Sal Keith (she/her)
@salkeith.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer at Lancaster Uni, UK. Exploring macrobehaviour using coral reefs as a model system, interested in all things data sciencey. #MacrobehaviourLab https://sallykeith.weebly.com/
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♻️🆓: Macroalgal microbiome biogeography is shaped by environmental drivers rather than geographical distance
Macroalgal microbiome biogeography is shaped by environmental drivers rather than geographical distance
AbstractBackground and Aims. Contrasting patterns of host and microbiome biogeography can provide insight into the drivers of microbial community assembly.
doi.org
November 18, 2025 at 7:17 AM
♻️🆓: Macroalgal microbiome biogeography is shaped by environmental drivers rather than geographical distance
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Two new post-doc positions in our team here at Lancaster! 👇
We're hiring! 🥳 Come and join our team in Lancaster - we're looking for two senior postdocs to work on corporate sustainability and restoration ecology. 🌳 🪸 ♻️ (1 of 2)
@lec-reefs.bsky.social @pentlandcentre.bsky.social @sci-tech-lancaster.bsky.social @lancasteruni.bsky.social
@lec-reefs.bsky.social @pentlandcentre.bsky.social @sci-tech-lancaster.bsky.social @lancasteruni.bsky.social
November 5, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Two new post-doc positions in our team here at Lancaster! 👇
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New PhD project available here at @lancasteruni.bsky.social!
Come and research coral reefs, MPAs, and climate impacts 🪸
www.exageo.org/phd-student-...
Come and research coral reefs, MPAs, and climate impacts 🪸
www.exageo.org/phd-student-...
November 11, 2025 at 9:48 AM
New PhD project available here at @lancasteruni.bsky.social!
Come and research coral reefs, MPAs, and climate impacts 🪸
www.exageo.org/phd-student-...
Come and research coral reefs, MPAs, and climate impacts 🪸
www.exageo.org/phd-student-...
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Looking for a PhD opportunity? I'm hoping to recruit someone to my group at Durham University to work on a project combining fieldwork and labwork to study speciation in rubyspot damselflies: iapetus.ac.uk/studentships...
Get in touch if you want to chat!
Get in touch if you want to chat!
November 10, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Looking for a PhD opportunity? I'm hoping to recruit someone to my group at Durham University to work on a project combining fieldwork and labwork to study speciation in rubyspot damselflies: iapetus.ac.uk/studentships...
Get in touch if you want to chat!
Get in touch if you want to chat!
Ouch! Rejection again!
a man carrying a backpack is walking through a living room
ALT: a man carrying a backpack is walking through a living room
media.tenor.com
November 10, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Ouch! Rejection again!
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To mark the death of James Watson, please read this 2023 piece about Rosalind Franklin's role in the discovery of the double helix
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
What Rosalind Franklin truly contributed to the discovery of DNA’s structure
Franklin was no victim in how the DNA double helix was solved. An overlooked letter and an unpublished news article, both written in 1953, reveal that she was an equal player.
www.nature.com
November 8, 2025 at 10:52 AM
To mark the death of James Watson, please read this 2023 piece about Rosalind Franklin's role in the discovery of the double helix
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Thinking only of Rosalind Franklin today, and what was stolen from her (and so many other female scientists alongside her).
Rosalind Franklin and the damage of gender harassment
Spurred by a recent report on sexual harassment in academia, our columnist revisits a historical case and reflects on what has changed—and what hasn’t
www.science.org
November 7, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Thinking only of Rosalind Franklin today, and what was stolen from her (and so many other female scientists alongside her).
Fully prepping new Applied Data Science for Biodiversity MSc module now! Why do we need it, where we are now, macrobehaviour, XR and gamifying conservation, ecological role of colour and responsible AI. Others are on bioacoustics, automating species ID, acoustic telemetry & Earth observation 😎🤯🫠
a cartoon girl wearing a yellow hat says octavia lafoon and lightning when they get jumpspace netflix
ALT: a cartoon girl wearing a yellow hat says octavia lafoon and lightning when they get jumpspace netflix
media.tenor.com
November 6, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Fully prepping new Applied Data Science for Biodiversity MSc module now! Why do we need it, where we are now, macrobehaviour, XR and gamifying conservation, ecological role of colour and responsible AI. Others are on bioacoustics, automating species ID, acoustic telemetry & Earth observation 😎🤯🫠
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Applications are currently being accepted for UBC's ✨️ Biodiversity Postdoctoral Fellowship ✨️ (two positions!!), due Jan. 15
Please share far and wide 🚀
(See thread)
Please share far and wide 🚀
(See thread)
Postdoctoral Fellowship Opportunities
Biodiversity Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2-year (2026-2028) - 2 positions OPENAt UBC, we believe that attracting and sustaining a diverse workforce is key to the successful pursuit of excellence in resea...
