Will Pearse
@willpearse.bsky.social
Ecology, evolution, health, and stats: geeky but dreadful at typing
Imperial College London
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Imperial College London
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*The UK's winter 2020 COVID was foreseen, and should have been better managed*
Please read the 2nd chapter of the COVID enquiry. The previous government must be held to account for their negligence, which cost lives. covid19.public-inquiry.uk/wp-content/u...
Please read the 2nd chapter of the COVID enquiry. The previous government must be held to account for their negligence, which cost lives. covid19.public-inquiry.uk/wp-content/u...
November 20, 2025 at 4:24 PM
*The UK's winter 2020 COVID was foreseen, and should have been better managed*
Please read the 2nd chapter of the COVID enquiry. The previous government must be held to account for their negligence, which cost lives. covid19.public-inquiry.uk/wp-content/u...
Please read the 2nd chapter of the COVID enquiry. The previous government must be held to account for their negligence, which cost lives. covid19.public-inquiry.uk/wp-content/u...
Spotlight on forecasting contests! 🎯
At the SPHERE-PPL Annual Meeting, you can shape AI forecasting challenges in Environmental Science and maximise their real-world impact.
📅 14-01-2026 | The Alan Turing Institute
Register now: forms.gle/iy6jC3Xg3QrT...
Find out more: sphere-ppl.org/pages/Events...
At the SPHERE-PPL Annual Meeting, you can shape AI forecasting challenges in Environmental Science and maximise their real-world impact.
📅 14-01-2026 | The Alan Turing Institute
Register now: forms.gle/iy6jC3Xg3QrT...
Find out more: sphere-ppl.org/pages/Events...
SPHERE Annual Meeting - Environmental Modelling & Forecasting
Join us for the second SPHERE-PPL Annual Meeting, a full-day gathering dedicated to advancing environmental modelling and forecasting. This event will bring together experts from industry, academia, a...
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November 10, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Spotlight on forecasting contests! 🎯
At the SPHERE-PPL Annual Meeting, you can shape AI forecasting challenges in Environmental Science and maximise their real-world impact.
📅 14-01-2026 | The Alan Turing Institute
Register now: forms.gle/iy6jC3Xg3QrT...
Find out more: sphere-ppl.org/pages/Events...
At the SPHERE-PPL Annual Meeting, you can shape AI forecasting challenges in Environmental Science and maximise their real-world impact.
📅 14-01-2026 | The Alan Turing Institute
Register now: forms.gle/iy6jC3Xg3QrT...
Find out more: sphere-ppl.org/pages/Events...
🚀 The 2nd SPHERE-PPL Annual Meeting is happening 14th Jan 2026 at The Alan Turing Institute.
Explore AI forecasting in Environmental Science, shape forecasting contests, and network!
📩 Register now: forms.gle/iy6jC3Xg3QrT...
🌍 Find out more: sphere-ppl.org/pages/Events...
Explore AI forecasting in Environmental Science, shape forecasting contests, and network!
📩 Register now: forms.gle/iy6jC3Xg3QrT...
🌍 Find out more: sphere-ppl.org/pages/Events...
October 23, 2025 at 8:00 AM
🚀 The 2nd SPHERE-PPL Annual Meeting is happening 14th Jan 2026 at The Alan Turing Institute.
Explore AI forecasting in Environmental Science, shape forecasting contests, and network!
📩 Register now: forms.gle/iy6jC3Xg3QrT...
🌍 Find out more: sphere-ppl.org/pages/Events...
Explore AI forecasting in Environmental Science, shape forecasting contests, and network!
📩 Register now: forms.gle/iy6jC3Xg3QrT...
🌍 Find out more: sphere-ppl.org/pages/Events...
I'm a little biased, but estined to be a classic: a conceptual framework about how to think about 'ecological acclimation' to climate change. Good from the fundamental theory perspective - it wins my "using maths constructively" award for the year! besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Ecological acclimation: A framework to integrate fast and slow responses to climate change
Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog.
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
June 27, 2025 at 12:19 PM
I'm a little biased, but estined to be a classic: a conceptual framework about how to think about 'ecological acclimation' to climate change. Good from the fundamental theory perspective - it wins my "using maths constructively" award for the year! besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Are you an ecologist interested in spatial scaling? Of course you are, we all are! So join this new fractal network! I can say, with absolutely no bias or impartiality at all, that it's amazing!
e're kicking off a new EcoFracNet study, exploring how biodiversity varies across agricultural landscapes. As such an integral part of our landscape, it’s essential to understand at what scales biodiversity patterns play out on our farms!
the3dlab.org/2025/06/21/e...
the3dlab.org/2025/06/21/e...
