Here are our PhD students on a lunch-quiz to engage with a paper by from a reading-discussion session. Before each CREEM seminar the students gather to discuss a paper by the seminar presenter. A paper-quiz: a great way to promote engagement with her paper, imagined by li Xiahui

Here are Mia Goldman and Louis Backstrom 'helping' Amber Cowans load up her acoustic monitors with batteries/gear prep before she heads to Cairngorms for spring fieldwork! Help was provided... great... that means cake is owed!

Congratulations Chris - very well deserved!

Guidance on principles of good design v welcome. There's nuance related to which ecostats model that will be applied & associated assumptions. Genuinely looking forward to reading about, & learning about, communicating these ideas! Same ideas apply to audio. 👏WildCAM!!

Great opportunity for training in wildlife population estimation from camera traps, from the CREEM Distance Sampling crew and friends.

Some of the work we do is, in fact, monstrous. Here we have Charles Paxton in the @ForteanTimes talking about his research. Statistics can also be applied to rather 'weird' stuff, and that is beautiful.

We recently concluded another one of our online Distance Sampling training workshops. Seems like participants were quite diligently working away over workshop materials even during weekends twitter.com/DistanceSamp/s…

We are passionate about research but we are also dedicated to teaching. Congratulations are in order to Chris Sutherland  for a University of St Andrews  '1413 teaching award', recognizing the effort he puts in his classes and all the material and resources he makes available to students

We at CREEM_cake / University of St Andrews would be very interested in working with folks interested in quantitative applications!

Specifically, my focus is spatial population ecology #metapopulations #metacommunities #connectivity #dispersal #biodiversity #ecologicalAI

Today we are gathered and discussing CREEM matters at our CREEM council meeting. One of the things we talked about was social media and how we want to be more present online. So here we are talking about it!

Today we are hosting a former CREEMinal talking to us about 'Defining, estimating and understanding the fundamental niches of complex animals in heterogeneous environments'. Very good to have you back Jason Matthiopoulos, come and visit often!

Today at cake time we had Mia Goldman bringing Portuguese treats (Pastéis de Belém and Hungaros) from her recent visit to Portugal. Some of these were sent by Tiago André Marques whom was due to visit last week and is now fully aware post #brexit you need a passport to go to the UK!

Check out one of our latest papers: Research led by CREEM_cake University of St Andrews shows that the decreasing size of North Atlantic right whales is associated with their decreasing calving probability over the last 50 years royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs…

🚨 NEW PAPER!! 🚨

That's not the Mona Lisa!
#spatialcapturerecapture edition

doi.org/10.1093/biomtc…

CREEMinal Cornelia Oedekoven just returned from southern Laos where she, Mark Johnson and researchers from WWF and Association Anoulak tested new acoustic recorders for monitoring gibbons in the Xe Sap National Protected Area.