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Thomas Cornulier

@tcornulier.bsky.social
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Ecology, stats, environment, sustainability + other random things. And bats. Happiest in the real world. Low affinity for feed flooding, virtue signalling, herd effects, carnivorous pet mush.

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Paul Caplat 🌲🌳🐦🦋 @paulcaplat.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Super important work in a great place! Snow is one of these weird drivers that escape most modelling approaches, but are key to mountain and arctic habitat dynamics 🌍
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Extinction Rebellion Wimborne @xrwimborne.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
“It could make our country uninhabitable” One of the sobering messages at Friday’s screening of The People’s Emergency Briefing in Wimborne The film brings together leading climate and nature experts to explain the risks we face and the practical solutions already available 1/3
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Simon Hoyle @simondhoyle.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
This. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Europe's race to rearm is pointless if its adversaries are waging war online | Johnny Ryan
Ireland holds the algorithm off-switch. Ursula von der Leyen must force Dublin to use it says civil liberties campaigner Johnny Ryan
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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
Ecological Statistician
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Paul Caplat 🌲🌳🐦🦋 @paulcaplat.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
#Job opportunity! We are looking for a post-doc with experience in quantitative #ecology, preferably with modelling plant dynamics at large scale, to work 2 years with the fantastic @climatecocentre.bsky.social at @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social .
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Xeno-canto @xeno-canto.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
the world of animal sounds is always cooler than you thought.
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Steve Thackeray @thackers.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
It's that time again! If you are an aquatic ecology researcher and want to connect with your community, come to #BESAG2026! Aquatic Ecology Group Annual Meeting 2026 - British Ecological Society share.google/OKvdAolB85om... 💦🧪🚣‍♀️🐟🦠🧫🦆🐬🌊 @bes-aquaticgroup.bsky.social
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#BESAG2026: Aquatic Ecology Group Annual Meeting 2026 - British Ecological Society
Join the Aquatic Ecology SIG for their friendly and inclusive annual meeting sharing the latest in marine and freshwater research.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
We must stand in solidarity with Jews being attacked by antisemitic criminals and terrorists: no ifs or buts. We must stand in solidarity with Palestinians being murdered by the Israeli government: no ifs or buts. These are not contradictory positions. They are consistent ones. 🧵1/5
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Nacho Villar @nachomanvillar.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
International Symposium Evidence-based Rewilding & Launch Rewilding Expertise Centre 🐎🦅🐢🦋🦀🌵🐛🌊🔥🌬 Join us ONLINE for a fascinating trip on #worldrewildingday 20 March for landmark event to build a robust evidence-based #rewilding for #restoration that works! 👉Register: rewildingexpertisecentre.nl/en
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Thomas Cornulier @tcornulier.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Insightful series on how to build a research profile and use it effectively.
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
“The climate scientists we surveyed were unambiguous: current economic models can’t capture what matters most – the cascading failures and compounding shocks that define climate risk in a warmer world – and could undermine the very foundations of economic growth.” Should be the top story everyday.
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Flawed economic models mean climate crisis could crash global economy, experts warn
States and financial bodies using modelling that ignores shocks from extreme weather and climate tipping points
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James Bullock @jmbecologist.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
I was asked this week who are my ecologist heroes I said no one. Academia does not need heroes It needs collaborative, systematic, and non-hierarchical working
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Prof. Jeff Ollerton @jeffollerton.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
A Christmas lesson from plant ecology: why plants like holly and mistletoe may not be as well defended as we think: jeffollerton.co.uk/2025/12/24/a... Merry Christmas everyone! #ecology #biodiversity #Christmas
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A Christmas lesson from plant ecology: why plants like holly and mistletoe may not be as well defended as we think
Christmas is a time of expectations, when we assume that familiar traditions will work as they always have. Some traditions are associated with plants such as holly and mistletoe. In ecology, we ma…
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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Qesser Zuhrah and Amu Gib have been on hunger strike for 46 days. They are at serious risk of death. They are in prison because the UK would prefer to lock up young opponents of mass murder than stop facilitating genocide. The Home Secretary must intervene.
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James Bullock @jmbecologist.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
Please sign this letter Calling for a government-backed televised briefing on the climate & nature emergencies We must raise awareness about the massive threats that we face
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Valérie Masson-Delmotte @valmasdel.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
bbc.com/news/article...
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UN environment report 'hijacked' over fossil fuels - top scientist
The US and other governments derailed an agreement on a global environment study, its co-chair says.