EcoFracNet at the farm
Our EcoFracNet project aims to uncover patterns of biodiversity across all kinds of landscapes — including those where biodiversity isn’t necessary a priority, like agricultural areas. Even these l…
the3dlab.org
June 21, 2025 at 8:59 AM
Are you an ecologist interested in spatial scaling? Of course you are, we all are! So join this new fractal network! I can say, with absolutely no bias or impartiality at all, that it's amazing!
There still time to enter the SPHERE Lyme disease forecasting contest! Act now for a chance to help improve our understanding of disease *and* win fabulous prizes!
(alright, a free conference ticket - but still!)
sphere-ppl.org/pages/Foreca...
(alright, a free conference ticket - but still!)
sphere-ppl.org/pages/Foreca...
Forecasting Contests – SPHERE-PPL
sphere-ppl.org
June 16, 2025 at 1:26 PM
There still time to enter the SPHERE Lyme disease forecasting contest! Act now for a chance to help improve our understanding of disease *and* win fabulous prizes!
(alright, a free conference ticket - but still!)
sphere-ppl.org/pages/Foreca...
(alright, a free conference ticket - but still!)
sphere-ppl.org/pages/Foreca...
A great event about funding practical solutions to the biodiversity crisis! Looking forward to the next one!
"If we could measure #biodiversity, life would be so much easier."
@willpearse.bsky.social presents at the @imperialccfi.bsky.social/Singapore Green Finance Centre Workshop on Biodiversity & #Finance.
Read more: tiny.cc/pearse-agrin...
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@willpearse.bsky.social presents at the @imperialccfi.bsky.social/Singapore Green Finance Centre Workshop on Biodiversity & #Finance.
Read more: tiny.cc/pearse-agrin...
@granthamicl.bsky.social @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social
June 7, 2025 at 8:38 AM
A great event about funding practical solutions to the biodiversity crisis! Looking forward to the next one!
Reposted by Will Pearse
... which so happens to overlap with #NationalFishandChipsDay 🇬🇧 Must say I am conflicted with just how to celebrate June 6th
June 6, 2025 at 12:41 PM
... which so happens to overlap with #NationalFishandChipsDay 🇬🇧 Must say I am conflicted with just how to celebrate June 6th
Why have I, as an otherwise rational human being, clicked the "update all CRAN packages" button when installing an R package at 4.46pm on a Friday just before a bank holiday? 😭
May 2, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Why have I, as an otherwise rational human being, clicked the "update all CRAN packages" button when installing an R package at 4.46pm on a Friday just before a bank holiday? 😭
Net-zero is good for business (UK leads this tech), good for health (heatwaves kill, so does dirty air from burning fossil-fuels), and popular (only 24% of UK public oppose yougov.co.uk/topics/polit...). Good to have debate, but @tonyblairinstitute.bsky.social is wrong on net-zero
To what extent do you support or oppose the government's commitment to cutting carbon emissions to net zero by 2050? | Daily Question
To what extent do you support or oppose the government's commitment to cutting carbon emissions to net zero by 2050?
yougov.co.uk
April 30, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Net-zero is good for business (UK leads this tech), good for health (heatwaves kill, so does dirty air from burning fossil-fuels), and popular (only 24% of UK public oppose yougov.co.uk/topics/polit...). Good to have debate, but @tonyblairinstitute.bsky.social is wrong on net-zero
Two days of rewilding discussion and workshops? Sign me up! Or... you know... sign you up? Great opportunity to get involved with the BES rewilding SIG and meet other practitioners and academics www.britishecologicalsociety.org/content/expl...
Exploring The Science of Rewilding - British Ecological Society
A 2-day event on the science of rewilding, bringing together practitioners and academics working in rewilding to foster knowledge exchange in North England and South Scotland.
www.britishecologicalsociety.org
April 28, 2025 at 8:23 AM
Two days of rewilding discussion and workshops? Sign me up! Or... you know... sign you up? Great opportunity to get involved with the BES rewilding SIG and meet other practitioners and academics www.britishecologicalsociety.org/content/expl...
Take part in SPHERE-PPL's Lyme disease forecasting contest! Help improve our understanding of a dreadful disease *and* improve publicly available datasets for everyone! sphere-ppl.org/pages/Foreca...
Forecasting Contests – SPHERE-PPL
sphere-ppl.org
April 9, 2025 at 7:33 AM
Take part in SPHERE-PPL's Lyme disease forecasting contest! Help improve our understanding of a dreadful disease *and* improve publicly available datasets for everyone! sphere-ppl.org/pages/Foreca...
