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Sal Keith (she/her)

@salkeith.bsky.social
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Senior Lecturer at Lancaster Uni, UK. Exploring macrobehaviour using coral reefs as a model system, interested in all things data sciencey. #MacrobehaviourLab sallykeith.weebly.com

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Sal Keith (she/her) @salkeith.bsky.social · 10h
Great that @asab.org offers these 2 grants for attendance to help create a more diverse conference 👏
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ASAB @asab.org · 24/09/2026
One week left until a lot of important deadlines ⌛️
OCT 1 2026 Deadlines

-Winter Meeting Attendance, Accessibility and Childcare Grants 
-Research Grants
-Interdisciplinary Workshop Grants 
-Undergraduate Research Grants*
-Education Grants*
-Public Engagement Grants*
-EDIA Award Nominations 

*Multiple rounds per year
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Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
How do orangutans build their huge diet profiles before adulthood? @revathe.bsky.social and colleagues show, for the first time, how multiple forms of learning interact over many years to build broad, survival-relevant ecological skills in a wild great ape. Paper: doi.org/10.1126/scie...
Orangutans on the cover of Science
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Ben de Bivort @debivort.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Hello friends, the Harvard Life Science departments have banded together to hire a new colleague working at the intersection of Life Sciences and AI. Could be primarily an experimentalist, or could be primarily a compute/theorist. academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/16773
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Tenure-Track Professor in Life Science and AI
The Life Sciences Departments in Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences seek to recruit a tenure-track professor whose research is at the interface of AI and life sciences, from methodological developme...
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Sal Keith (she/her) @salkeith.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I created this schematic of how AI, ML and neural networks fit together the other day for our HoD - sharing here in case it's useful for anyone else...
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Sal Keith (she/her) @salkeith.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
NEW! Mesopredatory fish communities keep stable coz diff species populations do diff things at diff times, via functional diversity. Used 197 Indo-Pacific time series. Led by the brill @ruchakarkarey.bsky.social Read it here nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... @lec-reefs.bsky.social
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Asynchronous population trends stabilize mesopredatory coral reef fish communities in the face of global change
Biodiversity can underpin stability in communities, allowing them to withstand environmental fluctuations without changes in aggregate properties like total abundance or biomass. We investigated the ...
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Sal Keith (she/her) @salkeith.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
ONE WEEK LEFT to join our team! Senior Research Associate in AI-Enabled Behavioural Ecology for Conservation UKRI-funded; coral reefs/UK waters; 2yrs9mth No prior knowledge of AI required, willingness to learn essential! sallykeith.weebly.com/team.html @lec-reefs.bsky.social
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Sal Keith (she/her) @salkeith.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Erika Woolsey is a 2026 TIME Magazine Trailblazer 🤩 Her work delivering immersive VR ocean experiences has been transformative, connecting >2.75M people to the ocean & enhancing conservation time.com/collection/t... thehydro.us/home Massive congrats! 1st PhD I had the pleasure to co-supervise 👌
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Why Erika Woolsey Sees Virtual Reality Tech as an Ocean Conservation Tool
Her nonprofit, The Hydrous, creates augmented and virtual reality experiences that connect people with the marine environment
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Sal Keith (she/her) @salkeith.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Excited to share our new paper on Fundamental and Realised Behaviours - a new way to think about assemblage-level behavioural variation through space (+time) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Out today in @cp-trendsecolevo.bsky.social
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Fundamental and realised behaviours structure geographic variation in ecological assemblages
Animal behaviours shape ecological dynamics, from species distributions to ecosystem function. These dynamics emerge from the behaviours of multiple i…
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Sal Keith (she/her) @salkeith.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Last 2 days! Join our team!
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Sal Keith (she/her) @salkeith.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Inspiring morning at Low Carbon Computing Conference lancaster-university.github.io/loco2026/pro... Loved Marloes de Valk keynote on ideas of “radical technology”, “soft tech” &“feminist servers” - more at damaged.bleu255.com de Valk: “stay critical & always consider other ways” @dsailu.bsky.social
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The Royal Society @royalsociety.org · 10/09/2026
Born #OnThisDay in 1907 was geologist and palaeontologist Professor Dorothy Hill FRS. She was the first female professor at an Australian university, first female president of the Australian Academy of Science, and the first Australian woman to become Fellow of the Royal Society. #WomenInSTEM
A person in outdoor attire stands on a forest path, holding a horse by the reins. The person wears a wide-brimmed hat and has binoculars around their neck. Tall trees line the path in the background.
