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Dr David Martin

@bioinformagic.bsky.social
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Scientific educator, tinkerer, nature enthusiast. Bioinformatician by profession, easily distracted by technological squirrels.

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Dr David Martin @bioinformagic.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Coot and Moorhen are usually something like a branch tapping rather than the real bird.
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Dr David Martin @bioinformagic.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
I agree there is a long way to go but the common species are generally correct. You missed the Ptarmigan at the Friary and the Bitterns in Lochee :) The false positive rate is quite low with regard to calls but much higher when looking at species so anything surprising should always be checked.
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Dr David Martin @bioinformagic.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
if you go to app.birdweather.com, navigate to the Eastfield node (near Dronley wood) you can access the recordings from the species list. I'd trust your ears more than the AI model
app.birdweather.com
BirdWeather
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Dr David Martin @bioinformagic.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
I'll see if I can get the recordings. I don't think they were particularly high confidence.
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Dr David Martin @bioinformagic.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Picked up Willow warbler today on the acoustic monitors at JHI living field and at Fintry. Greater Whitethroats as well. Just a few calls and I haven't checked the recordings to validate but they aren't usual false positives.
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Dr David Martin @bioinformagic.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
I have a few audio detections in March, but all single calls.
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Dr David Martin @bioinformagic.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Looks fantastic
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Dr David Martin @bioinformagic.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
Picked them up on my bird detector a few days ago. Same time as last year within a few days
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Dr David Martin @bioinformagic.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Great to get a BirdNET-pi up at Fintry Library with such wonderful staff. Follow at biodiversidee.vercel.app
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Dr David Martin @bioinformagic.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Last year the first recorded call on my network was 5th March, then two weeks before a few more. Then a full flock on 29th
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Dr David Martin @bioinformagic.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
This is what I have been waiting for. First chiffchaff recording of the year today.
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Dr David Martin @bioinformagic.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
Car on fire on A92 Nort between Kirkaldy and Glenrothes
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Dr David Martin @bioinformagic.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
This was February/March 2023/2024. Audio detection and only a tiny handful of calls.
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Dr David Martin @bioinformagic.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
Nice. The bird detector picked some up in my front garden (Lochee) a few years ago. Weren't back this year. Quite early for them?
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Liz Miller @lizmillercu.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Attention membrane traffickers! I'm recruiting a post-doc to my lab in Dundee. We're dissecting the functions of intrinsically disordered domains of COPII coat proteins. We think they control timing of coat assembly and morphology of carriers. www.dundee.ac.uk/work-for-us/...
dundee.ac.uk
Postdoctoral Research Assistant - MCDB - UOD2016
Closing date: Thursday 6 November 2025, 23:59
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Dr David Martin @bioinformagic.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
It's a nice walk up there too..
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Dr David Martin @bioinformagic.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
Listening to the Proms. Has anyone scored the prologue to JFK for pipes and drums? It would be an awesome lament.
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Dr David Martin @bioinformagic.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/news/dund... may have something to do with it.. A kipper is a smoked herring.
thecourier.co.uk
Bizarre Dundonian fish tradition revived in time for New Year
A workshop centred on reviving a Dundonian New Year tradition involving decorated fish has gone swimmingly, according to organisers. Singer Lynne Campbell
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Dr David Martin @bioinformagic.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
Tawny Owl making a lot of noise on Balgay Hill tonight
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Dr David Martin @bioinformagic.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
@dundeecitycouncil.bsky.social Can you get physical signage up when busses are rerouted. 30 people waiting at West Marketgait for busses that aren't coming.
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Dr David Martin @bioinformagic.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
Not many of those flies around. (Ain't no flies on us)
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Dr David Martin @bioinformagic.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
Like this one that flowered last month in Dundee
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Dr David Martin @bioinformagic.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
If only peace campaigners were prescribed orgs...
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Dr David Martin @bioinformagic.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
Great to see the corpse flower in bloom at Dundee botanics. Last chance tomorrow as it only blooms for a short time.
