Principal Researcher working on biodiversity data, indicators & global change. Learning to live with #ChronicIllness in #STEM. All views my own.

Natural History Museum, London
Joined July 2011
🌱I'm hiring a research software engineer at @NHM_London! You'll need experience in Reproducible Analytical Pipelines (RAP) in #RStats and interest in {targets}, #biodiversity loss, geospatial data @ResearchSoftEng Job ad: careers.nhm.ac.uk/templates/…
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GBIF is not enough: national database improves the inventory completeness of Amazonian epiphytes link.springer.com/article/10… Evidence that using both global and national databases increases the overall #biodiversity knowledge and reduces inventory gaps, but spatial biases persist
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This week is #SolitaryBeeWeek2022. We know we're all about the charismatic #bumblebee but we do like to highlight these hardworking #bees too! 🐝 Here are just some you may spot: ow.ly/QKnU50JHMkZ @SolitaryBeeWeek @BuzzingShrill 📷 Bex Cartwright #MaleRedMasonBee
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Is #biodiversity science an obstacle to societal transformation by perpetuating the status quo in how we build and apply knowledge? asks excellent plenary speaker @EstherTurnhout Esther calls on us to be epistemically disobedient ontologically pluralistic #wbf2022
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Build a Museum: A careers event for students from ethnic minority backgrounds who are interested in science and nature is back on 19th July! If you're a sixth form teacher who would like to bring their class, get in touch ➡️ nuzhat.tabassum@nhm.ac.uk #KS5 #Careers #Science
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Congratulations to everyone who has been longlisted! We are so proud to have A Bug's World by @flygirlNHM, Julia and the Shark by @Kiran_MH and Spark by @MitchAuthor in the #WainwrightPrize22 longlist for Children's writing on nature and conservation😍
And for the very first time, we are delighted to announce the 2022 James Cropper Wainwright Prize longlist for Children’s writing on nature & conservation!!! Congratulations to our 12 longlisted authors and illustrators!! 🌱🤩📚 #WainwrightPrize22 #JCWP22 @jamescropper
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I am a co-author on this new @ScienceMagazine paper led by @jamesecology. It suggests that achieving conservation targets would require action on 44% of the earth’s land. I have been critical of calls for – #30x30, #HalfEarth etc. So why did I join this study? 3 reasons: 🧵
Excited to share a new paper just released in Science! "The minimum land area requiring conservation attention to safeguard biodiversity" science.org/doi/10.1126/scie… @ScienceMagazine @IBED_UvA @BirdLife_News @TheWCS @nature_org @koobicarbon @RightsResources @UvA_Amsterdam
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Great closing comments from @michaeljohng on museums and science centres encouraging more action, "We tend to think a lot about impactful entrance experiences, perhaps we should focus more on exit experiences - what do we want people to do after leaving us?" #Ecsite2022 – at Heilbronn, Germany
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🚨New paper🚨 We looked at over 1,400 publications on wild bees to provide perspective on best practices for collection, reporting, and data mgmt. This work is available Open Access in @conservationsp and involved quite a few time zones to coordinate! :P conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.c…
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Last chance to apply to work with the amazing Dr Jones!
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New Job Alert! We are searching for a full-time Chair of Postgraduate Studies @NHM_London. This role is critical to our growing Graduate Centre, in particular for training & support of @NHM_Students across our many Master's & PhD programmes. Details at: careers.nhm.ac.uk/templates/…
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Pleased to be joining the board of @NHM_London in addition to my current role. As an institution it inspires visitors of all ages and is an important leader in global scientific research.
We're excited to announce that Sir Patrick Vallance, Government Chief Scientific Adviser, will be our new Chair of the Board of Trustees! He brings a wealth of experience in academia and science and we look forward to working with him. Find out more 👇 nhm.ac.uk/discover/news/2022…
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Do you have an interest in #RShiny & #EvidenceSynthesis (#SystematicMap, #SystematicReview ) & have some spare time to help us develop EviAtlas further? eshackathon.org/software/evi…. We have a little bit of funding & the tasks might suite a MSc student. Please Retweet
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#BanUrbanPesticides Only 12 days to go - please sign this petition if you'd like pesticide use to be banned in urban areas. It is needless, ugly, destructive & dangerous. Pls RT petition.parliament.uk/petit… @PAN_UK
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* NEW from @UniOfSurrey * Black UK PhD applicants wanted! ANY discipline 10 positions available Fully funded (fees waived +stipend) Mentorship and internship scheme Research expenses Shine Scholars *17th Jan Deadline* surrey.ac.uk/fees-and-fundin… Please tell everyone!
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Quite spectacular! Amazing new example of the genus first found by Joseph & Mary Anning down on the Dorset coast way back in 1811. I wonder which lucky museum is getting this beauty?
I’m absolutely thrilled to reveal the largest ichthyosaur skeleton EVER discovered in Britain! It was an honour to lead the excavation and unearth this incredible Jurassic GIANT from its ancient rocky tomb in Rutland! Found by Joe Davis @RutlandWaterNR #RutlandSeaDragon
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Want to start a campaign but don't know where to start? Check out all of our campaigning tips in @galdemzine! Thanks so much @KimiChaddah_ for interviewing us! It was a pleasure as always!
For the first guide in our How To series demystifying community activism, @KimiChaddah_ speaks to the founders of @ChokedUp_UK and @KidsOfColourHQ about the steps to launching a successful lobbying campaign gal-dem.com/how-to-launch-a-…
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Hi friends! We are hiring a ‘Biodiversity Data Specialist’ for our team @calacademy! We need someone with experience in R, modeling and analyzing species occurance data (from @inaturalist iNaturalist and @GBIF) along with other data sets. 1/3
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1/3 New Associate Prof job in #Conservation Science in @OxfordBiology! my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecruit… Please spread the word! It would be fantastic to have a truly diverse range of applicants from around the world; by career stage, background, research interests...
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1 in 4 plants are at risk of extinction. 🚨🌵🌲🌺🌿 Here's the why's, where's and how's in my latest animation in collaboration with @NHM_Science! (4m45) --> youtube.com/watch?v=l57Ukt6E…
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