Chris Sutherland
@chrissuthy.bsky.social
Personal: dad of two amazing girls, husband to an amazing woman.
Work: Population & Statistical Ecology • Reader at Univ. St Andrews • AE: Methods in Ecology & Evolution, Journal of Applied Ecology • HE/HIS
Work: Population & Statistical Ecology • Reader at Univ. St Andrews • AE: Methods in Ecology & Evolution, Journal of Applied Ecology • HE/HIS
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October 29, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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New PhD opportunity:
Balancing the trade-offs between conservation and restoration in woodland creation and wader protection
Details here: iapetus.ac.uk/studentships...
@chrissuthy.bsky.social
@ps-wildlife-res.bsky.social
@naturescot.bsky.social
@rspbscience.bsky.social
📷Ben Andrew
Balancing the trade-offs between conservation and restoration in woodland creation and wader protection
Details here: iapetus.ac.uk/studentships...
@chrissuthy.bsky.social
@ps-wildlife-res.bsky.social
@naturescot.bsky.social
@rspbscience.bsky.social
📷Ben Andrew
October 28, 2025 at 3:01 PM
New PhD opportunity:
Balancing the trade-offs between conservation and restoration in woodland creation and wader protection
Details here: iapetus.ac.uk/studentships...
@chrissuthy.bsky.social
@ps-wildlife-res.bsky.social
@naturescot.bsky.social
@rspbscience.bsky.social
📷Ben Andrew
Balancing the trade-offs between conservation and restoration in woodland creation and wader protection
Details here: iapetus.ac.uk/studentships...
@chrissuthy.bsky.social
@ps-wildlife-res.bsky.social
@naturescot.bsky.social
@rspbscience.bsky.social
📷Ben Andrew
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New perspective out today in @jappliedecology.bsky.social.
We reflect on co-producing evidence in an effort to bridge the implementation gap, for evidence based, impact focused predator control.
What worked, what didn't and where barriers to implimentation still remain.
You can't win them all... 🧪
We reflect on co-producing evidence in an effort to bridge the implementation gap, for evidence based, impact focused predator control.
What worked, what didn't and where barriers to implimentation still remain.
You can't win them all... 🧪
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
July 31, 2025 at 9:20 AM
New perspective out today in @jappliedecology.bsky.social.
We reflect on co-producing evidence in an effort to bridge the implementation gap, for evidence based, impact focused predator control.
What worked, what didn't and where barriers to implimentation still remain.
You can't win them all... 🧪
We reflect on co-producing evidence in an effort to bridge the implementation gap, for evidence based, impact focused predator control.
What worked, what didn't and where barriers to implimentation still remain.
You can't win them all... 🧪
Congrats to @ambercowans.bsky.social and @abonetb.bsky.social on this important contribution. It was an absolute pleasure watching you both operate, and terrific to see this work from your Stats Ecology MSc out! 💯
📝 Are you using multispecies occupancy models to investigate interactions in species occupancy (i.e. co-occurrence)? 🦁🦓
Check out our new paper for advice on the number of sites you need to reliably detect interactions under different scenarios ⬇️
Check out our new paper for advice on the number of sites you need to reliably detect interactions under different scenarios ⬇️
Sample size considerations for species co‐occurrence models
Multispecies occupancy models are widely applied to infer interactions in the occurrence of different species, but convergence and estimation issues under realistic sample sizes are common. We conduc...
doi.org
August 8, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Congrats to @ambercowans.bsky.social and @abonetb.bsky.social on this important contribution. It was an absolute pleasure watching you both operate, and terrific to see this work from your Stats Ecology MSc out! 💯
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📝 Are you using multispecies occupancy models to investigate interactions in species occupancy (i.e. co-occurrence)? 🦁🦓
Check out our new paper for advice on the number of sites you need to reliably detect interactions under different scenarios ⬇️
Check out our new paper for advice on the number of sites you need to reliably detect interactions under different scenarios ⬇️
Sample size considerations for species co‐occurrence models
Multispecies occupancy models are widely applied to infer interactions in the occurrence of different species, but convergence and estimation issues under realistic sample sizes are common. We conduc...
doi.org
August 8, 2025 at 10:12 AM
📝 Are you using multispecies occupancy models to investigate interactions in species occupancy (i.e. co-occurrence)? 🦁🦓
Check out our new paper for advice on the number of sites you need to reliably detect interactions under different scenarios ⬇️
Check out our new paper for advice on the number of sites you need to reliably detect interactions under different scenarios ⬇️
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not VIFs specifically, but I recently posted this list of papers I like about "why you shouldn't worry about multicollinearity so much": github.com/idworkin/McM...
github.com
July 19, 2025 at 9:43 PM
not VIFs specifically, but I recently posted this list of papers I like about "why you shouldn't worry about multicollinearity so much": github.com/idworkin/McM...