Make sure you talk to Mahika Dixit #BES2024 about her work on machine learning, museum specimens, and butterflies and bees! It turns out new image analysis tools help you unpick differences in queens' and workers' responses to climate change
December 13, 2024 at 8:36 AM
Make sure you talk to Mahika Dixit #BES2024 about her work on machine learning, museum specimens, and butterflies and bees! It turns out new image analysis tools help you unpick differences in queens' and workers' responses to climate change
Fight that hangover and get to Nell Pates' talk at 11am in the rewilding session #BES2024! A global meta-analysis of rewilding practice and academic literature awaits - there are some massive disconnects and some tangible ways to resolve them...
December 13, 2024 at 8:07 AM
Fight that hangover and get to Nell Pates' talk at 11am in the rewilding session #BES2024! A global meta-analysis of rewilding practice and academic literature awaits - there are some massive disconnects and some tangible ways to resolve them...
Reposted by Will Pearse
I have some PhD projects now available for application if you are interested in insect biodiversity change. Please check out the links below and shout if you have questions!
December 9, 2024 at 10:25 AM
I have some PhD projects now available for application if you are interested in insect biodiversity change. Please check out the links below and shout if you have questions!
First meeting of the UK Vector-Borne Disease Hub! Lauren Cator, @drstevenmwhite.bsky.social , @hannahvineer.bsky.social (and others not on bluesky) figuring out how to share data to support disease modelling and forecasting and make the UK healthier! www.imperial.ac.uk/news/250073/...
December 2, 2024 at 10:56 AM
First meeting of the UK Vector-Borne Disease Hub! Lauren Cator, @drstevenmwhite.bsky.social , @hannahvineer.bsky.social (and others not on bluesky) figuring out how to share data to support disease modelling and forecasting and make the UK healthier! www.imperial.ac.uk/news/250073/...
I'm glad the assisted dying bill has passed. There are important details to be resolved, but my dad deserved a choice and deserved better than he got. I have no good digital photos of him: please donate at this link and then take a photo with a loved one
Donate to Worldwide Cancer Research
Together we can reach a day when no life is cut short by cancer. Donate to cancer research and become a Curestarter today.
www.worldwidecancerresearch.org
November 29, 2024 at 4:46 PM
I'm glad the assisted dying bill has passed. There are important details to be resolved, but my dad deserved a choice and deserved better than he got. I have no good digital photos of him: please donate at this link and then take a photo with a loved one
Reposted by Will Pearse
Updating the #IUCN status of marine fish using AI shows that x5 more species are threatened with extinction than previously thought!
see our study in Plos Biol with @nloiseau.bsky.social
👉 doi.org/10.1371/jour...
🔑 This silent extinction affects 12,7% of marine fishes (1337 species) !
🧪🌐🌍🦤🦑
see our study in Plos Biol with @nloiseau.bsky.social
👉 doi.org/10.1371/jour...
🔑 This silent extinction affects 12,7% of marine fishes (1337 species) !
🧪🌐🌍🦤🦑
November 29, 2024 at 8:59 AM
Updating the #IUCN status of marine fish using AI shows that x5 more species are threatened with extinction than previously thought!
see our study in Plos Biol with @nloiseau.bsky.social
👉 doi.org/10.1371/jour...
🔑 This silent extinction affects 12,7% of marine fishes (1337 species) !
🧪🌐🌍🦤🦑
see our study in Plos Biol with @nloiseau.bsky.social
👉 doi.org/10.1371/jour...
🔑 This silent extinction affects 12,7% of marine fishes (1337 species) !
🧪🌐🌍🦤🦑
Long-time tweet, new BlueSky-er, it's nice here!
My lab works on ecology, evolution, conservation, human health, and AI! We've recently built an ecosystem function forecast model - learn more here www.imperial.ac.uk/media/imperi...
My lab works on ecology, evolution, conservation, human health, and AI! We've recently built an ecosystem function forecast model - learn more here www.imperial.ac.uk/media/imperi...
November 28, 2024 at 12:57 PM
Long-time tweet, new BlueSky-er, it's nice here!
My lab works on ecology, evolution, conservation, human health, and AI! We've recently built an ecosystem function forecast model - learn more here www.imperial.ac.uk/media/imperi...
My lab works on ecology, evolution, conservation, human health, and AI! We've recently built an ecosystem function forecast model - learn more here www.imperial.ac.uk/media/imperi...