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Nathan Byer

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Nathan Byer @testudinidude.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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Tim And Eric Mind Blown Universe Meme
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Nathan Byer @testudinidude.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
This is such a cogent take on how AI will change our field. As many have pointed out, AI flattens the field for computational expertise (to some extent at least). But well-constructed, long-term, and/or experimental datasets will be the real bottleneck.
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Nathan Byer @testudinidude.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Giant mayflies are going CRAZY in NE Ohio!
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Neil Gilbert @gilbert-lab.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
recruiting a couple new grad students to start in january, please share! www.gilbertecology.com/opportunities
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Nathan Byer @testudinidude.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Me: Exploring an animal's habitat selection reveals tons of useful insights into understudy aspects of natural history Also me: I am personally offended that this turtle chose to hide in swamp rose, the nerve
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Nathan Byer @testudinidude.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Some massive icicles from Fern. Stay warm out there, everyone!
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Nathan Byer @testudinidude.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Haven't seen much chatter about this on Bluesky - but if you use #AHDriFT, there's now an image recognition model for bucket cameras! Greg is looking for additional image contributors too - if you have images, consider contributing! u.osu.edu/lipps.37/ahd...
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AHDriFT-ID | Gregory Lipps
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Timmons Roberts @timmonsroberts.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
There is much to be done, at all levels. www.nature.com/articles/s44...
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How scientists can contribute to the social movements essential to protecting climate and nature - npj Climate Action
Scientists have much to contribute to the growing social movements pushing for urgent and transformative change to address the climate and biodiversity crises. Depending on their skills, interests and...
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donni saphire @donni.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
Shout out to everyone currently experiencing everything
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Nathan Byer @testudinidude.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
Yup, Greg is a great speaker - and this resonated with me yesterday, too!
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Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra @jrossibarra.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
Funny, but also one of the two best career pieces of advice I got -- get exercise, especially when you are too stressed or don't have time for it.
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Methods in Ecology and Evolution @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
📖Published! Can hierarchical modelling of co-occurrence data provide accurate inference into species interactions? This review finds pitfalls in the use of hierarchical models applied to co-occurrence data in understanding species interactions🧪 🌍 Read more:
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Robert Fletcher @fletcherecology.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
As someone trained as both a field ecologist and quantitative scientist, this tension runs deep for me. Some of my group are entrenched in the field whereas others work with models for a living. ‘I rarely get outside’: scientists ditch fieldwork in the age of AI www.nature.com/articles/d41... 1/4
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Client Challenge
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Nathan Byer @testudinidude.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Made a lil' vole friend during fieldwork today!
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Nathan Byer @testudinidude.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Yup. Shying away from difficult or complex problems or skills is a sign of atrophy, in many ways.
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gavin jones @ecologyofgavin.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
Should ecologists be worried about the carbon footprint of their own use of “AI” and LLMs? esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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The role of AI in ecology’s computational carbon footprint
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Nathan Byer @testudinidude.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Resurfacing on Bluesky to remind people of the camera trapping starter pack!
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Nathan Byer @testudinidude.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Had a real "shoe on the other foot" moment today! I logged onto a zoom webinar, while finishing up a phone call. I wasn't muted. It was a thesis defense. Bye everyone, gonna go walk into the sea.
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a man in a suit is walking into the ocean .
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Nathan Byer @testudinidude.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
A bit late in announcing this, but we have a manuscript out in Ecological Applications on breeding bird occupancy across urban-rural gradients! Open access link here: doi.org/10.1002/eap..... We also have an RShiny app for the dataset, available here: testudinidude.shinyapps.io/bbsapp/.
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Breeding bird sensitivity to urban habitat quality is multi‐scale and strongly dependent on migratory behavior
Human-caused conversion of natural habitat areas to developed land cover represents a major driver of habitat loss and fragmentation, leading to reorganization of biological communities. Although pro...
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Nathan Byer @testudinidude.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Manuscript acceptance on a Wednesday afternoon 🥂 can't wait to share it with you all soon!
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Joachim Mergeay @jmergeay.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Growing up (during my PhD, 25 y ago), I was imprinted with Hurlbert ‘s 1984 paper on « Pseudoreplication and the design of ecological field experiments ». This new paper is essential reading for all students in ecology (and beyond), digging deeper in terminology of design and design flaws 👇
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Nathan Byer @testudinidude.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Also! In case you missed it, some of our UNH partners (Taylor Readyhough and Rem Moll) just published a paper on some of our deer management data! Check it out: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Unveiling drivers of fecundity in an urban white-tailed deer population over 20 years of active management - Urban Ecosystems
White-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus; hereafter “deer”) are keystone herbivores that exert considerable ecosystem impacts. Quantifying drivers of urban deer demography, including fecundity (numbe...
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Mason Fidino, PhD @masonfidino.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Interested in quantifying animal diel activity with hierarchical models? Check out this amazing how-to guide from @fa-bio-la.bsky.social , @science-action.bsky.social , and John Fieberg! 🧪 besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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A ‘how‐to’ guide for estimating animal diel activity using hierarchical models
We illustrate how hierarchical models can be used to estimate animal diel activity whilst accounting for variability in activity levels and sampling effort. These models also allow researchers to mor....
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Freya Holmér @freya.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
btw these large scary math symbols are just for-loops
a color coded image by Freya, comparing the summation and capital pi notation in math, to their equivalent in code using for-loops. The summation notation sums a set of elements, while the product notation multiplies a set of elements. 

Note that Freya is keenly aware that neither the math notation nor for-loops are fully explained by this image, and that this is only a subset of the use cases, so luckily you don't have to explain that to her, in case you were considering doing that!
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Nathan Byer @testudinidude.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Alright! First blue sky post! I'm a quantitative ecologist and Conservation biologist in Cleveland OH. I work on lots of fun datasets, but worked with turtles for most of my career!
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