Thomas Cornulier
@tcornulier.bsky.social
Ecology, stats, environment, sustainability + other random things. And bats. Happiest in the real world. Low affinity for feed flooding, virtue signalling, herd effects, carnivorous pet mush.
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Haunted lately by @galaxyproject.bsky.social CO₂e estimates for jobs. This one MEGAHIT assembly: ~450g CO2e. I've run this ~150k times on HPC, ~75 tonnes of CO2e 😬. Perhaps ARC/NHMRC would accept Australian Carbon Credit Units as part of the grant cost for offset? What others are doing in AUS/INT?
October 6, 2025 at 3:55 AM
Haunted lately by @galaxyproject.bsky.social CO₂e estimates for jobs. This one MEGAHIT assembly: ~450g CO2e. I've run this ~150k times on HPC, ~75 tonnes of CO2e 😬. Perhaps ARC/NHMRC would accept Australian Carbon Credit Units as part of the grant cost for offset? What others are doing in AUS/INT?
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📢 New paper from my PhD! 🦇
Using 3D reconstructions of barbastelle bat flight paths over roads, we found that increasing canopy cover leads to lower flight heights, elevating collision risk.
@vincentwt.bsky.social @sussex.ac.uk
#PhD #Bats #Ecology #Conservation
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Using 3D reconstructions of barbastelle bat flight paths over roads, we found that increasing canopy cover leads to lower flight heights, elevating collision risk.
@vincentwt.bsky.social @sussex.ac.uk
#PhD #Bats #Ecology #Conservation
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Increasing canopy cover elevates vehicle collision risk for barbastelle bats (Barbastella barbastellus) at roads - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Increasing canopy cover elevates vehicle collision risk for barbastelle bats (Barbastella barbastellus) at roads
www.nature.com
October 25, 2025 at 8:59 AM
📢 New paper from my PhD! 🦇
Using 3D reconstructions of barbastelle bat flight paths over roads, we found that increasing canopy cover leads to lower flight heights, elevating collision risk.
@vincentwt.bsky.social @sussex.ac.uk
#PhD #Bats #Ecology #Conservation
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Using 3D reconstructions of barbastelle bat flight paths over roads, we found that increasing canopy cover leads to lower flight heights, elevating collision risk.
@vincentwt.bsky.social @sussex.ac.uk
#PhD #Bats #Ecology #Conservation
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Denmark has banned 8 more #pesticides containing #PFAS
The main reason: these pesticides can break down into #TFA a small chain PFAS scientists are increasingly concerned about.
Fidra research earlier this year found #TFA widespread in UK rivers 💧
Read more ▶️ www.pan-europe.info/blog/denmark...
The main reason: these pesticides can break down into #TFA a small chain PFAS scientists are increasingly concerned about.
Fidra research earlier this year found #TFA widespread in UK rivers 💧
Read more ▶️ www.pan-europe.info/blog/denmark...
October 7, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Denmark has banned 8 more #pesticides containing #PFAS
The main reason: these pesticides can break down into #TFA a small chain PFAS scientists are increasingly concerned about.
Fidra research earlier this year found #TFA widespread in UK rivers 💧
Read more ▶️ www.pan-europe.info/blog/denmark...
The main reason: these pesticides can break down into #TFA a small chain PFAS scientists are increasingly concerned about.
Fidra research earlier this year found #TFA widespread in UK rivers 💧
Read more ▶️ www.pan-europe.info/blog/denmark...
“if you can’t draw the line at genocide, you probably can’t draw the line at democracy”
Israel's cheerleaders have opportunistically seized on a heinous antisemitic attack to silence opponents of genocide.
Our freedoms are being stolen - and we are headed to a very dark place.
New column 👇
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Our freedoms are being stolen - and we are headed to a very dark place.
New column 👇
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
It starts with Palestine protests. But where will the crackdown on Britain’s democratic freedoms end? | Owen Jones
In making dissent a privilege, not a right, Labour is crafting a repressive toolkit. Imagine it in the hands of a Farage government, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones
www.theguardian.com
October 6, 2025 at 7:38 PM
“if you can’t draw the line at genocide, you probably can’t draw the line at democracy”
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“as the number of fascists was growing, so too was the opposition against them”
Almost exactly 89 years ago, the Battle of Cable Street - against fascists who were supported by the police & right-wing press
www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/Hi...
