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Jack Bamber @jackantbam.bsky.social · Jul 31

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... 🧪

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Chris Sutherland @chrissuthy.bsky.social · Aug 8

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! 💯

Amber Cowans (she/her) @ambercowans.bsky.social · Aug 8

📝 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 ⬇️

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...

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Amber Cowans (she/her) @ambercowans.bsky.social · Aug 8

📝 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 ⬇️

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

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Ben Bolker @bbolker.bsky.social · Jul 19

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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Jack Bamber @jackantbam.bsky.social · Jul 4

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.

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Chris Sutherland @chrissuthy.bsky.social · Jul 4

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...

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

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Jack Bamber @jackantbam.bsky.social · Jun 25

🚨 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

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Chris Sutherland @chrissuthy.bsky.social · Apr 22

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/...

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

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Chris Sutherland @chrissuthy.bsky.social · Apr 25

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/...

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...

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Robert Fletcher @fletcherecology.bsky.social · Apr 25

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/...

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...

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Chris Sutherland @chrissuthy.bsky.social · Apr 25

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/...

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

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Chris Sutherland @chrissuthy.bsky.social · Apr 25

Working link: www.vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk/Vacancies/I/...

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Chris Sutherland @chrissuthy.bsky.social · Apr 24

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Chris Sutherland @chrissuthy.bsky.social · Apr 18

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...

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Chris Sutherland @chrissuthy.bsky.social · Mar 20

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.

Consulting Consultant GIF

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Chris Sutherland @chrissuthy.bsky.social · Apr 18

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...

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Chris Sutherland @chrissuthy.bsky.social · Apr 22

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/...

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

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Chris Sutherland @chrissuthy.bsky.social · Apr 18

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...

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Amber Cowans (she/her) @ambercowans.bsky.social · Apr 14

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

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...

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Chris Sutherland @chrissuthy.bsky.social · Mar 20

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.

Consulting Consultant GIF

ALT: Consulting Consultant GIF

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rainbowR @rainbowr.org · Feb 20

🌈 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

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Nick Haddad @nickhaddad.bsky.social · Feb 13

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Landscape-level human disturbance results in loss and contraction of mammalian populations in tropical forests

Tropical forests hold most of Earth’s biodiversity and a higher concentration of threatened mammals than other biomes. This study uses a standardized pan-tropical dataset of 239 mammal species from 37...

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WildCRU, Oxford @wildcru.bsky.social · Feb 6

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

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Chris Sutherland @chrissuthy.bsky.social · Feb 5

We wrote a letter, about the #lynx release.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

@lambin-ecology.bsky.social @kennyafc.bsky.social

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Chris Sutherland @chrissuthy.bsky.social · Feb 5

We wrote a letter, about the #lynx release.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

@lambin-ecology.bsky.social @kennyafc.bsky.social

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Chris Sutherland @chrissuthy.bsky.social · Jan 29

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!

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