what independence is when you have skillzz
ALT A picture of undergraduate expectations that I have been working on this morning. Trying to think about what independence means to an undergrad. And how it's something you learn on the way being a scientist.
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WHAT A GORGEOUS GIANT ANTEATER 😍
Definitely the best camera trap record I've got so far!!
When camera traps are not being used to monitor Helmeted Manakin's nests, I install them in tracks around my fieldwork area to better know the residents around!
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Here’s some footage I took of the White Witch Moth— widest insect wingspan in the world.
It is ~ 1 ft (30cm) wingtip to wingtip! As far as I know there isn’t other footage out there of them flying slow motion in their natural habitat.
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Have you ever found a critical error in your data analysis code? We all have. One of the best ways to catch errors is through independent third-party auditing. This new account is designed to help; more below. (Please retweet.)
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JOB ALERT: I'm hiring a postdoc to work with me for 4 years on a @UKRI_News funded project to develop theoretical and mathematical models of collective behaviour. Application deadline *November 20*. Please RT #UKRIFLF jobs.leeds.ac.uk/Vacancy.asp…
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2020 Kenneth Rothman Travel Scholarship submissions due by December 11, 2019. Scholarship Winners will received up to $900 in expense reimbursement to attend the annual meeting and SER membership for subsequent year.
epiresearch.org/travel-schol…