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thatracheljade.bsky.social
NSERC funded PhD candidate at Queen's University interested in ecology and remote sensing. Currently using a time series of lidar to look bird distribution, habitat and niche, and dynamics across space and time in a successional context.
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Please circulate widely: We are hiring two Ass Prof tt at the Institute of #ecology and #evolution at @unibern.bsky.social in conservation biology; mathematical & computational ecology We are committed to diverse, inclusive and equitable leadership in research and education tinyurl.com/IEEjobs

New Special Feature aimed at increasing accessibility of ecological theories available now! Read "Demystifying Fundamental Theories in Ecology" by Rachel Germain & Sebastian J. Schreiber now ahead of print! www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

📣PNAS piece led by @philrufin.bsky.social: commercial very-high-resolution EO data is needed for monitoring SDG 2 indicators in smallholder landscapes but costs are prohibitive. A call for open access for sustainability-centered research: doi.org/10.1073/pnas... @humboldtuni.bsky.social

Now officially published with its 2025 publ date. Looking beyond Popper: How Philosophy can be relevant to ecology. @oikosjournal.bsky.social A fantastic collaborative effort between ecologists and philosophers of science. #philosophy #ecology nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

On International Day of Women and Girls in Science, a reminder to not close your eyes and turn away from what is happening in the US right now. Fascism is an assault on scientific integrity, knowledge, and innovation. www.chron.com/news/space/a...

We've arrived! Follow CIEE-ICEE to learn about opportunities for Canadian researchers in ecology, evolution and environmental science to obtain funding for, or participate in, working groups, graduate courses, and workshops.

I'll be there (presenting a poster)! ...and you should too.

Sick toddler, paper accepted with revisions and won a travel award to go to a conference. It's been a week 😅

1/ Great news! 🎉BTO, JNCC and RSPB are making decades of Breeding Bird Survey (BBS) data freely available for everyone in the conservation and research community. This includes over 7 million records! 📝 Find out more ⬇️ or read the paper➡️ bit.ly/_BBSData #Ornithology #UKBirding

How will AI revolutionise biodiversity conservation? We identify 21 key ideas, incl. species recognition, multimodal models to improve biodiversity loss predictions, monitoring wildlife trade, and addressing human–wildlife conflict. But potential risks too. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Come share your #ornithology with us in Los Angeles next June! #WOS2025 abstracts are due February 1. We're a student-friendly society and welcome undergrad presenters at our meetings!

Finishing up my syllabus for Remote Sensing II: Digital Image Processing winter 2025 at Queen's University. I *really* want to do a career panel on March 24 (8:30-10:30 ET). Any real life #remotesensing scientists and professionals wanna come hang out (virtually) and inspire some youth?

We are looking for contributors to our new series on the Methods Blog, exploring the experiences of ecologists conducting research in remote field stations during the holiday season🎄 Please get in touch if you would like to find out more! 🌎 🧪

A really interesting article by @natbzielonka.bsky.social and Simon Butler on our changing soundscapes and the impact it has, including on us. #birdingWales #birdingScotland #UKbirding #BirdTherapy #ornithology

Scaling ecological niches from individuals to populations and beyond https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.12.06.627157v1

Avian seed dispersal out of the forests: A view through the lens of Pleistocene landscapes besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... 🐘🌿🐦‍⬛ #birddispersal #seed #seeddispersal #megafauna

One thing that I really hated when eMusk took over Twitter was that the TwitteR package stopped working, which meant I couldn't do any scrapes of conference tweets and produce real-time word cloud or network plots. I'm very happy to report that the bskyr package appears to fill this gap!

Cracked another classic while getting a tire change.

TL; DR? Not even close. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

It's publication day! My Poyser book on Marsh Tits & Willow Tits is now available. Huge thanks to publishers @chiffchat.bsky.social who have been fantastic. #NatureWriting #Ornithology #ukbirding #ForestEcology #nature

Thrilled to share "How do ecologists estimate occupancy in practice?" out now in @ecography.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1111/ecog... We highlight patterns, best practices, and outstanding questions in studies of wildlife "occupancy." Let me know what you think. 1/3

🌍🌌 AGU is thrilled to join Bluesky! We’re here to share exciting discoveries, spotlight incredible scientists, and connect with YOU in this vibrant community. Follow along as we explore how Earth and space sciences make the world a better place. 🌟

CSEE is now on Bluesky! We’ll be posting information about upcoming events, including our AGM, webinars and more, and news about the society. #Ecology #Evolution

Shoutout to my amazing co-authors Ross Hill at @bournemouthuni.bsky.social, Ailidh Barnes at @btobirds.bsky.social, Paul Bellamy at @rspb.bsky.social, Shelley Hinsley at @ukceh.bsky.social, @markusmelin.bsky.social at @lukefi.bsky.social & my supervisor Paul Treitz at Queen's University.

Thesis preprint out 📣 We explored whether and how to use or fuse lidar and landsat to model and predict bird habitat in a successional context in UK woodlands. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Preprint is up for one of my dissertation chapters 🎆 We systematically explored the use of lidar and landsat, separately and together, to model and predict bird habitat.

Still room in the starter pack for niche and distribution modeling! Reply here if you're in the field and want to be added! go.bsky.app/AjbQxpK

Last weekend was Elton, this weekend is another classic courtesy of Hutchinson.

I wrote (ranted) on experimental design as I was frustrated as an editor at how little guidance students were getting. I underestimated the interest in the issue: it has been downloaded 10,000+ times! Clearly it’s something we need to be talking about more. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Submitted another phd chapter 🥳 ...which is both very exciting and kinda anticlimactic. Buh-bye remote sensing fusion for species distribution modelling and prediction manuscript 👋 May you fare well in peer-review! And hello edits to niche modelling chapter 🖊