Rob Cooke
@r-cooke.bsky.social
Ecologist interested in biodiversity change through space and time 🦋🪲🦗🦤🦒
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Do you like islands? And/or arthropods? Please get in touch with me (m.t.jezierski[at]bham.ac.uk) or another member of the supervisory team!
We will help you study island evolution in arthropods with a (funded) PhD @unibirmingham.bsky.social. 🪲🏝️🦋
centa.ac.uk/studentship/...
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We will help you study island evolution in arthropods with a (funded) PhD @unibirmingham.bsky.social. 🪲🏝️🦋
centa.ac.uk/studentship/...
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2026-B22 The island syndrome in arthropods – CENTA
centa.ac.uk
October 21, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Do you like islands? And/or arthropods? Please get in touch with me (m.t.jezierski[at]bham.ac.uk) or another member of the supervisory team!
We will help you study island evolution in arthropods with a (funded) PhD @unibirmingham.bsky.social. 🪲🏝️🦋
centa.ac.uk/studentship/...
*Please share this!*
We will help you study island evolution in arthropods with a (funded) PhD @unibirmingham.bsky.social. 🪲🏝️🦋
centa.ac.uk/studentship/...
*Please share this!*
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Interested in island life and arthropods? There's a new PhD project advertised at the University of Birmingham to study the evolution of 'island syndromes' in a chosen group of island arthropods, with both museum and fieldwork-based research are expected. More details at: centa.ac.uk/studentship/...
2026-B22 The island syndrome in arthropods – CENTA
centa.ac.uk
October 24, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Interested in island life and arthropods? There's a new PhD project advertised at the University of Birmingham to study the evolution of 'island syndromes' in a chosen group of island arthropods, with both museum and fieldwork-based research are expected. More details at: centa.ac.uk/studentship/...
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Interesting paper using @ukbms.bsky.social data to examine extreme weather impacts on butterfly populations. Winter heatwaves and periods of high rainfall appear bad for many species. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 🌍
Butterfly abundance changes in England are well associated with extreme climate events
Climate change exerts significant impacts on ecosystems through extreme climate events (ECEs), which are linked to various climate variables and can o…
www.sciencedirect.com
August 14, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Interesting paper using @ukbms.bsky.social data to examine extreme weather impacts on butterfly populations. Winter heatwaves and periods of high rainfall appear bad for many species. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 🌍
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What moths live on farmland?
Despite covering 67% of England, farmland is a biodiversity “dark zone”. Discover how AI & citizen science are revealing its hidden moth life in our FREE webinar:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1496618569...
@ukceh.bsky.social @abigaillowe.bsky.social @mjopocock.bsky.social
Despite covering 67% of England, farmland is a biodiversity “dark zone”. Discover how AI & citizen science are revealing its hidden moth life in our FREE webinar:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1496618569...
@ukceh.bsky.social @abigaillowe.bsky.social @mjopocock.bsky.social
August 15, 2025 at 3:03 PM
What moths live on farmland?
Despite covering 67% of England, farmland is a biodiversity “dark zone”. Discover how AI & citizen science are revealing its hidden moth life in our FREE webinar:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1496618569...
@ukceh.bsky.social @abigaillowe.bsky.social @mjopocock.bsky.social
Despite covering 67% of England, farmland is a biodiversity “dark zone”. Discover how AI & citizen science are revealing its hidden moth life in our FREE webinar:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1496618569...
@ukceh.bsky.social @abigaillowe.bsky.social @mjopocock.bsky.social
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🚀 New paper led by Dr Becks Spake!
We make the case for precision ecology—using big data & predictive tools to tailor conservation actions to local contexts.
Can ecology learn from medicine & marketing to boost impact? We think so.
Read it here: rdcu.be/eoaR4
#Conservation #Ecology #BigData
We make the case for precision ecology—using big data & predictive tools to tailor conservation actions to local contexts.
Can ecology learn from medicine & marketing to boost impact? We think so.
Read it here: rdcu.be/eoaR4
#Conservation #Ecology #BigData
Precision ecology for targeted conservation action
Nature Ecology & Evolution - The fields of medicine and marketing use large data volumes and computational power to target individuals. This Perspective argues that applied ecologists should...
rdcu.be
June 6, 2025 at 7:52 AM
🚀 New paper led by Dr Becks Spake!
We make the case for precision ecology—using big data & predictive tools to tailor conservation actions to local contexts.
Can ecology learn from medicine & marketing to boost impact? We think so.
Read it here: rdcu.be/eoaR4
#Conservation #Ecology #BigData
We make the case for precision ecology—using big data & predictive tools to tailor conservation actions to local contexts.
