Luke C Evans

Postdoctoral researcher @ the University of Reading. I work on insect declines, population and community ecology with a side of public perceptions and ethics

[Thomas Frederick Johnson @T_F_Johnson]

New in @Nature, we show that commonly applied approaches have failed to accurately represent global trends in biodiversity. So what's the problem and what's the solution?

https://t.co/KLrsWkVgjg

[Luke C Evans @Evans_L_C]

@bm_wildermuth Yes, you can dm email and ill send

[Luke C Evans @Evans_L_C]

@woodlandbirder @Alexander_Lees @Tom_H_Oliver @Ecology_Letters @UniofReading @BillKunin @RSPBScience Very interesting!

[Tom Oliver @Tom_H_Oliver]

New open access @Ecology_Letters paper showing how insect abundance affects birds, from analysis of monitoring data from 100s of UK sites collected by expert volunteers. @UniofReading team led by @Evans_L_C collaborators @BillKunin Leeds & @RSPBScience https://t.co/YZwAq0ffqW

[Rothamsted Research @Rothamsted]

Great to see this study on booming blue tit populations using data from @Rothamsted_RIS and @BBS_birds @Evans_L_C @ReadingBioSci @RSPBScience @ScienceLeeds
https://t.co/2s1jmC9285

[Thomas Frederick Johnson @T_F_Johnson]

New in @ConLetters, we propose that conservation culturomics/iEcology approaches should be embedded within the KM Global Biodiversity Framework. These approaches can help us track multiple targets at the interface of human-nature interactions. https://t.co/k9iytFsAOS

[Thomas Frederick Johnson @T_F_Johnson]

Do you want to protect and restore biodiversity? Aspiring to shape international policy? Interested in developing cutting-edge approaches? Come and do a #PhD at @sheffielduni with @dylan_childs, myself, @simon_rolph,@robin_freeman. Plz share! Qs welcome! https://t.co/6ALBek7Aby

[Yolanda Melero @YolandaMeleroC]

📢 PhD candidate wanted📢

Interested in doing a Ph.D. on urban ecology, studying the assembly and dynamics of butterfly communities across Europe, take a look 👇
https://t.co/CFs1Abs3Jb……

We are looking for a candidate to apply for Spanish scholarships. 📍@UniBarcelona

[Diversity & Distributions @consbiog]

Causal inference and large‐scale expert validation shed light on the drivers of SDM accuracy and variance
https://t.co/gAD0rfT3Mw

[Luke C Evans @Evans_L_C]

coauthors (on Twitter): @YolandaMeleroC @btorobrob @SchmuckiReto @DavidRoyBRC @Tom_H_Oliver

[Luke C Evans @Evans_L_C]

🚨New paper 🚨 bit of a change from the last one! Here we look at mechanisms influencing community stability in butterflies using a great dataset from UK, Spain, Finland

[Global Change Biology @GlobalChangeBio]

|| NEW RESEARCH ||
Mechanisms underpinning community stability along a latitudinal gradient: insights from a niche‐based approach

📄 https://t.co/UvgDpSJqLe @Evans_L_C

[Global Change Biology @GlobalChangeBio]

|| NEW RESEARCH ||
Mechanisms underpinning community stability along a latitudinal gradient: insights from a niche‐based approach

📄 https://t.co/UvgDpSJqLe @Evans_L_C

[Luke C Evans @Evans_L_C]

@Nikolaj_Bi @vlboult We won’t be holding our breath

[Luke C Evans @Evans_L_C]

After a bit of back and forth with the journal, the article is now confirmed as open access!

[Luke C Evans @Evans_L_C]

🚨 New paper published in @ConBiology: Characterizing the trophy hunting debate on Twitter.
https://t.co/n9J4pdMD2h
We found some VERY strong opinions on how people view #TrophyHunting on Twitter, but why is it such a controversial topic in conservation? 🧵 @UniofReading

[Chris Stokel-Walker @stokel]

SCOOP: Twitter’s new API access starts at $42,000 a month for 0.3% of Twitter’s data. My latest for @WIRED speaks to researchers who say that’s a non-starter https://t.co/RfGyWqpIgF

[Luke C Evans @Evans_L_C]

@ourlivingearth @UniofReading @ConBiology This is the kind of thing we are referring to
https://t.co/99CfThtU0m

[Chris Packham @ChrisGPackham]

Please please email your MP and ask them to attend the vote in Parliament on Friday 17th March . @CBTHunting have made this easy by creating a link https://t.co/qWSvZP7pom
9 out of 10 of us support this bill don't let it fail now - thank you .

[Luke C Evans @Evans_L_C]

@SianSullivanUK @CWitvrouwen Cheers, will take a look

[Luke C Evans @Evans_L_C]

🚨 New paper published in @ConBiology: Characterizing the trophy hunting debate on Twitter.
https://t.co/n9J4pdMD2h
We found some VERY strong opinions on how people view #TrophyHunting on Twitter, but why is it such a controversial topic in conservation? 🧵 @UniofReading

[Luke C Evans @Evans_L_C]

@SianSullivanUK @CWitvrouwen Working on the oa with conbio! Can dm/email copy?

[Luke C Evans @Evans_L_C]

We won't be using any of the collected data in isolation and aim to combine with other survey work. So please give us your feedback if you think we are missing something important, we won't be offended! Crowd-sourced peer review ftw.

[Luke C Evans @Evans_L_C]

We've received some really valuable critical feedback for the survey. To give a peek behind the curtain, we are moving away from Twitter due to uncertainty around data access after the ownership change. But this is new ground for us and the survey is still in development [1/2]

[Nikolaj Bichel @Nikolaj_Bi]

Always keen to take a survey, but I have a few points of note with regards to this one. Maybe some potential problems. @Evans_L_C, @vlboult, @T_F_Johnson, @mpgreenwell.

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