Adriana De Palma
@adpalma
Principal Researcher working on biodiversity data, indicators & global change. Learning to live with #ChronicIllness in #STEM. All views my own.
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#JOB klaxon: come and join me, Adriana De Palma & Gareth Thomas PhD MRSB in Natural History Museum Science's Biodiversity Futures Lab! Deadline for applications is 9am on 23rd February
🌱I'm hiring a research software engineer at Natural History Museum! You'll need experience in Reproducible Analytical Pipelines (RAP) in #RStats and interest in {targets}, #biodiversity loss, geospatial data Society of RSE (@[email protected])
Job ad: careers.nhm.ac.uk/templates/CIPH…
Acknowledging #EcoAnxiety & transmuting it into agency: 'Let's find strength from empathy and connectedness and fight for a world where we take care of ourselves, one another and our shared home.' Wise words from the brilliant Force of Nature (h/t Conor O'K 🌍) nhm.ac.uk/discover/how-t…
GBIF is not enough: national database improves the inventory completeness of Amazonian epiphytes
link.springer.com/article/10.100…
Evidence that using both global and national databases increases the overall #biodiversity knowledge and reduces inventory gaps, but spatial biases persist
This week is #SolitaryBeeWeek2022 . We know we're all about the charismatic #bumblebee but we do like to highlight these hardworking #bees too! 🐝 Here are just some you may spot: ow.ly/QKnU50JHMkZ
Solitary Bee Week Shrill Carder Bee
📷 Bex Cartwright #MaleRedMasonBee
Is #biodiversity science an obstacle to societal transformation by perpetuating the status quo in how we build and apply knowledge?
asks excellent plenary speaker Prof Esther Turnhout 🦄🌎💚🌼
Esther calls on us to be epistemically disobedient ontologically pluralistic #wbf2022
Congratulations to everyone who has been longlisted!
We are so proud to have A Bug's World by Dr Erica McAlister, Julia and the Shark by Kiran Millwood Hargrave FRSL **UPDATES ONLY** and Spark by Mitch Johnson in the #WainwrightPrize22 longlist for Children's writing on nature and conservation😍
I am a co-author on this new Science Magazine paper led by James Allan. It suggests that achieving conservation targets would require action on 44% of the earth’s land. I have been critical of calls for – #30x30 , #HalfEarth etc. So why did I join this study? 3 reasons: 🧵
Great closing comments from Michael John Gorman on museums and science centres encouraging more action, 'We tend to think a lot about impactful entrance experiences, perhaps we should focus more on exit experiences - what do we want people to do after leaving us?' #Ecsite2022
🚨New paper🚨
We looked at over 1,400 publications on wild bees to provide perspective on best practices for collection, reporting, and data mgmt. This work is available Open Access in @conservationsp and involved quite a few time zones to coordinate! :P
conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/cs…
New Job Alert! We are searching for a full-time Chair of Postgraduate Studies Natural History Museum. This role is critical to our growing Graduate Centre, in particular for training & support of NHM_Students across our many Master's & PhD programmes. Details at: careers.nhm.ac.uk/templates/CIPH…
Pleased to be joining the board of Natural History Museum in addition to my current role. As an institution it inspires visitors of all ages and is an important leader in global scientific research.
Do you have an interest in #RShiny & #EvidenceSynthesis ( #SystematicMap , #SystematicReview ) & have some spare time to help us develop EviAtlas further? eshackathon.org/software/eviat…. We have a little bit of funding & the tasks might suite a MSc student. Please Retweet
