Justin Travis
@jmjtravis.bsky.social
Dad, lover of nature, ecologist, and sometimes evolutionary biologist. Also like dogs and cats!
Reposted by Justin Travis
On 5 February, our symposium 'Exploring Queerness in Natural History' will look at engaging LGBTQ+ audiences in nature, the challenges of researching queer figures in the history of science, and supporting staff.
Tickets at buff.ly/Csfwc1U
Tickets at buff.ly/Csfwc1U
January 21, 2026 at 4:41 PM
On 5 February, our symposium 'Exploring Queerness in Natural History' will look at engaging LGBTQ+ audiences in nature, the challenges of researching queer figures in the history of science, and supporting staff.
Tickets at buff.ly/Csfwc1U
Tickets at buff.ly/Csfwc1U
stunning! One of my favourite species π
January 15, 2026 at 10:29 PM
stunning! One of my favourite species π
Ebro is just gorgeous π₯°
December 13, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Ebro is just gorgeous π₯°
Reposted by Justin Travis
Exciting new data on movement strategies of high-Andean bird pollinators, using a novel radio telemetry grid system in a challenging and complex environment! Amazing work by @cristinaruedau.bsky.social. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
December 8, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Exciting new data on movement strategies of high-Andean bird pollinators, using a novel radio telemetry grid system in a challenging and complex environment! Amazing work by @cristinaruedau.bsky.social. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
my university email no longer works, so use jmjtravis@gmail.com
November 2, 2025 at 5:52 PM
my university email no longer works, so use jmjtravis@gmail.com
After over 19 years, I have left the University of Aberdeen. Sad to leave some great colleagues there but excited to explore new challenges and opportunities. Open to suggestions - get in touch π
November 2, 2025 at 5:05 PM
After over 19 years, I have left the University of Aberdeen. Sad to leave some great colleagues there but excited to explore new challenges and opportunities. Open to suggestions - get in touch π
Reposted by Justin Travis
Latest poll puts Greens just two points behind Labour. When I said we weren't here to be disappointed in Labour but to replace them, I meant it.
Join us and let's make hope normal again.
join.greenparty.org.uk
Join us and let's make hope normal again.
join.greenparty.org.uk
October 9, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Latest poll puts Greens just two points behind Labour. When I said we weren't here to be disappointed in Labour but to replace them, I meant it.
Join us and let's make hope normal again.
join.greenparty.org.uk
Join us and let's make hope normal again.
join.greenparty.org.uk
Reposted by Justin Travis
everything is terrible but MY FAVORITE CONFERENCE IS BACK
Species on the Move - Sun Moon Lake - Taiwan - April 20-24, 2026
mark your calendars!!!
#speciesonthemove #speciesonthemove2026
Species on the Move - Sun Moon Lake - Taiwan - April 20-24, 2026
mark your calendars!!!
#speciesonthemove #speciesonthemove2026
July 14, 2025 at 6:25 PM
everything is terrible but MY FAVORITE CONFERENCE IS BACK
Species on the Move - Sun Moon Lake - Taiwan - April 20-24, 2026
mark your calendars!!!
#speciesonthemove #speciesonthemove2026
Species on the Move - Sun Moon Lake - Taiwan - April 20-24, 2026
mark your calendars!!!
#speciesonthemove #speciesonthemove2026
Completely agree. It hugely reduces the value of the substantial time invested in reviewing grants. Just been on German and Portuguese panels, and many of best proposals were resubmissions, some improved massively following revisions based on reviewers comments.
This is a huge mistake. My experience on NERC panels is that resubmissions score higher and are more likely to be funded: the review process improves good proposals that should not be lost (along with the time spent on them).
Really disappointing new policy from NERC banning resubmissions of grant applications
Many of us, including me, have won grants on resubmission,
using the reviews to improve the application
This is is neither fair nor productive
www.ukri.org/councils/ner...
Many of us, including me, have won grants on resubmission,
using the reviews to improve the application
This is is neither fair nor productive
www.ukri.org/councils/ner...
July 18, 2025 at 10:13 AM
Completely agree. It hugely reduces the value of the substantial time invested in reviewing grants. Just been on German and Portuguese panels, and many of best proposals were resubmissions, some improved massively following revisions based on reviewers comments.
