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Nina Baranduin

@ninasayswhat.bsky.social
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Spatial + Behavioural Ecology PhD student at University of Cambridge Tend to wander off a lot 🐆🌳🦅🦌🪲 Views my own #ActuallyAutistic (she/her)

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Andrew Carter @ecoandrew.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
New paper out of our team at Defenders of Wildlife today in Oryx on the implications of nonhuman animal culture on conservation: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... 🌎
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Nina Baranduin @ninasayswhat.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Animals don’t necessarily avoid human structures, but they do avoid us… well, apart from a couple of deer in Pennsylvania apparently. This study looking at animal movements during Covid is certainly interesting! 🌍🧪 besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Nina Baranduin @ninasayswhat.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Another human wildlife conflict being "solved' by killing the wildlife. Removing from a population means another will take its place. It's about changing the cost/ benefit of baboon house raiding. It won't change unless human behaviour and attitudes change. 🧪🌍
e360.yale.edu
Baboon Raiders: In Cape Town, Can Big Primates and People Coexist?
For years, baboons have roamed Cape Town suburbs, entering yards and houses in search of food. Now officials have a conservation plan aimed at reducing conflicts between the large primates and people ...
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Richard Fox @richardfoxbc.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Really nice paper from @tiff-ki.bsky.social & co. shows no overall decline in butterfly species richness in Sulawesi over 166 yrs, but changing communities with endemics & forest specialists declining. Short-term trends unreliable measures of long term. royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... 🌏
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Nina Baranduin @ninasayswhat.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Large carnivore recovery in Yellowstone is often quoted to show ‘large trophic cascades’. Yet the evidence is far more complex, and underscores the importance of analytical rigor and ecological context in evaluating the consequences of large carnivore recovery. 🌍🧪
sciencedirect.com
Flawed analysis invalidates claim of a strong Yellowstone trophic cascade after wolf reintroduction: A comment on Ripple et al. (2025)
Ripple et al. (2025) recently argued that large carnivore recovery in Yellowstone National Park triggered one of the world’s strongest trophic cascade…
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Nina Baranduin @ninasayswhat.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Can anyone help me identify this tiny little mystery? Found in Cambridgeshire in the U.K. within a pine forest 🍄 #fungifriends
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Nina Baranduin @ninasayswhat.bsky.social · 18/04/2024
In the presence of lions, other species forage during hotter parts of the day. “Such a trade-off may become increasingly costly under the hotter and drier conditions predicted to become more prevalent as a result of climate change” 🌍🧪
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
Seasonal activity patterns of a Kalahari mammal community: Trade‐offs between environmental heat load and predation pressure
Ecology & Evolution is a broad open access journal welcoming research in ecology, evolution, and conservation science, and providing a forum for evidence-based views.
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Nina Baranduin @ninasayswhat.bsky.social · 06/04/2024
Wood anemones (Anemonoides nemorosa) are some of the first spring flowers. They’re an indicator of ancient woodland as it grows very slowly via rhizomes – horizontal underground stems. The flowers close up at night which folklore says is because faeries hide from the dark or bad weather in them
Close up petal of a wood anemone, seven long oval white petals spread out with yellow sepals covered in visible pollenThe wood anemone flower in the ground. Not quite in focus with the woodland in the background
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Nina Baranduin @ninasayswhat.bsky.social · 02/04/2024
Animal movements and behaviour are different in human dominated landscapes 🐺🐻🌳 Behaviours studied in less human impacted systems are often applied to novel ecosystems, but species interactions can be very different when humans are around 🌍🧪
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
Wolves recolonize novel ecosystems leading to novel interactions
<em>Journal of Applied Ecology</em> publishes impactful research at the intersection of ecological science and the management of biological resources.
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Nina Baranduin @ninasayswhat.bsky.social · 22/01/2024
Fear of snakes leads many people to kill them on sight without knowing if they actually pose any danger 🐍 This could lead to a significant increase in the number of snake species becoming threatened as human populations increase 🧪🌍
advancedsciencenews.com
Fear of snakes may be driving them to extinction - Advanced Science News
With Africa’s population expected to double by 2050, many species of snakes are facing a higher risk of extinction, and conservationists are concerned.
