Tanya Strydom
@tanyadoesscience.bsky.social
🇿🇦 | postdoc | food web weaver 🕸 (now with bonus 🦖) | fancy maths 🧮 | part-time doodler 🎨 | warm beverage fan ☕️ | she/they 💬 | 🏠 https://tanyadoesscience.com
@hadley.nz , you’re so real for this 😭🙌
Lowkey spent my whole day glowin’ up my code with the new `genzplyr` pack — it’s giving ✨clean syntax✨ fr.
hadley.github.io/genzplyr/ind...
Lowkey spent my whole day glowin’ up my code with the new `genzplyr` pack — it’s giving ✨clean syntax✨ fr.
hadley.github.io/genzplyr/ind...
dplyr but make it bussin fr fr no cap
`genzplyr` is an alternative syntax for `dplyr` that replaces boring old function names with GenZ slang. Your data wrangling is about to hit different.
hadley.github.io
November 10, 2025 at 3:29 PM
@hadley.nz , you’re so real for this 😭🙌
Lowkey spent my whole day glowin’ up my code with the new `genzplyr` pack — it’s giving ✨clean syntax✨ fr.
hadley.github.io/genzplyr/ind...
Lowkey spent my whole day glowin’ up my code with the new `genzplyr` pack — it’s giving ✨clean syntax✨ fr.
hadley.github.io/genzplyr/ind...
Reposted by Tanya Strydom
Happy to announce the next edition of the @sortee.bsky.social Workshop & Webinar series on October 27 at 16:00UTC, ‘The Risks and Rewards of Large Language Models in (open) Scientific Research’ with @tanyadoesscience.bsky.social !! Sign up here:
events.humanitix.com/sortee-webin...
events.humanitix.com/sortee-webin...
SORTEE Webinar: The Risks and Rewards of Large Language Models in (Open) Scientific Research
SORTEE Workshop & Webinar Series
events.humanitix.com
October 17, 2025 at 1:21 AM
Happy to announce the next edition of the @sortee.bsky.social Workshop & Webinar series on October 27 at 16:00UTC, ‘The Risks and Rewards of Large Language Models in (open) Scientific Research’ with @tanyadoesscience.bsky.social !! Sign up here:
events.humanitix.com/sortee-webin...
events.humanitix.com/sortee-webin...
Whoever decided to host the poster session in the Natural history museum you are my hero! 🤩
July 28, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Whoever decided to host the poster session in the Natural history museum you are my hero! 🤩
Stickers placed = conference mode loading 🤓🤓🤓
Looking forward to learning about DINOSAURS!!!
Looking forward to learning about DINOSAURS!!!
July 28, 2025 at 9:22 AM
Stickers placed = conference mode loading 🤓🤓🤓
Looking forward to learning about DINOSAURS!!!
Looking forward to learning about DINOSAURS!!!
They've done it again... This time with adding (unnecessary) visual detail to the zero commit days. Inconsolable 😭😭😭
I feel like GitHub has (very subtly) modified the gradient they use for ones contributions calendar... I am going to need 2-4 business days to come to terms with this…
June 6, 2025 at 1:03 PM
They've done it again... This time with adding (unnecessary) visual detail to the zero commit days. Inconsolable 😭😭😭
“Back in time for tea and medals”
Celebrating the end of a fun fieldwork campaign the British way™
Celebrating the end of a fun fieldwork campaign the British way™
May 6, 2025 at 11:29 AM
“Back in time for tea and medals”
Celebrating the end of a fun fieldwork campaign the British way™
Celebrating the end of a fun fieldwork campaign the British way™
I feel like GitHub has (very subtly) modified the gradient they use for ones contributions calendar... I am going to need 2-4 business days to come to terms with this…
March 25, 2025 at 2:18 PM
I feel like GitHub has (very subtly) modified the gradient they use for ones contributions calendar... I am going to need 2-4 business days to come to terms with this…
Reposted by Tanya Strydom
New paper! (arxiv.org/abs/2503.14093) I haven’t been this excited about one in a while, and I think the theory @mhab.bsky.social develops here will be a big step forward for the field. Why? Let me explain 🧵...
March 19, 2025 at 1:53 PM
New paper! (arxiv.org/abs/2503.14093) I haven’t been this excited about one in a while, and I think the theory @mhab.bsky.social develops here will be a big step forward for the field. Why? Let me explain 🧵...
I've just had two @skypeascientist.bsky.social sessions today, and honestly it might just be the most rewarding part of this job. 🥲 Highly recommended for anyone who has the bandwidth/time for some science outreach
February 26, 2025 at 5:09 PM
I've just had two @skypeascientist.bsky.social sessions today, and honestly it might just be the most rewarding part of this job. 🥲 Highly recommended for anyone who has the bandwidth/time for some science outreach
Reporting from the trenches - i.e., emerging after a battle trying to use excel formulas and conditional formatting... Why does it all have to be one line though??
February 20, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Reporting from the trenches - i.e., emerging after a battle trying to use excel formulas and conditional formatting... Why does it all have to be one line though??
Reposted by Tanya Strydom
Get simulating! #Biodiversity / #foodweb dynamics with #julialang. Classic bioenergetic model, consolidation of lots of add-ons & super fast.