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Grant McDermott @gmcd.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Nice. Looks like my `tinyplot` talk from userR! 2025 is up on YouTube. youtu.be/MOB-QS-vMeY?... #rstats
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tinyplot: convenient and customizable base R plots - Grant McDermott
YouTube video by useR! Conference
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Rhys Parry @rhyshparry.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Haunted lately by @galaxyproject.bsky.social CO₂e estimates for jobs. This one MEGAHIT assembly: ~450g CO2e. I've run this ~150k times on HPC, ~75 tonnes of CO2e 😬. Perhaps ARC/NHMRC would accept Australian Carbon Credit Units as part of the grant cost for offset? What others are doing in AUS/INT?
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Dr Kieran O'Malley @kezomalley.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
📢 New paper from my PhD! 🦇 Using 3D reconstructions of barbastelle bat flight paths over roads, we found that increasing canopy cover leads to lower flight heights, elevating collision risk. @vincentwt.bsky.social @sussex.ac.uk #PhD #Bats #Ecology #Conservation 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Increasing canopy cover elevates vehicle collision risk for barbastelle bats (Barbastella barbastellus) at roads - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Increasing canopy cover elevates vehicle collision risk for barbastelle bats (Barbastella barbastellus) at roads
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Fidra @fidrango.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Denmark has banned 8 more #pesticides containing #PFAS The main reason: these pesticides can break down into #TFA a small chain PFAS scientists are increasingly concerned about. Fidra research earlier this year found #TFA widespread in UK rivers 💧 Read more ▶️ www.pan-europe.info/blog/denmark...
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Thomas Cornulier @tcornulier.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
“if you can’t draw the line at genocide, you probably can’t draw the line at democracy”
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James Bullock @jmbecologist.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
“as the number of fascists was growing, so too was the opposition against them” Almost exactly 89 years ago, the Battle of Cable Street - against fascists who were supported by the police & right-wing press www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/Hi...
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The Battle of Cable Street - Historic UK
On 4th October 1936 the people of the East End of London halted the march of Oswald Mosley's Blackshirts through Stepney, in what became known as The Battle of Cable Street...
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BTO | British Trust for Ornithology @btobirds.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
⚠️ Please report sightings of dead birds for possible testing for Avian Influenza. ⬇️ 📌 In England, Wales & Scotland: www.gov.uk/guidance/... 📌 In Northern Ireland: www.daera-ni.gov.uk/... 📌 In Republic of Ireland: aviancheck.apps.serv... #UKBirding #BirdingWales #BirdingScotland
Image of a deceased Puffin lying on the ground. White wording on an orange background reads: Please report sightings of dead birds.
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Szymek Drobniak @szymekdr.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Our newest paper is out in Methods in Ecol Evol @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social :) amazing team effort - we show that the traditional way of analyzing comparative data lacks finesse. besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/action/oidcS... w/ @itchyshin.bsky.social Yefeng Yang, Losia Lagisz & Ayumi Mizuno
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The Wainwright Prizes @wainwrightprize.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
We’re delighted to announce the 2025 #WainwrightPrize Winners! From powerful storytelling to vital conservation work and bold illustration, this year’s winners reflect the richness, urgency, and joy of writing about the natural world. wainwrightprize.com #StoriesThatConnect
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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Banksy satirised the state silencing those opposed to Israel’s genocide. The state then inadvertently made his artwork genius.
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German Ornithological Society @dornitholges.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Now online in Journal of #Ornithology Timing shapes flyway selection in juvenile white storks at the European migratory divide Open access link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Timing shapes flyway selection in juvenile white storks at the European migratory divide - Journal of Ornithology
Migratory divides are junctures where populations of the same species following different migratory routes intersect. In white storks (Ciconia ciconia), migration strategies differ between the western...
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Steve Thackeray @thackers.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
This survey on the current state of freshwater monitoring in the UK is still open. Have your say, and please share... 💦🧪 #freshwater #monitoring #UKCEH_AquaEco #data #evidence
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Police cover up a Banksy image of judge beating a protester faster than you can say "one of the many Boris Johnson Downing Street parties during covid restrictions which the Met police ignored"
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Thomas Cornulier @tcornulier.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
A hugely refreshing and too short time away from UK's insanity. Not everything is green in Rep of Ireland, but the people and government do have some decency.
Palestine flag flown alongside Irish flag, as seen in many places in Rep of Ireland.
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Methods in Ecology and Evolution @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
We are doing a Hackathon! 💻 Together with senior editor @nhcooper123.bsky.social , we'll be discussing and testing a protocol to check whether published data/code is actually reproducible... (1/2)
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 30/07/2025
The Washington Post just published the names of more than 18,500 children in Gaza killed by Israel. www.washingtonpost.com/world/intera...
