NSERC postdoc fellow Univ Edinburgh. Ecology and evolution, especially in urban environments. I’ve migrated to blue sky @meganjthompson.bsky.social
Joined August 2011
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Taking a break from urban birds to share our new paper about hibernation phenology in ground squirrels (my first mammal paper!). Cover photo thanks to @Cami_Txori
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We investigated phenological synchrony in female and male ground squirrels and find both sexes show similar plasticity to climate variation over a 27-year period.
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I worked as head tech on this project before my PhD and am thrilled to have done some science on this very charismatic species (see below). Thanks to co-authors Steve Dobson, @dave_coltman, Jan Murie, Shirley Raveh, and Jeff Lane.
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I was watching Lord of the Rings last night and realized there are many parallels with academia!
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Treating my jet leg with a good dose of sun and a wander around Washington Park before #ABS2023
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ABS 2023 ANNOUNCEMENT: July 13th we'll host the symposium "Cognition in a changing world: latest advances" in memory of Julie Morand-Ferron, including 13 talks on work inspired by Julie's amazing career on how cognition shapes wildlife's response to environmental change #ABS2023
ALT This is a slide with the title of the symposium at the top. On the bottom left, Doctor Morand-Ferron, a woman with long brown hair in a white T-shirt and black leggings, is seated on a metal bench in front of a wall of leaves. To the right of the image, there are photos of wild animals investigating boxes. Under these photos are a list of the invited speakers.
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Just finished giving a 2-day introductory workshop on quantitative methods for population dynamics in R with @SarahCubaynes and @abesnardEPHE
Website w/ lecture slides, live demos, codes and data ▶️ oliviergimenez.github.io/pop…
Video recordings ▶️ youtube.com/playlist?list=PL…
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1 #BOU2023 #SESH5I'm an evolutionary ecologist working @cefemontpellier, interested in between-individual variation of 🐦life-history, morphological, and behavioural traits in natural populations and adaptation to a rapidly changing annecharmantier.weebly.com/
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The 2023 edition of my long-running anti-establishment art-science-fusion code-therapy smooth-baritone causal inference & Bayesian data analysis course is complete. 20 lectures, from the basics of causal inference & Bayesian updating to mixed models & Gaussian processes. 1/2
Come and join our #TITTEAM 😎
🚨 POSTDOC JOB ALERT 🚨
18months postdoc with Samuel Caro & I on the respirometry of great tits 🐦in a context of adaptation to cities and climate change @cefemontpellier 🌞🌇
🗓️Applications close 31/03/23
Details here: euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/7…
Please RT! 📢#postdocjobs
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🚨 NEW PAPER ALERT! 🚨
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Out now in @WilsonOrnithSoc, led by @sunyoswego undergrads like @brookedgoodman and @DenisRa43535873, we explored how city living affects the visual signals of male and female Northern Cardinals. #LaVidaNOCA 1/7
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📢 New paper alert, out now in @Ecology_Letters
A metanalysis showing that urban birds have earlier and more variable breeding phenology than non-urban neighbours.
📄 Read the paper: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
🧵Read an excellent summary ⬇️
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Excellent opportunity 🤩
🚨please RT #Phdopportunity in my lab on microbiome-mediated behaviour in great tits. You’ll gain interdisciplinary skills in microbiology, bioinformatics and wildlife cognition and join a dynamic supportive team @hall_lab @biouea @TheQuadram 🧫🧬biodtp.norwichresearchpark.a…
ALT Probiotic interventions for understanding microbiome-mediated behaviour in wildlife. Pictures show a culture plate, wild great tit in the field and foraging, and a woodland background
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In case anyone missed it 📢 New meta-analysis led by @p_capi in @Ecology_Letters showing ⬆️ Vp in urban birds. Great summary here👇
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The Montpellier 2022 @SQuID_Group workshop has been a blast. For their last afternoon, the students are discovering simulations with squidSim package before the farewells..
ALT Instructors and attendees of the Montpellier SQuID workshop are posing for a group picture in Hameau des Etoiles
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Clear and informative 🧵 (including responses therein) on random slopes (and more generally on mixed models) 👇#Rstats
Stats quiz:
You repeatedly measured phenotypes of a set of individuals over a gradient (x). You fit random intercepts for individual ID & gradient (x) as a fixed effect covariate.
You then expand this model to fit random slopes. What is the change in the number of parameters?
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First field trip of the year almost over in #Corsica. My job would be so dull if there wasn't #fieldwork. Hugely thankful for such great collaborators (and for the birds of course!). Lots of personality/cognition data to analyse now!