Can ecology learn from medicine & marketing to boost impact? We think so.
Read it here: rdcu.be/eoaR4
#Conservation #Ecology #BigData
Our new GLiTRS paper! 🎉🦗🦋🐝
A tricky paper (evidence synthesis is hard!) but one with bags of potential to improve our understanding of insect biodiversity change 📊
A tricky paper (evidence synthesis is hard!) but one with bags of potential to improve our understanding of insect biodiversity change 📊
New GLiTRS paper led by @joemillard.bsky.social 🚨📝
"Our database provides a framework for the first global meta-analytic overview of the response of insects to a range of major anthropogenic drivers"
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
"Our database provides a framework for the first global meta-analytic overview of the response of insects to a range of major anthropogenic drivers"
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
A Multithreat Meta‐Analytic Database for Understanding Insect Biodiversity Change
Aim Widespread declines in insect biodiversity have been attributed to a diverse set of anthropogenic drivers, but the relative importance of these drivers remains unclear. A key reason for this unc...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
May 28, 2025 at 6:49 AM
Our new GLiTRS paper! 🎉🦗🦋🐝
A tricky paper (evidence synthesis is hard!) but one with bags of potential to improve our understanding of insect biodiversity change 📊
A tricky paper (evidence synthesis is hard!) but one with bags of potential to improve our understanding of insect biodiversity change 📊
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New GLiTRS paper led by @joemillard.bsky.social 🚨📝
"Our database provides a framework for the first global meta-analytic overview of the response of insects to a range of major anthropogenic drivers"
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
"Our database provides a framework for the first global meta-analytic overview of the response of insects to a range of major anthropogenic drivers"
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
A Multithreat Meta‐Analytic Database for Understanding Insect Biodiversity Change
Aim Widespread declines in insect biodiversity have been attributed to a diverse set of anthropogenic drivers, but the relative importance of these drivers remains unclear. A key reason for this unc...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
May 27, 2025 at 10:04 PM
New GLiTRS paper led by @joemillard.bsky.social 🚨📝
"Our database provides a framework for the first global meta-analytic overview of the response of insects to a range of major anthropogenic drivers"
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
"Our database provides a framework for the first global meta-analytic overview of the response of insects to a range of major anthropogenic drivers"
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
New GLiTRS paper out today!
NEW PAPER from the GLiTRS team! 🎉
We review how best to use different types of evidence to better understand global insect declines 🦗🪳🪲🦋🐛🐜
"Integrating multiple evidence streams to understand insect biodiversity change" published in @science.org
🔗 tinyurl.com/mr35bdaa
A summary 🧵 below (1/7)
We review how best to use different types of evidence to better understand global insect declines 🦗🪳🪲🦋🐛🐜
"Integrating multiple evidence streams to understand insect biodiversity change" published in @science.org
🔗 tinyurl.com/mr35bdaa
A summary 🧵 below (1/7)
www.science.org
April 4, 2025 at 1:04 PM
New GLiTRS paper out today!
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Our new paper combines wildlife surveillance data and spatial risk modelling to map suitability for TBEV in GB. We identified key drivers linked to TBEV exposure in deer and produced risk maps, which can guide future surveillance and interventions. www.eurosurveillance.org/content/10.2...
Identifying hotspots and risk factors for tick-borne encephalitis virus emergence at its range margins to guide interventions, Great Britain
Background
Tick-borne encephalitis virus (TBEV) is expanding its range in Europe, with increasing human cases reported. Since the first detection of TBEV in ticks in the United Kingdom in 2019, one po...
www.eurosurveillance.org
April 3, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Our new paper combines wildlife surveillance data and spatial risk modelling to map suitability for TBEV in GB. We identified key drivers linked to TBEV exposure in deer and produced risk maps, which can guide future surveillance and interventions. www.eurosurveillance.org/content/10.2...
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Great to be at the #FutureforButterflies. Tomorrow I will speak about this new paper and our work with #biodiversitymonitoring using #Insect #cameratraps and #AI as part of @mambo-project.eu @onestop-project.eu and @insectai.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...?
Emerging technologies for pollinator monitoring
Efficient tools for monitoring pollinator populations are urgently needed to address their reported declines. Here, we review advanced technologies fo…
www.sciencedirect.com
April 3, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Great to be at the #FutureforButterflies. Tomorrow I will speak about this new paper and our work with #biodiversitymonitoring using #Insect #cameratraps and #AI as part of @mambo-project.eu @onestop-project.eu and @insectai.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...?
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It's published!