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Check our @theconversation.com article, alongside @chrissuthy.bsky.social and @lambin-ecology.bsky.social (special mention to @kennyafc.bsky.social). Where we breakdown the entire diversionary feeding project!
A surprisingly effective way to save the capercaillie: keep its predators well-fed – new research
Evidence suggests this alternative to culling the bird’s predators is effective.
theconversation.com
July 4, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Check our @theconversation.com article, alongside @chrissuthy.bsky.social and @lambin-ecology.bsky.social (special mention to @kennyafc.bsky.social). Where we breakdown the entire diversionary feeding project!
My first @uk.theconversation.com article with @jackantbam.bsky.social and @lambin-ecology.bsky.social and @kennyafc.bsky.social
"Surprisingly effective way to save the capercaillie: keep its predators well-fed"
theconversation.com/a-surprising...
"Surprisingly effective way to save the capercaillie: keep its predators well-fed"
theconversation.com/a-surprising...
A surprisingly effective way to save the capercaillie: keep its predators well-fed – new research
Evidence suggests this alternative to culling the bird’s predators is effective.
theconversation.com
July 4, 2025 at 4:48 PM
My first @uk.theconversation.com article with @jackantbam.bsky.social and @lambin-ecology.bsky.social and @kennyafc.bsky.social
"Surprisingly effective way to save the capercaillie: keep its predators well-fed"
theconversation.com/a-surprising...
"Surprisingly effective way to save the capercaillie: keep its predators well-fed"
theconversation.com/a-surprising...
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🚨 New publication 📝
Out today in the royal society proceedings B. We find that diversionary feeding boosts productivity of cappercaille from 0.82 to 1.90. Indicating that this impact based method can effectively reduce the influence of predation.
Read all about it here: shorturl.at/QRb76
Out today in the royal society proceedings B. We find that diversionary feeding boosts productivity of cappercaille from 0.82 to 1.90. Indicating that this impact based method can effectively reduce the influence of predation.
Read all about it here: shorturl.at/QRb76
June 25, 2025 at 1:10 PM
🚨 New publication 📝
Out today in the royal society proceedings B. We find that diversionary feeding boosts productivity of cappercaille from 0.82 to 1.90. Indicating that this impact based method can effectively reduce the influence of predation.
Read all about it here: shorturl.at/QRb76
Out today in the royal society proceedings B. We find that diversionary feeding boosts productivity of cappercaille from 0.82 to 1.90. Indicating that this impact based method can effectively reduce the influence of predation.
Read all about it here: shorturl.at/QRb76
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We are hiring a chair/professor in our Ecology and Environmental Modelling group at @uniofstandrews.bsky.social. Scotland is a lovely place to work, and my colleagues are fantastic! Reach out if you are interested in joining the CREEM family ☺️
vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk/Vacancies/I/...
vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk/Vacancies/I/...
a kid in a knight costume is asking who will join us
ALT: a kid in a knight costume is asking who will join us
media.tenor.com
April 22, 2025 at 3:57 PM
We are hiring a chair/professor in our Ecology and Environmental Modelling group at @uniofstandrews.bsky.social. Scotland is a lovely place to work, and my colleagues are fantastic! Reach out if you are interested in joining the CREEM family ☺️
vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk/Vacancies/I/...
vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk/Vacancies/I/...
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We are hiring a chair/professor in our Ecology & Enviro Modelling group at @uniofstandrews.bsky.social. Scotland is lovely, and my colleagues are fantastic! Reach out if you are interested in joining the CREEM family ☺️
Working link this time 👇
www.vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...
Working link this time 👇
www.vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...
Chair/Reader in Statistical Ecology – AC2503NK
Chair/Reader in Statistical Ecology – AC2503NK,
School of Mathematics and Statistics
Salary: By negotiation*
Start Date: 1 August 2025 or as soon thereafter
Full time: 36.25hrs per week,
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www.vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk
April 25, 2025 at 6:24 AM
We are hiring a chair/professor in our Ecology & Enviro Modelling group at @uniofstandrews.bsky.social. Scotland is lovely, and my colleagues are fantastic! Reach out if you are interested in joining the CREEM family ☺️
Working link this time 👇
www.vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...
Working link this time 👇
www.vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...
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Really excited to share this new article from the lab.
We synthesize the profound importance of movement and connectivity for conservation and provide a vision for future policy and management.
Let's work toward a well-connected planet for biodiversity and people:
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
We synthesize the profound importance of movement and connectivity for conservation and provide a vision for future policy and management.
