Feel free to contact me @NewsonStuart or Simon Gillings if you want to know more about using the BTO acoustic pipeline for your own research or monitoring project.

📢 Apply by 12 noon on Monday 24th October: Head of Science BTO Scotland 🗺️ Stirling, Scotland 📅 Full time 💰 £40,764 rising to £45,294 over 2 years + 11% employer pension contribution Apply 👉 bit.ly/3yaVwgX #ConservationJobs #ConservationCareers #Ornithology

Fully funded ARIES Doctoral Training #PhD identifying anthropogenic threat hotspots for migratory birds. We will be collecting new movement data for Greater Spotted Eagle! Exciting collaboration with BTO Adham Ashton-Butt James Gilroy Phil Atkinson Deadline Jan/11/23 apply: aries-dtp.ac.uk/studentships/f…

God bless the free market theguardian.com/environment/20…

1/ Introducing my 1st published chapter of my PhD University of Hull, and my 1st first author journal article; Lets talk bird flu, aka avian influenza aka AI. Since starting my PhD, AI has raised it's head and from both a conservation and rural economy perspective, that's a problem.

The UK government's biodiversity expenditure data released - & it's grim. For all the rhetoric of financing nature recovery - here's how spending has actually changed over time - still ~40% lower than in 2008 in real terms jncc.gov.uk/our-work/ukbi-… /1

If people aren't bored of hearing me speak about Greater Spotted Eagles I'm at #BES2022 this afternoon! Come and say hello

1/5 New #BTOScience lead by Daniel Wade with University of Hull, APHA & University of Leeds shows that it's possible to detect the #AvianInfluenza virus via an active sampling approach before the nationwide passive approach can. #OpenAccess 👉 cambridge.org/core/journals/… #BirdFlu #HPAI

Great to see our paper out in STOTEN on the prevalence and risk of wildfires in areas of high conservation value in eastern Europe Polesia - Wilderness Without Borders

Landscape fires in #WildPolesia threaten human lives & health, economy & ecosystems, and increase greenhouse gas emissions. #Wetland #restoration is a nature-based solution to the problem, the authors of our new peer-reviewed study emphasize. Learn more: wildpolesia.org/blog/2023/05/2…

A great account of @NewsonStuart's fieldwork for our @EndangeredLands bioacoustics project (endangeredlandscapes.org/project/acoust…). This will hopefully enable many more to do acoustic monitoring of bats, birds and more through automated classification.

Love data📊? Love birds 🐦🦅🦉🦜? Work with me and others BTO 💼! Permanent Ecological Statistician / Quantitative Ecologist position available! #ornithology #ecology #statistics #datascience #rstats

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Very excited to announce my new R package spAbundance for fitting single-species and multi-species spatially-explicit N-mixture models, distance sampling models, and GLMMs. Includes options for random intercepts/slopes and species correlations. #rstats jeffdoser.com/files/spabunda….

1/6 | #BOUsci23 | #Break1 Greater Spotted Eagle populations are declining across their breeding range in Europe due to habitat loss & hybridisation with Lesser Spotted Eagles - they also migrate across a broad front where they are exposed to a host of other threats

Connectivity is often given as an aim in conservation, but how do we interpret it, how do we try to improve it, and how do we measure it Please complete our survey - nice & quick to do, but will be very useful to scope out the state of play!

Big congratulations @climateincolour for publishing this work from her PhD and getting an honourable mention from Association for Computing Machinery dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/36…

Our work, featured in the The Guardian Guardian Science theguardian.com/environment/ar…

New paper on boosting training data in acoustic machine learning classification for identification of species with little training data, such as dormice. Great work from Jen MacIsaac to get the first chapter of her PhD published in Ecological Informatics. doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoi…