Michael Walsh

A novel approach to determine mosquito trap placement for West Nile virus surveillance Abstract. The rapid spread of West Nile virus (WNV) is a growing concern. With no vaccines or specific medications available, prevention through mosquito c

New paper!

Do you do longitudinal environmental sampling across an array of locations? Do you want to know how valuable each site is for forecasting an outcome? Do you want to know the factors associated with good sites? Then this paper is for you!

Coming soon, an Rshiny app!

MEE live! estar: An R package to measure ecological stability - British Ecological Society Join Methods in Ecology and Evolution for their next MEE live! And learn more about the new R package estar.

Want to get to know about an R package for quantifying ecological stability? Join the #MEE @britishecologicalsociety.org webinar by L. Figueiredo and V. Radchuk presenting package #estar on 12th of March at 11:00 am CET. More info and registration: www.britishecologicalsociety.org/content/mee-...

Cross-scale interactions mediate local drivers of nonnative species richness vist.ly/4txq6 #Macroecology #Fish #Disturbance

Awesome! Good times, we were lucky indeed...

Wow, that's amazing!! I had a 1973 Chevy Nova in the early 90s that still had had a working 8 track player. Was great! 🤣

Big effort, exciting results - our paper on the constraints of thermal limits in tropical insects is now out in @nature.com! 🦋🐝🪰🪲🦗
@ecoresearchzoo3.bsky.social
@biologie-uniwue.bsky.social
@uni-wuerzburg.de

Stack of 8-track tapes

I'm in, but it better be able to play these

MIReVTD, a Minimum Information Standard for Reporting Vector Trait Data Abstract. Vector-borne diseases pose a persistent and increasing challenge to human, animal, and agricultural systems globally. Mathematical modeling frame

📣 Useful publication alert!
If you're collecting or sharing vector trait data 🦟🦠, this new paper from @vectorbyte.bsky.social introducing the MIReVTD (Minimum Information for Reporting Vector Trait Data) standard is for you:

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#FAIRData #DataStandards #DataSharing #Traits

Thrilled to share our new preprint:
“Extreme Heat as the New Normal” 🌡️🔥

We introduce a roadmap + code for identifying and mapping extreme heat 📏 and linking it to ecology:

🧭 Species distribution models 🐦

🌿 Biophysical models & microclimates 🦎

📉 Population dynamics 👥

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Exciting to be a part of this!

Qld coalmine expansion approved by Albanese government will clear habitat and fuel climate crisis, scientists say Conservationists estimate coal exported from expanded mine to release CO2 equivalent of about half Australia’s annual carbon footprint

Minister 'for' the Environment, Murray Watt, has been working so hard for the environment...sorry, I meant industry

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Anthony Albanese's transformation into Deputy Sheriff John Howard is complete In dismissing international law and supporting yet another Western military attack on a Middle Eastern country, Anthony Albanese has completed his transformation into John Howard.

True. Anthony Albanese is now Deputy Sheriff John Howard www.crikey.com.au/2026/03/02/a....

Our package estar for quantifying ecological stability is out: MEE @britishecologicalsociety.org! Provides 11 stability metrics for measuring stability at different levels of organization, from individuals to populations, communities + ecosystems. besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

The gap between what Australians need & what their government funds.

Between the billions for submarines & the crumbs for housing.

Between the million-dollar salaries for political appointees & the women dying because domestic violence services are stretched beyond breaking point.

#Auspol

After a US-Israeli strike on a girls’ elementary school in Minab, Iran, rescuers dug through the rubble for survivors. The death toll is still rising, with more than 80 confirmed dead so far.

📖 Published!

Individualised niches in a variable environment—Consequences for environmental change responses

This framework can be extended further to niche choice and evolution including all processes that can change the match between individuals and their environment 🌍 🌳

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"Science describes accurately from outside, poetry describes accurately from inside. Science explicates, poetry implicates. Both celebrate what they describe. We need the languages of both science and poetry to save us from merely stockpiling endless ‘information’ that fails to inform our ignorance or our irresponsibility." from "Deep in Admiration" by Ursula K. Le Guin

"Deep in Admiration" was a talk given at the conference Anthropocene: Arts of Living on a Dangerous Planet at UC Santa Cruz in May 2014. The text appears as the foreword to the collection Late in the Day: Poems 2010-2014 (published by PM Press).