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Mongabay @mongabay.com · 19/01/2024
New research suggests that bottom trawling stirs up large amounts of carbon from the seabed and releases 55-60% of this carbon into the atmosphere 🌎 This is nearly 2x the annual diesel emissions of the entire global fishing fleet of about 4 million vessels, @elizabethalberts.bsky.social reports:
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Carbon catch and release: Study finds bottom trawlers stir up seabed CO2
Nearly a quarter of the world’s wild-caught seafood is scooped up by bottom trawlers, fishing vessels that drag heavy nets over the seafloor. These boats fish the world over and support numerous glo...
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Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf @rahmstorf.bsky.social · 13/11/2023
For all interested in the tipping point of the Atlantic overturning circulation : here's Henk Dijkstra's recent talk. The tipping point has been confirmed in a state-of-art climate model, and a novel early warning indicator suggests we're heading there. www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDZp...
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Jeff Bowman @jeffcbowman.bsky.social · 25/10/2023
New research. 🧪🌎 We introduce the concept of the 'sentinel node' as a landscape connectivity indicator for Protected Area networks, and demonstrate with a case study in Ontario. Out today in PeerJ peerj.com/articles/163...
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Pablo Garcia-Diaz @pablo-ecology.bsky.social · 10/11/2023
This is an interesting paper of interest and relevance for anyone using models to inform environmental decision-making 🌎: Poorly designed biodiversity loss-gain models facilitate biodiversity loss in New Zealand newzealandecology.org/nzje/3548
newzealandecology.org
Poorly designed biodiversity loss-gain models facilitate biodiversity loss in New Zealand
Biodiversity offsetting and compensation proposals are routinely employed through the resource consenting process to address development-induced indigenous biodiversity losses in Aotearoa/New Zealand....
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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 10/11/2023
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theguardian.com
Strobe lights, AI, shotguns: can anything help Canada’s polar bears and humans coexist?
As the climate crisis changes habitats across the Artic and drives the animals closer to people, the search is under way for new strategies
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Nina Baranduin @ninasayswhat.bsky.social · 30/09/2023
New paper using Species distribution models to generate relative abundance information of six wild felids inhabiting territories in Mexico that are inaccessible or politically unstable 🐆🧪🌍 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
Using species distribution modeling to generate relative abundance information in socio‐politicall...
Ecology & Evolution is a broad open access journal welcoming research in ecology, evolution, and conservation science, and providing a forum for evidence-based views.
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Mark Rubin @markrubin.bsky.social · 13/09/2023
Unknown unknowns: "The primary component of uncertainty may reside not in what is reported (the 'known unknowns'...) but in what is not reported, either because it was unflattering or because it was never explored in the first place (Donald Rumsfeld’s 'unknown unknowns')." #metasci #philsci 🧪
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Nina Baranduin @ninasayswhat.bsky.social · 12/09/2023
Are you an R user who is interested in learning Python? This blog from Rebecca Barter introduces Python from an R user's perspective 🧪 www.rebeccabarter.com/blog/2023-09...
rebeccabarter.com
Rebecca Barter - An introduction to Python for R Users
I have a confession to make: I am now a Python user. Don't judge me, join me! In this post, I introduce Python for data analysis from the perspective of an R (tidyverse) user.
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Dani cRabaiotti 🦀 @danirabaiotti.bsky.social · 12/09/2023
A study found that sharing memes of unappealing animals (in this case, the proboscis monkey) significantly increased public interest in the species and people's reported willingness to donate money towards their conservation. 🧪 🌍
Effects of amusing memes on concern
for unappealing species
Magdalena Lenda x, Pjoter Skórka, Błażej Mazur
William Sutherland, Piotr Tryjanowski,
Dawid Moroń, Erik Meijaard, Hugh P. Possingham,
Kerrie A. Wilson
First published: 29 April 2020A proboscis monkey. This ginger monkey has a pink face with a fairly grotesque looking bulbous nose.
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Dr Natasha Dowey @drnatashadowey.bsky.social · 11/09/2023
Following the devastating Morocco earthquake, this article highlights the geopolitic elements of Disaster Risk Reduction: 🧪⚒️#AcademicSky #Geography www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-a...
bbc.co.uk
Morocco earthquake: Why authorities accept only limited international help
Only four countries so far have been allowed to send teams to the quake-hit region.
