Ecologist. Ecological modelling, ecosystem services, invasive alien species, and wildlife trade. Often found running models or marvelling at reptiles
Pablo Garcia-Diaz
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Bob Ricklefs RIP. One of the giants of ecology. His textbooks were the gateway to the field for many students. His papers were invariably thoughtful, well-argued and provocative, even those I disagreed with. 🌏🧪🌐
How would you like your binary gender inferred during pride month? With ChatGPT? Coming right up.
What a fucking joke.
Happy Pride!
This is why Indigenous communities, incl. Maori, don't support de-extinction or public release of taonga genomes (the entire genetic blueprint of an individual) without proper engagement due to very valid concerns about monetising IP, biopiracy, & trademarking www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... 1/3 🧵
Scientific publishing is getting worse and more predatory by the moment – I just found out one of my papers was rejected because I got an email from the editorial offering to transfer it to another journal. No notification from the original journal or editors (not yet, at least). Frustrating 🌎🌐🧪
The first minute of this clip is an accurate depiction of me trying to maintain a conversation with a farmer from rural Taranaki (Ao-NZ). Or with a person from the Scottish Highlands www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hs-r...
Mango the opposum is all grown up now
When does management using artificial intelligence lead to unintended consequences? A case study using ‘smart’ traps 🌎🌐🧪 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Hey! Two colleagues are attending this workshop as part of our data mobilisation project. More info at www.gbif.org/project/BID-...
Really nice piece on statistical workflows. Most of us do 2 of the 4 steps, but, really, it's time to start thinking about the rest! royalsocietypublishing.org/rsta/article...
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Markus Eichhorn
And for those interested in more nuanced considerations of natural capital, see our paper
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