Adham Ashton-Butt

Great work by @CJG_Russell to publish this paper in @CurrentBiology in the first year of his PhD. Very proud supervisor!

New paper on boosting training data in acoustic machine learning classification for identification of species with little training data, such as dormice. Great work from @jen_macisaac to get the first chapter of her PhD published in @ECOLINFORM. doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoi…

Our work, featured in the @guardian @guardianscience theguardian.com/environment/ar…

Big congratulations @climateincolour for publishing this work from her PhD and getting an honourable mention from @TheOfficialACM dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/36…

Connectivity is often given as an aim in conservation, but how do we interpret it, how do we try to improve it, and how do we measure it Please complete our survey - nice & quick to do, but will be very useful to scope out the state of play!

@JMBecologist @Scorhill Not that I know of, here is a recent broad review on acoustic monitoring and one use-case of acoustic monitoring for birds, specifically. besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11… cdnsciencepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

@Scorhill @Adhamab90?

People working on soundscapes & ornithology, I give you a paper title for free: "The Sound of the Sunbirds"

1/6 | #BOUsci23 | #Break1 Greater Spotted Eagle populations are declining across their breeding range in Europe due to habitat loss & hybridisation with Lesser Spotted Eagles - they also migrate across a broad front where they are exposed to a host of other threats

Very excited to announce my new R package spAbundance for fitting single-species and multi-species spatially-explicit N-mixture models, distance sampling models, and GLMMs. Includes options for random intercepts/slopes and species correlations. #rstats jeffdoser.com/files/spabunda….

Love data📊? Love birds 🐦🦅🦉🦜? Work with me and others @_BTO 💼! Permanent Ecological Statistician / Quantitative Ecologist position available! #ornithology #ecology #statistics #datascience #rstats

A great account of @NewsonStuart's fieldwork for our @EndangeredLands bioacoustics project (endangeredlandscapes.org/project/acoust…). This will hopefully enable many more to do acoustic monitoring of bats, birds and more through automated classification.

@EugeneBirds @DEBALMER @RSPBScience @MiguelHGon @LucyWilliamsn @bennett_sophie @peatysmoky @simon_gillings Hi Eugene, I can't DM you, but please feel free to email me at adham.ashton-butt(at)bto.org

@DEBALMER @RSPBScience @MiguelHGon @LucyWilliamsn @bennett_sophie @peatysmoky @simon_gillings @Adhamab90 Cheers Dawn. Guys ? DM me if you have time please

Landscape fires in #WildPolesia threaten human lives & health, economy & ecosystems, and increase greenhouse gas emissions. #Wetland #restoration is a nature-based solution to the problem, the authors of our new peer-reviewed study emphasize. Learn more: wildpolesia.org/blog/2023/05/2…

@woodlandbirder I always had a real biodiversity depression for at least 2 weeks when coming back from eastern Europe

Great to see our paper out in @STOTEN_journal on the prevalence and risk of wildfires in areas of high conservation value in eastern Europe @wildpolesia

@TonyDartmoor @WoodlandDave @bto This looks really cool! As Dave said, I'd definitely point you towards the @_BTO acoustic pipeline. Currently it's just for high frequency animals, but we are bringing out functionality for birds in the future. Feel free to get in touch if you want to know more.

@GlobalFlyway @ministerlnv @minlnv @provfryslan @CampusFryslan @univgroningen @projectgodwit @unep_aewa @gemeenteswf @fmf_frl @KeningGreide History of the sites? Extensive grasslands once used for industry or dumping of industrial waste? Or perhaps greater/more consistent plant biomass and soil prevents leaching of PFAS so retains more?

Total #contaminant load in #livers of black-tailed #godwits yielded an amazing variety of chemical residues. #grutto's from intensively & extensively managed grasslands differ; on extensive grasslands #birds have a greater mix and more #PFAS. #OpenAccess doi.org/10.1016/j.chem…

1/5 New #BTOScience lead by @AcroDWade with @UniOfHull, @APHAgovuk & @UniversityLeeds shows that it's possible to detect the #AvianInfluenza virus via an active sampling approach before the nationwide passive approach can. #OpenAccess 👉 cambridge.org/core/journals/… #BirdFlu #HPAI

If people aren't bored of hearing me speak about Greater Spotted Eagles I'm at #BES2022 this afternoon! Come and say hello

The UK government's biodiversity expenditure data released - & it's grim. For all the rhetoric of financing nature recovery - here's how spending has actually changed over time - still ~40% lower than in 2008 in real terms #key-results" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">jncc.gov.uk/our-work/ukbi-… /1