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Dr Katherine Whyte @kateywhyte.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Delighted to share this work from my PhD, which is now published in Animal Conservation: 🎉 zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... Huge thanks to my co-authors, and to all the funders who supported this work. #MarineMammals #OffshoreWind #RenewableEnergy #AnimalMovement #Seals
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Sal Keith (she/her) @salkeith.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Turns out that aquatic inverts are SUPER important nutrient contributors to human diet www.nature.com/articles/s41... Want more selenium? Eat more echinoderms! Led by @jzamborainmason.bsky.social with @james-robinson.bsky.social @christinahicks.bsky.social et al @lec-reefs.bsky.social
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The nutritional value of invertebrate aquatic foods - Nature
Aquatic invertebrates are exceptionally nutrient dense, supplying the equivalent annual vitamin B12 and selenium requirements for over 5 billion people.
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Sal Keith (she/her) @salkeith.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
ONE WEEK LEFT to apply 2 UKRI-funded Senior Research Associates; intersection of behaviour, conservation + AI (coral reefs/UK waters) 1x2yr9mth; 1x2yrs. TWO WEEKS LEFT for the 3rd position on behavioural ecology (2yrs9mth) More info here sallykeith.weebly.com/team.html @lec-reefs.bsky.social
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Sal Keith (she/her) @salkeith.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
This new paper is EPIC!
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Sal Keith (she/her) @salkeith.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Lancaster! Join us at Lancaster Arts' Festival of Dissent tmrw @the Gregson 11am-late. I paired with the wonderful Imogen Ashby, performance maker&artist, for the What Happens If...? residency. Our "What Happened to the Magic?" puts kids in control of the Qs www.lancasterarts.org/youre-invite...
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Festival of Dissent
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Sal Keith (she/her) @salkeith.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Powerful editorial: "Science must overcome its racist legacy" in @natureportfolio.nature.com from 2022 www.nature.com/articles/d41... "The point of learning about and analysing racism in science must be to ensure that it is never repeated". 4yrs on.... www.nature.com/articles/d41... We MUST change
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The death of Jason Arday must prompt deep reflection
Universities and media organizations need to scrutinize their roles in the events that led to this tragedy.
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British Ecological Society @britishecologicalsociety.org · 01/09/2026
Only three weeks left to apply for BES Fellowship ✍️ If you, or someone you know, has made an outstanding contribution to the field of ecology, we'd love to hear from you. Join our community of Fellows who are shaping the future of ecology.  Apply by 21 September 👇 shorturl.at/uNyWV
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Sal Keith (she/her) @salkeith.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Hi #ECBB2026 @ecbb2026.bsky.social 👋 I have 3 UKRI-funded Senior Research Associate positions live at the intersection of behaviour, conservation + AI (coral reefs/UK waters) 2x2yr9mth; 1x2yrs. More info here sallykeith.weebly.com/team.html Wish I was there!
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Team
***Three new postdoc positions!*** Our team is growing! Join us to unlock animal behaviour as an early warning system, underpinned by mechanistic ecological understanding, delivering responsible and.....
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Sal Keith (she/her) @salkeith.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Shocking anthropomorphism of AI model outputs, fuelling confusion & fear. Relies on X user reports - without prompt details it is unclear how much the model was just following poor user input www.theguardian.com/technology/2... For responsible ways to talk about AI buttondown.com/maiht3k/arch...
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Sharp rise in incidents of AI escaping users’ control, research finds
Exclusive: Number of times AI lies, ignores instructions and pursues goals in harmful ways almost doubles in July
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Natalie Cooper @nhcooper123.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Are you passionate about code integrity and accessibility? Do you have skills in R, Python or Julia? Why not apply to be one of our new Code Integrity and Accessibility AEs? Open to any career stage. Details here: apply.workable.com/britishecolo... (sadly not paid, but comes with nice perks)
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Associate Editor (Code Integrity and Accessibility) - British Ecological Society
Volunteer role: Associate Editor (Code Integrity and Accessibility) Organisation: British Ecological Society – Methods in Ecology and Evolution Term: 3 years Closing date: 25th Sept 17.00 BST Location...
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Lancaster University @lancasteruni.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Illegal bomb fishing is causing damage to our most biodiverse coral reefs - but new research offers hope for better prevention 🐠 A study involving @lec-reefs.bsky.social researcher Dr Tim Lamont has detected detonations in a global marine biodiversity hotspot at a rate of almost one per hour.
