Cher Chow 周馥溢
@cherfychow.bsky.social
PhD student at U of St Andrews, data manager at BioTIME. Reef functioning, biodiversity, community ecology. I try to love fish and corals equally.
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Cher Chow 周馥溢
@cherfychow.bsky.social
· May 15
BioTIME 2.0: Expanding and Improving a Database of Biodiversity Time Series
Motivation Here, we make available a second version of the BioTIME database, which compiles records of abundance estimates for species in sample events of ecological assemblages through time. The up...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
🚨New data paper/open data alert!🚨 BioTIME v2.0 is out now! We've expanded the database with improved spatial and taxonomic coverage, with a new R package! As always, free, public, and open acess :)
Paper:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Database:
biotime.st-andrews.ac.uk
Paper:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Database:
biotime.st-andrews.ac.uk
Nothing hits like a paper acceptance email coming in after a long day in the field!!! 🥂🥂 Exciting (long overdue) paper coming your way soon :)
November 12, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Nothing hits like a paper acceptance email coming in after a long day in the field!!! 🥂🥂 Exciting (long overdue) paper coming your way soon :)
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We're hiring! 🥳 Come and join our team in Lancaster - we're looking for two senior postdocs to work on corporate sustainability and restoration ecology. 🌳 🪸 ♻️ (1 of 2)
@lec-reefs.bsky.social @pentlandcentre.bsky.social @sci-tech-lancaster.bsky.social @lancasteruni.bsky.social
@lec-reefs.bsky.social @pentlandcentre.bsky.social @sci-tech-lancaster.bsky.social @lancasteruni.bsky.social
November 5, 2025 at 9:22 AM
We're hiring! 🥳 Come and join our team in Lancaster - we're looking for two senior postdocs to work on corporate sustainability and restoration ecology. 🌳 🪸 ♻️ (1 of 2)
@lec-reefs.bsky.social @pentlandcentre.bsky.social @sci-tech-lancaster.bsky.social @lancasteruni.bsky.social
@lec-reefs.bsky.social @pentlandcentre.bsky.social @sci-tech-lancaster.bsky.social @lancasteruni.bsky.social
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Join our session to discuss the role of art in coral reef conservation at the International Coral Reef Symposium in Auckland, New Zealand July 19-24, 2026. Abstract deadline Dec 1, 2025. 🧪🪸🌎🌊🧬🌐🌿🐡🐙
October 14, 2025 at 3:16 AM
Join our session to discuss the role of art in coral reef conservation at the International Coral Reef Symposium in Auckland, New Zealand July 19-24, 2026. Abstract deadline Dec 1, 2025. 🧪🪸🌎🌊🧬🌐🌿🐡🐙
reviewers, it's thankless work but definitely make sure to look over code now more than ever!!
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...
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 6:54 PM
reviewers, it's thankless work but definitely make sure to look over code now more than ever!!
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FAT BEAR WEEK FAT BEAR WEEK FAT BEAR WEEK FAT BEAR WEEK FAT B
IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT: Fat Bear Week is starting early this year!
www.npr.org/2025/09/19/n...
www.npr.org/2025/09/19/n...
Fat Bear Week is here early, and the bears are fat and playful
The famous bears of Alaska's Katmai National Park are enjoying an abundance of salmon, and even some playtime, as they pack on pounds to prepare for the winter.
www.npr.org
September 19, 2025 at 6:29 PM
FAT BEAR WEEK FAT BEAR WEEK FAT BEAR WEEK FAT BEAR WEEK FAT B
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For those who aren't familiar, H1B visas aren't just used in the tech industry. They are also widely used by universities, hospitals, engineering firms, and other industries that rely on extensive training. Fees were previously under $5k -- still high, but doable, and many employers would pay them.
Those on an H1B cannot return to the US from tomorrow (Sunday) unless paying $100K. This is an out-of-the blue presidential action. We’ll see software engineers stranded abroad.
One easy to predict outcome: those on US visas will travel less… for work, for conferences etc.
One easy to predict outcome: those on US visas will travel less… for work, for conferences etc.
September 20, 2025 at 2:03 PM
For those who aren't familiar, H1B visas aren't just used in the tech industry. They are also widely used by universities, hospitals, engineering firms, and other industries that rely on extensive training. Fees were previously under $5k -- still high, but doable, and many employers would pay them.
