Martin Westgate
@rowdynerd.bsky.social
Australian ecologist | Scientific software developer (#rstats) | Occasional frogger
Excited to be in Melbourne for #WOMBAT2025!
September 29, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Excited to be in Melbourne for #WOMBAT2025!
Belated shot of my outfit for #WearItPurple day - turns out my stock of purple outfits leans surprisingly formal, but the socks bring it back a bit 💜
August 29, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Belated shot of my outfit for #WearItPurple day - turns out my stock of purple outfits leans surprisingly formal, but the socks bring it back a bit 💜
Ditto for duplication, lovely visualisations here 😍
June 18, 2025 at 4:24 AM
Ditto for duplication, lovely visualisations here 😍
Very cool dataset-level summaries of major quality issues
June 18, 2025 at 4:23 AM
Very cool dataset-level summaries of major quality issues
@jamesbeedorey.bsky.social on cleaning biodiversity data using beebdc #ICCB2025
jbdorey.github.io/BeeBDC/
jbdorey.github.io/BeeBDC/
June 18, 2025 at 4:20 AM
@jamesbeedorey.bsky.social on cleaning biodiversity data using beebdc #ICCB2025
jbdorey.github.io/BeeBDC/
jbdorey.github.io/BeeBDC/
Neat work by Lamuel Chung (UQ): Multi-species occupancy models for quantifying quoll distributions from large-scale camera trap studies #ICCB2025
June 17, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Neat work by Lamuel Chung (UQ): Multi-species occupancy models for quantifying quoll distributions from large-scale camera trap studies #ICCB2025
Cool remote talk by Millie Chapman on political legacies in GBIF #ICCB2025
milliechapman.info
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
milliechapman.info
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
June 17, 2025 at 4:18 AM
Cool remote talk by Millie Chapman on political legacies in GBIF #ICCB2025
milliechapman.info
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
milliechapman.info
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Darryl discussing future of occupancy-based methods
June 17, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Darryl discussing future of occupancy-based methods
‘A curious elephant is very destructive’ - Matt Luskin on the risks of camera trapping in the tropics lol
June 17, 2025 at 12:13 AM
‘A curious elephant is very destructive’ - Matt Luskin on the risks of camera trapping in the tropics lol
Courtney sharing lessons from eBird for newer observatories - keep in touch with your users and ‘don’t fret’!
June 17, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Courtney sharing lessons from eBird for newer observatories - keep in touch with your users and ‘don’t fret’!
So cool to hear about the history *and* current state of occupancy modelling
June 16, 2025 at 11:50 PM
So cool to hear about the history *and* current state of occupancy modelling
Darryl MacKenzie on occupancy modelling
June 16, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Darryl MacKenzie on occupancy modelling
Yamil Edgardo Di Blanco on studying some of the coolest animals in the world (personal opinion lol)
June 16, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Yamil Edgardo Di Blanco on studying some of the coolest animals in the world (personal opinion lol)
Matt on his journey scaling up from single studies to large collaborations to answer more (and more interesting) questions. Plus heaps of monkey pics
June 16, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Matt on his journey scaling up from single studies to large collaborations to answer more (and more interesting) questions. Plus heaps of monkey pics
More on the science behind WildObs from Matt Luskin
June 16, 2025 at 11:20 PM
More on the science behind WildObs from Matt Luskin
First data from WildObs (occurrences + images) is online now via ALA
collections.ala.org.au/public/show/...
collections.ala.org.au/public/show/...
June 16, 2025 at 11:16 PM
First data from WildObs (occurrences + images) is online now via ALA
collections.ala.org.au/public/show/...
collections.ala.org.au/public/show/...
Jenna Wraith introducing new features from the Wildlife Observatory of Australia (WildObs)
June 16, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Jenna Wraith introducing new features from the Wildlife Observatory of Australia (WildObs)
Amazing work from Courtney Davis (eBird/Cornell) on status and trends of the world’s bird species
June 16, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Amazing work from Courtney Davis (eBird/Cornell) on status and trends of the world’s bird species
Great talk by @hannahsfraser.bsky.social on assessing condition of bird communities
June 16, 2025 at 5:51 AM
Great talk by @hannahsfraser.bsky.social on assessing condition of bird communities
@patmnorman.bsky.social on how to get tree heights out of lidar data at landscape scales #ICCB2025
June 16, 2025 at 2:08 AM
@patmnorman.bsky.social on how to get tree heights out of lidar data at landscape scales #ICCB2025
Fantastic talk at #ICCB2025 by @shandiya.bsky.social on our teams’ work supporting open data *and* code at ALA
June 16, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Fantastic talk at #ICCB2025 by @shandiya.bsky.social on our teams’ work supporting open data *and* code at ALA