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Saloni @scientificdiscovery.dev · 07/09/2023
Here it is! >9000 word essay I've been working on for months with Siddhartha Haria and Rachel Glennerster: The century-spanning history of malaria vaccine development; what went wrong; major funding struggles; the need for AMCs. worksinprogress.co/issue/why-we...
worksinprogress.co
Why we didn't get a malaria vaccine sooner - Works in Progress
Hundreds of thousands of people die from malaria each year, but it took 141 years to develop a vaccine for it. Advance market commitments could speed things up next time.
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Thony Christie @rmathematicus.bsky.social · 06/09/2023
A brief sketch of the history of the magnet, magnetism, and the magnetic compass from its beginnings to the late sixteenth century #histsci #histtech thonyc.wordpress.com/2023/09/06/m...
Model of a Han dynasty (206 BC–220 AD) south-indicating ladle or sinan made of magnetized lodestone
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Mark Rubin @markrubin.bsky.social · 03/09/2023
Scientist? ✔️ New to BlueSky? ✔️ Wanna get your posts seen by people in your field? ✔️ Check out this list of 42 science-related feeds 👇 You can add specific feeds to your timeline to see their posts, and you can include your own posts in a feed by including a feed-specific tag. #AcademicSky 🧪
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BlueSky Science-Related Feeds
Sheet1 Likes,Name (Click to visit feed),Tags,Contact to ask to be added to contributor list 2452,<a href="https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:jfhpnnst6flqway4eaeqzj2a/feed/for-science">What's Science</a...
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Mark Rubin @markrubin.bsky.social · 30/08/2023
New paper considers how to formulate hypotheses, including how broad or narrow a hypothesis should be (i.e., its "scope"). Open access: doi.org/10.1098/rsos... Few quotes follow 👉 #MetaSci #PhilSci 🧪
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Josh Luke Davis 🏳️‍🌈 @joshlukedavis.com · 01/09/2023
When did frogs first evolve?? 🐸 It's long been thought that they first appeared at the end of the Triassic, but researchers have now created the most detailed frog family tree ever and found that they probably appeared 30 million years later in the Jurassic! 🧪 www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/new...
nhm.ac.uk
Most complete frog family tree shows they evolved later than previously thought
The group may have evolved tens of millions of years later than originally thought.
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SK Winnicki, PhD 🏳️‍⚧️ @skwinnicki.bsky.social · 01/09/2023
Are you a STEM professional (including grad students, obviously)? Would you be willing to write 4 personal letters to a grade school student about life in STEM, to encourage and inspire them? This program needs more pen-pal volunteers this year! It’s so much fun! prescientist.org
prescientist.org
Home - Letters to a Pre-Scientist
The Pen Pal Program Inspiring Students To Explore a Future in STEM Letters to a Pre-Scientist connects students to STEM professionals through snail mail to broaden students ’ awareness of what STEM ...
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Nina Baranduin @ninasayswhat.bsky.social · 31/08/2023
Can barnacles help find flight MH370? Barnacles found on the recovered debris could be used to reconstruct drift patterns by combining the barnacles shell chemical composition and growth patterns, along side oceanographic modelling 🌍🧪
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2023AV000915
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🧌🥛 🏨 @comraderobot.bsky.social · 30/08/2023
“hey what should we call our new space laser project?” scientist who has never been social media once: “idk call it illuminati”
Excerpt from nasa article:

In 2023, NASA is sending a technology demonstration known as the Integrated LCRD Low Earth Orbit User Modem and Amplifier Terminal ILLUMA-T to the space station. Together, ILLUMA-T and the Laser Communications Relay Demonstration (LCRD), which launched in December 2021, will complete NASA's first two-way, end-to-end laser relay system.
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Richard McElreath 🐈‍⬛ @rmcelreath.bsky.social · 17/08/2023
Lectures from my short course, "Very Little Evolutionary Game Theory". www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDcU… Topics: 1. Evolution of conflict 2. Evol of cooperation 3. Evol of relationships 4. Evol of Families 5. Evol of societies Watch at x2 for maximum effect!
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VLEGT
https://github.com/rmcelreath/VLEGT
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 20/08/2023
It seems to me that the time is ripe for a Bluesky thread about how—and maybe even why—to befriend crows. (1/n)
Beautiful crow against a black background
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Mark Rubin @markrubin.bsky.social · 19/08/2023
Welcome to BlueSky! Here's a little intro for scientists that @steveharoz.com and I put together: docs.google.com/document/d/1aPddaH-… 🧪 #AcademicSky #WomenInSTEM
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BlueSky for Scientists
BlueSky for Scientists Authors: Steve Haroz and Mark Rubin URL: http://blueskyscience.steveharoz.com Features you may miss from Twitter or Mastodon As BlueSky is in beta, some features are not impleme...
