I'm not a big fan of productivity hacks, I think the best thing you can do it just sit down, focus, and work on your shit. But I've been doing something for a couple of years now that has been life changing for me as someone running a medium sized lab, here's a 🧵about it 1/

Assessing exposure to wind turbines of a migratory raptor through its annual life cycle across continents | Biological Conservation | sciencedirect.com/science/articl… | #ornithology

#statstwitter if you're still alive?!, I need recommendations!

I'm aiming to set up a UX research/Data reading group in work. I need punchy, compelling and short methods based papers. Thinking of starting with 'What is your Estimand', any other tips?
Stephen Wild, Darren Dahly - on Bluesky and Substack

Nice one Cooper!! You fooled BirdNET !

#StayWellinResearch
3. Say NO to shiny balls
If you want to survive in academia or research you have to learn to say NO. There are so many opportunities that will 'look good on your cv'. Easy to burn out.
From: 52 Ways to Stay Well. buff.ly/2UnQkDn

Our new paper led by Harith Farooq now out in Current Biology : 'Threats to reptiles at global and regional scales' In here we extend our work on mapping threats using the IUCN Red List data to 🐍🦎🐢and link threats to risk of extinctions authors.elsevier.com/c/1izpi3QW8S6E…

Thank you so much for your orders! Posters are heading to destinations on 5 continents! Any interest from Africa/Antarctica? My offer lives for 1 more week: if you retweet this post, I will put your name in a hat, and draw a winner, and paint one bird from the poster for you.

this story gets better and better with every paragraph bbc.co.uk/news/uk-englan…

A genomic basis of vocal rhythm in birds | Nature Communications nature.com/articles/s4146…

Check out this The Guardian article on our soil acoustics project and the work we have been doing over the last year. Very cool collaborating with Jackie Stroud on this!

Would be useful at some point to compare how different disciplines have fallen in and out of love with instrumental variables. A method invented by a biologist, usually associated with economists, that deserves its own interdisciplinary cautionary literature at this point

What do we mean by 'generosity' with authorships? Which kinds of 'generosity' are academic malpractice, and which kinds are mentorship? scientistseessquirrel.wordpress.com/2024/04/23/gen…

Important new study on the dependence of crops on #pollinators such as #bees by Catarina Siopa et al. Take home: previous studies have under-estimated the role of pollinators for agricultural production - they are even more vital than we realised!

besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/13…?

My new paper is out in Bioacoustics: 'Field tests of small autonomous recording units: an evaluation of in-person versus automated point counts and a comparison of recording quality.'
doi.org/10.1080/095246…
Thanks NSERC / CRSNG & Bowdoin Kent Island.
#bioacoustics #ARUs #ornithology

Arrival is very slow this year, after the colony was hit by #avianinfluenza two years in a row. As of this morning, we have 66 registered birds, vs 132 this day last year vs 337 this day in 2022. #phenology #ternscience #ornithology #H5N1

'There are populations that are under enormous threat.'

University of St Andrews has identified over 30 new Important Marine Mammal Areas which could be managed for conservation.

Proud to announce that after multiple grant applications and paper revisions this year I still have nothing new to announce 🎉

Here to normalise being in the working away and not seeing the wins yet phase of the #academic cycle.

We have 2 CREEMinals Tiago André Marques and Danielle Harris at the IWC Scientific Committee in Bled as well as several former CREEMinals as Dr. Leslie New and millerdl at mathstodon dot xyz Great to see how some of the methods we work on are used for generating abundance estimates ultimately driving management.

Making better use of tracking data can reveal the spatiotemporal and intraspecific variability of species distributions nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11… #animal_movement #macroecology #global_change Nordic Society Oikos Wiley Ecology & Evolution

We use 30 year averages to show climatology (average weather conditions). During the 20th century the UK climatology followed a path around a confined box. With #globalwarming and #climatechange they have escaped out the box. This #dataviz shows UK rainfall and temperature.