Simon Rolph

Front cover of National Plant Monitoring Scheme Annual Report 2024

Books and papers lying on daisy covered grass

Two people outside in a rural environment look at information on a clipboard

🌿 The National Plant Monitoring Scheme has turned 10!

More than 1,000 volunteers have gathered 250k+ botanical records that feed into the UK Biodiversity Indicators. Marking the milestone, the 2024 report shares surveyor stories & a timeline of NPMS highlights.

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Our new paper looking at the impacts of ash dieback and deer grazing upon woodland vegetation is now out!

We found that ash dieback and deer grazing interacted in their impacts upon flora diversity and tree regeneration - and that key species such as bramble mediated a lot of these effects

I think the datasets contained in BioTIME explicitly capture trends over time. Whereas pulling trends out of GBIF data can be tricky. GBIF data standards could probably represent BioTIME-like data but it's probably more accessible in a dedicated trend database.

Back from honyemoon in Banff and Jasper National Parks 🍁 As ever, trips abroad are great opportunities to boost my iNaturalist species list! See what I recorded here: www.inaturalist.org/observations...

We are advertising for a data scientist in our team! Working on pipelines for biodiversity monitoring. Collaborative, impactful work with nice people. Happy to answer any Qs about working at UKCEH ceh.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/CEH_Ca...

I only have a limited knowledge of music notation but I find that figure quite confused. Especially the dark blue bird that can only communicate in treble clefs.

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💡 Can we use data science and AI to make citizen science more engaging for participants and improve biodiversity data quality?

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I also found it really helpful. I have the audio book and I'm listening to it a second time listening to a chapter daily-ish. Lots of good bits but I love the bit about "what if it was easy?"

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I certainly enjoyed the novelty of being able to sign up with a nice short username! Interested to see how it develops (both professionally and personally). I downloaded Wylder (www.getwylder.co.uk) a while back but didn't particularly grab me.

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✨PhD opportunity! Citizen science is vital for biodiversity monitoring. Could we use AI to support citizen scientists and improve data quality? Help us find out in this PhD with myself and Tom August based at @ukceh.bsky.social Apply 27th Jan www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

I agree, a really excellent talk and I will have to read the paper too

The digital twin label is applied quite liberally, sometimes it's helpful, sometimes it's actively confusing.

Here's the paper riojournal.com/article/1254... and app app.biodt.eu/app/biodtshiny . Digital twinning for me is the journey towards interactive operational models (often process based), data integration, scenario testing and feedback loops. BioDT aims to prototype and research, not just build.

Digital twins AND adaptive sampling! A @ukceh.bsky.social double bill at the poster session tonight B17.10/11 #bes2024