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Each Friday, I summarize what is happening to American science & higher ed. 🧪
This was Week 35:
- executive order on H-1B visas
- travesty of vaccine advisory council updates MMRV & COVID recs
- Texas A&M fires president
- California faculty file suit
& so much more buttondown.com/liminalcreat...
This was Week 35:
- executive order on H-1B visas
- travesty of vaccine advisory council updates MMRV & COVID recs
- Texas A&M fires president
- California faculty file suit
& so much more buttondown.com/liminalcreat...
Week 35
Sept 15-19, 2025 - our way out of the woods
buttondown.com
September 20, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Each Friday, I summarize what is happening to American science & higher ed. 🧪
This was Week 35:
- executive order on H-1B visas
- travesty of vaccine advisory council updates MMRV & COVID recs
- Texas A&M fires president
- California faculty file suit
& so much more buttondown.com/liminalcreat...
This was Week 35:
- executive order on H-1B visas
- travesty of vaccine advisory council updates MMRV & COVID recs
- Texas A&M fires president
- California faculty file suit
& so much more buttondown.com/liminalcreat...
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Only a pre-print for now, but after 4 years of hard work I couldn't resist sharing this!
The Global Canopy Atlas: analysis-ready maps of 3D structure for the world's woody ecosystems
📜: doi.org/10.1101/2025...
Huge team effort led by the brilliant Fabian Fischer!
The Global Canopy Atlas: analysis-ready maps of 3D structure for the world's woody ecosystems
📜: doi.org/10.1101/2025...
Huge team effort led by the brilliant Fabian Fischer!
September 5, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Only a pre-print for now, but after 4 years of hard work I couldn't resist sharing this!
The Global Canopy Atlas: analysis-ready maps of 3D structure for the world's woody ecosystems
📜: doi.org/10.1101/2025...
Huge team effort led by the brilliant Fabian Fischer!
The Global Canopy Atlas: analysis-ready maps of 3D structure for the world's woody ecosystems
📜: doi.org/10.1101/2025...
Huge team effort led by the brilliant Fabian Fischer!
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If you have published anything, please consider doing this. The window is closing and you should get your details registered now for a chance at a settlement. The form works wherever in the world you are based.
There are tons of graphic novels, academic papers, film and TV scripts, & prose novels/nonfiction on the LibGen list Anthropic used.
As settlement approaches, make it easy for the class action lawyers to contact you! Here’s how
Part 1: is your work in Libgen?
www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
As settlement approaches, make it easy for the class action lawyers to contact you! Here’s how
Part 1: is your work in Libgen?
www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI
Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.
www.theatlantic.com
August 28, 2025 at 11:22 AM
If you have published anything, please consider doing this. The window is closing and you should get your details registered now for a chance at a settlement. The form works wherever in the world you are based.
mushroom season is keeping me sane in this final phd push! Saffron milkcaps, chanterelles, and dryad's saddle!
August 26, 2025 at 7:35 PM
mushroom season is keeping me sane in this final phd push! Saffron milkcaps, chanterelles, and dryad's saddle!
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Necessary tools from the bad old days (or: the smallest taste of why marriage equality matters.)
August 15, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Necessary tools from the bad old days (or: the smallest taste of why marriage equality matters.)
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🚨 Proceedings B is recruiting new Data Editors!
Join our editorial board to help ensure data/code transparency across biology.
🗓 Term: 3 yrs from Jan 2026
📩 Apply by 30 Sep 2025 with a 2-page CV + cover letter: proceedingsb@royalsociety.org
🔗 Info: jackbrand.work@gmail.com /dylan.ge.gomes@gmail.com
Join our editorial board to help ensure data/code transparency across biology.
🗓 Term: 3 yrs from Jan 2026
📩 Apply by 30 Sep 2025 with a 2-page CV + cover letter: proceedingsb@royalsociety.org
🔗 Info: jackbrand.work@gmail.com /dylan.ge.gomes@gmail.com
August 7, 2025 at 2:56 PM
🚨 Proceedings B is recruiting new Data Editors!
Join our editorial board to help ensure data/code transparency across biology.
🗓 Term: 3 yrs from Jan 2026
📩 Apply by 30 Sep 2025 with a 2-page CV + cover letter: proceedingsb@royalsociety.org
🔗 Info: jackbrand.work@gmail.com /dylan.ge.gomes@gmail.com
Join our editorial board to help ensure data/code transparency across biology.
🗓 Term: 3 yrs from Jan 2026
📩 Apply by 30 Sep 2025 with a 2-page CV + cover letter: proceedingsb@royalsociety.org
🔗 Info: jackbrand.work@gmail.com /dylan.ge.gomes@gmail.com
This is how I feel with the changes to hermatypic coral taxonomy!!!
Even as a lover of frustrating taxonomy every time I look at an ostracod I'm like "I don't want to know any more. This is not my cross to bear."
August 6, 2025 at 7:13 AM
This is how I feel with the changes to hermatypic coral taxonomy!!!
6 years in Scotland and I only just found out about one of the most fossiliferous beaches in the UK! Lots of crinoids, solitary corals, and bryozans 🤩
August 5, 2025 at 2:51 PM
6 years in Scotland and I only just found out about one of the most fossiliferous beaches in the UK! Lots of crinoids, solitary corals, and bryozans 🤩
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Israel is starving Palestinians in Gaza.
Israel is starving Palestinians in Gaza.
Israel is starving Palestinians in Gaza.
Israel is starving Palestinians in Gaza.
Israel is starving Palestinians in Gaza.
Israel is starving Palestinians in Gaza.
Israel is starving Palestinians in Gaza.
Israel is starving Palestinians in Gaza.
Israel is starving Palestinians in Gaza.
Israel is starving Palestinians in Gaza.
Israel is starving Palestinians in Gaza.
July 21, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Israel is starving Palestinians in Gaza.
Israel is starving Palestinians in Gaza.
Israel is starving Palestinians in Gaza.
Israel is starving Palestinians in Gaza.
Israel is starving Palestinians in Gaza.
Israel is starving Palestinians in Gaza.
Israel is starving Palestinians in Gaza.
Israel is starving Palestinians in Gaza.
Israel is starving Palestinians in Gaza.
Israel is starving Palestinians in Gaza.
Israel is starving Palestinians in Gaza.
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You know if you’re struggling and you need to time or space to get stuff some, it’s okay to say you’re having a health issue and leave it at that.
Mental health is health. You don’t need to say if it’s an appendectomy or a hip replacement or depression or BPD.
Mental health is health. You don’t need to say if it’s an appendectomy or a hip replacement or depression or BPD.
July 22, 2025 at 9:00 PM
You know if you’re struggling and you need to time or space to get stuff some, it’s okay to say you’re having a health issue and leave it at that.
Mental health is health. You don’t need to say if it’s an appendectomy or a hip replacement or depression or BPD.
Mental health is health. You don’t need to say if it’s an appendectomy or a hip replacement or depression or BPD.
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For every conversation, I'd like to add a footnote to "I'm doing great!"¹
¹ Notwithstanding the hellscape of authoritarian rule, genocide, federal goons roaming my city kidnapping innocent people and putting them into concentration camps, and livelihood threatened by nincompoops in charge.
¹ Notwithstanding the hellscape of authoritarian rule, genocide, federal goons roaming my city kidnapping innocent people and putting them into concentration camps, and livelihood threatened by nincompoops in charge.
July 21, 2025 at 11:02 PM
For every conversation, I'd like to add a footnote to "I'm doing great!"¹
¹ Notwithstanding the hellscape of authoritarian rule, genocide, federal goons roaming my city kidnapping innocent people and putting them into concentration camps, and livelihood threatened by nincompoops in charge.
¹ Notwithstanding the hellscape of authoritarian rule, genocide, federal goons roaming my city kidnapping innocent people and putting them into concentration camps, and livelihood threatened by nincompoops in charge.
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I'm back home with my dad and have thoughts about being an Indigenous scientist and academic. I'm writing this in real time so it might get disrupted and will have typos.
I am fairly successful by academic standards. I have a tenure track job, wrote papers, have grant funding, mentor students.
I am fairly successful by academic standards. I have a tenure track job, wrote papers, have grant funding, mentor students.
