Me: yeah I’m just not feeling the #wc2026 vibes this year Also Me: is obsessed with the typeface used for the Norway kit. 🇳🇴 Imma need journals to get real chill real quick about non standard typefaces…
Tanya Strydom
@tanyadoesscience.bsky.social
🇿🇦 | postdoc | food web weaver 🕸 (now with bonus 🦖) | fancy maths 🧮 | part-time doodler 🎨 | warm beverage fan ☕️ | she/they 💬 | 🏠 https://tanyadoesscience.com
🚨📄 NEW PREPRINT ALERT 🚨📄 🌐 Are we mapping ecosystems… or just mapping models? 🤔 We took ONE Jurassic fossil community 🦑🐚🐟 and built food webs SIX different ways. The result? 😳 The way you build the network can matter MORE than the change you're trying to study. 🔗 doi.org/10.32942/X2X... 👇
When you receive a rejection for one fellowship application while in the throes of putting together a different fellowship application
New R package 📦: pfwim reconstructs ancient food webs from traits + body size rules 🌿🐳🕸️ cran.r-project.org/web/packages... by @tanyadoesscience.bsky.social @jackolivershaw.bsky.social @barankarapunar.bsky.social @beckerhopper.bsky.social with lots of help from @cemac.bsky.social
It’s been so cool to follow the work coming from @gabdans.bsky.social. Awesome to see someone pushing the field into the applied space and being intentional about thinking about the end use of the cool science that we do!
ÉPICBiodiversity@epic-biodiversity.org · 3mo agoInformation about species interactions is very scarce! In a new preprint, @gabdans.bsky.social shows that the methodology that enables biodiversity monitoring and reporting also supports the detection of species interactions, leading to multi-use monitoring. epic-biodiversity.org/blog/2026/05...
This work was masterfully lead by @jonastrepel.bsky.social, and features amazing art by @tanyadoesscience.bsky.social (attached here). It was a pleasure to be part of the discussions - and we hope to spark a wider conversation on developing robust frameworks for evaluating impact.
More Friday 17:00 thoughts starting to unspool 🙃
Sending love to 6-year-old me who was obsessed with dinosaurs 🦖🦕 Quick science PSA: not actually dinosaurs LOL — Permian marine communities 😂🙈 (Science accuracy > vibes) Still wild to be studying deep time like this... 🥹✨
🚨 NEW MUD DINOSAUR SCIENCE 🦕☄️ Obsessed with seeing networks being built, smashed and stress-tested with real data - not just debated from the sidelines 👀 (self-aware self-own 🙋). 🚀 Paleoecology leveled ⬆️. Big questions + awesome squad → measurable, mind-blowning results 🤯 Here’s what went down 👇✨
Prof Alex Dunhill@profalexdunhill.bsky.social · 5mo ago🚨New preprint out @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social (under review elsewhere!) 🧵 No global collapse of food webs across the Permian–Triassic Mass Extinction (PTME) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Preprint alert 🚨 (yes, I still go online, shocker) Scaling from Metawebs to Realised Webs: A Hierarchical Approach to Network Ecology TL;DR: Networks are like… weirdly finicky and if you want your network analysis to not be a sad chaos, check this preprint: [https://doi.org/10.32942/X2JW8K] 🏠💻
It should be illegal to have cool science brainwave moments after 16:00 on a Friday - if only to try and keep the work-life balance somewhat respectable
@hadley.nz , you’re so real for this 😭🙌 Lowkey spent my whole day glowin’ up my code with the new `genzplyr` pack — it’s giving ✨clean syntax✨ fr. hadley.github.io/genzplyr/ind...
dplyr but make it bussin fr fr no cap
`genzplyr` is an alternative syntax for `dplyr` that replaces boring old function names with GenZ slang. Your data wrangling is about to hit different.
hadley.github.io
Happy to announce the next edition of the @sortee.bsky.social Workshop & Webinar series on October 27 at 16:00UTC, ‘The Risks and Rewards of Large Language Models in (open) Scientific Research’ with @tanyadoesscience.bsky.social !! Sign up here: events.humanitix.com/sortee-webin...
SORTEE Webinar: The Risks and Rewards of Large Language Models in (Open) Scientific Research
SORTEE Workshop & Webinar Series
events.humanitix.com
Whoever decided to host the poster session in the Natural history museum you are my hero! 🤩
Tanya Strydom@tanyadoesscience.bsky.social · last yr.Stickers placed = conference mode loading 🤓🤓🤓 Looking forward to learning about DINOSAURS!!!
Stickers placed = conference mode loading 🤓🤓🤓 Looking forward to learning about DINOSAURS!!!
They've done it again... This time with adding (unnecessary) visual detail to the zero commit days. Inconsolable 😭😭😭
Tanya Strydom@tanyadoesscience.bsky.social · last yr.I feel like GitHub has (very subtly) modified the gradient they use for ones contributions calendar... I am going to need 2-4 business days to come to terms with this…
“Back in time for tea and medals” Celebrating the end of a fun fieldwork campaign the British way™
I feel like GitHub has (very subtly) modified the gradient they use for ones contributions calendar... I am going to need 2-4 business days to come to terms with this…
New paper! (arxiv.org/abs/2503.14093) I haven’t been this excited about one in a while, and I think the theory @mhab.bsky.social develops here will be a big step forward for the field. Why? Let me explain 🧵...
I've just had two @skypeascientist.bsky.social sessions today, and honestly it might just be the most rewarding part of this job. 🥲 Highly recommended for anyone who has the bandwidth/time for some science outreach
Reporting from the trenches - i.e., emerging after a battle trying to use excel formulas and conditional formatting... Why does it all have to be one line though??
Get simulating! #Biodiversity / #foodweb dynamics with #julialang. Classic bioenergetic model, consolidation of lots of add-ons & super fast. Very happy to share this, a result of amazing collaborators and a rich history of model development. besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
EcologicalNetworksDynamics.jl: A Julia package to simulate the temporal dynamics of complex ecological networks
Species interactions play a crucial role in shaping biodiversity, species coexistence, population dynamics, community stability and ecosystem functioning. Our understanding of the role of the dive...
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
Current me: Right I’ve said yes to this review I’m going to get it done in the next few days and submit my comments nice and early Me in a fortnight: Submitting my review the day before the deadline counts as early right?
I promise I’m a functional adult... Anyway if anyone wants to see me unspool the crazy catch me talking about food webs at poster session one tomorrow #BES2024
The Julia Type System™ giveth but also taketh #JuliaLang
Combined a ‘thinking day’ with a day out in the Peaks. Can’t ask for a better office
