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Ryan Bates
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Postdoc at UoN with ITSS - understanding the landscape of technical professionals in HEIs

PhD in Extinction risk and broad scale biodiversity trends using Red List data

Data analyst and computational ecologist

🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ #PrideinSTEM • He/They
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Really happy to announce that the updated version of BioTIME is out!!🚨 This is the largest #database of #biodiversity #timeseries - now with 708 studies and >56 thousand species from across the planet!🦊🐀🐦🐊🐟🐙🦋🐞🌲🍀
& over 400 co-authors sharing their data🤩🤩
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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
May 15, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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OPEN biodiversity DATA ALERT: iNaturalist has released range data for 100k+ taxa: www.inaturalist.org/posts/106918 🌍🧪
Celebrating 100,000 Modeled Taxa with the iNaturalist Open Range Map Dataset
A Major Milestone for Biodiversity Mapping We passed a major milestone with today’s update to iNaturalist’s Computer Vision and Geomodel—100,000 modeled taxa! To mark this achievement, we’re excited t...
www.inaturalist.org
March 6, 2025 at 5:53 PM
ecologybat.bsky.social
Watching the goslings grow up is one of my favourite parts of springtime on campus 🪿
April 10, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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The UK Government promised a planning system that works for people & nature.

But as it stands, this Bill risks fast-tracking nature’s destruction.

We’ve joined others calling for urgent change.

Nature mustn't be written out of our future. 🚨
A screenshot from The Guardian with the headline: “Planning bill ‘throws environmental protection to the wind’, say UK nature chiefs.” The subheading warns the proposals could push species towards extinction and lead to irreversible habitat loss. Below, a photo shows a wide view of the English countryside in autumn, with green fields, scattered trees in golden tones, and wooded hills in the distance - representing the kind of landscapes at risk.
April 9, 2025 at 8:15 AM
ecologybat.bsky.social
It's a fun time to be in academia. Join your union folks. And remember to stand in solidarity with your non-academic colleagues, nothing could run without them.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
University of Nottingham plans to cut more than 250 jobs
Announcing the consultation, the university said it was a
www.bbc.co.uk
April 9, 2025 at 10:27 AM
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Great op-ed fr Prof Yates taking a stand on what's damaged when institutions fail to act

"Everything is political, especially the things that people tell you are not political.Those are the most political of all [..]
The intersection of science & politics is both inescapable & of vital importance."
March 5, 2025 at 11:55 PM
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Six award-winning female scientists highlight women who have inspired them by pushing innovative research and creating opportunities for others

https://go.nature.com/43n0J5R
Behind every great woman in science, there’s another great woman in science
To mark International Women’s Day on 8 March, six award-winning female scientists highlight women who have inspired them by pushing innovative research and creating opportunities for others.
go.nature.com
March 5, 2025 at 4:12 PM