### NEW SCIENCE ALERT ### Have you ever wondered how young manta rays use a nursery habitat? Check out our recent work with MMEG_UoA, Ben Stevenson, Mark Erdmann Conservation Intl, and Fabrice Jaine University of Auckland | Waipapa Taumata Rau Faculty of Science, University of Auckland frontiersin.org/article/10.338…

Sorry for the interruptions everyone! The email said to hit the Teams link 20 minutes before our session; when I saw everyone there I thought you were all hanging out waiting to chat about some SCR! More interesting than IPMs anyway 😉 Pls don't ban us The International Statistical Ecology Conference

Reminder: together with C. M. Jones-Todd Théo Michelot Ben Swallow Ben Stevenson we are promoting a Topical Collection on Ecological Statistics in JSTP link.springer.com/collections/fj…. Several The International Statistical Ecology Conference were invited to contribute, some have accepted 🥳and some we are waiting for...

Had a great time at The International Statistical Ecology Conference, attending from our remote hub in Raglan. Our conference centre had a great view! Thanks so much to the organisers for accommodating virtual attendees. Hosting a hybrid conference can’t be easy but they really pulled it off 😁

Two big The International Statistical Ecology Conference-related congratulations! First, to Rishika Chopara, for winning best student poster 🥳🥳 Second, to my Shetland pony Norna, for winning best meme (thanks C. M. Jones-Todd for creating and posting the meme) 🥕🐴 Well done Rishika and Norna!

Great news! Just in time for us (@esetyawan8, MMEG_UoA, and collaborators) to submit our paper on open population capture-recapture models for manta rays, in which we used R2ucare 🙌

Baby manta rays: new light shed on their life in Indonesian aquatic playground theconversation.com/baby-manta-ray… via The Conversation Indonesia Thanks for your tremendous supports MMEG_UoA Ben Stevenson Mark V Erdmann Fabrice Jaine Faculty of Science, University of Auckland Conservation Intl Konservasi Indonesia

## NEW SCIENCE ALERT ## Good news from the ocean! A decade of study shows that reef manta rays in Raja Ampat are thriving.. Full paper: frontiersin.org/articles/10.33… Thanks to MMEG_UoA Ben Stevenson Conservation Intl Konservasi Indonesia Faculty of Science, University of Auckland for the massive & continuous support!

Amazing!!! Out of the blue, @samillingworth wrote a poem about our new paper on reef manta rays in Raja Ampat, Indonesia. I wonder if the inspiration for this work of art came from the beautiful manta rays, or the statistical models? 😁

🎉Congratulations 🎉 to Rishika Chopara for best stats presentation and Godrick Oketch with an honourable mention at the New Zealand Mathematics and Statistics Postgraduate conference last month! #phdchat #PhD 📷L-R, Godrick, Jason Li, Alec van Helsdingen & Rishika.

How to get academics out of their offices? Free food! Hot Cross buns courtesy of our very own departmental bakers Stephanie Budgett, @tslumley, Ben Stevenson, Beatrix Jones, C. M. Jones-Todd, Emma Lehrke, Kathy Ruggiero, & Peter Mullins.

If you didn't make it to Prof. Russell Millar's fabulously fishy inaugural lecture this evening keep an eye out @ auckland.ac.nz/en/science/new… for the recording and read his first paper that whetted his appetite for modelling fish 🐟📜doi.org/10.1139/f87-071

✨Student Spotlight✨ Rishika (Rishika Chopara ) started her PhD in 2021 developing goodness-of-fit tests for spatial capture-recapture models. If you were at @ #euring2023 then you'll have heard all about it! In her spare time she loves #crochet #crossstitch & all things #crafts

📢 We're hiring📢 #statsed #datacience Professional Teaching Fellow in Data Science (Statistics). jobs.smartrecruiters.com/TheUniversityO… via SmartRecruiters

A true work of art!

Congratulations Matt, amazing work!

🥳Congratulations🥳 to Zoe Luo for successfully defending their thesis “Two-phase subsampling for DNA sequencing with application to endangered species". #AcademicChatter #PhD Well done Zoe!

Congratulations to David Borchers of University of St Andrews who is the recipient of our 2024 Barnett Award for environmental statistics, for the development of new and accessible methodologies in wildlife monitoring & conservation

Obrigadu, Tiago!

Last week 24 students attended the Spatially Explicit Mark Recapture workshop hosted by Murdoch University and AWMS. Joanne Potts Jo Potts and Ben Stevenson Ben Stevenson were brilliant instructors, and pulled together an amazing array of lectures, and worked examples!