Gotta love AI sometimes. I was looking for the URL for one of my papers (a commentary on reporting ethics for live capture studies) and Google told me this:

I'm getting more and more of these AI-generated job invitations via email and WhatsApp. Grumble.

Does anyone else take ridiculous pleasure in developing nice plots? This one has incrementally improved over the last few days. Coded in base #Rstats. Anything else that I could do?

The second volume (issue 1) of Milvus is printed! It's late(!) but I didn't want to short-cut the peer review process. It's my last publication with WOS, as I've resigned for personal reasons. I hope that the journal and society can go from strength to strength. 🧪

What the Editorial Board invitation email says vs what the website says.

Seems legit. 🧪

Repost a meme that lets us get to know you better

Left, non-date matched detections probabilities across all camera traps (i.e., dissynchrony between climate factors). Right, date-matched detection probabilities. 🤷🧪

It's always nice when analyses go as predicted. 😊 Many more groups to analyse but it all looks good, so far. 🧪

I'm pretty sure that this animal didn't make an 8km round trip in 2 hours and for no apparent reason. 🧪

BBC Science Focus out here giving away my research plans.

I kid, it's fine. But if you want to talk studying UK wallabies, drop me a line!

i heard a rumor that your last selfie is you on the outside, and your last saved meme is you on the inside

I mean, yeah. Pretty much.

I guess another intro is in order. I'm a largely bipedal conservation biologist/ecologist at the University of South Wales. I'm a proud dad, a died-in-the-wool nerd, lifter of heavy things, and occasional creative type. 3rd gen Italian immigrant, 1st gen academic, level 42 manticore.