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Chris Sutherland @chrissuthy.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

This basically means you still get to see all the cute animal photos (automatically organised into species specific folders) whilst never having to trawl through 10000 pics of waving grass (or captures of non-target species, unless you want to) - win win!

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Chris Sutherland @chrissuthy.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

It runs AI species-classification models (currently hosting DeepFaune and SpeciesNet) locally on your own computer (no shipping images off to the cloud), with no coding required, and crucially includes a built-in interface for quickly reviewing and correcting species labels. 📸🦊🦡

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Chris Sutherland @chrissuthy.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Excited to share our new desktop application, `wildtag ai`, designed for and by ecologists to responsibly speed up species identification in camera trap images. The preprint includes a wee example so you can try it out in just a few minutes: lnkd.in/epgJpCHz

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EcoEvoRxiv @ecoevorxiv.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

"wildtag.ai: an open-access end-to-end offline AI-assisted desktop application for managing camera trap projects" doi.org/10.32942/X2C...

Infographic outlining an offline, laptop-based workflow for processing wildlife photos from the user providing images to step 1 Process: AI clears empty frames and sorts species; 2 Validate: review or send batches to volunteers; 3 Summarise: live dashboard; 4 Export: verified, shareable dataset. Also depicts a column showing how 2 Validate and 4 Export are designed with team in mind. A QR code is also depicted.

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Dr William Kay @willpkay.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

And that book is now published! Free here: teaching-programming.github.io/book/ Phenomenal work by the editors. Pleased to have co-authored two chapters w/ @chrissuthy.bsky.social @talom.bsky.social @chrisoldnall.bsky.social @brittneuropsych.bsky.social @colquhoun.bsky.social Rob Young & Ozan Evkaya

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Chris Sutherland @chrissuthy.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Fully funded @netgain.bsky.social #PhD for UK students: "Bridging policy and practice: Marine Net Gain metrics for sedimentary Blue Carbon and biodiversity" www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

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Chris Sutherland @chrissuthy.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

We are recruiting several PhD students. If you are interested in conservation conflicts, population ecology, quantitative ecology, or biodiversity, check these projects out (links in the thread, feel free to reach out):

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Auriel Fournier @rallidaerule.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

I'm hiring a postdoc to work with myself, Dr Jim Lyons and the entire NOAA Firebird team on the adaptive management part of our larger project focused on the impacts of prescribed fire on Gulf Coast wetlands Accepting applications until Feb 15th blogs.illinois.edu/view/7426/19...

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Postdoctoral Research Associate - NOAA Firebird - Illinois Natural History Survey/PRI - Application Deadline: February 15, 2026

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Chris Sutherland @chrissuthy.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

This looks handy! Anyone out there willing to share examples of automated CV updating?

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Lucy Wright @lucy-wright.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

Some great PhD opportunities in conservation science/ ecology here.

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Ethan Linck @elinck.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

I've slowly been reformatting notes from my population and conservation genetics course at Montana State University into a web book—a rough draft is now live here: elinck.org/popgen_conge...

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Chris Sutherland @chrissuthy.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

Of woods and waders: balancing the competing benefits of conservation and restoration 🔗 tinyurl.com/57m95ncy 🏢 @uniofstandrews.bsky.social 👥 ME, @ps-wildlife-res.bsky.social, Steve Willis, Kenny Kortland (Scottish Forestry), Dave Parish, Lucy Mason

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Of woods and waders: balancing the competing benefits of conservation and restoration

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Dr William Kay @willpkay.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

Excited to host #BES2025 Thematic Session next week! The future of quantitative learning and literacy in ecology. 16 Dec 16:00-18:00 Edinburgh EICC @fiebergjohn.bsky.social @nhcooper123.bsky.social @fergusjchadwick.bsky.social @talom.bsky.social @chrissuthy.bsky.social @britishecologicalsociety.org

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Philip Stephens @ps-wildlife-res.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

📢 Fully funded PhD available: Finding the middle ground: Balancing deer management, ecological recovery, and traditional land use Through @netgain.bsky.social, with @naturescot.bsky.social More info: www.findaphd.com/phds/project... (UK ‘home students’ only) #phd #wildlife #deer #ecology

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RSPB Science @rspbscience.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

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

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Jack Bamber @jackantbam.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

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 · 08/08/2025

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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Amber Cowans (she/her) @ambercowans.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

📝 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 ⬇️

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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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Ben Bolker @bbolker.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

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 · 25/06/2025

🚨 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 · 22/04/2025

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/...

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Chris Sutherland @chrissuthy.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

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/...

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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 · 25/04/2025

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/...

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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 · 25/04/2025

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

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Chris Sutherland @chrissuthy.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

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.

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Chris Sutherland @chrissuthy.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

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 · 22/04/2025

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Chris Sutherland @chrissuthy.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

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 · 14/04/2025

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

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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 · 20/03/2025

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rainbowR @rainbowr.org · 20/02/2025

🌈 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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WildCRU, Oxford @wildcru.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

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 · 05/02/2025

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 · 05/02/2025

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 · 29/01/2025

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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