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Chris Sutherland

@chrissuthy.bsky.social
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Personal: dad of two amazing girls, husband to an amazing woman. Work: Population & Statistical Ecology • Reader at Univ. St Andrews • AE: Methods in Ecology & Evolution, Journal of Applied Ecology • HE/HIS

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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
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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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
Red deer stag (photo: P A Stephens)
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Philip Stephens @ps-wildlife-res.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
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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
A solitary Lapwing stands in the grass.
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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 · 04/07/2025
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!
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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 · 04/07/2025
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...
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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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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
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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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
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 · 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
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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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
Flyer for the event: meet-up details on rainbow-striped background.

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Zoom meet-up
Weds Feb 26th, 5pm UTC
- connect with community members
- rainbowR updates
- R chat and informal 'show and tell'

More info and sign-up details at rainbowr.org/meetups
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Nick Haddad @nickhaddad.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
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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 · 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
Lynx emerging from behind tree trunks.
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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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Dr. Joan Dudney @dudney-joan.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Do you ignore the effects of #ConfoundingVariables in your models? Do you remove correlated variables because of a statistical test rather than causal reasoning? If so, read this paper by @jebyrnes.bsky.social and @lauradee.bsky.social! #AcademicSky 🧪🌏 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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Causal Inference With Observational Data and Unobserved Confounding Variables
As ecology tackles progressively larger problems, we are moving beyond the scales at which randomised controlled experiments are feasible. Using observational data for causal inference raises the pro...
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Society for Conservation Biology @society4conbio.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
We have a great list of ongoing award, fellowship and grant opportunities that we thought our members might be interested in. 🌍 #conservation #MarineLife #ecology Check it out here: docs.google.com/document/d/1... #conservation #funding #fellowships #awards
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Award, Fellowship and Grants Opportunities
Award, Fellowship and Grant Opportunities Below is a list of some of the ongoing award, fellowship and grant opportunities that we thought our members might be interested in. Use the hyperlinks to ju...
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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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Chris Sutherland @chrissuthy.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
I get to work with amazing people in our group, mostly extremely talented PhD students. Here is a starter pack with them all. Follow, and you wont be disappointed 🤩 go.bsky.app/HufyKhd
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NETGAIN @netgain.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
We just posted our first round of fully funded interdisciplinary challege-led projects! netgain.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/phd-projects/ PhDs available at: @aberdeenunilib.bsky.social, @durhamuniversity.bsky.social, @glasgowunisrc.bsky.social, @uniofstandrews.bsky.social, @ukri.org
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Chris Sutherland @chrissuthy.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
I get to work with amazing people in our group, mostly extremely talented PhD students. Here is a starter pack with them all. Follow, and you wont be disappointed 🤩 go.bsky.app/HufyKhd
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NETGAIN @netgain.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
Here are the titles and links to the 10 fully #netgain PhD projects. Follow along for more exciting opportunities in 2025. 1/12
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Olivier Gimenez 🦦 @oaggimenez.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
This is an important and useful paper 🤩 Awesome 🥳
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Philip Stephens @ps-wildlife-res.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
The MammalWeb project is not yet on Bluesky, so I'm posting their Winter Newsletter. It highlights some fantastic achievements over the last few months, project updates, and information on a festive competition with £100s of Field Studies Council vouchers to be won. Enjoy! 👉 tinyurl.com/MWDec24
Pine marten (image: Scottish Wildcat Action)Garden wildlife captured by the BTO's Garden BirdWatch camera trapping project (images: kevshears and EXMorena)Close focus camera trapping (images: cs0911)MammalWeb: winners of the 2024 NBN group award for wildlife recording
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Jack Bamber @jackantbam.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
⏰New Research ⏰ We quantified the direct impact of diversionary feeding on capercaillie productivity. We show an increase in the proportion of hen with a brood in DF sites (37% -> 85%) and, as a result, a 131% increase in chicks per hen. Read more here: www.researchgate.net/publication/... 1/7
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Chris Sutherland @chrissuthy.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
Second installment of the amazing @jackantbam.bsky.social's diversionary feeding work. Capercaillie are really struggling here in the UK, and this work shows a glimmer of hope!
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Chris Sutherland @chrissuthy.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
Second installment of the amazing @jackantbam.bsky.social's diversionary feeding work. Capercaillie are really struggling here in the UK, and this work shows a glimmer of hope!
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Philip Stephens @ps-wildlife-res.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
The value of simulation before analysis: @chrissuthy.bsky.social talks through work led by @ambercowans.bsky.social, yielding some cautionary lessons for users of species co-occurrence models. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #BES2024
Chris Sutherland describes simulations to assess the power of species co-occurrence models under a variety of conditions.
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