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Tanya Strydom @tanyadoesscience.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Working on layouts for a slide deck and honestly this one might be at its peak already. 😂

Tanya Strydom @tanyadoesscience.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Me: yeah I’m just not feeling the #wc2026 vibes this year Also Me: is obsessed with the typeface used for the Norway kit. 🇳🇴 Imma need journals to get real chill real quick about non standard typefaces…

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Tanya Strydom @tanyadoesscience.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

🚨📄 NEW PREPRINT ALERT 🚨📄 🌐 Are we mapping ecosystems… or just mapping models? 🤔 We took ONE Jurassic fossil community 🦑🐚🐟 and built food webs SIX different ways. The result? 😳 The way you build the network can matter MORE than the change you're trying to study. 🔗 doi.org/10.32942/X2X... 👇

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Tanya Strydom @tanyadoesscience.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

When you receive a rejection for one fellowship application while in the throes of putting together a different fellowship application

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Prof Alex Dunhill @profalexdunhill.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

New R package 📦: pfwim reconstructs ancient food webs from traits + body size rules 🌿🐳🕸️ cran.r-project.org/web/packages... by @tanyadoesscience.bsky.social @jackolivershaw.bsky.social @barankarapunar.bsky.social @beckerhopper.bsky.social with lots of help from @cemac.bsky.social

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Tanya Strydom @tanyadoesscience.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

It’s been so cool to follow the work coming from @gabdans.bsky.social. Awesome to see someone pushing the field into the applied space and being intentional about thinking about the end use of the cool science that we do!

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Matt Kerr @mattkerr.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

This work was masterfully lead by @jonastrepel.bsky.social, and features amazing art by @tanyadoesscience.bsky.social (attached here). It was a pleasure to be part of the discussions - and we hope to spark a wider conversation on developing robust frameworks for evaluating impact.

Artistic renderings of a community at three different stages, shown as three panels called "Evolutionary Baseline", "Current Baseline", and "Large Herbivore Reintroductions". The left panel, evolutionary baseline, includes large and megaherbivores - specifically a mammoth and wild horses. The middle panel, current baseline, shows the state after the extirpation or extinction of most large herbivore species, with only a few deer left and much more forest vegetation. The right panel shows the state after the introduction or reintroduction of large herbivores, with wild cattle and horses creating a more open landscape.

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Tanya Strydom @tanyadoesscience.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Once again busy with totally serious science...

Screenshot from the title of a GitHun pull request. The title of the pull request is 💅✨ massive yassification✨💅

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Tanya Strydom @tanyadoesscience.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

More Friday 17:00 thoughts starting to unspool 🙃

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Tanya Strydom @tanyadoesscience.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Sending love to 6-year-old me who was obsessed with dinosaurs 🦖🦕 Quick science PSA: not actually dinosaurs LOL — Permian marine communities 😂🙈 (Science accuracy > vibes) Still wild to be studying deep time like this... 🥹✨

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Tanya Strydom @tanyadoesscience.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

🚨 NEW MUD DINOSAUR SCIENCE 🦕☄️ Obsessed with seeing networks being built, smashed and stress-tested with real data - not just debated from the sidelines 👀 (self-aware self-own 🙋). 🚀 Paleoecology leveled ⬆️. Big questions + awesome squad → measurable, mind-blowning results 🤯 Here’s what went down 👇✨

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Tanya Strydom @tanyadoesscience.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Preprint alert 🚨 (yes, I still go online, shocker) Scaling from Metawebs to Realised Webs: A Hierarchical Approach to Network Ecology TL;DR: Networks are like… weirdly finicky and if you want your network analysis to not be a sad chaos, check this preprint: [doi.org/10.32942/X2JW8K] 🏠💻

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Tanya Strydom @tanyadoesscience.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

It should be illegal to have cool science brainwave moments after 16:00 on a Friday - if only to try and keep the work-life balance somewhat respectable

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Tanya Strydom @tanyadoesscience.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

@hadley.nz , you’re so real for this 😭🙌 Lowkey spent my whole day glowin’ up my code with the new `genzplyr` pack — it’s giving ✨clean syntax✨ fr. hadley.github.io/genzplyr/ind...

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dplyr but make it bussin fr fr no cap

`genzplyr` is an alternative syntax for `dplyr` that replaces boring old function names with GenZ slang. Your data wrangling is about to hit different.

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Saoirse Kelleher @saoirsekelleher.eco · 17/10/2025

Happy to announce the next edition of the @sortee.bsky.social Workshop & Webinar series on October 27 at 16:00UTC, ‘The Risks and Rewards of Large Language Models in (open) Scientific Research’ with @tanyadoesscience.bsky.social !! Sign up here: events.humanitix.com/sortee-webin...

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SORTEE Webinar: The Risks and Rewards of Large Language Models in (Open) Scientific Research

SORTEE Workshop & Webinar Series

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Tanya Strydom @tanyadoesscience.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

Whoever decided to host the poster session in the Natural history museum you are my hero! 🤩

A photo with the claws of a dinosaur in the foreground. In the background there are people milling about and chatting

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Tanya Strydom @tanyadoesscience.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

Stickers placed = conference mode loading 🤓🤓🤓 Looking forward to learning about DINOSAURS!!!