Β£4.15 for one in a service station on M6! I queried it as seemed unbelievable, but it was correct!
July 16, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Β£4.15 for one in a service station on M6! I queried it as seemed unbelievable, but it was correct!
Reposted by Justin Travis
Pride in STEM's Small Grant Scheme is officially open for 2025!
This year's theme is Strengthening Queer Community in STEM. If you have ideas for a small project in the United Kingdom that fits this, we would love to support you! π³οΈβππ³οΈββ§οΈ #QueerInSTEM
More info here:
prideinstem.org/2025/07/16/s...
This year's theme is Strengthening Queer Community in STEM. If you have ideas for a small project in the United Kingdom that fits this, we would love to support you! π³οΈβππ³οΈββ§οΈ #QueerInSTEM
More info here:
prideinstem.org/2025/07/16/s...
July 16, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Pride in STEM's Small Grant Scheme is officially open for 2025!
This year's theme is Strengthening Queer Community in STEM. If you have ideas for a small project in the United Kingdom that fits this, we would love to support you! π³οΈβππ³οΈββ§οΈ #QueerInSTEM
More info here:
prideinstem.org/2025/07/16/s...
This year's theme is Strengthening Queer Community in STEM. If you have ideas for a small project in the United Kingdom that fits this, we would love to support you! π³οΈβππ³οΈββ§οΈ #QueerInSTEM
More info here:
prideinstem.org/2025/07/16/s...
Reposted by Justin Travis
What an amazing culmination of knowledge on Andean pollination biology, and a great team effort, led by the incredible @cristinaruedau.bsky.social
Happy to be part of this effort led by CrisRuedas and the caminos network, which has just been published today. In it we review what has been done on pollination research in the tropical Andes and propose new lines of research. Pollination onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
July 16, 2025 at 12:17 PM
What an amazing culmination of knowledge on Andean pollination biology, and a great team effort, led by the incredible @cristinaruedau.bsky.social
Reposted by Justin Travis
Happy to be part of this effort led by CrisRuedas and the caminos network, which has just been published today. In it we review what has been done on pollination research in the tropical Andes and propose new lines of research. Pollination onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
July 16, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Happy to be part of this effort led by CrisRuedas and the caminos network, which has just been published today. In it we review what has been done on pollination research in the tropical Andes and propose new lines of research. Pollination onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Reposted by Justin Travis
Important info for reporting standards in eDNA... onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
eDNA Replicates, Polymerase and Amplicon Size Impact Inference of Richness Across Habitats
We conducted a large and controlled experiment, with bulk samples from terrestrial, freshwater and marine environments, to investigate the impacts of natural and technical replicate numbers, PCR poly....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
May 9, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Important info for reporting standards in eDNA... onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
I always like shopping at the co-op! Will do so more now. www.telegraph.co.uk/business/202...
βIβll protect trans people to the end,β vows Co-op boss
Interview: Shirine Khoury-Haq says non-binary people bring a βmassive business benefitβ
www.telegraph.co.uk
May 4, 2025 at 11:26 AM
I always like shopping at the co-op! Will do so more now. www.telegraph.co.uk/business/202...
Reposted by Justin Travis
Check out our symposium on time dependent evolutionary rates! (near the bottom of the list π) @EvolOdonata.ecoevo.social.ap.brid.gy
Almost 1,000 abstracts have already been submitted for hashtag#ESEB2025: and we want to hear your voice too! π
We are excited to bring together a diverse, global community of evolutionary biologists this summer in Barcelona.
π Submit your abstract now:https://eseb2025.com/call-for-abstracts/
We are excited to bring together a diverse, global community of evolutionary biologists this summer in Barcelona.
π Submit your abstract now:https://eseb2025.com/call-for-abstracts/
May 1, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Check out our symposium on time dependent evolutionary rates! (near the bottom of the list π) @EvolOdonata.ecoevo.social.ap.brid.gy
Reposted by Justin Travis
The transphobe position being expressed here is that autism sometimes causes people to falsely believe they are trans and that it's impossible to be both trans and autistic.