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Dr David Martin @bioinformagic.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Congratulations to all our students graduating this year at @dundeeuni.bsky.social School of Life Sciences. Well done and well deserved awards. Looking forwards to celebrating tomorrow at the Caird Hall and on Campus
A tableau of Lego minifigures in a scene showing graduation at Dundee University
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Dr David Martin @bioinformagic.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
Successfully deployed
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Dr David Martin @bioinformagic.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
Today starts with a field trip. Quite literally I am going to a field to test the solar birdnet detector. Then on to exam board jollities and other fun stuff.
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Dr David Martin @bioinformagic.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
A bit of hacking and the mothbox is now live. Testing tonight in the garden
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Dr David Martin @bioinformagic.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
Didn't see that one coming...
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Dr David Martin @bioinformagic.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
Lots of common whitethroat at the James Hutton Living Field. I have an audio detector there that can be monitored at biodiversidee.vercel.app or at app.birdweather.com
biodiversidee.vercel.app
Biodiversi-Dee
Dundee biodiversity data from the Dundee Biodiversity Network.
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Dr David Martin @bioinformagic.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Yoou cant go chasing the robot (CnutAI) but instead learn how to teach and assess what you want rather than using the formulae of the past which was a very different time. Yes, when I was a student some profs wouldn't mark anything other than a handwritten piece b/c of copy and paste.
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Dr David Martin @bioinformagic.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Nonsense. The line is impossible to draw unless you go back to handwriting everything. If we are educating for the modern age then we need to be assessing person and process, not product. Using an AI is fine, if you critically assess the output and are able to appropriately attribute.
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Dr David Martin @bioinformagic.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
The problem is they see the product as being what is assessed, not the person. And so they will produce a suitable product.
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Dr David Martin @bioinformagic.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
Here is a sedge warbler for you. Kinnordy Loch on the May bank holiday. flic.kr/p/2r2Y9wq
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Very vocal Sedge Warbler at Kinnordy Loch, Kirriemuir.
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Dr David Martin @bioinformagic.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
And great to hear a Cuckoo at Backwater reservoir (just a recording on the phone) youtube.com/shorts/0TDY2...
youtube.com
listen carefully for the cuckoo
YouTube video by David Martin
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Dr David Martin @bioinformagic.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Sedge warbler, Kinnordy flic.kr/p/2r2Y9wq Very pleased with this shot. The warbler was less pleased and gave me a bit of a stare.. flic.kr/p/2r2Y9w5
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Dr David Martin @bioinformagic.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Many thanks. It did have us looking for a passport!
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Dr David Martin @bioinformagic.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Some photos
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Dr David Martin @bioinformagic.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Might it be a juvenile cormorant?
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Dr David Martin @bioinformagic.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
@dundeebirding.bsky.social @lainy.bsky.social Any idea why there would be a bird that is a spitting image of a white fronted cormorant at Kinnordy Loch instead of inAustralia or Africa? I have some very bad pictures as it was well out of range.
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Dr David Martin @bioinformagic.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Great viva talk today. Very humbled to be the starting point in the journey when he came to Dundee as an exchange student and picked the bioinformatics modules.
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Dr David Martin @bioinformagic.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Office this morning.
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Dr David Martin @bioinformagic.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Can't get out to go birdwatching? Try our virtual birdwatch which takes a feed from our network of automated bird detectors around Dundee. Turn the sound up! biodiversidee.vercel.app/birdwatch
biodiversidee.vercel.app
Biodiversi-Dee
Dundee Biodiversity Data from the Dundee Bionet
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Dr David Martin @bioinformagic.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Were the botanic gardens at Dundee or St Andrews too far out of your way? :(
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Dr David Martin @bioinformagic.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Very honoured to be nominated and selected for a Student Led Teaching Award this year
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Dr David Martin @bioinformagic.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
No bother.
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Dr David Martin @bioinformagic.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Did you mislabel your chaffinch pic? looks like a chifchaff to me.
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Dr David Martin @bioinformagic.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
Except at Aleksanderplatz where directions were non-existent. Ended up taking the U-bahn. DB should do better.
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Dr David Martin @bioinformagic.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
How to find the rail replacement bus..
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Dr David Martin @bioinformagic.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Nipped down to the Botanic Gardens. Was waylaid by the Water Rail. Must go back with the proper rig rather than just the phone. youtu.be/4aemoEFLWg8
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Water rail at the Botanic Gardens
YouTube video by David Martin
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