Alice Stuart

PhD candidate @uniofeastanglia using social licence to operate to understand how we can achieve biodiversity net gain in a way that works for people and nature!

[Alice Stuart @Al_Stu_]

Interested in #BiodiversityNetGain, or want to find out more?
Check out this animation then, if you're 16+ and living in England, fill in my questionnaire to contribute to research on how organisations should fulfill their BNG requirements: https://t.co/lU6KEQeFz1

[Alice Stuart @Al_Stu_]

@jstgerlach @Bill_Sutherland Having used these plots extensively in my masters, I’d say they’re a replacement in almost all cases, but fall down when you have a *very* skewed distribution as a single bar of the histogram gets too wide. Other plots don’t deal with this well either, though!

[Dr. Maja Ilić @MajaIlicZg]

Happy to introduce Sea stack plots as an alternative to bar charts! What started as an interesting exchange here on X/Twitter, has now been published in Ecology and Evolution:

https://t.co/6Am0eNKajt

Amazing effort by @Bill_Sutherland, @BennoSimmons and especially @alice_stu_ !

[Alice Stuart @Al_Stu_]

Ever looked at a bar chart and thought “there must be a better way of plotting this data…”? Look no further than sea stack plots!
https://t.co/vs7UmBE5OP with @MajaIlicZg @BennoSimmons and @Bill_Sutherland

[Alice Stuart @Al_Stu_]

Check out our paper on improving data visualisation in ecology!

[Bill Sutherland @Bill_Sutherland]

We think that bar charts are terrible means of presenting results so instead suggest sea stack plots
https://t.co/V5McLD0IWX

[Jack Ashby @JackDAshby]

We teach a really cool module at @CamZoology for our ecology students on natural history #museums' vital role in evidencing environmental change. What's even better is that it includes a class on colonial legacies too. It's important they hear the history behind the collections.

[Alice Stuart @Al_Stu_]

Was lucky enough to be treated to not one, not two, but three cranes on my train to London this morning. Sadly no pictures (moving train…) but a great privilege!

[Alice Stuart @Al_Stu_]

Really enjoyed giving this talk at #CEEC24 !

[Alice Stuart @Al_Stu_]

@rebeccakeeling1 Hi Rebecca, I do not know exactly as will depend on number of responses, but will not be before the end of March so would be great if you could share it!

[Alice Stuart @Al_Stu_]

Interested in #BiodiversityNetGain, or want to find out more?
Check out this animation then, if you're 16+ and living in England, fill in my questionnaire to contribute to research on how organisations should fulfill their BNG requirements: https://t.co/lU6KEQeFz1

[Alice Stuart @Al_Stu_]

@Bill_Sutherland I'm not in a named lab (too small), but prefer groups named after what they do (e.g. Conservation Science Group) than the person running it. This also feels much more accessible to non-academics and those in other fields/ starting out as does assume knowledge of senior academics.

[jebyrnes (he/him) @jebyrnes]

For a while now, @LauraEllenDee and I have been working on a guide to introduce Ecologists to causal inference tools for observational data that has problematic unobserved confounding variables lurking in the background. And now it's up as a preprint!

https://t.co/54ZyVoD4OU

[WWT @WWTworldwide]

Fill it with pintail ducks, obviously

[Alice Stuart @Al_Stu_]

@SueSteel2 @WWoodlanders @ueaenv Hi Sue, I also leafleted the local postcodes sharing the questionnaire and posted in a number of local and parish council Facebook groups. Doing my best to ensure everyone who wants to can contribute.

[Alice Stuart @Al_Stu_]

@Pete_Day @SueSteel2 @WWoodlanders @ueaenv Hi Peter, the reason for this is because the questionnaire is part of a wider research project - the options given are common arguments as to how we should prioritise biodiversity net gain compensation, so are relevant to other projects too. Happy to discuss this further!

[Alice Stuart @Al_Stu_]

@DanielSalliss It's such a beautiful place! And (imo) the marsh is even more beautiful flooded than it is normally.

[Alice Stuart @Al_Stu_]

@Pete_Day @WWoodlanders @ueaenv Hi Peter, I am the researcher in question, drop me a dm or email me (address in questionnaire), I'd love to chat about this!

[Alice Stuart @Al_Stu_]

Interested in #BiodiversityNetGain, or want to find out more?
Check out this animation then, if you're 16+ and living in England, fill in my questionnaire to contribute to research on how organisations should fulfill their BNG requirements: https://t.co/lU6KEQeFz1

[Alice Stuart @Al_Stu_]

@Ed_pheasant I found the (free) data downloads easier than scraping, but the bibliographies are a mess so there’s a lot of data cleaning to do once you have them!

[Alice Stuart @Al_Stu_]

@Ed_pheasant I have an entire package to do this! DM me and I can send it over (made a few years ago, but should still work)

[Alice Stuart @Al_Stu_]

An excellent checklist to assess whether your organisation is following evidence-based practice. Is also interesting to try and apply these principles to our daily lives!

[Bill Sutherland @Bill_Sutherland]

If convinced by the likely gain in effectiveness from being evidence based then here is a checklist to see how your organisation is doing. Interested to know how your organisation scores (out of the number applicable - maximum 19).