This is of course false and is just another excuse to assert state dominance over trans lives.
This is of course false and is just another excuse to assert state dominance over trans lives.
FUCK OFF YOU ARSEHOLES.
There is only so much professionalism, particular as a non-binary, autistic, individual, I can muster at the moment. Stop treating us as if we are "broken" as if we are "wrong". How hard is it to accept us as us? I want to cry at the way we are talked about.
There is only so much professionalism, particular as a non-binary, autistic, individual, I can muster at the moment. Stop treating us as if we are "broken" as if we are "wrong". How hard is it to accept us as us? I want to cry at the way we are talked about.
April 27, 2025 at 7:00 PM
The transphobe position being expressed here is that autism sometimes causes people to falsely believe they are trans and that it's impossible to be both trans and autistic.
This is of course false and is just another excuse to assert state dominance over trans lives.
This is of course false and is just another excuse to assert state dominance over trans lives.
Reposted by Justin Travis
Right now in the UK being an ally or comrade to trans people will mean being willing to challenge and upset various people in your workplace, your sports club, the various institutions you are part of. Despairing or posting solidarity on social media won't help without also doing the hard stuff.
April 26, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Right now in the UK being an ally or comrade to trans people will mean being willing to challenge and upset various people in your workplace, your sports club, the various institutions you are part of. Despairing or posting solidarity on social media won't help without also doing the hard stuff.
It is an important time to support our trans family, friends and colleagues. A wonderful turnout of wonderfully diverse people in Aberdeen today.
April 20, 2025 at 2:23 PM
It is an important time to support our trans family, friends and colleagues. A wonderful turnout of wonderfully diverse people in Aberdeen today.
it is a major concern of some staff in your department, but we seem to be fighting against the tide at the moment. Sad, intolerant times.
March 27, 2025 at 10:30 PM
it is a major concern of some staff in your department, but we seem to be fighting against the tide at the moment. Sad, intolerant times.
Reposted by Justin Travis
Call for applicants: fully-funded ISPF British Council Workshop on Future range of Amazonian Biodiversity, 27/7-2/8 in Manaus. We will train UK- and Brazil-based ecologists and conservationists on mechanistic range models and on Amazonian ecosystems. Details: shorturl.at/hIa7Z. Re-post, please!
ISPF UK-Amazonia Workshop Future range of Amazonian Biodiversity - University of Birmingham
Call for participants in a fully funded workshop on modelling Amazonian biodiversity
www.birmingham.ac.uk
March 10, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Call for applicants: fully-funded ISPF British Council Workshop on Future range of Amazonian Biodiversity, 27/7-2/8 in Manaus. We will train UK- and Brazil-based ecologists and conservationists on mechanistic range models and on Amazonian ecosystems. Details: shorturl.at/hIa7Z. Re-post, please!
Take care, Charlie. It is horrendous. I always feel so much better when Iβm away from the toxic workplace. Still nothing is done, nothing is said. Iβm so sorry you are expected to tolerate this.
March 9, 2025 at 1:04 AM
Take care, Charlie. It is horrendous. I always feel so much better when Iβm away from the toxic workplace. Still nothing is done, nothing is said. Iβm so sorry you are expected to tolerate this.
Reposted by Justin Travis
π’Hot from the press: We used a individual-based model to determine the most effective management strategy to control the invasive glossy privet π± in native forests of Argentina π¦π·
@jmjtravis.bsky.social
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
@jmjtravis.bsky.social
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Modelling alternative management strategies of invasive tree species at the expansion front: Ligustrum lucidum as a case study
The management of invasive non-native species is a global challenge, particularly for long-lived trees. Individual-based models (IBMs) and expert knowledge are valuable tools for evaluating different...
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
February 3, 2025 at 5:09 PM
π’Hot from the press: We used a individual-based model to determine the most effective management strategy to control the invasive glossy privet π± in native forests of Argentina π¦π·
@jmjtravis.bsky.social
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
@jmjtravis.bsky.social
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Wow, what an amazing write-up!
January 26, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Wow, what an amazing write-up!
sounds exciting! xx
December 12, 2024 at 9:54 PM
sounds exciting! xx