biodiversity.ubc.ca
November 3, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Applications are currently being accepted for UBC's ✨️ Biodiversity Postdoctoral Fellowship ✨️ (two positions!!), due Jan. 15
Please share far and wide 🚀
(See thread)
Please share far and wide 🚀
(See thread)
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🐠💥2 year postdoc in fish sensory ecology!! 💥🐟
If you’re into animal colour, collective behaviour, predator-prey interactions, enjoy behavioural experiments and fieldwork, please apply! Based in Oxford with fieldwork in northwest Thailand (and elsewhere). Please repost! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNM294/p...
If you’re into animal colour, collective behaviour, predator-prey interactions, enjoy behavioural experiments and fieldwork, please apply! Based in Oxford with fieldwork in northwest Thailand (and elsewhere). Please repost! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNM294/p...
June 13, 2025 at 6:50 AM
🐠💥2 year postdoc in fish sensory ecology!! 💥🐟
If you’re into animal colour, collective behaviour, predator-prey interactions, enjoy behavioural experiments and fieldwork, please apply! Based in Oxford with fieldwork in northwest Thailand (and elsewhere). Please repost! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNM294/p...
If you’re into animal colour, collective behaviour, predator-prey interactions, enjoy behavioural experiments and fieldwork, please apply! Based in Oxford with fieldwork in northwest Thailand (and elsewhere). Please repost! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNM294/p...
So cool! Specific sounds attributed to 46 fish species in Curacao, linked to video of that fish www.fisheyecollaborative.org/library There's even an aggressive butterflyfish 🤗
Library | FishEye Collab
www.fisheyecollaborative.org
October 29, 2025 at 7:45 PM
So cool! Specific sounds attributed to 46 fish species in Curacao, linked to video of that fish www.fisheyecollaborative.org/library There's even an aggressive butterflyfish 🤗
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Our new review on the “circular seabird economy”
- how seabirds circulate nutrients betwem ocean and land, supporting ecosystems and livelihoods …https://www.nature.com/articles/s44358-025-00099-w
- how seabirds circulate nutrients betwem ocean and land, supporting ecosystems and livelihoods …https://www.nature.com/articles/s44358-025-00099-w
The circular seabird economy is critical for oceans, islands and people - Nature Reviews Biodiversity
Seabirds are top predators and nutrient cyclers in marine island ecosystems, but are threatened by risk of extinction. This Review explores the circular seabird economy around islands and discusses ho...
www.nature.com
October 28, 2025 at 8:28 AM
Our new review on the “circular seabird economy”
- how seabirds circulate nutrients betwem ocean and land, supporting ecosystems and livelihoods …https://www.nature.com/articles/s44358-025-00099-w
- how seabirds circulate nutrients betwem ocean and land, supporting ecosystems and livelihoods …https://www.nature.com/articles/s44358-025-00099-w
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🪸 🪸 🪸 Postdoc position in my group at Bristol to study the role of venom in surviving environmental stress in corals! 🪸 Interested in venom biochemistry and coral ecology?Please apply by November 24!
@bristolbiosci.bsky.social
www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...
@bristolbiosci.bsky.social
www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...
October 27, 2025 at 12:43 PM
🪸 🪸 🪸 Postdoc position in my group at Bristol to study the role of venom in surviving environmental stress in corals! 🪸 Interested in venom biochemistry and coral ecology?Please apply by November 24!
@bristolbiosci.bsky.social
www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...
@bristolbiosci.bsky.social
www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...
Who's coming to the marine one? Me 🙋🏻♂️
Don't forget to check out these fantastic workshops! Learn more here: conferences.au.dk/tibs-aarhus-...
October 27, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Who's coming to the marine one? Me 🙋🏻♂️
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❓ Want to join us?
