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Becks Spake @spakey.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Well that's a wrap! 🍁 Thank you for having me @itchyshin.bsky.social !! I loved visiting the amazing COSSEE Lab team, and giving my seminar 'Meta-analysis without a target: what exactly are we estimating?". Was great to meet incredible wildlife biologists at @ualbertapress.bsky.social

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Shawan Chowdhury @shawan-chowdhury.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

📢 PhD opportunity at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia 🦋 We are looking for a motivated domestic/international PhD student to work on citizen science and insect conservation. Please share with anyone interested! 🌐 shawanchowdhurylab.com #PhD #Ecology #Conservation #CitizenScience #Insects

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IPBES @ipbes.net · 09/09/2026

The #KunmingDialogue is taking place in Kunming, China, this week. Three days of multi-stakeholder consultations will focus on the first Global Review of collective progress in implementing the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework in the lead-up to #COP17.

A photo of beautiful buildings bordering a body of water in Kunming, China. Overlay text reads: #KunmingDialogue, Building momentum toward the 2026 United Nations Biodiversity Conference

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Methods in Ecology and Evolution @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Don't forget to register for our next MEE live! Antica Čulina will introduce the concept of Risk of Bias (RoB), and discusses why RoB assessment matters for producing reliable systematic reviews and meta-analyses 🌍🧪 Find out more and register👇 buff.ly/8Hj79o9

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Methods in Ecology and Evolution @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

New blog post!🚨 Antica Čulina tells the story of how a something that bugged them 15 years ago was finally formalised in a paper on a Risk of Bias assessment in ecological and evolutionary meta-analysis 🌍 🧪 Read the blog here 👇 buff.ly/si6MLJq

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Its never too late – Risk of Bias in ecology and evolutionary biology

Post provided by Antica Čulina Hi, I am Antica. I work as a senior researcher at the Ruđer Bošković Institute in Croatia. This is a story about how something that bugged me 15 years ago was finally…

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Charlotte Wright @charlottewright.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Delighted this huge team effort is out! By surveying >20,000 people from >100 countries, we used to butterflies to show that aesthetic biases distort scientific research & environmental policy. Understanding this bias is a key step towards more balanced decision-making 🦋 www.doi.org/10.1016/j.cu...

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Emilie Ellis @e-ellis1.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

🦋 I’m recruiting a fully funded PhD student at the University of Helsinki: understanding how butterflies respond to climate change across Europe. Apply by 30 Sept: Full details: jobs.helsinki.fi/job-invite/5... Please share! #ecology #job #phd

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Doctoral Researcher (PhD student) in Butterfly Ecology and Climate Change across Europe

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Methods in Ecology and Evolution @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

📖Published📖 This new review article proposes several main steps towards increasing the use of Risk of Bias (RoB) assessment in ecology and evolutionary biology and highlights the important role of the synthesis community, but also of journals and funders 🌍 🧪 Read here 👇

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Borut Trpin @boruttrpin.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

The Journal of Mathematical Philosophy is now open for submissions! It is fully open access, with no fees for authors or readers. Please help spread the word, and do consider sending us your work. Very happy to be part of the inaugural editorial board. mathematicalphilosophy.org/mathphil

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Alfredo Sánchez-Tójar @asanchez-tojar.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Are our ecological conclusions built on shaky foundations? Our latest paper in @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social highlights that Risk of Bias (RoB) assessment, crucial for ensuring the internal validity of research, is almost never used in #systematicreviews in eco & evo 📉 🔗 doi.org/10.1111/2041...

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James Bullock @jmbecologist.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Scientists using LLMs (AI) to write/modify text & to précis the literature is a slippery slope Scientific training is about learning how to: write clearly & succinctly, assess the literature, develop our own knowledge, & be critical thinkers Using LLMs to do these undermines scientific integrity

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Anna-Liisa Laine @annaliisalaine.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

We’re hiring! We invite applications for an Ecological Statistician to join our team. Work at the interface of cutting-edge biodiversity science and statistics. DL 27 May @jarnovanhatalo.bsky.social @rececochange.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...