The largest research work I've ever undertaken:
Lords of the flies: dipteran migrants are diverse, abundant & ecologically important
Published in Biological Reviews: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Thanks so much to co-authors @koralwotton.bsky.social & Myles Menz
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The largest research work I've ever undertaken:
Lords of the flies: dipteran migrants are diverse, abundant & ecologically important
Published in Biological Reviews: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Thanks so much to co-authors @koralwotton.bsky.social & Myles Menz
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April 2, 2025 at 6:39 AM
It's published!
The largest research work I've ever undertaken:
Lords of the flies: dipteran migrants are diverse, abundant & ecologically important
Published in Biological Reviews: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Thanks so much to co-authors @koralwotton.bsky.social & Myles Menz
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The largest research work I've ever undertaken:
Lords of the flies: dipteran migrants are diverse, abundant & ecologically important
Published in Biological Reviews: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Thanks so much to co-authors @koralwotton.bsky.social & Myles Menz
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Deadline tomorrow to apply for our paid internship on modelling restoration
We’re offering a paid internship!
“Restoring for ecological recovery and resilience: a global approach”
Look for Internship 3 (also peruse the other internships) at:
ceh.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/CEH_Careers/...
“Restoring for ecological recovery and resilience: a global approach”
Look for Internship 3 (also peruse the other internships) at:
ceh.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/CEH_Careers/...
NC-International Internship
These internships are offered at our Bangor, Edinburgh, Lancaster and Wallingford sites, as specified below. The internships take place during a fixed period from Monday 30th June to Friday 8th August...
ceh.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com
March 13, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Deadline tomorrow to apply for our paid internship on modelling restoration
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Our new paper, based on data from 1,705 studies, shows that pesticides are toxic to organisms they are not intended to harm, including fungi, microbes, plants, insects, & vertebrates such as ourselves. Questions the wisdom of applying over 3 million tonnes of them every year...
February 13, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Our new paper, based on data from 1,705 studies, shows that pesticides are toxic to organisms they are not intended to harm, including fungi, microbes, plants, insects, & vertebrates such as ourselves. Questions the wisdom of applying over 3 million tonnes of them every year...
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Come and join us in @nhm-london.bsky.social's Biodiversity Futures Lab! We're looking for a geospatial analyst to join the #PredictsProject team for 12 months (with possibility to extend) to help us further develop the Biodiversity Intactness Index. #job deadline 3 Mar jobs.nhm.ac.uk/internal/Job...
Geospatial Analyst:South Kensington
jobs.nhm.ac.uk
February 13, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Come and join us in @nhm-london.bsky.social's Biodiversity Futures Lab! We're looking for a geospatial analyst to join the #PredictsProject team for 12 months (with possibility to extend) to help us further develop the Biodiversity Intactness Index. #job deadline 3 Mar jobs.nhm.ac.uk/internal/Job...
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As the clowns in charge of the American circus pull out of the #ParisClimateAgreement, the @who.int, and probably a host of other international agencies, I'm reminded of this paragraph we wrote in 2021 (from doi.org/10.3389/fcos...):
January 21, 2025 at 8:44 AM
As the clowns in charge of the American circus pull out of the #ParisClimateAgreement, the @who.int, and probably a host of other international agencies, I'm reminded of this paragraph we wrote in 2021 (from doi.org/10.3389/fcos...):
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🚨 Interested in using #AI to help develop real-time early warnings of human-wildlife conflict?
Apply for a fully-funded #PhD supervised by Vicky Boult (University of Reading) and our own @robboyd.bsky.social
Part of the AI-INTERVENE programme. Deadline 27 Jan: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Apply for a fully-funded #PhD supervised by Vicky Boult (University of Reading) and our own @robboyd.bsky.social
Part of the AI-INTERVENE programme. Deadline 27 Jan: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Leveraging Artificial Intelligence for Real-Time Early-Warnings of Human-Wildlife Conflict at University of Reading on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - Leveraging Artificial Intelligence for Real-Time Early-Warnings of Human-Wildlife Conflict at University of Reading, listed on FindAPhD.com
www.findaphd.com
January 9, 2025 at 11:38 AM
🚨 Interested in using #AI to help develop real-time early warnings of human-wildlife conflict?
