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PhD @ICON_Science @RMIT #biodiversity 🦋🌳🐯#causalinference #spatialstatistics #machinelearning

 Melbourne, Victoria
Joined November 2014
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Our recently published protocol for evidence synthesis on Protected area impact @EnvEvidence #phdlife at @ICON_Science with great team @eklund_jo @ultimatemegs @jgeldmann @ultimatemegs @J__Schleicher @BobPressey @Ascelin @MarcoGtez @ProfCoffeeRMIT rdcu.be/b3SMS 1/5
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Started my day watching this fantastic talk. Wondering if next gen journals should be Gits
Richard McElreath 🐈‍⬛@rlmcelreath3 Oct 2020
Since I posted this talk, I've received several sincere notes from ppl who gave up on careers in academia out of frustration with sloppiness of research. Don't know how widespread it is, but this is not the kind of selection effect we want, driving out conscientious scholars. >>
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@NumFOCUS3 Sep 2020
New to Jupyter Notebook app and don't know where to go from here? Check out this article to see different tips and tutorials for Jupyter Notebook for beginners here: dld.bz/jhqtR
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Earth Lab’s Introduction to Earth Data Science textbook is available free online. Start learning #python for earth #datascience today! bit.ly/2xUKpN9
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Take over the streets, excellent plan by ICONist @_ficus
ICON Science RMIT@ICON_Science3 Jun 2020
ICON lab member @_ficus has plans to save Melbourne's word class restaurant and pub scene during pandemic: take over the streets and create parklets. Wonder if there could be any urban biodiversity benefits🤔? Featured in the @theage theage.com.au/national/victo…

Could we save Melbourne's restaurants by allowing them to use public spaces?

Cities around the world are letting eateries turn their streets, car parks, footpaths, squares and parks into open-air cafes to increase their patronage while observing COVID-19 social distancing...

theage.com.au
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4/5 Collecting, filtering, and synthesizing good quality evaluations is therefore an important public good
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5/5 Pre-registering reports promotes transparency in research and reduces publication bias
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Want to help wildlife after the fires? You can do it in your own backyard say @ICON_Science’s @HollyKirk @freyamthomas @sbekessy @GeorgiaGarrard and other cool peeps @BrenWintle @pelentini @kyliesoanes @urbanfrogger theconversation.com/want-to-… via @ConversationEDU

Want to help save wildlife after the fires? You can do it in your own backyard

Some threatened species hit hard by the bushfires this summer have populations in and around urban areas, which are now crucial refuges. Here are some tips to help improve their odds of survival.

theconversation.com
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This story should be seen (the imagery alone is amazing albeit also very confronting) and read by all abc.net.au/news/2020-02-19/a… Thread.

From a single lightning strike to Australia's largest bushfire

How heat and drought turned Australia into a tinderbox — see the devastation of Australia's summer of fire from space.

abc.net.au
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I am just wondering if there is any R package that supports in confounder identification using change in estimate criteria and backward deletion. With a number of variables, removing variable one at a time process tends to take forever.. Any help #rstats #epidemiology #rladies
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Ascelin Gordon@Ascelin28 Nov 2019
Very refreshing to see @plyon_act sing us a song about the national Habitat Condition Assessment for Australia's ecosystems in his talk at #ESAus19
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Fascinating paper on the real world challenges of carrying out landscape scale experiments. In this case testing payments for ecosystem services to improve water quality in Bolivia. Lots of important lessons. bit.ly/2JcN1ai

The effectiveness of Payments for Ecosystem Services at delivering improvements in water quality:...

Background Randomised Control Trials (RCTs) are used in impact evaluation in a range of fields. However, despite calls for their greater use in environmental management, their use to evaluate...

peerj.com
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Nepal's forest cover expanded from 26% in 1992 to 45% in 2016, making it an exception to the global trend of deforestation. One key reason why is the exodus of millions of Nepalis every year for jobs abroad, which has reduced reliance on the land. e360.yale.edu/features/in-ne…

In Nepal, Out-Migration Is Helping Fuel a Forest Resurgence

An exodus for jobs abroad has played an important role in the reforestation of Nepal, as rural people leave and workers send money back to their families, reducing reliance on the land. Migration has...

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ICON Science PhD candidate @MarcoGtez passed his Confirmation milestone today with flying colours! Supervised by @sbekessy & @Ascelin, Marco's thesis is focused on the use of Strategic Environmental Assessments here in Australia & in Mexico. We can't wait to see what comes next!
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#teamcounterfactual -a community of practice for #impact #evaluation in conservation science to support evidence-based policy!
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Fmask 4.0 paper is finally online! You can download it for free here: authors.elsevier.com/a/1ZCxA… The software and code are available here: github.com/GERSL/Fmask Huge improvements for Sentinel-2 data and good improvements for Landsat data. Nice work from @Shi60604194
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