Billi Krochuk

Data Scientist @BiodiversityRI
Ask me about African birds 🐦

[Billi Krochuk @BilliKrochuk]

@thebiggestweek Pearson*

[Billi Krochuk @BilliKrochuk]

@Darktraveler1 @thebiggestweek Yep!

[Biodiversity Initiative @__Biodiversity]

Looking for a #PhDposition ? Apply for the Gulf of Guinea Research Program. Live in Portugal, do fieldwork in Africa and take your classes in english. Tuition waiver & stipend. 79% of eligible applicants were accepted in 2022. #ornithology #biodiversity

https://t.co/JKmiiNzLvV

[Ricardo Rocha @RicardoNature]

I'm absolutely delighted to share @_Jimenez_Soto's MSc paper, just out in @ConservationSP:

"Density and ecological drivers of free‐ranging cat abundance and activity in Madeira Island, Macaronesia"

https://t.co/Drb0oDPfnz

#InvasiveSpecies #IslandConservation @APalmeirim

[Billi Krochuk @BilliKrochuk]

Nice to see Africa being well-represented in this global synthesis! Now to add more to the body of research 💪🏼 There are still so many gaps in our understanding for how these systems operate or even simply look in tropical Africa.

[Billi Krochuk @BilliKrochuk]

Enjoy this journey of a story featuring an incredible, spunky little raptor

[Billi Krochuk @BilliKrochuk]

Interesting advancement!

[WCS @TheWCS]

First-of-its-kind universal adaptor for conservation tech called Gundi has launched. WCS, @EarthRangerTech, Wildlife Protection Solutions put out free, open-source platform to ensure frontline conservationists have tools they need to rapidly scale efforts. https://t.co/vny6Dji6bt

[Billi Krochuk @BilliKrochuk]

Anyone know of grants that support knowledge transfer/capacity building efforts in the natural sciences?

[Joey @jbburant]

#GradStudents are arguably *the* primary producers of #research output at Canadian universities, and core contributors to the #teaching and #leadership missions of their institutions.

**But how (and how well) are they compensated?**

Let's take a look! A long thread 🧵👇

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[UBC Zoology @ZoologyUBC]

Today we celebrate and congratulate the 🎓2022 Zoology Fall Graduates🎓!

💐 Happy Graduation Day!

Graduation ceremony #UBCgrad will take place today at 11:30AM

Find more about Zoology Grads research here: https://t.co/Iya0dzcv95 or https://t.co/EKeKi1xCXe

[Billi Krochuk @BilliKrochuk]

@AcademicChatter

[Journal of Applied Ecology @JAppliedEcology]

How do different crops and crop production systems impact #biodiversity? New work by @JosephOakley94 & @JEBicknell provides insight into the long-term sustainability of tropical food production.

Full #OA paper 👉 https://t.co/ISuifYsXqO

[Billi Krochuk @BilliKrochuk]

@CrinanJarrett Thank you! 🥰 Good call on the run! I am a runner but have set that healthy habit aside while prepping for tomorrow so this recommendation is perfectly timed!

[Billi Krochuk @BilliKrochuk]

OK #AcademicTwitter, today is the last full day before my MSc defence... what advice have you got for me? Words of encouragement? Productive distractions from my nerves? 🙃🏳️

[Billi Krochuk @BilliKrochuk]

A reminder to all graduate students defending this fall that this YT video exists: https://t.co/XZqEeqWapn

[Ben Freeman @BenGFreeman1]

evidence that lower elevation tropical bird species are more sensitive to forest loss (higher elevation species less sensitive to forest loss)

check out this cool new paper: https://t.co/jjYcR75N8z

[Billi Krochuk @BilliKrochuk]

@TJBirding @NikonCanada I’ve had amazing customer service from Vortex reps, even when serving my Eagle Optics after they were bought out.

[Billi Krochuk @BilliKrochuk]

@krista_natasha @BirdLifeAfrica Didn’t drive across but took a bus to the Ugandan border from Rwanda. Crossed on-foot. One of the easiest border crossings I’ve experienced 👍🏼 (this was in 2015)

[SCB Africa @SCB_Africa]

Applications for our Graduate Research Grants are open! All African graduate students, regardless of @Society4ConBio membership, are eligible to apply. Deadline is 18 September. Link to the application form: https://t.co/E0bt72dQPX

[Billi Krochuk @BilliKrochuk]

@cactusquoll This is about the same for UBC-Vancouver, where the minimum graduate student salary is less than C$30k/yr for zoology students yet the living wage in Van Metro is about C$20.50/hr or C$42k.