Felix's brilliant work on methods for messy real-world acoustic spatial capture-recapture now published by @JABES - see link.springer.com/article/10.100…. It's his first ever academic paper, so please send kudos to Felix Petersma!!

Where will ISEC 2026 take place? Please share widely! Dr. Rocío Joo, PhD Olivier Gimenez 🖖🦦 Juan Manuel Morales Dr Vianey Leos Barajas Len Thomas @fbuderman @RolandLangrock Theoni Photopoulou Marie Auger-Méthé

Proud to announce my inaugural professorial lecture is now online, at youtube.com/watch?v=ZziEuu… Tried to summarize a quarter century of collaborations with wonderful colleagues CREEM_cake University of St Andrews and worldwide. Thanks to all of you!

Thanks to @ProfParksSU and her lab for hosting me this week in sunny Syracuse. Been working on a joint southern right whale passive acoustic density estimation project. Note to CREEM_cake: the pastries here are really good! 😊

#ProudSupervisor Brilliant work Fanny! Thanks to cosupervisor Ken Newman of BioSS for great support and ideas throughout.

Great to be working in-person with Greg Breed. Thanks to The Royal Society for facilitating this, via a Wolfson Visiting Fellowship to Greg.

Now in Annals of Applied Statistics: "Continuous-time modelling of behavioural responses in animal movement" We use stochastic differential equations to model baseline behaviour, and detect behaviour change after animals are exposed to human disturbance doi.org/10.1214/23-AOA…

Congratulations to my fantastic PhD student Fanny Empacher for defending her thesis this week, and thank-you to co-supervisor Ken Newman of BioSS and Edinburgh Uni Maths for all his help. Go Fanny!

Kudos to all CREEMinals!

The pipes are calling! We are advertising two lectureships in statistics: vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/70… Teaching-and-research or teaching-focussed. Lovely living and working environment, friendly and collaborative group, excellent students. #statsjobs #academicjobs

Curious about the use of GPU computing for massively faster fitting of statistical models (especially state-space models)? Nice paper by my fabulous PhD student Cal Fagard-Jenkin, with some "getting started" components. Paper: doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoi… Code github.com/calliste-fagar…

Proud indeed: it’s been a privilege to work with Felix. And fun too!

PhD📢: Fully-funded studentship University of St Andrews "Estimating spatial and temporal patterns in density of harbour porpoises in the North Sea using datasets from passive acoustic ocean observation networks with data flow to EU Digital Twin Ocean database" stats.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/files/2024/02/…

I'm looking forward to co-teaching another Camera Trap Distance Sampling workshop in May. It's inspiring to meet people from all around the world who are using these methods, and the real-world problems they raise are always thought-provoking.

Many congratulations to my fantastic PhD student cfj who today submitted his thesis on "GPU-accelerated computational statistics in ecology". Way to go, Cal!

Excellent close-kin mark-recapture paper by Felix Petersma.

Come work with us! We're recruiting a chair / reader in statistical ecology vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/28… CREEM_cake @StA_Maths_Stats University of St Andrews National Centre for Statistical Ecology #statsjobs #ecologyjobs

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Interested in an academic position in statistical ecology at St Andrews? Closing date coming up soon: 23rd October...

So proud ... 😀