Megan Thompson

NSERC postdoc fellow Univ Edinburgh. Ecology and evolution, especially in urban environments. I’ve migrated to blue sky @meganjthompson.bsky.social

[Megan Thompson @megjoy_]

I worked as head tech on this project before my PhD and am thrilled to have done some science on this very charismatic species (see below). Thanks to co-authors Steve Dobson, @dave_coltman, Jan Murie, Shirley Raveh, and Jeff Lane.

[Megan Thompson @megjoy_]

Taking a break from urban birds to share our new paper about hibernation phenology in ground squirrels (my first mammal paper!). Cover photo thanks to @Cami_Txori

https://t.co/5YzHBZnx1l

[Megan Thompson @megjoy_]

We investigated phenological synchrony in female and male ground squirrels and find both sexes show similar plasticity to climate variation over a 27-year period.

[Guido Meijer @guido_meijer]

I was watching Lord of the Rings last night and realized there are many parallels with academia!

A thread 🧵👇

[Megan Thompson @megjoy_]

Treating my jet leg with a good dose of sun and a wander around Washington Park before #ABS2023

[Animal Behavior Society @AnimBehSociety]

ABS 2023 ANNOUNCEMENT: July 13th we'll host the symposium "Cognition in a changing world: latest advances" in memory of Julie Morand-Ferron, including 13 talks on work inspired by Julie's amazing career on how cognition shapes wildlife's response to environmental change #ABS2023

[Olivier Gimenez 🖖🦦 @oaggimenez]

Just finished giving a 2-day introductory workshop on quantitative methods for population dynamics in R with @SarahCubaynes and @abesnardEPHE

Website w/ lecture slides, live demos, codes and data ▶️ https://t.co/jlTE4inuHM

Video recordings ▶️ https://t.co/foxZ7Q0mhn

[Anne Charmantier @AnneCharmantier]

1 #BOU2023 #SESH5I'm an evolutionary ecologist working @cefemontpellier, interested in between-individual variation of 🐦life-history, morphological, and behavioural traits in natural populations and adaptation to a rapidly changing https://t.co/ELwueiAQsM

[Johan Kjellberg Jensen @JohanKJensen1]

1/6 #BOU2023 #Sesh5
Passerine birds tend to have fewer nestlings and nestlings that weigh less in cities. This is likely due less food in urban areas (caterpillars & spiders). Here, we looked at how urban vegetation possibly modulates this bottom-up effect

[Richard McElreath 🐈‍⬛ @rlmcelreath]

The 2023 edition of my long-running anti-establishment art-science-fusion code-therapy smooth-baritone causal inference & Bayesian data analysis course is complete. 20 lectures, from the basics of causal inference & Bayesian updating to mixed models & Gaussian processes. 1/2

[Megan Thompson @megjoy_]

Come and join our #TITTEAM 😎

[Anne Charmantier @AnneCharmantier]

🚨 POSTDOC JOB ALERT 🚨
18months postdoc with Samuel Caro & I on the respirometry of great tits 🐦in a context of adaptation to cities and climate change @cefemontpellier 🌞🌇
🗓️Applications close 31/03/23
Details here: https://t.co/LtIuaU8CI5
Please RT! 📢#postdocjobs

[Dan Baldassarre @evornithology]

🚨 NEW PAPER ALERT! 🚨

https://t.co/5oDiYxZb2f

Out now in @WilsonOrnithSoc, led by @sunyoswego undergrads like @brookedgoodman and @DenisRa43535873, we explored how city living affects the visual signals of male and female Northern Cardinals. #LaVidaNOCA 1/7

[Glasgow Urban Ecology Group @GlasgowUrbanEco]

📢 New paper alert, out now in @Ecology_Letters

A metanalysis showing that urban birds have earlier and more variable breeding phenology than non-urban neighbours.

📄 Read the paper: https://t.co/8rgcu5YK1V

🧵Read an excellent summary ⬇️

[Megan Thompson @megjoy_]

Excellent opportunity 🤩

[Gabrielle Davidson @GabsDavidson]

🚨please RT #Phdopportunity in my lab on microbiome-mediated behaviour in great tits. You’ll gain interdisciplinary skills in microbiology, bioinformatics and wildlife cognition and join a dynamic supportive team @hall_lab @biouea @TheQuadram 🧫🧬https://t.co/o5Q5gxSS3R

[Megan Thompson @megjoy_]

In case anyone missed it 📢 New meta-analysis led by @p_capi in @Ecology_Letters showing ⬆️ Vp in urban birds. Great summary here👇

[SQuID @SQuID_Group]

The Montpellier 2022 @SQuID_Group workshop has been a blast. For their last afternoon, the students are discovering simulations with squidSim package before the farewells..

[Megan Thompson @megjoy_]

@dhanya_bharath Ohhh window spot, nice! Have fun 🤩

[Alfredo Sánchez-Tójar @ASanchez_Tojar]

Clear and informative 🧵 (including responses therein) on random slopes (and more generally on mixed models) 👇#Rstats