Cher Chow 周馥溢
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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.
(she/her)

cherchow.com
macroscopelab.com
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
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August 28, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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
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
just wondering! But Springer Nature does allow for open access in another form other than the wild APC
July 21, 2025 at 10:14 PM
I cannot be ending the year losing my mind like this
December 30, 2024 at 2:47 PM
finishing trait compilation before the holidays feels damn great
December 20, 2024 at 11:07 AM
what do you MEAN these are gobies?????
December 18, 2024 at 10:06 AM
hey all, just coming out of my fieldwork haze and working through following folks back! A short intro: I'm a community ecologist working on diversity-productivity relationships in coral reefs :) Method development is my jam and I dabble in macroecology and ecoinformatics as well
November 29, 2024 at 9:41 AM
Data collection for my last two PhD chapters are underway!

Photo by Lyle Vail
November 8, 2024 at 2:50 AM
If you're as picky about how RStudio looks, I've been working on some full IDE styling themes! Flatter, cleaner, less web 2.0. And feel free to send suggestions/contributions! I love a little procrastination here and there.

github.com/cherfychow/p...
June 28, 2024 at 9:10 AM
Please help RT 🐠🪸🧪 Data request + collaboration: I'm looking for data collaborators on a global reef fish study! This is a long shot, but I'm trying to better include data collectors outside of the usual orgs/locations. Please DM for more details.
June 7, 2024 at 9:42 AM
PhD project alert! 🚨 My PI is recruiting a PhD student to join our lab to work on integrating niche theory for corals. We do lots of fieldwork and like to use quantitative approaches :)

Deadline is Feb 9, 2024! Details and application here:
www.euraxess.pt/jobs/187090

🧪🪸 #EcoECRcareer
January 19, 2024 at 10:27 AM
there are two kinds of methods papers...
1) the method paper for clout
2) the method paper so people can actually follow and use to learn a new method

write 2! 2 will always be better!!! 🧪
January 17, 2024 at 10:46 AM
The lab pulled out all the stops for a croquembouche tree in the department Christmas bake-off! Featuring fish and coral baubles and a caramel staghorn coral, of course 👩‍🍳🐠🎄
December 8, 2023 at 10:38 AM
parents are the frontier of scicomm... my bridge to marine bio for my mom was seafood and here we are! debbie downer!
November 28, 2023 at 9:22 AM
hey guys! new migrant over from the birdy place :) I'm Cher (exactly like the singer). I'm a community ecologist interested in diversity-productivity links on reefs, happily juggling tropical corals and fish 🪸🐠 90% of the year, I call St Andrews in Scotland my home
November 27, 2023 at 1:54 AM