Craig Eric Simpkins

PostDoc, conservation biology, virtual ecology, landscape connectivity, spatial ecology. I just adore nature.

[Prof. Euan Ritchie (@euanritchie.bsky.social) @EuanRitchie1]

Meanwhile, in Australia. Today’s global temperature map.

[Craig Eric Simpkins @connectiveCraig]

Interesting take on the cat debate, not sure many in NZ and Aus would agree but still interesting. A moral panic over cats - Lynn - - Conservation Biology - Wiley Online Library https://t.co/A4GoHmaarU

[Craig Eric Simpkins @connectiveCraig]

When you get a paper rejection in the morning but your h-index increases in the afternoon. #sciencelife

[Craig Eric Simpkins @connectiveCraig]

Nice talk by @JaneHillYork on my favorite topic fragmentation and connectivity. My overly simple take away fragmentation in tropical forests is generally bad, but having forest fragments in productive areas is generally good. And importantly all fragments are different.#EFFoRTS

[Craig Eric Simpkins @connectiveCraig]

Amazing map of the world scaled by population by @kottke #spatialdata

https://t.co/fMy70u5oSZ

[OCHA Centre for Humanitarian Data @humdata]

🌏 Metadata of imagery captured by @DigitalGlobe of #Palu, #Indonesia on 2 October 2018: https://t.co/oY3qtawAtz To access the data, click on 'Request data.' @Esri @OCHAAsiaPac #GIS 🗺️

[Craig Eric Simpkins @connectiveCraig]

Really interesting talk looking at how diversity (taxonomic through functional) by @fabi_sho. My two main take aways are 1) that increasing the modification of a habitat for production has knock on effects (e.g. more invasive weeds) and 2) an image is worth more than words.

[Craig Eric Simpkins @connectiveCraig]

Great talk explaining the intricacies of measuring biodiversity in large complex areas by Holger Kreft. Focussing on how to scale up from counts of species in a small area (alpha diversity) to a image of a while regions biodiversity (gamma diversity). #EFFoRTS

[Craig Eric Simpkins @connectiveCraig]

Give a .... go with the blue duck

[#votewhio for Fonzie @Fonziethewhio]

@GreatLakeTaupo, other regions are jumping on board with #BirdOfTheYear, will you endorse my peeps the Whio? #Turangi is the closest town to any wild population of Blue Ducks, so it's pretty special.
#VoteWhio #PaintTheTownBlue #LoveTaupo
📹@TongRiverRaft

[Craig Eric Simpkins @connectiveCraig]

Very interesting talk by Viotech Novotny discussing the fallacies involved with tropical conservation and working with ingineous cultures. #EFFoRTS

[Craig Eric Simpkins @connectiveCraig]

@jmrbrock Well done mate.

[Craig Eric Simpkins @connectiveCraig]

I find meditation before writing my responses helps. A little

[Craig Eric Simpkins @connectiveCraig]

@jmrbrock Its definitely worth looking at, as it lets your check that whether you are broadly talking about what you think you are talking about

[Craig Eric Simpkins @connectiveCraig]

Interesting way of viewing what you're really saying in a paper. This is a word cloud of the most used words from my latest paper (https://t.co/ngNPlEGvh1) made with the tm package in R. Core conservation themes come out well. #rstats #Visualization

[British Ecological Society @BritishEcolSoc]

What was your biggest worry when submitting your first paper?

At #BES2018 we are running a workshop on getting published with @RSocPublishing and @sid_or_simon from @NatureEcoEvo and need your input!

Other worries? Comment below!

[Craig Eric Simpkins @connectiveCraig]

With anyone with similar interests in conspiracy theories, geospatial data, and R this is a fun little blog post/exercise. #Rstats #mappporn #flatearth Flat Earth Mathematics in the R Language https://t.co/7Sn5xbZbNH

[Craig Eric Simpkins @connectiveCraig]

Really nice blog post explaining how to find your niche in science. The research niche in academic community ecology https://t.co/ChtxqvZhL6 via @ManuSaunders

[Craig Eric Simpkins @connectiveCraig]

Check out our (@msciain & @CedScherer) new paper in @MethodsEcolEvol explaining the awesome nlmr and landscapetools R packages. These packages make amazingly useful and beautiful neutral landscapes and give you the tools to easily work with them.

https://t.co/QPP7Ba61wI

#RStats

[NZ EcologicalSociety @nzecology]

Population viability analysis biased towards birds and threatened taxa in NZ. New review from @connectiveCraig @glwperry @Bpowers406 @QuinnAsena @jmrbrock et al.

[Craig Eric Simpkins @connectiveCraig]

Please check out our new paper reviewing how pop viability analyses have been carried out in New Zealand over the years. https://t.co/ngNPlEGvh1. @nzecology