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Ecological Statistician

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 02/04/2026

"The real threat is a slow, comfortable drift toward not understanding what you're doing. Not a dramatic collapse. Not Skynet. Just a generation of researchers who can produce results but can't produce understanding."

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Richard Fox @richardfoxbc.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Fantastic that our paper using @ukbms.bsky.social data led by @robboyd.bsky.social @ukceh.bsky.social has been shortlisted for the best paper of the year prize! @savebutterflies.bsky.social

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Methods in Ecology and Evolution @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

🏅 Shortlisted for the 2025 Robert May prize! 🏅 In his blog post, @robboyd.bsky.social talks about his paper 'Using causal diagrams and superpopulation models to correct geographic biases in biodiversity monitoring data' 🌍 🧪 Read the blog and find the full article 👇 buff.ly/a7UROJJ

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Robin Boyd: Using causal diagrams and superpopulation models to correct geographic biases in biodiversity monitoring data

Throughout March, we are featuring articles shortlisted for the 2025 Robert May Prize. The Robert May Prize is awarded by the British Ecological Society each year for the best paper in Methods in E…

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Methods in Ecology and Evolution @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

🏅 Shortlisted for the 2025 Robert May prize! 🏅 In his paper, @jsmartin.bsky.social proposes a statistical model for detecting how complex, continuously varying environments shape the expression of and association among multiple organismal traits 🌍 Read more here 👇

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gavin jones @ecologyofgavin.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

In a sea of opinions about the role of LLMs in academics I offer my own. Apart from being harmful, exploitive plagiarism machines, LLMs rob us of the opportunity to experience the gift of friction in writing, which changes how we think. We must not give away that gift. doi.org/10.1002/fee....

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Thinking like a mountain in the age of AI

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Methods in Ecology and Evolution @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

We're pleased to announce the shortlist for this year's Robert May prize! 🌟 Each year, we award the Robert May prize to the best paper in the journal by an early career author 🧪 🌏 See the full list below 👇 buff.ly/SosksZF

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Methods in Ecology and Evolution @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Published 📖 Generalized graphical mixed models connect ecological theory with widely used statistical models GGMMs connect ecological theory with statistical models that are applied for inference, prediction, and causal analysis throughout ecology 🖥️ 🌍 🔎

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UK Pollinator Monitoring Scheme @pomscheme.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

As well as the FIT Count survey, we run a more systematic survey using insect traps in a set of 1 km squares across the UK. If you live near one of the red squares on the map and are interested in taking part please contact us for more details ukpoms.org.uk/one-km-squar...

Map of the UK showing the approximate location of the PoMS 1 km survey squares, and which ones are available for 'adoption' to carry out pollinator surveys

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Alisa Bokulich @alisabokulich.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

CFP: Society for the Study of Measurement will be held at the University of Edinburgh June 22-25, 2026. Submit proposals for papers, symposia, & poster on any topics in the theory, history, philosophy, & application of measurement by January 15, 2026 app.oxfordabstracts.com/stages/80364... #HPS

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Please see below for a non-exhaustive list of suggested topics; we particularly welcome contributions that make contact with this year's conference theme: Ground Truth and Validity.
While the notion of measurement validity is comparatively familiar, ground truth may need more of an introduction. The concept of ground truth has origins in remote sensing, where it is used to contrast the outcomes of a near or ground level measurement with outcomes of a remotely sensed measurement. From these origins, the concept has now moved to a wider use, particularly in machine learning contexts, where it denotes data assumed to be true, which can then be used to calibrate and validate machine learning data. The time seems ripe for a more careful investigation from a measurement perspective of the concept of ground truth-both in its original understanding and in its more metaphorical use.
Measurement and Simulation
• Connections between measuring and simulating
• Can simulation substitute for measurement?
Measurement and Data Science