Let's work toward a well-connected planet for biodiversity and people:
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
A well-connected Earth: The science and conservation of organismal movement
Global biodiversity targets focus on landscape and seascape connectivity as a foundational component of biodiversity conservation, including networks of connected protected areas. Recent advances allo...
www.science.org
April 25, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Really excited to share this new article from the lab.
We synthesize the profound importance of movement and connectivity for conservation and provide a vision for future policy and management.
Let's work toward a well-connected planet for biodiversity and people:
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
We synthesize the profound importance of movement and connectivity for conservation and provide a vision for future policy and management.
Let's work toward a well-connected planet for biodiversity and people:
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
We are hiring a chair/professor in our Ecology & Enviro Modelling group at @uniofstandrews.bsky.social. Scotland is lovely, and my colleagues are fantastic! Reach out if you are interested in joining the CREEM family ☺️
Working link this time 👇
www.vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...
Working link this time 👇
www.vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...
Chair/Reader in Statistical Ecology – AC2503NK
Chair/Reader in Statistical Ecology – AC2503NK,
School of Mathematics and Statistics
Salary: By negotiation*
Start Date: 1 August 2025 or as soon thereafter
Full time: 36.25hrs per week,
<p style="tex...
www.vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk
April 25, 2025 at 6:24 AM
We are hiring a chair/professor in our Ecology & Enviro Modelling group at @uniofstandrews.bsky.social. Scotland is lovely, and my colleagues are fantastic! Reach out if you are interested in joining the CREEM family ☺️
Working link this time 👇
www.vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...
Working link this time 👇
www.vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...
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Looking for your first quantitative ecology post-doc? Then get in touch.
I will be co-supervising a post-doc with Lourens Swanepoel (based in SA: @Univenofficial). You will have access to many awesome data sets and the focus will be on applying hierarchical models.
I will be co-supervising a post-doc with Lourens Swanepoel (based in SA: @Univenofficial). You will have access to many awesome data sets and the focus will be on applying hierarchical models.
Consulting Consultant GIF
ALT: Consulting Consultant GIF
media.tenor.com
March 20, 2025 at 7:05 AM
Looking for your first quantitative ecology post-doc? Then get in touch.
I will be co-supervising a post-doc with Lourens Swanepoel (based in SA: @Univenofficial). You will have access to many awesome data sets and the focus will be on applying hierarchical models.
I will be co-supervising a post-doc with Lourens Swanepoel (based in SA: @Univenofficial). You will have access to many awesome data sets and the focus will be on applying hierarchical models.
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Last call for expressions of interest in a Quantitative Ecology post-doc based mostly in South Africa. If you are interested, drop Lourens and me a line 👇
www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/jaxqx...
www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/jaxqx...
April 18, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Last call for expressions of interest in a Quantitative Ecology post-doc based mostly in South Africa. If you are interested, drop Lourens and me a line 👇
www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/jaxqx...
www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/jaxqx...
We are hiring a chair/professor in our Ecology and Environmental Modelling group at @uniofstandrews.bsky.social. Scotland is a lovely place to work, and my colleagues are fantastic! Reach out if you are interested in joining the CREEM family ☺️
vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk/Vacancies/I/...
vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk/Vacancies/I/...
a kid in a knight costume is asking who will join us
ALT: a kid in a knight costume is asking who will join us
media.tenor.com
April 22, 2025 at 3:57 PM
We are hiring a chair/professor in our Ecology and Environmental Modelling group at @uniofstandrews.bsky.social. Scotland is a lovely place to work, and my colleagues are fantastic! Reach out if you are interested in joining the CREEM family ☺️
vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk/Vacancies/I/...
vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk/Vacancies/I/...
Last call for expressions of interest in a Quantitative Ecology post-doc based mostly in South Africa. If you are interested, drop Lourens and me a line 👇
www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/jaxqx...
www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/jaxqx...
April 18, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Last call for expressions of interest in a Quantitative Ecology post-doc based mostly in South Africa. If you are interested, drop Lourens and me a line 👇
www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/jaxqx...
www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/jaxqx...
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New paper alert ⚠️ Using #AI tools like #megadetector and #birdNET to process camera trap images or audio recordings?
Read our perspective piece for some considerations and guidance on
📊 working with 0-1 confidence scores
🤔 making thresholding decisions
🧑💻 and navigating AI-labelling errors
Read our perspective piece for some considerations and guidance on
📊 working with 0-1 confidence scores
🤔 making thresholding decisions
🧑💻 and navigating AI-labelling errors
Improving the integration of artificial intelligence into existing ecological inference workflows
Artificial intelligence (AI) has revolutionised the process of identifying species and individuals in audio recordings and camera trap images. However, despite developments in sensor technology, m...