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Researchers use AI to expose devastating impact of bomb fishing on coral reefs - Lancaster University
Illegal bomb fishing is causing extensive damage to some of the world’s most biodiverse coral reefs, according to a new pilot study involving Lancaster Environment Centre coral reef researcher Dr Tim Lamont. 
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Sal Keith (she/her) @salkeith.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Very excited to see the #Island-Ocean Research Hub get going! Massive congrats to @nickajgraham.bsky.social on the Royal Society Faraday Discovery Fellowship that will fund this ambitious, much needed & sustained programme for TEN years! More here: portal.lancaster.ac.uk/intranet/new...
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Nick Graham @nickajgraham.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Jason Arday was subjected to a racially driven witch hunt. Far worse accusations or even confirmed cases of academic misconduct have received scant media attention. There should be an inquiry into media behaviour, bias and ethics. This can’t go unaccounted or happen again www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Jason Arday: Former Cambridge university professor found dead
His family said it was "in shock to have lost this amazing father, partner, brother, uncle and son" after the academic was found dead in London on Friday.
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Alan McElligott @amcell.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
2026. Enabling Fieldwork for All (EFFA) Framework: Supporting physical, social, financial, and psychological safety in the field | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Enabling Fieldwork for All (EFFA) Framework: Supporting physical, social, financial, and psychological safety in the field
Comprehensive review of fieldwork safety literature across disciplines yields synthesized recommendations.
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Retraction Watch @retractionwatch.com · 04/08/2026
The Center for Scientific Integrity is proud to announce the inaugural winners of the 2026 Ctrl-Z Award. Named for the universal keyboard shortcut for “undo,” the Ctrl-Z Award this year honors @cetaceanneeded.bsky.social and @katelaskowski.bsky.social for choosing transparency over reputation.
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ScienceAdviser Exclusive: Meet the inaugural winners of the Ctrl Z Award
Today in Science and science: Ice age hunters’ penchant for female mammoths, a detailed vagal map, and more
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Marc Robinson-Rechavi @marcrr.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Open position of Associate Professor in Behavioral ecology and cultural evolution at the @dee-unil.bsky.social! You can toggle the ad to English on top right: wwwfbm.unil.ch/releve/appli...
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Sal Keith (she/her) @salkeith.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Wow! This conference looks awesome. I'm going to have some serious FOMO...
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Sal Keith (she/her) @salkeith.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
RECRUITING 3 Senior Research Associates to develop responsible AI-enabled approaches to unlock animal behaviour for conservation. Roles include: 🧠 AI/Computer Vision 🐠 Behavioural Ecology 🌊 Marine Field Ecology Join @lec-reefs.bsky.social & @dsailu.bsky.social, Lancaster Uni, UK. Ads coming soon!
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Sal Keith (she/her) @salkeith.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Almost at #BESMacro2026 ☺️ Looking forward to hearing what everyone is up to in the world of macroecology
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Sal Keith (she/her) @salkeith.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Launched today! New resources for Morecambe Bay Curriculum including "Signals of the Bay: Grey Seal Behaviour in a Changing Ecosystem" developed by Vic Bond @LMC and me @lec-reefs.bsky.social for FE students www.lancaster.ac.uk/morecambe-ba... Includes optional resource on AI use @dsailu.bsky.social
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Further Education - Lancaster University
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Noam Vogt-Vincent @nvogtvincent.co.uk · 11/06/2026
UKHO is searching for a marine biologist to join their team as an Ocean Environment Scientist: www.civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/csr/jobs.cgi...
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Quick Check Needed
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Sal Keith (she/her) @salkeith.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Exam marking complete!!!!
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Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution @whoi.edu · 03/06/2026
Did you know AI offers more than just chatbots and image generators? 🤖 Whalespotter is a whale-detecting, AI-powered tech developed at WHOI to help mariners avoid strikes as they transit high-traffic marine corridors. 📲Learn more from Science News: go.whoi.edu/SNWhaleSpotter
A camera labeled "WhaleSpotter" is mounted on a metal frame overlooking a coastline. The device features two large lenses and a visible antenna, with a cable attached. The background shows a pier extending into the blue sea, surrounded by lush green foliage and a clear sky.
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IPBES @ipbes.net · 03/06/2026
The critically endangered 🐧 Regent Honeyeater’s song has dwindled along with its population. 🏡 To help preserve their song and courtship behavior, one group of scientists have recruited wild-born birds as tutors for captive-bred populations. 🌍 📰🧪 More with The Guardian: ow.ly/zZ9650Z77aW
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Sal Keith (she/her) @salkeith.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
The awesome @nickajgraham.bsky.social is now a Fellow of the Royal Society! Sooooo coooooool! Massive congrats www.lancaster.ac.uk/news/lancast...