Measurement and Data Science
• Measurement and data quality
• Measurement and data analysis
• Measurement and Al
Models in Measurement
• The role of models in measurement
• The role of models in justifying measurement results
• Models, intersubjectivity, objectivity, validation
Models of Measurement
• The general structure of the measurement process
• The structure of measurement in social and human sciences
• Transduction and calibration in measurement
• History of the conception of the structure of measurement
History, Philosophy and Sociology of Measurement

The structure of measurement in social and human sciences
• Transduction and calibration in measurement
• History of the conception of the structure of measurement
History, Philosophy and Sociology of Measurement
• Exploration across sciences with diverse philosophical perspectives
• New quantification and measurement approaches
• Epistemological and metaphysical approaches to measurement
Measurement Applications and their conceptual foundations in any area of science
• Life & Health Sciences

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Rob Boyd @robboyd.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

New paper on adaptive sampling for ecological monitoring published in @oikosjournal.bsky.social nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/.... Premise is to aim for proportional allocation across strata. Success depends on choice of stratifying variables. Oli Pescott’s brainchild

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Richard Hassall @richardhassall.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Our new paper combines wildlife surveillance data and spatial risk modelling to map suitability for TBEV in GB. We identified key drivers linked to TBEV exposure in deer and produced risk maps, which can guide future surveillance and interventions. www.eurosurveillance.org/content/10.2...

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Identifying hotspots and risk factors for tick-borne encephalitis virus emergence at its range margins to guide interventions, Great Britain

Background Tick-borne encephalitis virus (TBEV) is expanding its range in Europe, with increasing human cases reported. Since the first detection of TBEV in ticks in the United Kingdom in 2019, one po...

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Methods in Ecology and Evolution @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

It is only by understanding what causes sampling bias that we can correct it... Check out our new Blog post by @robboyd.bsky.social here! 👇 buff.ly/3PVHA30

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UKBMS @ukbms.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

This paper just out using data from the UKBMS to demonstrate different ways to think about bias in datasets.

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Methods in Ecology and Evolution @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

📖Published📖 Our new research article demonstrates how you might combine expert knowledge with causal diagrams and superpopulation models to mitigate geographic biases in biodiversity monitoring data 🌎 🧪 Read it here 👇 buff.ly/3C2ZKws

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Rob Boyd @robboyd.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

What have causal diagrams got to do with sampling bias? Find out here! Great team @richardfoxbc.bsky.social @davidroybrc.bsky.social + oli Pescott, Colin harrower, Emily Dennis, Ian middlebrook and Marc Botham. @ukceh.bsky.social @ukbms.bsky.social

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UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH) @ukceh.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

🚨 Interested in using #AI to help develop real-time early warnings of human-wildlife conflict? Apply for a fully-funded #PhD supervised by Vicky Boult (University of Reading) and our own @robboyd.bsky.social Part of the AI-INTERVENE programme. Deadline 27 Jan: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

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Leveraging Artificial Intelligence for Real-Time Early-Warnings of Human-Wildlife Conflict at University of Reading on FindAPhD.com

PhD Project - Leveraging Artificial Intelligence for Real-Time Early-Warnings of Human-Wildlife Conflict at University of Reading, listed on FindAPhD.com

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UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH) @ukceh.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

💡 Can we use data science and AI to make citizen science more engaging for participants and improve biodiversity data quality? 🧪 Apply now for a competition-funded #PhD opportunity to explore - deadline 27 Jan. www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

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Advancing Volunteer-Led Biodiversity Monitoring with Generative AI and Data Science at University of Reading on FindAPhD.com

PhD Project - Advancing Volunteer-Led Biodiversity Monitoring with Generative AI and Data Science at University of Reading, listed on FindAPhD.com

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Francesca Mancini @francescamancini.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Still a couple of weeks left to apply for this #PhD. How are pollinating #insects changing in the UK? This project will develop indicators for #pollinators using #citizenscience data. A collaboration between @ukceh.bsky.social, University of Reading and JNCC. tinyurl.com/3ve5szrh

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