📢 Fully funded #PhD for UK-domiciled Black heritage candidates
🐵 Biological market monitoring & manipulation in social animals #mongooses #macaques #fieldwork
👥 With me, #LaurenBrent & #PatrickKennedy
🎓 @bristolbiosci.bsky.social
ℹ️ www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
🙏Share widely
📢 Fully funded #PhD for UK-domiciled Black heritage candidates
🐵 Biological market monitoring & manipulation in social animals #mongooses #macaques #fieldwork
👥 With me, #LaurenBrent & #PatrickKennedy
🎓 @bristolbiosci.bsky.social
ℹ️ www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
🙏Share widely
October 16, 2025 at 7:46 AM
❓ Want to join us?
📢 Fully funded #PhD for UK-domiciled Black heritage candidates
🐵 Biological market monitoring & manipulation in social animals #mongooses #macaques #fieldwork
👥 With me, #LaurenBrent & #PatrickKennedy
🎓 @bristolbiosci.bsky.social
ℹ️ www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
🙏Share widely
📢 Fully funded #PhD for UK-domiciled Black heritage candidates
🐵 Biological market monitoring & manipulation in social animals #mongooses #macaques #fieldwork
👥 With me, #LaurenBrent & #PatrickKennedy
🎓 @bristolbiosci.bsky.social
ℹ️ www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
🙏Share widely
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Hello Bluesky! 👋 HUB Ocean is new to this channel. We're building the #OceanDataPlatform to make ocean data open, connected and impactful. Let's accelerate ocean science and ocean protection - together. Access the Platform or connect with us. Links in Bio #HUBOcean #Bluesky #OceanData #OceanTech
October 21, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Hello Bluesky! 👋 HUB Ocean is new to this channel. We're building the #OceanDataPlatform to make ocean data open, connected and impactful. Let's accelerate ocean science and ocean protection - together. Access the Platform or connect with us. Links in Bio #HUBOcean #Bluesky #OceanData #OceanTech
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Sun-dried and smoked fish are the overlooked yet vital nutrient-packed superfood providing much needed nutrition across tropical Africa, according to a new study 🐠
📰: https://tinyurl.com/yveejt7u
📸: Christina Hicks, Tane Sinclair-Taylor, James Robinson
@lec-reefs.bsky.social
📰: https://tinyurl.com/yveejt7u
📸: Christina Hicks, Tane Sinclair-Taylor, James Robinson
@lec-reefs.bsky.social
September 23, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Sun-dried and smoked fish are the overlooked yet vital nutrient-packed superfood providing much needed nutrition across tropical Africa, according to a new study 🐠
📰: https://tinyurl.com/yveejt7u
📸: Christina Hicks, Tane Sinclair-Taylor, James Robinson
@lec-reefs.bsky.social
📰: https://tinyurl.com/yveejt7u
📸: Christina Hicks, Tane Sinclair-Taylor, James Robinson
@lec-reefs.bsky.social
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Interested in how animals use the sky? 🌌
I’m recruiting a PhD student (Fall 2026, Purdue University) to study Purple Martin flight behavior and airspace use using barometric transmitters.
Details ➡️ jobs.rwfm.tamu.edu/view-job/?id...
#Aeroecology #AvianEcology
I’m recruiting a PhD student (Fall 2026, Purdue University) to study Purple Martin flight behavior and airspace use using barometric transmitters.
Details ➡️ jobs.rwfm.tamu.edu/view-job/?id...
#Aeroecology #AvianEcology
October 16, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Interested in how animals use the sky? 🌌
I’m recruiting a PhD student (Fall 2026, Purdue University) to study Purple Martin flight behavior and airspace use using barometric transmitters.
Details ➡️ jobs.rwfm.tamu.edu/view-job/?id...
#Aeroecology #AvianEcology
I’m recruiting a PhD student (Fall 2026, Purdue University) to study Purple Martin flight behavior and airspace use using barometric transmitters.
Details ➡️ jobs.rwfm.tamu.edu/view-job/?id...
#Aeroecology #AvianEcology
@ruchakarkarey.bsky.social is in Vogue India! Great article about India's women marine defenders www.vogue.in/content/once...
Indian women used to be afraid of the ocean. Now, they’re turning into its strongest defenders
Along India’s coastline, a rising wave of women is healing our oceans, moving beyond the margins of shore-bound roles traditionally ascribed to them
www.vogue.in
October 16, 2025 at 2:48 PM
@ruchakarkarey.bsky.social is in Vogue India! Great article about India's women marine defenders www.vogue.in/content/once...