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Lancaster marine ecologist elected to become Royal Society Fellow - Lancaster University
Lancaster University’s Distinguished Professor Nick Graham has been elected to become a Fellow of the Royal Society, one of the world’s most prestigious learned societies.
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Katie Matthews, PhD @katieocean.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
lol this face
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Sal Keith (she/her) @salkeith.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
When I started my MSc, they asked all of us to write down who inspired us to get into ecology. Over half of us wrote David Attenborough 🥰 Happy Birthday to an absolute legend 🥳🍾🦋🐛🦑🦎🪼🐢🦍🦜
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BTO | British Trust for Ornithology @btobirds.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
There's a mini jobs bonanza just now at BTO! 🐦 Apply to become our next Scottish Raptor Monitoring Coordinator, Biological Data Manager or Research Support Officer via www.bto.org/jobs Birds Science People; it is a powerful combination – will you be part of it?
Photo of a Buzzard by Edmund Fellowes / BTO and text advertising three jobs at BTO.
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Sal Keith (she/her) @salkeith.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Had fun talking corals at Brownies tonight - such an enthusiastic and engaged bunch! My daughter couldn’t stop giggling when I dressed her up in all the dive gear 😂🥰
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Camille Troisi @camilletroisi.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
📢Fully-funded #PhD opportunity with us: 🐦 Quantifying (social) learning and social behaviour in an urbanised world 🐦 Position at @ceec-research.bsky.social 📆29th May deadline More info: tinyurl.com/yz28s96x Apply: tinyurl.com/2wpkb64y #cognition #socialbehaviour #fieldwork #birds 🙏Please Share
Great tit perched on a branch, with beak slightly open. 
Photo credit: Alizée Vernouillet
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Sal Keith (she/her) @salkeith.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
For anyone waiting on the NERC AI for Env Science Phase One call outcomes, the timeline has been updated www.ukri.org/opportunity/... Decisions in Aug, project start Oct. Good luck!
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Artificial intelligence (AI) for environmental science phase one
Secure funding to deliver new world-leading data science and AI approaches to tackle critical environmental challenges. Interdisciplinary collaboration within and beyond environmental science is encou...
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British Ecological Society @britishecologicalsociety.org · 08/04/2026
Ecological Solutions and Evidence is accepting proposals for their latest Special Feature! They invite scientists and practitioners to share experiences from management projects that didn't turn out as expected, but still provided important insights into how best to manage ecosystems and species 🌱
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Stu West @stuwest.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Final version just published of our review on the ecological and evolutionary consequences of cooperation www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/... @ryosukeiritani.bsky.social @annadewar.bsky.social @asgriffin.bsky.social @lauriebelch.bsky.social @asn-amnat.bsky.social
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Richard McElreath 🐈‍⬛ @rmcelreath.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
Statistical Rethinking 2026 is done: 20 new lectures emphasizing logical and critical statistical workflow, from basics of probability theory to causal inference to reliable computation to sensitivity. It's all free, made just for you. Lecture list and links: github.com/rmcelreath/s...
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Sal Keith (she/her) @salkeith.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
I've deleted my ChatGPT account. To explain why, I would suggest reading the #QuitGPT website but it has mysteriously disappeared.... If you want info, it's summarised here www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Quit ChatGPT: right now! Your subscription is bankrolling authoritarianism | Rutger Bregman
As a historian, I’ve studied the major consumer boycotts of history. We can take down ChatGPT and send a powerful signal to Silicon Valley, says author and historian Rutger Bregman
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Jo Hepworth @coolcabbage.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Please share widely: courtesy of the British Council, Durham University are offering FULL scholarships (visa fees, flights, etc) for MSc in STEM for women from a selection of countries. www.durham.ac.uk/study/schola... Including our Biotech and Plant Biotech MScs! www.durham.ac.uk/study/course...
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British Council Scholarships for Women in STEM - Durham University
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Sal Keith (she/her) @salkeith.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Ready for our “masterclass” next week with 16-17 yr olds. Should be fun!
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Alfredo Sánchez-Tójar @asanchez-tojar.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
Many journals require data and code sharing. Yet code is still rarely shared and datasets are often hard to reuse. Our new paper introduces the @sortee.bsky.social guidelines for data & code quality control in ecology & evolution, developed by 26 experienced data editors. 📄 doi.org/10.24072/pcj...
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