Polar bear visits to human infrastructure increase with sea ice loss, not poor body condition Climate warming has reduced Arctic sea ice, forcing some populations of polar bears (Ursus maritimus Phipps, 1774) to spend more time on land and increasing the potential for encounters with humans. W...

International Polar Bear Day tomorrow and the final version of our paper dropped today!

Polar bear visits to human infrastructure increase with sea ice loss, not poor body condition.

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Join us for the launch event! We are excited to invite you to the official launch of the Global Society for Infectious Disease Dynamics (GSIDD) on February 26th, 2026.This launch marks an important milestone for our global communi...

Launch of the Global Society of Infectious Disease Dynamics. 🎉

2 online webinars on Thursday 26th.
Do join to see what it's all about, and get involved in the community as it kicks off!

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This recent RCT of an "AI stethoscope" claims the technology "shows promise" for diagnosing cardiovascular conditions.

It does not.

It is a textbook example of the risks of conducting unprincipled 'per protocol analyses'. Once again, peer review at a major medical journal has failed.

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New #causalinference paper just dropped! As an ecologist, I was trained to ask: "What do the data tell me?"

This paper: there are only specific instances when this question is appropriate—when you lack domain knowledge, which we often have!

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Best practices for moving from correlation to causation in ecological research - Nature Communications Different scientific traditions offer seemingly disparate approaches to inferring causal relationships in ecological systems. This Perspective unifies the causal assumptions and methods from...

Excited to share our new paper in @natcomms.nature.com We synthesize causal discovery & inference approaches across traditions (regression adjustment, quasi-expts, SEMs, Granger causality, convergent cross-mapping, and more) into a unified workflow for ecologists. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Job alert: I'm hiring a postdoc for www.humidlab.com
Details at the workday link below. Tell everyone. Contact me if you're interested in applying. psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/PSU_Academic...

Exposure of western United States bird communities to predicted high severity fire - Nature Communications Changing fire regimes, leading to higher likelihood of high severity fire, are having unknown impacts on biodiversity. This study identifies regions of high avian biodiversity and individual bird spec...

Really proud of my paper with @ecologyofgavin.bsky.social, @grumpyunclesean.bsky.social, Andrew Stillman, and Courtney Davis out now in @natcomms.nature.com, which looks at the forecasted exposure of bird biodiversity to high severity fire in the western US. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Integrating seagrass conservation into #OneHealth frameworks shows the need for proactive, multisectoral approaches. Protecting & restoring is a critical investment in resilient coastal communities, sustainable fisheries, & the overall health of human & planetary systems. doi.org/10.1093/bios...

🛖🗺️On the use of neighboring habitats as predictors of species distributions

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#Animals #EcologicalNicheModelling #FocalPredictor #MultiScaleProcess #Plants #SpatialScale

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📖 Published - A short guide for effective field data collection

These guidelines can be useful as a starter for researchers to support open, reproducible, efficient and effective field data collection 👇️🌳🐞

A globally consistent scaling relationship reveals stabilizing effects of dominant species in plant communities Despite extensive research, stabilizing mechanisms in ecosystems remain uncertain. Taylor's power law (TPL) is a pervasive ecological pattern that describes how variance scales with mean abundance (σ....

All coexisting species ☘️🌿🌾 follow a single power function 📈 linking their temporal variability to their mean abundance 🤯 — 💥Taylor’s power law💥. This exceptionally strong law in community #ecology shows how dominants play a key role in stabilizing ecosystems worldwide 🌍🌐

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New in our journal #australianmammalogy @csiropublishing.bsky.social - Ross Goldingay looks at long-term patterns of #koala occupancy in New South Wales - check out this open access article..

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