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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 · 22/06/2026

📊 Question 1: Do the networks actually look different? Yep. Very much so. Different reconstruction methods produced completely different food-web structures 😵‍💫 BUT Methods built on *similar* underlying ideas tended to cluster together 👯 (ADBM 🤝 ATN) So the assumptions matter.

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

Most studies ask: 💀 How did food webs change in an extinction event? We flipped the question 🔄 We took a marine community spanning the Early Toarcian extinction (~183 million years ago) And asked: If we reconstruct the food web 6 different ways... Do we reach the same conclusions? (Spoiler: lol no)

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

Ecologists love networks 🕸️ But here's the thing: There are LOTS of ways to build them. Traits 🦷  Energetics ⚡  Or just plain topology 📈 And each one comes with different assumptions🔧 We wanted to know: 👉 If we build the same ecosystem differently... do we get the same story?

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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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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 · 22/01/2026

Bottom line: Networks are picky, assumptions are queen, and our framework is a cheat code. 🫡

A conceptual diagram illustrating the hierarchical transition of ecological networks. It flows from a broad "Global Metaweb" at the top (all possible interactions), down to "Regional Metawebs" (filtered by species co-occurrence in yellow and orange regions), and finally to specific "Realised Webs" at the bottom (interactions filtered by local community context like abundance and energy gain).

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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 · 06/05/2025

“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 · 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