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Nina Baranduin @ninasayswhat.bsky.social · 17/08/2023
Original post by @MRhelmus Big data on invasive species spread are rare. @SebaDeBona developed a framework to make such data open access. This Rstats package has >600,000 spotted lanternfly occurrences. Use for research and teaching. 🧪🌍 neobiota.pensoft.net/article/101471…
Infographic showing progression of how the R package was made. Starting with Data collection from field surveys, management actions and individual reporting - data are collected from the field. Data is then processed by first gathering all these data sources together then each dataset is cleaned, checked for errors and harmonised which is then combined into a comprehensive dataset. Data is then anonymised by aggregating then into a coarser spatial grid. Personal information is also removed. This anonymised dataset is then distributed through a R package, which also contains summary tables and mapping tools to visualise spread and survey effort through time and space. This is how the Spotted lantern fly data was used to created the R package lydemapr.Greyscale map of the east of North America showing states such as Kentucky, Ohio, North Carolina and Virgina. The spotted lantern fly data is shown ontop of this map as small circles that are coloured differently according to year. It is not exactly clear what the dots represent.
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Nina Baranduin @ninasayswhat.bsky.social · 16/08/2023
Recently moved to a terraced house on a main road. After removing the fake grass in the tiny front 'garden', I dug a hole, put a tub in it and filled it with water. Been less than week but there is a frog! 🐸 as well as invert friends! But have I accidentally built a bit of an ecological trap? 🌍
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Nina Baranduin @ninasayswhat.bsky.social · 16/08/2023
Alan Turing devised a test to assess if a machine could be classified as intelligent. However Weizenbaum suggested that a test should instead assess the public value of AI, evaluating them according to their real-world implications rather than their proponents’ claims or perceived intelligence. 🧪
science.org
Science | AAAS
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Lydia Jennings, PhD @1nativesoilnerd.bsky.social · 11/08/2023
My latest paper (& 1st lead author paper) was released earlier this week on applying the CARE Principles of Indigenous Data Governance in ecology and biodiversity data 🥳🥳 www.nature.com/articles/s41559-023-…
nature.com
Applying the ‘CARE Principles for Indigenous Data Governance’ to ecology and biodiversity resear...
Indigenous Peoples are increasingly being sought out for research partnerships that incorporate Indigenous Knowledges into ecology research. In such research partnerships, it is essential that Indigen...
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Nina Baranduin @ninasayswhat.bsky.social · 12/08/2023
“Effective regulation of AI needs grounded science that investigates real harms, not glorified press releases about existential risks”
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Nina Baranduin @ninasayswhat.bsky.social · 12/08/2023
Fences can impact across ecological scales. Can virtual fences reduce impacts, cost effectively, and benefit farmers? While facilitating rotational grazing, the infrastructure required has environmental costs elsewhere + removing old fencing can be labour intensive and might need public funding. 🌎🧪
news.mongabay.com
Virtual fences can benefit both ranchers and wildlife
The old Figlenski Ranch in Washington state’s Tunk Valley is a rugged land of canyons and scrubby sage-brush steppe. This valley with the ranch at its center connects the Cascade and the Rocky Mount...
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CosmicRami 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @rami.spaceaustralia.com · 10/08/2023
How many of us use Jupyter Notebooks? This is a long, but important read on how to make our notebooks more accessible to blind and visually impaired people. Lots of good recommendations, not just with infrastructure, but authoring practices in here. Pass it on. 🧪🔭
arxiv.org
Notably Inaccessible -- Data Driven Understanding of Data Science...
Computational notebooks, tools that facilitate storytelling through exploration, data analysis, and information visualization, have become the widely accepted standard in the data science...
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Frank Ashwood @frankashwood.bsky.social · 10/08/2023
Check out the amazing scales on this springtail! Did you know, springtail scales such as these used to be prized test subjects to assess the optical quality of early microscopes? (Species: Lepidocyrtus sp., possibly submontanus)
A photograph of a silver and yellow coloured springtail, covered in iridescent scales.
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