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Sal Keith (she/her)
@salkeith.bsky.social
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Senior Lecturer at Lancaster Uni, UK. Exploring macrobehaviour using coral reefs as a model system, interested in all things data sciencey. #MacrobehaviourLab https://sallykeith.weebly.com/
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jonathanpdrury.bsky.social
Looking for a PhD opportunity? I'm hoping to recruit someone to my group at Durham University to work on a project combining fieldwork and labwork to study speciation in rubyspot damselflies: iapetus.ac.uk/studentships...

Get in touch if you want to chat!
The Durham cathedral A male smoky rubyspot damselfly
November 10, 2025 at 6:32 PM
salkeith.bsky.social
Ouch! Rejection again!
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November 10, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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veronikameduna.bsky.social
To mark the death of James Watson, please read this 2023 piece about Rosalind Franklin's role in the discovery of the double helix
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
What Rosalind Franklin truly contributed to the discovery of DNA’s structure
Franklin was no victim in how the DNA double helix was solved. An overlooked letter and an unpublished news article, both written in 1953, reveal that she was an equal player.
www.nature.com
November 8, 2025 at 10:52 AM
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meadekrosby.bsky.social
Thinking only of Rosalind Franklin today, and what was stolen from her (and so many other female scientists alongside her).
Rosalind Franklin and the damage of gender harassment
Spurred by a recent report on sexual harassment in academia, our columnist revisits a historical case and reflects on what has changed—and what hasn’t
www.science.org
November 7, 2025 at 7:58 PM
salkeith.bsky.social
Fully prepping new Applied Data Science for Biodiversity MSc module now! Why do we need it, where we are now, macrobehaviour, XR and gamifying conservation, ecological role of colour and responsible AI. Others are on bioacoustics, automating species ID, acoustic telemetry & Earth observation 😎🤯🫠
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November 6, 2025 at 10:53 PM
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Applications are currently being accepted for UBC's ✨️ Biodiversity Postdoctoral Fellowship ✨️ (two positions!!), due Jan. 15

Please share far and wide 🚀

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Postdoctoral Fellowship Opportunities
Biodiversity Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2-year (2026-2028) - 2 positions OPENAt UBC, we believe that attracting and sustaining a diverse workforce is key to the successful pursuit of excellence in resea...
biodiversity.ubc.ca
November 3, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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rjpheathcote.bsky.social
🐠💥2 year postdoc in fish sensory ecology!! 💥🐟
If you’re into animal colour, collective behaviour, predator-prey interactions, enjoy behavioural experiments and fieldwork, please apply! Based in Oxford with fieldwork in northwest Thailand (and elsewhere). Please repost! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNM294/p...
June 13, 2025 at 6:50 AM
salkeith.bsky.social
So cool! Specific sounds attributed to 46 fish species in Curacao, linked to video of that fish www.fisheyecollaborative.org/library There's even an aggressive butterflyfish 🤗
Library | FishEye Collab
www.fisheyecollaborative.org
October 29, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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ymalhi.bsky.social
Our new review on the “circular seabird economy”
- how seabirds circulate nutrients betwem ocean and land, supporting ecosystems and livelihoods …https://www.nature.com/articles/s44358-025-00099-w
The circular seabird economy is critical for oceans, islands and people - Nature Reviews Biodiversity
Seabirds are top predators and nutrient cyclers in marine island ecosystems, but are threatened by risk of extinction. This Review explores the circular seabird economy around islands and discusses ho...
www.nature.com
October 28, 2025 at 8:28 AM
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mariasachkova.bsky.social
🪸 🪸 🪸 Postdoc position in my group at Bristol to study the role of venom in surviving environmental stress in corals! 🪸 Interested in venom biochemistry and coral ecology?Please apply by November 24!
@bristolbiosci.bsky.social
www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...
October 27, 2025 at 12:43 PM
salkeith.bsky.social
Who's coming to the marine one? Me 🙋🏻‍♂️
biogeography.bsky.social The International Biogeography Society @biogeography.bsky.social · 14d
Don't forget to check out these fantastic workshops! Learn more here: conferences.au.dk/tibs-aarhus-...
October 27, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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andyradford.bsky.social
❓ Want to join us?
📢 Fully funded #PhD for UK-domiciled Black heritage candidates
🐵 Biological market monitoring & manipulation in social animals #mongooses #macaques #fieldwork

👥 With me, #LaurenBrent & #PatrickKennedy
🎓 @bristolbiosci.bsky.social

ℹ️ www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

🙏Share widely
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October 16, 2025 at 7:46 AM
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hubocean.bsky.social
Hello Bluesky! 👋 HUB Ocean is new to this channel. We're building the #OceanDataPlatform to make ocean data open, connected and impactful. Let's accelerate ocean science and ocean protection - together. Access the Platform or connect with us. Links in Bio #HUBOcean #Bluesky #OceanData #OceanTech
October 21, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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lancasteruni.bsky.social
Sun-dried and smoked fish are the overlooked yet vital nutrient-packed superfood providing much needed nutrition across tropical Africa, according to a new study 🐠

