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Abhimanyu RS Chandel @abhirsc.bsky.social · 23d

Grateful for the chance to present at #IDW2025 in Brisbane! 🌏

Loved sharing ideas on open ecological data and learning from so many inspiring minds.

Cheers to new insights and collaborations ahead! 🙌

#ardc
#FAIRScience #EcoCommons #OpenData

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Abhimanyu RS Chandel @abhirsc.bsky.social · Oct 9

🌏 Excited to share I’ll be presenting about how FAIR ecological modelling, open, reproducible workflows making impacts for conservation at International Data Week 2025!

📅 13–16 Oct | Brisbane
🔗 internationaldataweek.org
#IDW2025 #EcoCommons #FAIRScience #OpenData #Biodiversity

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Biological Recording Company @biologicalrecording.co.uk · Feb 10

Tomorrow is the #BNG Virtual symposium with talks on small-site challenges, habitat assessment consistency, bat conservation, early research findings, with recordings available to registered attendees. #Ecologist @batconservation.bsky.social @the-ies.bsky.social www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/biodiversi...

Biodiversity Net Gain Virtual Symposium 2025

The annual Biodiversity Net Gain Virtual Symposium will look at the challenges, successes and lessons learned to date. Join the discussion.

www.eventbrite.co.uk

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Dr Ecology 🌲 @ecologyphd.bsky.social · Jun 18

🚨 Job Alert 🚨

Check out this job at California Native Plant Society: Associate Vegetation Ecologist / Vegetation Data Specialist

$32 - $40 / hour
Full time, 8+ month term
Remote (CA based) & field
Starts July 2025

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#Ecologist
#PlantScience
#CaliforniaJobs

Associate Ecologist/ Field Data Specialist

Job Opening: Associate Ecologist/ Field Data Specialist at California Native Plant Society in Remote / CA, USA.

cnps.pinpointhq.com

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Abhimanyu RS Chandel @abhirsc.bsky.social · Aug 11

🚨 Australia’s most elusive grassland bird — the #PlainsWanderer 🐦🌾 — is losing its last refuges.
We modelled its future under climate change. Are these safe?
Full story & maps:
🔗 www.linkedin.com/posts/abhirs...
#ActForBiodiversity #ConservationScience #EcoCommons
@qcif
@ardc.edu.au

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Ecological Society of Australia @ecolsocaus.bsky.social · Aug 10

Free Online Forum on the Hottest Topics in Policy and Ecology only two days away!

Speakers and full program have been announced 👇

Details:
🐛 Free (Registration necessary)
⏰️ Tuesday 12 August 2025
🐝 Online: tinyurl.com/mt8n3ubw

Hosted by @hollykirk.bsky.social

#ecology #conservation #forum

Hosted by Holly Kirk, Speakers include Dr Eric Nordberg & Dr Kit Pendergast

Speakers include Darcy Watchorn, Dr Michelle Wille, Paul Williams

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Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC) @ardc.edu.au · May 15

🌊 Decades of #fisheries research is now easier to find!
The ARDC and @frdc.bsky.social are connecting researchers, outputs and organisations with #ResearchLinkAustralia, making fisheries and aquaculture knowledge more discoverable & impactful.
📖 Read more: ardc.edu.au/article/maki...

Fisheries and Aquaculture Research with Research Link Australia

Discover how the ARDC and FRDC are making fisheries and aquaculture research more visible and impactful by connecting decades of fisheries data through Research Link Australia.

ardc.edu.au

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GBIF @gbif.org · May 15

😱 5 days left! Submit your abstract for oral talks, posters & ⚡lightning talks to #LivingData2025!

Deadline: 20 May 2025
🐦 Early bird reg closes 15 June 2025

🔗Submit abstracts: www.livingdata2025.com/sessions.html

#DatosVivos2025
@tdwg.org
@gbif.org
@obis.org
@geobon.org
#InstitutoHumboldt

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GBIF @gbif.org · May 12

🌽GBIF consultation #survey on #agrobiodiversity data is open for submissions!