Almost exactly 89 years ago, the Battle of Cable Street - against fascists who were supported by the police & right-wing press
www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/Hi...
The Battle of Cable Street - Historic UK
On 4th October 1936 the people of the East End of London halted the march of Oswald Mosley's Blackshirts through Stepney, in what became known as The Battle of Cable Street...
www.historic-uk.com
October 6, 2025 at 7:06 PM
“as the number of fascists was growing, so too was the opposition against them”
Almost exactly 89 years ago, the Battle of Cable Street - against fascists who were supported by the police & right-wing press
www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/Hi...
Almost exactly 89 years ago, the Battle of Cable Street - against fascists who were supported by the police & right-wing press
www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/Hi...
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⚠️ Please report sightings of dead birds for possible testing for Avian Influenza. ⬇️
📌 In England, Wales & Scotland: www.gov.uk/guidance/...
📌 In Northern Ireland: www.daera-ni.gov.uk/...
📌 In Republic of Ireland: aviancheck.apps.serv...
#UKBirding #BirdingWales #BirdingScotland
📌 In England, Wales & Scotland: www.gov.uk/guidance/...
📌 In Northern Ireland: www.daera-ni.gov.uk/...
📌 In Republic of Ireland: aviancheck.apps.serv...
#UKBirding #BirdingWales #BirdingScotland
October 4, 2025 at 6:00 PM
⚠️ Please report sightings of dead birds for possible testing for Avian Influenza. ⬇️
📌 In England, Wales & Scotland: www.gov.uk/guidance/...
📌 In Northern Ireland: www.daera-ni.gov.uk/...
📌 In Republic of Ireland: aviancheck.apps.serv...
#UKBirding #BirdingWales #BirdingScotland
📌 In England, Wales & Scotland: www.gov.uk/guidance/...
📌 In Northern Ireland: www.daera-ni.gov.uk/...
📌 In Republic of Ireland: aviancheck.apps.serv...
#UKBirding #BirdingWales #BirdingScotland
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Our newest paper is out in Methods in Ecol Evol @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social :) amazing team effort - we show that the traditional way of analyzing comparative data lacks finesse. besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/action/oidcS... w/ @itchyshin.bsky.social Yefeng Yang, Losia Lagisz & Ayumi Mizuno
October 2, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Our newest paper is out in Methods in Ecol Evol @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social :) amazing team effort - we show that the traditional way of analyzing comparative data lacks finesse. besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/action/oidcS... w/ @itchyshin.bsky.social Yefeng Yang, Losia Lagisz & Ayumi Mizuno
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We’re delighted to announce the 2025 #WainwrightPrize Winners!
From powerful storytelling to vital conservation work and bold illustration, this year’s winners reflect the richness, urgency, and joy of writing about the natural world.
wainwrightprize.com
#StoriesThatConnect
From powerful storytelling to vital conservation work and bold illustration, this year’s winners reflect the richness, urgency, and joy of writing about the natural world.
wainwrightprize.com
#StoriesThatConnect
September 10, 2025 at 3:52 PM
We’re delighted to announce the 2025 #WainwrightPrize Winners!
From powerful storytelling to vital conservation work and bold illustration, this year’s winners reflect the richness, urgency, and joy of writing about the natural world.
wainwrightprize.com
#StoriesThatConnect
From powerful storytelling to vital conservation work and bold illustration, this year’s winners reflect the richness, urgency, and joy of writing about the natural world.
wainwrightprize.com
#StoriesThatConnect
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Banksy satirised the state silencing those opposed to Israel’s genocide.
The state then inadvertently made his artwork genius.
The state then inadvertently made his artwork genius.
September 11, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Banksy satirised the state silencing those opposed to Israel’s genocide.
The state then inadvertently made his artwork genius.
The state then inadvertently made his artwork genius.