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🌊 🎓Apply for a PhD to assess spatial and temporal approaches to managing scallop fisheries to achieve good environmental status with a viable commercial fishery. 🪸🐙
@sosbangor.bsky.social @em-oyster.bsky.social
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
@sosbangor.bsky.social @em-oyster.bsky.social
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
PhD to assess spatial and temporal approaches to managing scallop fisheries to achieve good environmental status with a viable commercial fishery. at Bangor University on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - PhD to assess spatial and temporal approaches to managing scallop fisheries to achieve good environmental status with a viable commercial fishery. at Bangor University, listed on FindAPh...
www.findaphd.com
October 16, 2025 at 1:18 PM
🌊 🎓Apply for a PhD to assess spatial and temporal approaches to managing scallop fisheries to achieve good environmental status with a viable commercial fishery. 🪸🐙
@sosbangor.bsky.social @em-oyster.bsky.social
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
@sosbangor.bsky.social @em-oyster.bsky.social
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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📣 @asab.org grants BOOSTED! 📣
We've increased most of our research-related grants by 50%, effective from the next deadline of 1st Feb 2026.
Check out what we offer here:
www.asab.org/grant-overview
We've increased most of our research-related grants by 50%, effective from the next deadline of 1st Feb 2026.
Check out what we offer here:
www.asab.org/grant-overview
October 14, 2025 at 4:28 PM
📣 @asab.org grants BOOSTED! 📣
We've increased most of our research-related grants by 50%, effective from the next deadline of 1st Feb 2026.
Check out what we offer here:
www.asab.org/grant-overview
We've increased most of our research-related grants by 50%, effective from the next deadline of 1st Feb 2026.
Check out what we offer here:
www.asab.org/grant-overview
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Interested in a PhD in quantitative animal behavior? Applications are open through October for PhD projects starting in 2026: imprs-qbee.mpg.de/32524/apply
For an inside look at the projects, let our doctoral students be your guide 👇
Videos by @alexhhchan.bsky.social
For an inside look at the projects, let our doctoral students be your guide 👇
Videos by @alexhhchan.bsky.social
October 7, 2025 at 8:11 AM
Interested in a PhD in quantitative animal behavior? Applications are open through October for PhD projects starting in 2026: imprs-qbee.mpg.de/32524/apply
For an inside look at the projects, let our doctoral students be your guide 👇
Videos by @alexhhchan.bsky.social
For an inside look at the projects, let our doctoral students be your guide 👇
Videos by @alexhhchan.bsky.social
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What skills we should keep teaching is one question, but there's no way around starting to teach prompting, critically evaluating and prompting to critically evaluate AI. Should be in every curriculum. AI is here and avoiding it is just as useful as avoiding a calculator or R for that matter.
October 10, 2025 at 8:30 PM
What skills we should keep teaching is one question, but there's no way around starting to teach prompting, critically evaluating and prompting to critically evaluate AI. Should be in every curriculum. AI is here and avoiding it is just as useful as avoiding a calculator or R for that matter.
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Y'all. I just got ChatGPT to do everything in R for this manuscript. I mean EVERYTHING. And it's all legit and reproducible. I'm shook.
How are we mentoring our trainees in statistics now? Who needs to learn coding in R line by line, and who doesn't?
scienceforeveryone.science/statistics-i...
How are we mentoring our trainees in statistics now? Who needs to learn coding in R line by line, and who doesn't?
scienceforeveryone.science/statistics-i...
Statistics in the era of AI
How do we mentor, teach, and do stats when AI can do so much of the work?
scienceforeveryone.science
October 9, 2025 at 2:23 AM
Y'all. I just got ChatGPT to do everything in R for this manuscript. I mean EVERYTHING. And it's all legit and reproducible. I'm shook.
How are we mentoring our trainees in statistics now? Who needs to learn coding in R line by line, and who doesn't?
scienceforeveryone.science/statistics-i...
How are we mentoring our trainees in statistics now? Who needs to learn coding in R line by line, and who doesn't?
scienceforeveryone.science/statistics-i...
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I am organizing a one-day symposium (no online option) on Biodiversity and Health in a Warmer World
Learn more here www.biodiversityhealth2025.com
Learn more here www.biodiversityhealth2025.com
Biodiversity & Health Symposium 2025 | Copenhagen
Join leading experts in Copenhagen for a one-day symposium on the critical links between biodiversity, climate change, and health. Register now.
www.biodiversityhealth2025.com
October 10, 2025 at 9:28 AM
I am organizing a one-day symposium (no online option) on Biodiversity and Health in a Warmer World
Learn more here www.biodiversityhealth2025.com
Learn more here www.biodiversityhealth2025.com