Apply for a fully-funded #PhD supervised by Vicky Boult (University of Reading) and our own @robboyd.bsky.social
Part of the AI-INTERVENE programme. Deadline 27 Jan: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Apply for a fully-funded #PhD supervised by Vicky Boult (University of Reading) and our own @robboyd.bsky.social
Part of the AI-INTERVENE programme. Deadline 27 Jan: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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Quick thread on some new papers on the science of impacts of bird feeding since the publication of our papers here www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... and here britishbirds.co.uk/journal/arti... #Ornithoogy #UKBirding🧵 1/
January 9, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Quick thread on some new papers on the science of impacts of bird feeding since the publication of our papers here www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... and here britishbirds.co.uk/journal/arti... #Ornithoogy #UKBirding🧵 1/
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My own #OA contribution is "Bending the curve of #biodiversity loss requires a ‘satnav’ for nature". I argue we'll only reach the #KMGBF goals by combining model predictions of expected future outcomes of today's choices with rapid feedback from monitoring royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
January 9, 2025 at 1:12 PM
My own #OA contribution is "Bending the curve of #biodiversity loss requires a ‘satnav’ for nature". I argue we'll only reach the #KMGBF goals by combining model predictions of expected future outcomes of today's choices with rapid feedback from monitoring royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
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‘Bending the curve towards nature recovery: building on Georgina Mace's legacy for a biodiverse future’ - a special issue of Phil Trans R Soc B in honour of a very special biodiversity scientist - is published today by @royalsociety.org. royalsocietypublishing.org/toc/rstb/202...
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences: Vol 380, No 1917
royalsocietypublishing.org
January 9, 2025 at 9:31 AM
‘Bending the curve towards nature recovery: building on Georgina Mace's legacy for a biodiverse future’ - a special issue of Phil Trans R Soc B in honour of a very special biodiversity scientist - is published today by @royalsociety.org. royalsocietypublishing.org/toc/rstb/202...
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🎄🎁 Need help navigating the mFD R package for your analyses of #functionaldiversity? The team has a Christmas present for you: an FAQ based on your most common questions since 2021!
➡️ cmlmagneville.github.io/mFD/articles...
+ New functions to work with functional entities (in the dev vers)📦
➡️ cmlmagneville.github.io/mFD/articles...
+ New functions to work with functional entities (in the dev vers)📦
December 19, 2024 at 3:36 PM
🎄🎁 Need help navigating the mFD R package for your analyses of #functionaldiversity? The team has a Christmas present for you: an FAQ based on your most common questions since 2021!
➡️ cmlmagneville.github.io/mFD/articles...
+ New functions to work with functional entities (in the dev vers)📦
➡️ cmlmagneville.github.io/mFD/articles...
+ New functions to work with functional entities (in the dev vers)📦
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We are thrilled to announce that it has been agreed that #IPBES12 will take place in the United Kingdom, thanks to the UK’s kind offer to host the Plenary.
Thank you to UK Government, we look forward to launching the #BizBiodiversity Report in the UK.
Thank you to UK Government, we look forward to launching the #BizBiodiversity Report in the UK.
December 17, 2024 at 9:41 AM
We are thrilled to announce that it has been agreed that #IPBES12 will take place in the United Kingdom, thanks to the UK’s kind offer to host the Plenary.
Thank you to UK Government, we look forward to launching the #BizBiodiversity Report in the UK.
Thank you to UK Government, we look forward to launching the #BizBiodiversity Report in the UK.
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1/ Great news! 🎉BTO, JNCC and RSPB are making decades of Breeding Bird Survey (BBS) data freely available for everyone in the conservation and research community. This includes over 7 million records! 📝 Find out more ⬇️ or read the paper➡️ bit.ly/_BBSData #Ornithology #UKBirding
December 17, 2024 at 10:15 AM
1/ Great news! 🎉BTO, JNCC and RSPB are making decades of Breeding Bird Survey (BBS) data freely available for everyone in the conservation and research community. This includes over 7 million records! 📝 Find out more ⬇️ or read the paper➡️ bit.ly/_BBSData #Ornithology #UKBirding
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Digital twins AND adaptive sampling! A @ukceh.bsky.social double bill at the poster session tonight B17.10/11 #bes2024
December 12, 2024 at 11:01 AM
Digital twins AND adaptive sampling! A @ukceh.bsky.social double bill at the poster session tonight B17.10/11 #bes2024
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Are you at #BES2024? Come and find us on stand 10 to learn more about the long-term environmental data we have available through our #NC-UK programme, as well as our latest #AgZero+ sustainable agriculture research
@britishecolsoc.bsky.social @ukladybirds.bsky.social
@britishecolsoc.bsky.social @ukladybirds.bsky.social
December 11, 2024 at 3:52 PM
Are you at #BES2024? Come and find us on stand 10 to learn more about the long-term environmental data we have available through our #NC-UK programme, as well as our latest #AgZero+ sustainable agriculture research
@britishecolsoc.bsky.social @ukladybirds.bsky.social
@britishecolsoc.bsky.social @ukladybirds.bsky.social