David Roberts

Dad, cyclist, runner, orienteer, R-coder, ecologist, Meat Loaf fan, he/him.

[David Roberts @droxburgh]

@kwoyts That’s @drvolts not @droxroberts!

[David Roberts @droxburgh]

An interesting article on some of the cool work being done in the @ABbiodiversity Geospatial Centre. Also a cool #CitizenScience collaboration. https://t.co/oXQUvxIUP7

[ABMI @ABbiodiversity]

📣New Data Release: Human Footprint Inventory (HFI) 2021
#DYK over 30% of the land surface in #Alberta has had anthropogenic disturbances?! We use #satelliteimagery to monitor these changes from year to year in our HFI: https://t.co/a9ovt2OW56

[David Roberts @droxburgh]

@MelanieDickie Congratulations Mel! You totally deserve it and I’m glad you are celebrating this success. Keep being awesome!

[Lab of Wildlife Ecology & Behaviour @UCD_Wildlife]

new paper: Mule deer fawn recruitment dynamics in an energy disturbed landscape [open access: https://t.co/Ks0P5dFxnd ] @KilsResearch @24beavers @droxburgh @UCD_Wildlife @SBESPostgrad @ucddublin @UCD_Research #deer #wildlife

[David Roberts @droxburgh]

@TheCritninja Do you think Vos will be in the mix? I would love to see her in the fight.

[David Roberts @droxburgh]

@BikeBikeYYC This one is on me. I hung up my snow shovel yesterday. 🙋‍♂️

[Robin Rohwer @RobinRohwer]

Mom asked, "I wonder when cherries bloom in Japan?" So I found 1200 years of data online and made her a plot.

[Ajit Niranjan @NiranjanAjit]

the most powerful climate report of the decade was published on monday, after 195 governments fought over the words in its summary for policymakers, and the only media allowed in the room just published its account of who lobbied for what 1/

[David Roberts @droxburgh]

@BikeBikeYYC But did your jeans?

[David Roberts @droxburgh]

@TheCritninja I always thought scaled to gross vehicle weight (maybe not 1:1) would be fair. Captures risk to public reasonably well.

[The Cultural Tutor @culturaltutor]

Have you ever noticed that the save icon is a floppy disk, even though they became obsolete twenty years ago?

That's called a "skeuomorph" - when something new takes on the appearance of what it replaced.

And once you start to look, they're everywhere...

[David Roberts @droxburgh]

Big day for Canadian cycling!

[UCI Cyclocross @UCI_CX]

She’s done it! 🔥

Isabella Holmgren 🇨🇦 is your 2023 UCI Cyclo-cross Women Junior World Champion! 👏

#Hoogerheide2023

[UCI Cyclocross @UCI_CX]

She’s done it! 🔥

Isabella Holmgren 🇨🇦 is your 2023 UCI Cyclo-cross Women Junior World Champion! 👏

#Hoogerheide2023

[Mark R. Yzaguirre @markyzaguirre]

“Maybe our ideals were not so out-of-date. Maybe our institutions were not so broken. Maybe the people the Ukrainians needed us to be, maybe those were the people we could be again.” @davidfrum on Ukraine, America, and how both need one another now.
https://t.co/e2vkV4xzQD

[David Roberts @droxburgh]

@TheCritninja @michaeljanz @Granigank I came here to write this. 👊

[Ecological Society @ESA_org]

The White House has released the Fifth National Climate Assessment draft – now open to a 12-week public comment period, and it needs your review!

Learn more at our webinar TOMORROW (11/30) at 12pm ET w/ @allisoncrimmins @WHOSTP @usgcrp

https://t.co/7mBfp83lJx

[David Roberts @droxburgh]

@TheCritninja @LanterneRougeCP

[follow @bencollins on bluesky @oneunderscore__]

Okay everybody it's Zero Hour for this website, post your favorite tweets and give them a little kiss goodbye.

[David Attenborough PARODY @AttenboroughSir]

Better than the original