July 21, 2025 at 9:18 PM
I'm back home with my dad and have thoughts about being an Indigenous scientist and academic. I'm writing this in real time so it might get disrupted and will have typos.
I am fairly successful by academic standards. I have a tenure track job, wrote papers, have grant funding, mentor students.
I am fairly successful by academic standards. I have a tenure track job, wrote papers, have grant funding, mentor students.
Does anyone know of a blog/resource similar to Zuur & Ieno 2016 (besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....) that shows explicitly how model notation should be presented for zero-inflated GLMMs or GAMMs?
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
July 22, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Does anyone know of a blog/resource similar to Zuur & Ieno 2016 (besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....) that shows explicitly how model notation should be presented for zero-inflated GLMMs or GAMMs?
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You will have to pry my em dashes from my cold, dead hands.
July 21, 2025 at 7:42 PM
You will have to pry my em dashes from my cold, dead hands.
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3-year #Postdoc opportunity at the University of York!
I am #hiring a Postdoc to join my URF project on exploring how #biodiversity change is unfolding in the #Anthropocene.
Deadline: 10th August 2025.
All details and the link to apply: shorturl.at/qOQst
@anthropocenebio.bsky.social #ecology
I am #hiring a Postdoc to join my URF project on exploring how #biodiversity change is unfolding in the #Anthropocene.
Deadline: 10th August 2025.
All details and the link to apply: shorturl.at/qOQst
@anthropocenebio.bsky.social #ecology
Jobs - The University of York
jobs.york.ac.uk
July 4, 2025 at 3:26 PM
3-year #Postdoc opportunity at the University of York!
I am #hiring a Postdoc to join my URF project on exploring how #biodiversity change is unfolding in the #Anthropocene.
Deadline: 10th August 2025.
All details and the link to apply: shorturl.at/qOQst
@anthropocenebio.bsky.social #ecology
I am #hiring a Postdoc to join my URF project on exploring how #biodiversity change is unfolding in the #Anthropocene.
Deadline: 10th August 2025.
All details and the link to apply: shorturl.at/qOQst
@anthropocenebio.bsky.social #ecology
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Pro tip, folks: if you make a figure for a publication, don’t just hand the copyright over to the publisher. Post it on OSF first and then give yourself permission to use it in the first publication and then all future publications. That way, no permissions issues.
June 10, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Pro tip, folks: if you make a figure for a publication, don’t just hand the copyright over to the publisher. Post it on OSF first and then give yourself permission to use it in the first publication and then all future publications. That way, no permissions issues.
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Heard of "Darwin's paradox"? It refers to Charles Darwin's observation that coral reefs are wildly productive despite occurring in nutrient-poor tropical oceans. Reefs are, so the story goes, oases in marine deserts 🏝️...
Turns out that 2/3 of these assertions are very wrong...
🌐
🦑🧪
🧵⬇️
Turns out that 2/3 of these assertions are very wrong...
🌐
🦑🧪
🧵⬇️
June 6, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Heard of "Darwin's paradox"? It refers to Charles Darwin's observation that coral reefs are wildly productive despite occurring in nutrient-poor tropical oceans. Reefs are, so the story goes, oases in marine deserts 🏝️...
Turns out that 2/3 of these assertions are very wrong...
🌐
🦑🧪
🧵⬇️
Turns out that 2/3 of these assertions are very wrong...
🌐
🦑🧪
🧵⬇️
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There is still time to apply for this post. DL extended until 15 June. Read more and apply 👇 @biologylu.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu #HotLife
I am looking for a postdoc wanting to use functional genomics to understand why birds 🐦 struggle with climate warming in @erc.europa.eu project #HotLife. Ideal candidate is a molecular evolutionarybiologist. Join us at @biologylu.bsky.social. Details 👇
shorturl.at/wijEq
Would appreciate a re-post!
shorturl.at/wijEq
Would appreciate a re-post!
Post-doctoral fellow in functional genomics and ecophysiology
Subject description The goal of the project is to uncover the mechanisms explaining why global warming and heatwaves reduce reproductive success and cause excess mortality in wild and domesticated war
lu.varbi.com
June 2, 2025 at 11:06 AM
There is still time to apply for this post. DL extended until 15 June. Read more and apply 👇 @biologylu.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu #HotLife