📰: https://tinyurl.com/yveejt7u

📸: Christina Hicks, Tane Sinclair-Taylor, James Robinson

@lec-reefs.bsky.social
September 23, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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kyle-horton.bsky.social
Interested in how animals use the sky? 🌌

I’m recruiting a PhD student (Fall 2026, Purdue University) to study Purple Martin flight behavior and airspace use using barometric transmitters.

Details ➡️ jobs.rwfm.tamu.edu/view-job/?id...
#Aeroecology #AvianEcology
October 16, 2025 at 2:57 PM
salkeith.bsky.social
@ruchakarkarey.bsky.social is in Vogue India! Great article about India's women marine defenders www.vogue.in/content/once...
Indian women used to be afraid of the ocean. Now, they’re turning into its strongest defenders
Along India’s coastline, a rising wave of women is healing our oceans, moving beyond the margins of shore-bound roles traditionally ascribed to them
www.vogue.in
October 16, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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jangeerthiddink.bsky.social
🌊 🎓Apply for a PhD to assess spatial and temporal approaches to managing scallop fisheries to achieve good environmental status with a viable commercial fishery. 🪸🐙
@sosbangor.bsky.social @em-oyster.bsky.social

www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
PhD to assess spatial and temporal approaches to managing scallop fisheries to achieve good environmental status with a viable commercial fishery. at Bangor University on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - PhD to assess spatial and temporal approaches to managing scallop fisheries to achieve good environmental status with a viable commercial fishery. at Bangor University, listed on FindAPh...
www.findaphd.com
October 16, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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ccioannou.bsky.social
📣 @asab.org grants BOOSTED! 📣

We've increased most of our research-related grants by 50%, effective from the next deadline of 1st Feb 2026.

Check out what we offer here:
www.asab.org/grant-overview
October 14, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social
Interested in a PhD in quantitative animal behavior? Applications are open through October for PhD projects starting in 2026: imprs-qbee.mpg.de/32524/apply

For an inside look at the projects, let our doctoral students be your guide 👇

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October 7, 2025 at 8:11 AM
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bmwildermuth.bsky.social
What skills we should keep teaching is one question, but there's no way around starting to teach prompting, critically evaluating and prompting to critically evaluate AI. Should be in every curriculum. AI is here and avoiding it is just as useful as avoiding a calculator or R for that matter.
October 10, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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hormiga.bsky.social
Y'all. I just got ChatGPT to do everything in R for this manuscript. I mean EVERYTHING. And it's all legit and reproducible. I'm shook.

How are we mentoring our trainees in statistics now? Who needs to learn coding in R line by line, and who doesn't?

scienceforeveryone.science/statistics-i...
Statistics in the era of AI
How do we mentor, teach, and do stats when AI can do so much of the work?
scienceforeveryone.science
October 9, 2025 at 2:23 AM
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noguesbravo.bsky.social
I am organizing a one-day symposium (no online option) on Biodiversity and Health in a Warmer World

Learn more here www.biodiversityhealth2025.com
Biodiversity & Health Symposium 2025 | Copenhagen
Join leading experts in Copenhagen for a one-day symposium on the critical links between biodiversity, climate change, and health. Register now.
www.biodiversityhealth2025.com
October 10, 2025 at 9:28 AM
salkeith.bsky.social
I’ve been awarded the ZSL Scientific Medal 😃🥳 Still pinching myself! Best bit - this tiny card and flowers I found next to my bed when I went up last night 🥹🥰
October 9, 2025 at 8:23 AM
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sheardcat.bsky.social
"Right now, if one of my students came to me and said, 'Hey, as part of my Ph.D. I want to enter the world's birds into a dataset,' I'm like, 'No, you're not doing that. You'll never finish your Ph.D.' "

Too true omg 😂

Anyway, this is a very exciting dataset!

phys.org/news/2025-09...
BIRDBASE dataset tracks ecological traits for 11,589 species of birds
Çağan Şekercioğlu was an ambitious, but perhaps naive graduate student when, 26 years ago, he embarked on a simple data-compilation project that would soon evolve into a massive career-defining achiev...
phys.org
October 7, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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methodsinecoevol.bsky.social
📖Published📖

Check out our new research article by Santoro et al. 👉 Essential tools but overlooked bias: Artificial intelligence and citizen science classification affect camera trap data 📸 🌍 🧪
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October 7, 2025 at 11:02 AM