Cameron Goodhead

@ACBowland @Trends_Ecol_Evo Congrats Anna! Saw this in the Guardian earlier, so cool!

Excited to announce our new paper on ‘The evolutionary ecology of ethanol’ is now out online in @Trends_Ecol_Evo! 🎉 More info below: cell.com/trends/ecology…

#Aurora over Durham Cathedral tonight

@LauraCECampbell @Chomicki_G @phylonatworks @Dan_nesbit13 @adriaexists Congrats Laura! 🎉

Really happy to have pasted my PhD viva today! 🥳 Thank you to @Chomicki_G and @phylonatworks for my brilliant hat and to @Dan_nesbit13 for my ant-plant cake 🐜 🌱 Thank you to @adriaexists and Adrian Brennan for a great viva

@Christophe_Patt @JonathanPDrury @Lancaster_LT @LauraCECampbell @CEGDurham @DurBiol Woo congrats Christophe! 🥳

I am a #PhDone! Passed my viva... no corrections‽ Thanks to all who helped me get here! Especially my 𝒔𝒖𝒑𝒆𝒓visors @JonathanPDrury & Adrian Brennan Had a fantastic time in me Viva thanks to @Lancaster_LT & Andreanna Welch Ace hat & cake from @LauraCECampbell & Ellie Ward

So @TheGreenParty now have 4 seats - as many as the revolting Reform party are forecast to get. So why in god’s name is @BBCNews rabbiting on about Reform still and not talking about extraordinary Green performance??

🚨 NEW: The Green Party have successfully won all four of their target seats, despite an original exit poll prediction of just two

Climate experts were increasingly saying that keeping heating below 1.5C is near impossible, yet it remains the global goal. So I asked hundreds of top IPCC scientists what they thought. What they said shocked even me… 🧵 1/n #ClimateCrisis

@thereal_jayhay @MerlinHanbury Thanks Jessica!

@CamGoodhead @MerlinHanbury Wow that looks stunning! Fab pics 😍

A fun return to my old stomping grounds in the stunning Bodmin Moor temperate rainforests at Cabilla Cornwall last month. So good to be back! @MerlinHanbury

Thrilled to share our new @DICE_Kent research on fire impacts - hot off the press🔥 in @PNASNews Working with @BorneoNature & using 16-years of data, we examined the ecological impacts of fire and potential for recovery in Indonesia's tropical peatlands🧵1/10

Beautiful photo of Gracia and family! 🦧

@AndrewGilruth @stuartpengs @turbotechdog I agree it doesnt tell full picture. But doesn't need to be a hard accept/reject. We can acknowledge that it can provide insights into differences in local biodiversity, but loses meaning comparing environmentally different sites eg grouse moor v hay meadow, UK v Switzerland etc

@stuartpengs @CamGoodhead @turbotechdog So all you need is one pair of more species at a site to be ‘better’… that does not tell us the full picture. Hence my point. Either we accept this way of counting biodiversity or we don’t. Can’t have it both ways.

Often wonder about this. I’ve been to other countries and seen no wildlife at all. Is it calculated as a % of the perceived wildlife pre man? 🫎🦬🦭

@AndrewGilruth @Alexander_Lees @stuartpengs Not at all. But as has been continuously highlighted, we shouldn't be comparing environmentally different countries (like the blog does), but instead with what has been lost compared to baselines within the country (eg the biodiversity intactness index)

@CamGoodhead @Alexander_Lees @stuartpengs I think you mean you will ignore the vast international species biodiversity counts from around the globe. Daft.

I thought about replying to this misleading biodiversity value statement by @AndrewGilruth but @stuartpengs had already thoroughly debunked it:

@AndrewGilruth @stuartpengs @turbotechdog Right I may stop here then as you’re clearly not reading what I am saying. What I said is that comparing species richness between environmentally similar sites is valid. It is fine to compare, say, RSPB Minsmere to surrounding areas. It is not fine to compare to an alpine meadow.

@CamGoodhead @stuartpengs @turbotechdog You have brilliantly demonstrated your own bias. We should be consistent. No wonder nature is in trouble.

@AndrewGilruth @stuartpengs @turbotechdog It is definitely more valid when eNGOs say that their site has X species more than the surrounding landscape, rather than saying that because Switzerland has less fish than the UK we are actually doing great for biodiversity.

@AndrewGilruth @stuartpengs @turbotechdog I'm not saying species count is a useless metric. It can be useful - although still is not the only one we need. I more meant the way the data were used in the blog is very flawed. It also becomes more flawed when the differences between compared sites increase e.g. btw countries

@AndrewGilruth @stuartpengs @turbotechdog There's loads more issues with it and is the reason it is a mere blog post and not an actual published dataset.. Very ironic that you are using this to bash eNGOs for being misleading with data.

@AndrewGilruth @stuartpengs @turbotechdog 3) The data doesn't account for any differences in monitoring resources across countries. Eg Slovenia is down as only have 400 plant species - compared to neighbours Austria (2,578), Croatia (4,288). UK has excellent monitoring and reporting schemes.