The level of stupidity & ignorance displayed by Luke Johnson is staggering. This kind of denial & nonsensical rhetoric serves no purpose in a balanced debate. We have to make lying wrong again. As ever, well done Chris Packham for communicating the truth.

My interview this week with nature:

“The solution to the Great Barrier Reef’s bleaching problem is clear - Reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Full stop.”

Australia’s Great Barrier Reef is ‘transforming’ from repeated coral bleaching nature.com/articles/d4158…

⁦BrewDog⁩ reports over 50% mortality for its highlands tree planting programme. Another example of planting the wrong trees in the wrong place? We need to have a debate about the dogma of the #deforested #moorlands of #scotland ⁦NatureScot⁩

Conservationists condemn France’s protest over UK’s bottom-trawling ban theguardian.com/environment/20…

🌊 Have you seen the new database for coastal and marine restoration projects in Australia & NZ? This repository aims to foster #knowledgesharing to inform the mgmt & success of future restoration projects.
Open access paper - onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/em…
#GenerationRestoration

Students sometimes ask 'should I do a regression or calculate a correlation?'

This is a useful explanation about why it's the same thing: lindeloev.github.io/tests-as-linea…

(originally via Sam Abbott (@[email protected]))

This is well worth a read, peer-review: the experiment that failed!

Very cool paper, showing the importance of adding correlation structure to modelling frameworks!

Towards real-time 3D mapping of coral reefs with deep learning using only videos from cheap cameras, now published in Methods and Ecology and Evolution!
In short, we propose to use 3D mapping entirely driven by deep learning.

You know it in your heart to be true.

#Job #postdoc

Biodiversity Applications Scientist

Permanent - European Space Agency Centre for Earth Observation - 🇮🇹
Closing Date:  1 March 2024

jobs.esa.int/job/Frascati-B…

UN Biodiversity #BiodiversityPlan
ipbes #MonitoringAssessment
GEO BON

It was the final meeting for the BiCOME project yesterday. Great to see everyone to discuss project results. Thanks to @ESA for hosting us.
This is not the end! More publications and outputs will be coming from the project in the next few months, stay tuned!

Long day of discussion at European Space Agency (European Space Agency) for the summary meeting of BiCOME! Some very cool outputs (watch this space) still couldn’t help getting the obligatory Spaceship photo even if it was already dark! RSBE2 Nantes Université

Going to tell my son this was AI

(Prompt: Christopher Walken wearing a gray suit and a red tie freestyle dancing in a hotel lobby during the holidays)

#Postdoc alert📢 📢
Marbec is looking for three postdoctoral researchers in #ecosystem #modeling 👨‍💻🐟

⏳Deadline 1st of May

Details here: buff.ly/49Di0aS

Really good general principles for ecologists!

Very proud to share our new paper out today that brings together all of our Lyme Bay #MPA research and experience over the last 15 years - lead author is the super talented Chloe Renn 🍉 Defra UK Natural England Blue Marine Foundation University of Plymouth academic.oup.com/icesjms/advanc…

Disappointing news for the UK space sector. SatVu’s #HotSat1 has had an anomaly. Its camera has stopped working. Engineers don’t believe the mission can be recovered. bbc.com/news/science-e…

My job as a research fellow at one of the world's best universities (a requirement of which is a doctorate) pays less than this and so, on this definition, I am an unskilled worker who wouldn't be allowed into the country. This system is utterly ridiculous..

Makes me beyond mad.