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Now online in Journal of #Ornithology
Timing shapes flyway selection in juvenile white storks at the European migratory divide
Open access
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Timing shapes flyway selection in juvenile white storks at the European migratory divide
Open access
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Timing shapes flyway selection in juvenile white storks at the European migratory divide - Journal of Ornithology
Migratory divides are junctures where populations of the same species following different migratory routes intersect. In white storks (Ciconia ciconia), migration strategies differ between the western...
link.springer.com
September 8, 2025 at 7:06 AM
Now online in Journal of #Ornithology
Timing shapes flyway selection in juvenile white storks at the European migratory divide
Open access
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Timing shapes flyway selection in juvenile white storks at the European migratory divide
Open access
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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This survey on the current state of freshwater monitoring in the UK is still open.
Have your say, and please share...
💦🧪 #freshwater #monitoring #UKCEH_AquaEco #data #evidence
Have your say, and please share...
💦🧪 #freshwater #monitoring #UKCEH_AquaEco #data #evidence
We are gathering views on the current state of freshwater monitoring in the UK (scales, focal species & pressures).
If you work in these areas, we'd love to capture your views: app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/ceh-online...
@ukceh.bsky.social #UKCEH_AquaEco #freshwater #monitoring #data #evidence
If you work in these areas, we'd love to capture your views: app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/ceh-online...
@ukceh.bsky.social #UKCEH_AquaEco #freshwater #monitoring #data #evidence
The Changing Status of Freshwater Biodiversity in the UK
Online surveys is a powerful, easy to use tool for creating online surveys. Run by Jisc, online surveys is used by over 300 different organisations in the UK...
app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk
September 8, 2025 at 5:15 PM
This survey on the current state of freshwater monitoring in the UK is still open.
Have your say, and please share...
💦🧪 #freshwater #monitoring #UKCEH_AquaEco #data #evidence
Have your say, and please share...
💦🧪 #freshwater #monitoring #UKCEH_AquaEco #data #evidence
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Police cover up a Banksy image of judge beating a protester faster than you can say "one of the many Boris Johnson Downing Street parties during covid restrictions which the Met police ignored"
September 8, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Police cover up a Banksy image of judge beating a protester faster than you can say "one of the many Boris Johnson Downing Street parties during covid restrictions which the Met police ignored"
A hugely refreshing and too short time away from UK's insanity. Not everything is green in Rep of Ireland, but the people and government do have some decency.
August 3, 2025 at 4:56 PM
A hugely refreshing and too short time away from UK's insanity. Not everything is green in Rep of Ireland, but the people and government do have some decency.
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We are doing a Hackathon! 💻 Together with senior editor @nhcooper123.bsky.social , we'll be discussing and testing a protocol to check whether published data/code is actually reproducible... (1/2)
July 31, 2025 at 3:21 PM
We are doing a Hackathon! 💻 Together with senior editor @nhcooper123.bsky.social , we'll be discussing and testing a protocol to check whether published data/code is actually reproducible... (1/2)
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The Washington Post just published the names of more than 18,500 children in Gaza killed by Israel.
www.washingtonpost.com/world/intera...
www.washingtonpost.com/world/intera...
60,000 Gazans have been killed. 18,500 were children. These are their names.
Palestinian children have been killed at a rate of more than one per hour since the war began.
www.washingtonpost.com
July 30, 2025 at 8:00 PM
The Washington Post just published the names of more than 18,500 children in Gaza killed by Israel.
www.washingtonpost.com/world/intera...
www.washingtonpost.com/world/intera...
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Looking forward to speaking at the event - I've found Wikipedia really useful in my Hons. class to help the students select important information from published papers and synthesis it as Wikipedia entries - we have been slowly ticking off all the African Raptor species, which often lack good info.
Join UCT experts & the African Research Society to explore how editing, citing & contributing African knowledge on Wikipedia can drive real-world impact. 🌍📚
📅 14 Aug | 🕐 12h50–13h45
📍 Leslie Social Science, Room 5F
🔗 RSVP by 10 Aug: bit.ly/WikipediaEvent3000
#UCT #AfricanResearch #AfricanOrnithology
📅 14 Aug | 🕐 12h50–13h45
📍 Leslie Social Science, Room 5F
🔗 RSVP by 10 Aug: bit.ly/WikipediaEvent3000
#UCT #AfricanResearch #AfricanOrnithology
July 29, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Looking forward to speaking at the event - I've found Wikipedia really useful in my Hons. class to help the students select important information from published papers and synthesis it as Wikipedia entries - we have been slowly ticking off all the African Raptor species, which often lack good info.
