gavin stewart

Combining evidence in fun ways with fun people to make the world a better place: mountain running, COMRU, PMRT, LDSAMRA and beer drinking too (all views my own)

[Journal of Vegetation & Applied Vegetation Science @JVS_AVS]

🌿Zeidler et al. used time-series photographic data to quantify the response of subalpine vegetation to 🌨️❄️snow cover duration. Check out their new paper!
#ResearchPaper
https://t.co/OZPzCRza4K

[Caroline Lucas @CarolineLucas]

“The world has changed” says Chancellor on #bbclaurak. Yes it has - so why stick to outdated counterproductive austerity agenda & arbitrary fiscal rules? You can’t cut your way to growth. Taxes on extreme wealth of super rich would be far fairer & more effective than more cuts

[gavin stewart @metanutter]

My research is available on @ResearchGate: https://t.co/BjRuf7e1cr

[Bantshire University @BantshireUni]

The tuition fee rise will mean we can finally remove half of the asbestos from the Student Welfare Hub by 2029.

[gavin stewart @metanutter]

@JoachimSchork interesting that folks really worry about simpsons paradox/aggregation bias especially in rcts and add loads of model complexity to avoid it- but what little meta-science we have shows its often not a big problem. Arguably more parsimonious to explore heterogeneity depending....

[gavin stewart @metanutter]

@Watts_SH @StirUni @StirlingScience @ForestryTrust @WoodlandTrust @WTScotsocial @N_T_S @MacaulayDvTrust @Forest_Research looking forward to reading this...important work...

[Sarah Watts @Watts_SH]

📢Delighted to announce my big new #publication in the journal #Restoration #Ecology is now available online & #OpenAccess: "Montane willow scrub restoration in Scotland: reviewing 30 years of progress to reestablish the altitudinal treeline" (🧵1/10)
👉https://t.co/liqbtxJXKh

[Associate Deans @ass_deans]

You know how important you are by how many offices you have. I’ll spend the morning in my faculty office and the afternoon in the dean’s suite. So, let me know when you can leave your carrel to come meet and I’ll send the location.

[gavin stewart @metanutter]

@JMBecologist its not hard to pre-register- methods and priors. It could clean up hacking and harking and still let ecologists explore

[Iain Cameron @theiaincameron]

As another snow-spotting season draws to a close, it’s worth mentioning an important point.

All the trips we do, all the gear we buy, all the fuel we need, all the sandwiches we buy to keep us going, all the sacrifices of time and effort, is done entirely at our own expense.

Though we appear regularly in the media, and the results of our work are becoming well known, (and cited) only one educational or governmental institution* in Scotland has ever shown the slightest bit of interest in collaborating with us. Why is this, I wonder. Lack of funds? Lack of interest?

Despite what many people think, I don’t do this for a living. It’s very much an amateur interest. In fact, none of us do it for a living. We do it for the pure love of it.

This isn’t a moan, incidentally, it’s just an observation.

* The National Museum of Scotland is an honourable exception. They have an exhibit dedicated to it.

[SORTEE @sortecoevo]

#SORTEE2024 had:
🗺️ 268 people registered from 35 countries
💬 2 plenaries, 3 social mixers, & 15 interactive events
🙌 37 facilitators & 11 volunteers

Help us next year! https://t.co/CVSAC5B86C

Recordings feat. @hcp4715, @KateLaskowski, & @rose_odea: https://t.co/tjdDMMFwME

[Caroline Lucas @CarolineLucas]

Such a relief that there’s no climate crisis so these developments can go ahead without concern & without undermining commitments to being the greenest government ….

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

Congratulations to Nihon Hidankyo, a group of survivors of the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, for winning the Nobel Peace Prize. At a time when the threat of nuclear weapons is growing – and the taboo against threatening their use is weakening – Nihon Hidankyo’s work reminds us that these weapons have a terrible human cost, and that the pursuit of a world without nuclear weapons is an essential part of making sure we leave our children a safer, more secure world. Nihon Hidankyo built a powerful movement out of personal tragedy and insists upon our common humanity.

[21group @21percentgroup]

Just Fancy That !

"Vice chancellors' huge pay packages reflect responsibilities of running large organisations", said @UniversitiesUK

"Financial position of #universities has deteriorated quickly in past year, some are going bankrupt ", said UniversitiesUK

@PlashingVole

[Caroline Lucas @CarolineLucas]

It’s as if none of the work on sustainable economies ever happened. Starmer bangs on about “growth” but growth of what, for whom, at what cost? Not all growth is good & as scientists concluded last week “In a world of finite resources, unlimited growth is a perilous illusion”.

[Anthony Ricciardi @EcoInvasions]

94 yrs ago, Charles Elton asserted: "The 'balance of nature' does not exist and perhaps never has existed. The numbers of wild animals are constantly varying to a greater or less extent, and the variations are usually irregular in period and always irregular in amplitude." 🧵1/3

[gavin stewart @metanutter]

@DiaryofaSickGrl bad science

[gavin stewart @metanutter]

@SolomonKurz depends what you want to know and what field you're working in. Generally speaking- really good guidance from both Cochrane and Campbell. Research Synthesis methods is the go to journal...