Rob Barber

Quantitative ecologist at @kewscience, studying the link between carbon, biodiversity, fungi, and plants across habitats 🌲🍄🌳🪻

[Rob Barber @ra_barber]

Big news! 🎉 My first PhD chapter has been published in @PLOSBiology, and it just made the cover! 🐦🌍Perfect time to dive into the key findings from our global study on sexual selection in birds. 🧵👇
📖 Read the paper: https://t.co/ZYQuzgyRC1

[Tom August @TomAugust85]

✨PhD opportunity!
🌳🤖Could we use AI to support citizen scientists and improve biodiversity conservation? Help us find out in this PhD at @UK_CEH
📅Apply 27th Jan https://t.co/vzCzUBnMqv

[Rob Barber @ra_barber]

🙏 Thanks to my incredible co-authors and collaborators! Especially @ja_tobias who started collecting data yonks ago, but also
@jingyi_yang19
@Sophia___Yang
@Una_May_Barker
@TimJanicke
and many others who worked on the dataset at
@imperialcollege

[Rob Barber @ra_barber]

Big news! 🎉 My first PhD chapter has been published in @PLOSBiology, and it just made the cover! 🐦🌍Perfect time to dive into the key findings from our global study on sexual selection in birds. 🧵👇
📖 Read the paper: https://t.co/ZYQuzgyRC1

[Rob Barber @ra_barber]

🌟 This brings me to my last/proudest point (and well done for making it this far). 🏁

🗂️ Our dataset is freely available for all avian species and matched to multiple taxonomies. Hopefully it can help advance research on sexual traits, macroecology, and birds in general 🐦

[Joe Tobias @ja_tobias]

Final version of this thing now published in @PLOSBiology, so ... some weekend reading. 🧵
Sexual selection (SS) is a major strand of evolutionary theory, but how and why it varies across species at global scales is poorly known. 1/9
https://t.co/mAwOMzPYCv

[Dr Dani Rabaiotti @DaniRabaiotti]

We have a bunch of paid work coming up doing species identification work.

If you can ID bats, birds or frogs from audio, plants from images, or mammals from camera traps - apply using your form and we will be in touch!

🐦🦇🐸🌿

https://t.co/InYLYNHoT5

[Billy Bragg @billybragg]

Everyone knows Labour are going to win the election, but if you’re feeling like there’s no point in voting as the outcome is a foregone conclusion, I’d like to draw your attention to something really radical that is on offer tomorrow: 1/8

[British Ecological Society @BritishEcolSoc]

Are you a #neurodiverse ecologist attending your first conference this year?

The BES Neurodiversity Network (ENDEMIC) are here to help with a free webinar on how to navigate conferences.

Register here and join ENDEMIC on 2nd July👇

https://t.co/twyAM8vHIt

[Mischa Olson @mischa_may]

🍄 Hiring! Come help us sequence loads of cool fungi @KewMycology! We're recruiting lab technicians, research assistants, and a lab manager-- particularly keen if you've had experience working with collections material or experience optimizing NGS protocols.

[Beth Evans @bethkevans]

☎️UK undergrads!

Join the Biodiversity Futures lab @NHM_London for a ✨ paid ✨ 8-week placement funded by @GW4plusDTP.

Study how 🌳 influence soil decomposition processes and develop your fieldwork, lab, and stats skills.

Deadline 14th May. Info: https://t.co/4huheDGMy1

[Joseph Williamson @JoeWilliamsonDB]

Great to see our review on microclimate in ecology and biogeography out in its full glory. ❄️🔥🏔️🌳🌍 Big thanks to @juliakemppinen for expertly leading the (massive) team through this project! https://t.co/Xnou3IM42f

[Dr Meming @Dr_Meming]

How long is it gonna take to finish that paper?

Me:

[Rob Barber @ra_barber]

@Martin_A_Nunez 😅 is that a real citation? Would actually be legit quite helpful