Wrote about the contentious Project Blue — a massive proposed data center in Tucson AZ — for my first feature with @theguardian.com! www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

‘The city that draws the line’: one Arizona community’s fight against a huge datacenter

Questions grow over water and energy costs of warehouse of computers in Sonoran desert – but will Project Blue be stopped?

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Camera trap photos like these are literally saving jaguar lives—and paying ranchers thousands in the process. It's all part of a coexistence program in the US-Mexico Borderlands intended to protect the world's northernmost jaguar population. @benjij.bsky.social: www.vox.com/down-to-eart...

Trump’s USDA tried to erase climate data. This lawsuit forced it back online. The agency quietly removed web pages on rural energy, climate-smart agriculture, and federal loans — until farmers sued. grist.org/food-and-agr... #Climate #USDA #Agriculture #Farmers #Farms #Food #Lawsuit

Trump’s USDA tried to erase climate data. This lawsuit forced it back online.

The agency quietly removed webpages on rural energy, climate-smart agriculture, and federal loans — until farmers sued.

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For @theborderchronicle.bsky.social, I wrote about two sound art projects centering the borderlands, the Dia Foundation’s Echoes from the Borderlands and UTEP rhetoric professors’ Border Soundscapes: www.theborderchronicle.com/p/listening-...

Listening to the Borderlands

Two audio projects offer soundtracks of a region often talked about, but seldom heard.

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We were told not to share this publicly, but last year was record-breaking—America’s national parks saw over 331 million visits.

Happy to be back in the Mara, training community conservancy rangers to maintain a #cameratrap grid for wildlife monitoring + research. 📸 We’ll soon start pilot testing Akili (projectakili.ai) an open-source, end-to-end conservation data management platform from Wildlife Protection Solutions 🦓📊

That feeling when your PhD student sends you amazing pictures from her fabulous field site and you are stuck in rainy London in January. 😢 🦁 🐘 🦛 @erinconnolly.bsky.social

Need to efficiently annotate large quantities of audio data? Check out our new work Whombat, led by Santiago Martínez Balvanera at UCL: mbsantiago.github.io/whombat/ 📣

Methods in Ecology and Evolution@methodsinecoevol.bsky.social · 2y ago

📖Published📖 Our new Application paper presents Whombat, a user-friendly, browser-based interface for managing audio recordings and annotation projects, with several visualization, exploration and annotation tools 🌎 🧪 Read more here 👇 https://buff.ly/3DddoNt

🌟new paper🌟 the first chapter of my thesis is out in #ecography ! We present #regionalbiomes as a novel spatial unit for global biodiversity monitoring frameworks 🌏 This unit could increase resolution on biodiversity trends 📈 whilst keeping data collection feasible 📋🏞 doi.org/10.1111/ecog...

Regional Biomes outperform broader spatial units in capturing biodiversity responses to land‐use change

Biogeographic context, such as biome type, has a critical influence on ecological resilience, as climatic and environmental conditions impact how communities respond to anthropogenic threats. For exa....

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I have some PhD projects now available for application if you are interested in insect biodiversity change. Please check out the links below and shout if you have questions!