Michael Thompson

Research scientist and graduate student at UNH. Life has become a mix of ecology, statistics, fatherhood, Video games, and DnD.

[Michael Thompson @EcologistMike]

Please, can someone actually cite a source for this fact?! @Know or some #elephant #ecologist, @animalcog ,@AlessiaDiana8, somebody?? there are many articles but I can't find a single study to show this...

[know @Know]

An elephant can smell water from 12 miles away.

[Michael Thompson @EcologistMike]

What is the probability of escaping a ball pit given ball diameter and rate of movement? #scientistsDrinkingBeers #funQuestions #randomStats

[Michael Thompson @EcologistMike]

@evornithology Well this sounds super interesting! When will it be readable by the public?

[Michael Thompson @EcologistMike]

@distractons @evornithology @dr_johnsgunn woah! spot on! thanks. I thought it felt very junco-y. I was looking on xeno-canto and couldn't find anything but this recording is perfect.

[Michael Thompson @EcologistMike]

#birding twitter I need your help. I had this bird I can't place it. in the audio clip there is a GCKI and REVI but at 4, 8, 12, and 17 seconds there is a 2-note trill recorded in a boreal spruce-fir forest best guess is either DEJU or CHSP? HELP! @evornithology @dr_johnsgunn

[Michael Thompson @EcologistMike]

An unfortunate location of our prism plot today haha #fieldwork #hazardousjobs #gradstudent

[Michael Thompson @EcologistMike]

@evornithology @distractons @dr_johnsgunn Those were the same two thoughts I had in that order haha

[Michael Thompson @EcologistMike]

@evornithology @distractons @dr_johnsgunn ask and you shall receive...

[Michael Thompson @EcologistMike]

@evornithology @dr_johnsgunn I am also wearing headphones at the moment so it could be hard to hear on phone speakers.

[Michael Thompson @EcologistMike]

@evornithology @dr_johnsgunn diptera for sure... almost carried me away, CHSP seems closer than DEJU the part that is throwing me off is the two notes and the length. and that CHSP might be a little odd there, but there was a cut this winter that may have brought them in.

[Michael Thompson @EcologistMike]

Day 1 of our 2022 field season is in the books. The BOD (Bird Of the Day) goes to @AtticusSoehren with CAJA and WWCR both of which are new to the project! Finished the day with some veg training and data entry. Ready for tomorrow! #HigherEd #BirdResearch

[Michael Thompson @EcologistMike]

Finished our training week for the field season! Some cool birds including BOCH, CMWA, BPWA, and OSFL. Bonus was some cool moose sign, and a great discussion about adaptive camouflage between wood frogs and green frogs! Data collection starts Monday! #fieldwork #highered #birds

[Michael Thompson @EcologistMike]

@evornithology At the field house with my techs right now and just paused the movie to have them listen to this. Glad to say they got it haha

[Michael Thompson @EcologistMike]

@JoshuaWillems2 "this porcupine has one hell of a set of canines!"

[Michael Thompson @EcologistMike]

@evornithology Looking like nah which is infuriating... I want to trust the @CDCgov but lately their advice and COVID decisions have been all over the place ..

[Michael Thompson @EcologistMike]

Has anyone used #birdNet from @listenforwhales using #audiomoth recorders? What have you used for the confidence cutoff? #bioacoustics #birdresearch #highered #gradschool

[Michael Thompson @EcologistMike]

@DaniBlumstein Really? I think I've had whole strings within the paste() function with single quotes and it's worked fine. What doesn't work correctly?

[Michael Thompson @EcologistMike]

Question #R folks what is the difference between double v. single quotes? They both seem like they do the same thing and if I don't need to hold down the shift key that would be lovely! (We will save the back-tick for another time) #Rcoding #Rquestions #datascience