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System: a set of things working together as parts of an interconnecting network
Ecosystem: a biological community of interacting organisms and their physical environment
There is no need for other sectors to appropriate & redefine ‘ecosystem’ in an affected way
‘System’ does the job fine.
Ecosystem: a biological community of interacting organisms and their physical environment
There is no need for other sectors to appropriate & redefine ‘ecosystem’ in an affected way
‘System’ does the job fine.
July 21, 2025 at 6:52 AM
System: a set of things working together as parts of an interconnecting network
Ecosystem: a biological community of interacting organisms and their physical environment
There is no need for other sectors to appropriate & redefine ‘ecosystem’ in an affected way
‘System’ does the job fine.
Ecosystem: a biological community of interacting organisms and their physical environment
There is no need for other sectors to appropriate & redefine ‘ecosystem’ in an affected way
‘System’ does the job fine.
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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...
NERC policy on resubmissions
This policy only applies to research grant applications.
www.ukri.org
July 17, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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...
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Israel is deliberately massacring civilians it’s deliberately starving.
There are few crimes more depraved.
There are few crimes more depraved.
July 17, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Israel is deliberately massacring civilians it’s deliberately starving.
There are few crimes more depraved.
There are few crimes more depraved.
Some new #rstats packages need a plug more than others. So, here it is.
Introducing my new #rstats package {kitchensink}
Not sure what the right model to fit is? Should you allow random intercepts, slopes, both? What do Bayesian methods say?
Just call {kitchensink::throw} to fit every possible model and see how your results differ!
Not sure what the right model to fit is? Should you allow random intercepts, slopes, both? What do Bayesian methods say?
Just call {kitchensink::throw} to fit every possible model and see how your results differ!
July 17, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Some new #rstats packages need a plug more than others. So, here it is.
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📖Published📖
Sources of uncertainty in DNA metabarcoding of whole communities: Implications for its use in biomonitoring 🧬 🌍 🧪 Find the article here 👇
buff.ly/6zJRh9R
Sources of uncertainty in DNA metabarcoding of whole communities: Implications for its use in biomonitoring 🧬 🌍 🧪 Find the article here 👇
buff.ly/6zJRh9R
July 16, 2025 at 3:06 PM
📖Published📖
Sources of uncertainty in DNA metabarcoding of whole communities: Implications for its use in biomonitoring 🧬 🌍 🧪 Find the article here 👇
buff.ly/6zJRh9R
Sources of uncertainty in DNA metabarcoding of whole communities: Implications for its use in biomonitoring 🧬 🌍 🧪 Find the article here 👇
buff.ly/6zJRh9R
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✨New science, new ideas, new friends.
Our much anticipated BES Annual Meeting is here! Join ecology's global community at the BES Annual Meeting, which brings together over 1,200 ecologists from around the world.
Our much anticipated BES Annual Meeting is here! Join ecology's global community at the BES Annual Meeting, which brings together over 1,200 ecologists from around the world.
July 16, 2025 at 2:02 PM
✨New science, new ideas, new friends.
Our much anticipated BES Annual Meeting is here! Join ecology's global community at the BES Annual Meeting, which brings together over 1,200 ecologists from around the world.
Our much anticipated BES Annual Meeting is here! Join ecology's global community at the BES Annual Meeting, which brings together over 1,200 ecologists from around the world.
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Want to expose corruption & defend the environment with your reporting?
Mongabay is hiring an Investigative Researcher & Reporter. Remote, full-time.
Apply now: form.jotform.com/251814627309...
Mongabay is hiring an Investigative Researcher & Reporter. Remote, full-time.
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July 16, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Want to expose corruption & defend the environment with your reporting?
Mongabay is hiring an Investigative Researcher & Reporter. Remote, full-time.
Apply now: form.jotform.com/251814627309...
Mongabay is hiring an Investigative Researcher & Reporter. Remote, full-time.
Apply now: form.jotform.com/251814627309...