📍Survey deadline: 30 May 2025

🔗gbif.link/agro-consu...

🎥 See the recording of the recent agrobiodiversity webinar here: gbif.link/agro-webinar

green background with a collage of drawings of different species relevant to the field of agrobiodiversity

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Nelson Tucker @tornadostudy.bsky.social · May 12

The awesome might of a raging supercell with a wedge tornado at night in the Nebraska Sandhills, April 27, 2025. #newx

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Abhimanyu RS Chandel @abhirsc.bsky.social · May 13

🌿 Spotlight on #GossiaPunctata: From Least Concern to Critically Endangered

Using GBIF data + bioclim layers, I mapped its habitat via #EcoCommons. AUC 0.94 shows high model reliability. Response Curves give insights on Climate data. Let’s act to protect this species. #Biodiversity#[email protected]

@GregTasney
From September 2024, Gossia punctata—commonly known as the dotted myrtle—has been reclassified from "Least Concern" to "Critically Endangered" under Queensland's Nature Conservation Act 1992. This small rainforest tree, native to southeastern Queensland and northeastern New South Wales, faces significant threats from habitat loss and the pervasive spread of hashtag#MyrtleRust.

In response to it's conservation concern and spread awareness, I have initiated a Species Distribution Model (hashtag#SDM) for G. punctata using occurrence data from the GBIF: The Global Biodiversity Information Facility (https://lnkd.in/gqsFPPJE)

The goal is to identify current and potential habitats to inform conservation strategies.
🌱 Conservationist Greg Tasney has also raised hashtag#awareness about the urgent need to protect Gossia punctata, highlighting its recent reclassification and encouraging hashtag#conservation action across hashtag#Queensland. (https://lnkd.in/gfEerxtQ)

🔍 Call to Action: Let’s collaborate to safeguard the future of Gossia punctata.

⚠️ Disclaimer: This model was built using hashtag#GBIF hashtag#species occurrence records by N. Snow and Guymer and bioclimatic variables at a ~250m spatial resolution (current climate baseline: 1976–2005, ~9 arcseconds). It was generated on the EcoCommons Australia platform using the default algorithm configurations set by a peer-reviewed national scientific advisory panel.

Predicted habitat suitability (current): Highlights potential suitable zones inland of Brisbane based on MaxEnt output.

Response Curves: Illustrates how each bioclimatic variable influences predicted suitability across temperature and precipitation gradients.
- BIO10 (Mean Temperature of Warmest Quarter) showing a strong drop in suitability beyond ~24°C.
- BIO12 (Annual Precipitation) showing increasing suitability with higher rainfall.
- BIO16 (Precipitation of Wettest Quarter)
- BIO17 (Precipitation of Driest Quarter) confirming the species' reliance on seasonal moisture availability.

ROC Curve: Model performance evaluation with AUC = 0.94, showing high predictive strength of the model.

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Abhimanyu RS Chandel @abhirsc.bsky.social · Apr 29

🦟 Mapping mosquito threats with SDMs!
Aedes aegypti, a major disease vector, is expanding.
Using EcoCommons, we modelled habitat suitability across Australia with ensemble methods (AUC 0.91).
A small insect, a global challenge! 🌏 #SDM #Ecology #PublicHealth

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Abhimanyu RS Chandel @abhirsc.bsky.social · Apr 10

🌏 One platform. All the tools.
Australia + global. Climate + species.
Model with #MaxEnt, compare with #GLM, #GAM, #RF & more.
Use #RCPs, #SSPs, your own #GCMs.
Code-ready, shareable, supported.
And yes — it’s #opensource 🔓

🔗 ecocommons.org.au
Thanks @ardc.org.au and QCIF 🙌
#EcoCommons #OpenScience

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Abhimanyu RS Chandel @abhirsc.bsky.social · Dec 8

@ecolsocaus.bsky.social

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