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60,000 Gazans have been killed. 18,500 were children. These are their names.
Palestinian children have been killed at a rate of more than one per hour since the war began.
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Arjun Amar @arjundevamar.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
Looking forward to speaking at the event - I've found Wikipedia really useful in my Hons. class to help the students select important information from published papers and synthesis it as Wikipedia entries - we have been slowly ticking off all the African Raptor species, which often lack good info.
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James Bullock @jmbecologist.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
System: a set of things working together as parts of an interconnecting network Ecosystem: a biological community of interacting organisms and their physical environment There is no need for other sectors to appropriate & redefine ‘ecosystem’ in an affected way ‘System’ does the job fine.
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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
👏👏👏
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James Bullock @jmbecologist.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Really disappointing new policy from NERC banning resubmissions of grant applications Many of us, including me, have won grants on resubmission, using the reviews to improve the application This is is neither fair nor productive www.ukri.org/councils/ner...
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NERC policy on resubmissions
This policy only applies to research grant applications.
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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Israel is deliberately massacring civilians it’s deliberately starving. There are few crimes more depraved.
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Thomas Cornulier @tcornulier.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Some new #rstats packages need a plug more than others. So, here it is.
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Methods in Ecology and Evolution @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
📖Published📖 Sources of uncertainty in DNA metabarcoding of whole communities: Implications for its use in biomonitoring 🧬 🌍 🧪 Find the article here 👇 buff.ly/6zJRh9R
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British Ecological Society @britishecologicalsociety.org · 16/07/2025
✨New science, new ideas, new friends.  Our much anticipated BES Annual Meeting is here!  Join ecology's global community at the BES Annual Meeting, which brings together over 1,200 ecologists from around the world.
British Ecological Society Annual Meeting 2025, 15-18 December, Edinburgh. Abstract submission and early bird registration are now open.
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Mongabay @mongabay.com · 16/07/2025
Want to expose corruption & defend the environment with your reporting? Mongabay is hiring an Investigative Researcher & Reporter. Remote, full-time. Apply now: form.jotform.com/251814627309...
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Arthur Gessler @arthurobuntspecht.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
Our new results challenge the expectation that climate warming will offset carbon losses caused by heat and drought with a longer growing season in forests: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Decreasing Stem Growth in Common European Tree Species Despite Earlier Growth Onset
Our findings reveal that elevated winter and spring temperatures led to earlier attainment of annual growth levels, indicating an earlier onset of tree growth driven by early season warming. Despite ...
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Thomas Cornulier @tcornulier.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
Bivariate turning angle and step length kernels for step selection functions
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
It has been a long, slow decline. But this is the moment the BBC died as a public service broadcaster. www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
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Gaza: Doctors Under Attack review – this crucial film is the stuff of nightmares. But the world needs to see it
The film the BBC refused to air shows the targeting, detainment and torture of medics in Gaza. Its relentless timeline of horrors will never leave you
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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
👏👏👏
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Rosemarie Kentie @rooskentie.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Great PhD position on gull foraging behaviour ecology at sea! #ornithology Apply before 20-7-2025 or spread the word!
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BioSS @bioss.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
Congratulations to joint @srucnews.bsky.social / @bioss.bsky.social PhD student Claire Stainfield and senior statistician Dr. Thomas Cornulier who both delivered amazing talks at last week's 2025 Pint of Science UK festival in Aberdeen! #pint25 #scicomm #pintofscience #bioss #sruc
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Dirk Eddelbuettel @eddelbuettel.com · 20/04/2025
The "Getting Started in R - Tinyverse Edition" eight-page pdf guide now has a 2nd edition using, appropriately, `tinyplot` as the plotting package. See github.com/eddelbuettel... for more. #rstats
Screenshot of the top parts of pages 5 and 6 of 'Getting Started in R - Tinyverse Edition' at https://github.com/eddelbuettel/gsir-te/
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Thomas Cornulier @tcornulier.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Looking forward to talking about uncovering the secrets of trees and animals (including us), using high resolution sensors, tomorrow in Aberdeen. It'll be at the #Pint25 #PintOfScience festival, alongside Bhaskar Mitra (JHI) on peatland carbon and Claire Stainfield (SRUC) on human-seal interactions.
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Futuristic Ecology
As the world faces the "wicked problems" of climate change and biodiversity loss, we need all the help we can get! But how can we collect useful informatio…
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