Very happy to share this, a result of amazing collaborators and a rich history of model development.
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Very happy to share this, a result of amazing collaborators and a rich history of model development.
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
EcologicalNetworksDynamics.jl: A Julia package to simulate the temporal dynamics of complex ecological networks
Species interactions play a crucial role in shaping biodiversity, species coexistence, population dynamics, community stability and ecosystem functioning. Our understanding of the role of the dive...
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
January 31, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Get simulating! #Biodiversity / #foodweb dynamics with #julialang. Classic bioenergetic model, consolidation of lots of add-ons & super fast.
Very happy to share this, a result of amazing collaborators and a rich history of model development.
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Very happy to share this, a result of amazing collaborators and a rich history of model development.
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Current me: Right I’ve said yes to this review I’m going to get it done in the next few days and submit my comments nice and early
Me in a fortnight: Submitting my review the day before the deadline counts as early right?
Me in a fortnight: Submitting my review the day before the deadline counts as early right?
January 23, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Current me: Right I’ve said yes to this review I’m going to get it done in the next few days and submit my comments nice and early
Me in a fortnight: Submitting my review the day before the deadline counts as early right?
Me in a fortnight: Submitting my review the day before the deadline counts as early right?
I promise I’m a functional adult... Anyway if anyone wants to see me unspool the crazy catch me talking about food webs at poster session one tomorrow #BES2024
December 10, 2024 at 5:38 PM
I promise I’m a functional adult... Anyway if anyone wants to see me unspool the crazy catch me talking about food webs at poster session one tomorrow #BES2024
The dream TBH…
Love doing science but hate all the meetings?
Clear your calendar by becoming Secluded Academic! Retire to your study and don’t emerge or discuss your ideas with anyone for 12-15 years at a time! Publish 1 magnum opus at the end of your career but make everyone wonder if you’re still alive!
Clear your calendar by becoming Secluded Academic! Retire to your study and don’t emerge or discuss your ideas with anyone for 12-15 years at a time! Publish 1 magnum opus at the end of your career but make everyone wonder if you’re still alive!
November 22, 2024 at 10:15 PM
The dream TBH…
The Julia Type System™ giveth but also taketh #JuliaLang
October 11, 2024 at 1:40 PM
The Julia Type System™ giveth but also taketh #JuliaLang
Combined a ‘thinking day’ with a day out in the Peaks. Can’t ask for a better office
September 18, 2024 at 1:41 PM
Combined a ‘thinking day’ with a day out in the Peaks. Can’t ask for a better office
Getting that annual itch to do a personal website overhaul… 🙈🙈🙈
September 16, 2024 at 2:42 PM
Getting that annual itch to do a personal website overhaul… 🙈🙈🙈
This! Important work in terms of helping us to get (be) better in terms of how we are defining and delimiting networks
🧪 Very cool results on food webs by lab members:
[1] Banville et al.: what does it mean to use probabilities to represent interactions?
[2] @gabdans.bsky.social et al.: local reconstruction of regional food webs
[1] ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...
[2] royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
[1] Banville et al.: what does it mean to use probabilities to represent interactions?
[2] @gabdans.bsky.social et al.: local reconstruction of regional food webs
[1] ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...
[2] royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
July 24, 2024 at 5:16 PM
This! Important work in terms of helping us to get (be) better in terms of how we are defining and delimiting networks
Reposted by Tanya Strydom
🧪 Very cool results on food webs by lab members:
[1] Banville et al.: what does it mean to use probabilities to represent interactions?
[2] @gabdans.bsky.social et al.: local reconstruction of regional food webs
[1] ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...
[2] royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
[1] Banville et al.: what does it mean to use probabilities to represent interactions?
[2] @gabdans.bsky.social et al.: local reconstruction of regional food webs
[1] ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...
[2] royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
July 24, 2024 at 1:58 PM
🧪 Very cool results on food webs by lab members:
[1] Banville et al.: what does it mean to use probabilities to represent interactions?
[2] @gabdans.bsky.social et al.: local reconstruction of regional food webs
[1] ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...
[2] royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
[1] Banville et al.: what does it mean to use probabilities to represent interactions?
[2] @gabdans.bsky.social et al.: local reconstruction of regional food webs
[1] ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...
[2] royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
You know it’s going to be a good meeting when this is the premise…
June 17, 2024 at 12:08 PM
You know it’s going to be a good meeting when this is the premise…
Missing the southwest a bit more than usual today as a result of the British ‘summer’ so played around with some of my favourite critters and shapes
June 16, 2024 at 11:43 AM
Missing the southwest a bit more than usual today as a result of the British ‘summer’ so played around with some of my favourite critters and shapes
It’s conceptual figure time! Featuring the bravest lion that ever was (being at the top of the food web has triggered his fear of heights)
May 13, 2024 at 9:53 AM
It’s conceptual figure time! Featuring the bravest lion that ever was (being at the top of the food web has triggered his fear of heights)
An important part of the research workflow here in the UK.
April 1, 2024 at 10:22 AM
An important part of the research workflow here in the UK.