Photo of a name tag for a conference about palaeontology. The name tag also features a collection of stickers related to palaeontology

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Tanya Strydom @tanyadoesscience.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

They've done it again... This time with adding (unnecessary) visual detail to the zero commit days. Inconsolable 😭😭😭

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Tanya Strydom @tanyadoesscience.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

“Back in time for tea and medals” Celebrating the end of a fun fieldwork campaign the British way™

A photo of a cup of tea next to a plate with a selection of different biscuits as well as a tin of Fortnum & Mason breakfast blend tea

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Tanya Strydom @tanyadoesscience.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

I feel like GitHub has (very subtly) modified the gradient they use for ones contributions calendar... I am going to need 2-4 business days to come to terms with this…

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Ashkaan K. Fahimipour @akfbio.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

New paper! (arxiv.org/abs/2503.14093) I haven’t been this excited about one in a while, and I think the theory @mhab.bsky.social develops here will be a big step forward for the field. Why? Let me explain 🧵...

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Tanya Strydom @tanyadoesscience.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

I've just had two @skypeascientist.bsky.social sessions today, and honestly it might just be the most rewarding part of this job. 🥲 Highly recommended for anyone who has the bandwidth/time for some science outreach

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Tanya Strydom @tanyadoesscience.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Reporting from the trenches - i.e., emerging after a battle trying to use excel formulas and conditional formatting... Why does it all have to be one line though??

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Andrew Beckerman @beckerhopper.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Get simulating! #Biodiversity / #foodweb dynamics with #julialang. Classic bioenergetic model, consolidation of lots of add-ons & super fast. Very happy to share this, a result of amazing collaborators and a rich history of model development. besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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EcologicalNetworksDynamics.jl: A Julia package to simulate the temporal dynamics of complex ecological networks

Species interactions play a crucial role in shaping biodiversity, species coexistence, population dynamics, community stability and ecosystem functioning. Our understanding of the role of the dive...

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Tanya Strydom @tanyadoesscience.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Current me: Right I’ve said yes to this review I’m going to get it done in the next few days and submit my comments nice and early Me in a fortnight: Submitting my review the day before the deadline counts as early right?

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Tanya Strydom @tanyadoesscience.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

I promise I’m a functional adult... Anyway if anyone wants to see me unspool the crazy catch me talking about food webs at poster session one tomorrow #BES2024

Photo of a name tag for a conference. There are multiple stickers added to the name tag

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Tanya Strydom @tanyadoesscience.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Food web and southwest critter content for #BES2024 loading…

Digital artwork featuring a roadrunner, mountain lion, and a family of Gambel’s quail

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Tanya Strydom @tanyadoesscience.bsky.social · 11/10/2024

The Julia Type System™ giveth but also taketh #JuliaLang

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Tanya Strydom @tanyadoesscience.bsky.social · 18/09/2024

Combined a ‘thinking day’ with a day out in the Peaks. Can’t ask for a better office

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Tanya Strydom @tanyadoesscience.bsky.social · 16/09/2024

Getting that annual itch to do a personal website overhaul… 🙈🙈🙈

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Tanya Strydom @tanyadoesscience.bsky.social · 24/07/2024

This! Important work in terms of helping us to get (be) better in terms of how we are defining and delimiting networks

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Timothée Poisot @ctrlalttim.com · 24/07/2024

🧪 Very cool results on food webs by lab members: [1] Banville et al.: what does it mean to use probabilities to represent interactions? [2] @gabdans.bsky.social et al.: local reconstruction of regional food webs [1] ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v... [2] royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

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Tanya Strydom @tanyadoesscience.bsky.social · 17/06/2024

You know it’s going to be a good meeting when this is the premise…

A screenshot of a slack message. Along with the text “mood board for the meeting this morning see_no_evil emoji” there is also the ‘I’ve connected two dots’ and ‘Pepe silva’ meme

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Tanya Strydom @tanyadoesscience.bsky.social · 16/06/2024

Missing the southwest a bit more than usual today as a result of the British ‘summer’ so played around with some of my favourite critters and shapes

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Tanya Strydom @tanyadoesscience.bsky.social · 13/05/2024

It’s conceptual figure time! Featuring the bravest lion that ever was (being at the top of the food web has triggered his fear of heights)

Digital drawing showing a food web of some African mammals

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Tanya Strydom @tanyadoesscience.bsky.social · 01/04/2024

An important part of the research workflow here in the UK.

A photo of a diary entry. The entry states ‘pub o’ clock’.

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Steph @stephy.bsky.social · 19/03/2024

"Nothing in my life has brought me more joy than scientific pursuit. It is as creative as anything I ever did while making records." So many things to love about this story The neuroscientist formerly known as Prince’s audio engineer www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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The neuroscientist formerly known as Prince’s audio engineer

Susan Rogers worked with the legendary singer-songwriter before earning a PhD in her 50s on auditory memory and how we listen to music throughout life. Susan Rogers worked with the legendary singer-so...

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