Will Pearse

Interested in biodiversity scaling? Join the Ecological Fractal Network! With plants and people at its core and optional data on other taxa, you can contribute with only 7 sites! Find out more ecofracnetwork.github.io @mjpsullivan @drnickisaac @bunnefeld @H_Mossman @JLembrechts

Got what it takes to forecast for the NHS? 🏥 We’re releasing 1.3GB of data (2.5 years of records) for a massive forecasting challenge. Predict ambulance & admittance trends to help the NHS. Win 🏆 too... Join here: github.com/SPHERE-PPL/NHS…

@HCI_London I'm trying to apply for an Indian visa but can't find my old visa from ~20 years ago. What kind of placeholder can I put in my application for the visa number? I don't want to lie and say I've never been, but the form won't let me leave the entry blank! Thanks!

Help identify AI training for environmental forecasting at the SPHERE-PPL Annual Meeting, and network! 📅14th Jan 2026 | The Alan Turing Institute Find out more: sphere-ppl.org Register: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

Spotlight on forecasting contests! 🎯 At the SPHERE-PPL Annual Meeting, you can shape AI forecasting challenges in Environmental Science! 📅 14-01-2026 | The Alan Turing Institute Register now: forms.gle/iy6jC3Xg3QrTjB… Find out more: sphere-ppl.org/pages/Events/J…

Thinking of joining EcoFracNet or MicroFracNet? Now’s a great time - we can finally offer you free second-hand TOMST TMS4 sensors to support your fieldwork! 🛰️ Limited sensors available, so act fast. 📍 Details + how to join: the3dlab.org/2025/07/04/joi… @willpearse

Two days of rewilding discussion and workshops? Sign me up! Or... you know... sign you up? Great opportunity to get involved with the BES rewilding SIG and meet other practitioners and academics britishecologicalsociety.org/content/explor…

Take part in SPHERE-PPL's Lyme disease forecasting contest! Help improve our understanding of a dreadful disease *and* improve publicly available datasets for everyone! sphere-ppl.org/pages/Forecast…

@DylanJCraven @ecoevorxiv NICE! Amazing to see Dylan!

@ecoevorxiv @willpearse ft 5 fractals!

"Environmental heterogeneity mediates plant diversity and ecosystem stability in mountain ecosystems of the Mediterranean Andes" DOI: doi.org/10.32942/X2MD1Q.

Are you a data scientist looking for a new challenge? Are you a health decision-maker wrestling with a tricky data problem? Join the SPHERE-PPL network and come to our kick-off meeting at the @AlanTuringInsti in Jan-2025! Register now! sphere-ppl.org/pages/Events/J…

@M_Stemkovski @ASNAmNat Well done Michael! Great to see this out in print - a great end to a lot of hard work!

New preprint out (finally) !!!! We present YOLO-Behaviour, a flexible, easy to implement, robust framework for automated behavioural annotation from videos. @CBehav biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Last chance to register for StanCon 2024!

Come one, come all, to StanCon 2024! Some fantastic talks about applying, developing, and improving Bayesian models, and some hands-on tutorials about biodiversity and epidemiology supported by @turinginst - register now! mc-stan.org/events/stancon…

In a bit of a COVID throwback, our new paper is out in Scientific Reports! We investigated the impact of environmental conditions on the transmission of different variants during their selective sweeps: doi.org/10.1038/s41598… @willpearse @IDorigatti @creswapi @mahika_dixit

Our preprint on national acoustic monitoring of bird phenology across Norway is out! 🇳🇴 37k+ hrs of real-time data from deep in the arctic ☃️ to the southernmost tip 🌳, comparisons with ebird/BBS, national aSDMs and more! Led brilliantly by Avery Bick doi.org/10.1101/2024.0…

Still time to apply (just!). Come do a three year post doc on biodiversity and data science!

@com_ecology @GodsoeWilliam I've always felt that we are good engines of entropy, Pedro, so maybe this is appropriate... How are you doing?

To my favourite Wills @willpearse @GodsoeWilliam - remember that the difference between Will, Hill (numbers), and Hell is a matter of entropy 😬😂

Time for plant biodiversity class! The first year students at @imperialcollege are about to practice what they learned at our Silwood Park campus in central London! (Hopefully with slightly less gormless expressions than the one I'm pulling)

🚨New Paper Out Now🚨 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/gc… In @GlobalChangeBio from myself and @AlbertPhillimo2, @SBSatEd. Ongoing seasonal shifts bring with them the serious risk of phenological #asynchrony and trophic #mismatch. But some species are more resilient than others… 1/10 🧵

Come and do a post-doc with me, @EttieUnwin and @flaxter at @turinginst ! We're building a probabilistic programming community (incl. Bayesian modelling) with this position focusing on biodiversity, but with collaborations with spatial and health modellers jobs.ac.uk/job/DHO617/res…