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
April 14, 2025 at 4:15 PM
New paper alert ⚠️ Using #AI tools like #megadetector and #birdNET to process camera trap images or audio recordings?
Read our perspective piece for some considerations and guidance on
📊 working with 0-1 confidence scores
🤔 making thresholding decisions
🧑💻 and navigating AI-labelling errors
Read our perspective piece for some considerations and guidance on
📊 working with 0-1 confidence scores
🤔 making thresholding decisions
🧑💻 and navigating AI-labelling errors
Looking for your first quantitative ecology post-doc? Then get in touch.
I will be co-supervising a post-doc with Lourens Swanepoel (based in SA: @Univenofficial). You will have access to many awesome data sets and the focus will be on applying hierarchical models.
I will be co-supervising a post-doc with Lourens Swanepoel (based in SA: @Univenofficial). You will have access to many awesome data sets and the focus will be on applying hierarchical models.
Consulting Consultant GIF
ALT: Consulting Consultant GIF
media.tenor.com
March 20, 2025 at 7:05 AM
Looking for your first quantitative ecology post-doc? Then get in touch.
I will be co-supervising a post-doc with Lourens Swanepoel (based in SA: @Univenofficial). You will have access to many awesome data sets and the focus will be on applying hierarchical models.
I will be co-supervising a post-doc with Lourens Swanepoel (based in SA: @Univenofficial). You will have access to many awesome data sets and the focus will be on applying hierarchical models.
Reposted by Chris Sutherland
🌈 rainbowR meet-up: Wednesday February 26th, 5pm UTC 🌈
- connect with other LGBTQ+ people who code in #RStats 🏳️🌈
- ask questions about R 🙋
- tell us about an R package you like 📦
- show us something R-related you’ve been working on 💻
➡️ Registration via rainbowr.org/meetups
- connect with other LGBTQ+ people who code in #RStats 🏳️🌈
- ask questions about R 🙋
- tell us about an R package you like 📦
- show us something R-related you’ve been working on 💻
➡️ Registration via rainbowr.org/meetups
February 20, 2025 at 4:28 PM
🌈 rainbowR meet-up: Wednesday February 26th, 5pm UTC 🌈
- connect with other LGBTQ+ people who code in #RStats 🏳️🌈
- ask questions about R 🙋
- tell us about an R package you like 📦
- show us something R-related you’ve been working on 💻
➡️ Registration via rainbowr.org/meetups
- connect with other LGBTQ+ people who code in #RStats 🏳️🌈
- ask questions about R 🙋
- tell us about an R package you like 📦
- show us something R-related you’ve been working on 💻
➡️ Registration via rainbowr.org/meetups
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Reposted by Chris Sutherland
Illicit releases of controversial wild animals can undermine public trust in evidence-based conservation and inflame already-sensitive discussions about what species to conserve, how, and where.
👉 go.nature.com/4guJdzr
@chrissuthy.bsky.social @lambin-ecology.bsky.social @kennyafc.bsky.social
👉 go.nature.com/4guJdzr
@chrissuthy.bsky.social @lambin-ecology.bsky.social @kennyafc.bsky.social
February 6, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Illicit releases of controversial wild animals can undermine public trust in evidence-based conservation and inflame already-sensitive discussions about what species to conserve, how, and where.
👉 go.nature.com/4guJdzr
@chrissuthy.bsky.social @lambin-ecology.bsky.social @kennyafc.bsky.social
👉 go.nature.com/4guJdzr
@chrissuthy.bsky.social @lambin-ecology.bsky.social @kennyafc.bsky.social
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We wrote a letter, about the #lynx release.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
@lambin-ecology.bsky.social @kennyafc.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
@lambin-ecology.bsky.social @kennyafc.bsky.social
February 5, 2025 at 12:41 AM
We wrote a letter, about the #lynx release.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
@lambin-ecology.bsky.social @kennyafc.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
@lambin-ecology.bsky.social @kennyafc.bsky.social
We wrote a letter, about the #lynx release.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
@lambin-ecology.bsky.social @kennyafc.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
@lambin-ecology.bsky.social @kennyafc.bsky.social
February 5, 2025 at 12:41 AM
We wrote a letter, about the #lynx release.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
@lambin-ecology.bsky.social @kennyafc.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
@lambin-ecology.bsky.social @kennyafc.bsky.social
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Now accepting applicants for 25-26 intake of our #StatisticalEcology MSc: bit.ly/3ooHNyc. A unique opportunity to develop skills at the interface of #statistics and #ecology (some partial scholarships available too). Please help me share!
January 29, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Now accepting applicants for 25-26 intake of our #StatisticalEcology MSc: bit.ly/3ooHNyc. A unique opportunity to develop skills at the interface of #statistics and #ecology (some partial scholarships available too). Please help me share!