Will Cornwell

Associate professor at UNSW. Interested in the ecology and evolution of plants.

[Will Cornwell @will_cornwell]

Results from a globally replicated experiment: microbes respond to temperature in a very well known way, but termites are much more sensitive to temperature. Termites are massively understudied for how important they are globally, and warming is likely to make them more important

[Atlas of Living Aust @atlaslivingaust]

This new mobile-friendly tool lets you create personalised species checklists for a specified area 📋

Check out the app: https://t.co/lt9kPubR1l

Made by @unswbees @thomasmesaglio @fonti_kar @will_cornwell and team.

https://t.co/s3qAI4C9JF

#rstats #Shiny #ecology

[New Phytologist @NewPhyt]

Faster than expected: release of nitrogen and phosphorus from decomposing woody litter

Wijas et al. @BapsWijas @will_cornwell @AmyZanne

📖 https://t.co/D6RBLr5WeV

[Will Cornwell @will_cornwell]

@NickDesnoyer is this easy enough to do in a teaching context?

[Thomas Mesaglio @thomasmesaglio]

New paper: https://t.co/rx8lYLVV5e

We compiled master plant species lists for 2 of the 5 oldest national parks: Royal (Australia) and Yosemite (USA) by combining herbarium vouchers + @inaturalist records + official expert park lists, extensively manually curating all records.

[Will Cornwell @will_cornwell]

@Augustus__J @SatPaper At the risk of sounding astronomically illiterate, it would be cooler if the moon was closer.

[Bill Simmons @BillSimmons]

Hearing the NBA and Warner struck a deal for WBD to move out of the NBA’s house after this season. There will be no lawsuit. Zaslav got some much-smaller-stakes stuff to go away for good. Will Inside the NBA get licensed to ESPN next season? That’s the next subplot to watch.

[Will Cornwell @will_cornwell]

@schmidtim @JonBeves @WAlexSyd @UNSWScience time for biology: extract DNA and send to https://t.co/aYYCvnKA1k

[Mike Letnic @mikeletnic]

Wild herbivores' impacts on vegetation in arid Australia translate to soil seedbanks https://t.co/4QQAQg0oa6. @TongtongXu16 shows that seed density increased along an aridity gradient and that herbivores suppressed seed density at the most arid site. @willcornwelll @BapsWijas

[Will Cornwell @will_cornwell]

@TimCurran8 @mikeletnic @TongtongXu16 @willcornwelll @BapsWijas haha thanks @TimCurran8 !

[Journal of Ecology @JEcology]

📸@dandy_gumnut tells us the story behind this month's cover image:

🍂'I was going through hundreds of #herbarium sheets & realised that centuries of info across the globe were just waiting for someone to transcribe it as a digital dataset we can analyse'
https://t.co/dMZdYTeZOR

[Atlas of Living Aust @atlaslivingaust]

Congrats to iNaturalist 🇦🇺 for five laps around the sun! ☀️ 📊🤳

Thanks to you amazing #citizenscientists, they've just hit:

- 9,000,000 species observations...

- Of 60,000 different species...

- From 100,000 observers!

Read more below:

📚🔗 | https://t.co/69j6Q2t8b3

[Australian Journal of Botany @AusJBotany]

New research often revises species taxonomies. Without a clear crosswalk, old datasets & studies can be challenging to amalgamate. #R package APCalign helps solve this, aligning names to #AustralianPlantCensus. Elizabeth Wenk & colleagues @UNSW @unswbees https://t.co/AjfBejK26D

[UNSW Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences @unswbees]

Keen to do environmental science with impact? Come join us @UNSWScience Apply at: https://t.co/eCCJtbx0pd

[Will Cornwell @will_cornwell]

@tngrainger The tidyverse section of our teaching website is here: https://t.co/pVBC6Ihdgs

[Will Cornwell @will_cornwell]

@Zambullida @timutteridge Global plant species with 1 reliable field photo is likely to be maybe 150,000 globally give or take. With enough photos for ML is much less.

So you might be right about the Artificial Anti-intelligence.

Our paper on plant photographs from Australia: https://t.co/hEE66647Fu

[Will Cornwell @will_cornwell]

@rsnaru Apple M-series does *some* big matrix operations super super fast. maybe using the GPU?

Presumably the C++ libraries underlying R knows how to access this feature of the M-series chips, but I have yet to figure this out fully.

[Corey Callaghan @callaghanct]

Our research group @UFWildlife and @UFIFAS_FLREC is looking to hire a postdoctoral researcher focused on quantitative ecology!

Pay: 65-75k USD.

Looking for someone to start late 2024 or early 2025.

- Experience or interest in working with state and federal agencies a must!

[Will Cornwell @will_cornwell]

@rahmstorf @MaxCRoser from AR5, not sure if it's been updated

[Will Cornwell @will_cornwell]

@pbeasleyhall @DrMGuzik @brock_hedges Very cool paper! Loved the giant supplementary data too!

[Carlos Aguilar-T 🏳️‍🌈 🇩🇪 🇸🇻 🇫🇮 @AguilarT_CA]

It's time to update how we think about life-history traits for AM fungi! Another great paper led by @t_camenzind