Samantha Travers

@maxmallencooper Omg, I've just opened Twitter to this brilliant thread! Thank you for for being that fresh academic sparkle ✨for the best part of the last decade! I'm going to miss you Max!

On my own, I’m just a fungus. But with all of you, we made a lichen. I love you all 18/19

Thank you everyone who made my digital PhD submission such a delight! Read on if you like Acknowledgements and elaborate lichen metaphors...🧵1/19

@Megan_McNellie @joelsartore Hah! I wish that were a thing! I had been given a plain white cotton onsie I was dreaming of adding animal patterns to though with inktense pencils. Standing gecko pattern would be fun 🤔

@joelsartore fun fact...warning colours dissuade parents from eating their young...@GeoS4m do you have a Standing's gecko onesie?

While most adult day geckos become dangerous predators to their offspring, adult Standing’s day geckos are an exception. Warning colors visible on baby geckos dissuade parents from eating their own young, allowing baby geckos to grow into adulthood unharmed.

@DJ_Eldridge @AnikaMolesworth @AusRangeSoc @DrylandsASU @Mel_Abdallah What a great video! Exciting work you're setting up here too!

I am excited to see how this pastoral property changes after sheep removal following 2 centuries of #grazing @AnikaMolesworth @AusRangeSoc @DrylandsASU @Mel_Abdallah

@CyanoAngie She arrived two days after my reply. Newborn life is a wild ride 🥴 thanks so much for offer of support 🥰 I'm also lucky to have access to flexible hours until she's of school age ❤️

@NaturesTextures and I welcome Allira Kwok-Travers to the world. #ifonlybirthwasthiseasy

@CyanoAngie Not yet, but bub is still a couple of weeks away.. But I do worry about these feelings returning to work at the end of my time off. Day-to-day work seems to require high brain power, no time to be concerned with anything else.

@b_medlyn @DJ_Eldridge Yesss! That would be fabulous! Anyone else care to join the feildwork with fabulous hair? I see @desert_ecology lurking and know she rocks this hair in the field. Likewise @whydee13?

@GeoS4m @DJ_Eldridge I think we need to go into the field together! We clearly have much in common 😃😃

Our new blog on how #woody Australian plants respond to changes in #aridity @CES_UNSW @unswbees @jingyiding1 @GeoS4m

@b_medlyn @DJ_Eldridge Hi @b_medlyn! That would be me 😊I enjoyed your seminar at UNSW in the summer of 2019/2020 😉 I am a huge fan of your work, would love to meet you!

@DJ_Eldridge @CES_UNSW @unswbees @jingyiding1 @GeoS4m Who is the person with the awesome plaits? I need to meet them!

@DJ_Eldridge @CES_UNSW Wow! What a great find!

I havent seen so many young #emus for a long time.. edge of the mallee near Balranald @CES_UNSW

When data is based on human judgement, it's prone to noise and bias #ESAus21

@EcolSocAus All days combined of @EcolSocAus #ESAus21: With and without labels. Lots of connections after another difficult year. 4041 tweets captured here!

@rsl1957 @EcolSocAus @NSWDPIE_Water It's just too beautiful, isn't it?! .. I checked it many times!

"How many experts are needed to identify an ecological community?" asks @GeoS4m from @NSWDPIE_Water. To reduce uncertainty to 5%, we need at least 30 experts! Some lovely 'textbook' binomial plots in this talk. #ESAus21

@DonADriscoll @EcolSocAus @NSWDPIE_Water Thanks Don.. So many unknowns! Just goes to show how tricky it can be to identify vegetation communities!

@MeganVGood Did you happen to grab his phone number? 🤣

@GeoS4m David Keith will know. Let's ask him.

@GeoS4m explains how to extract info from experts brains and how many brains to tap into (in case you don't have David Keith on speed dial) and why we should ensure we do it well! #ESAus21

@DanaMBergstrom Thanks Dana.. Seems like we have to ask many more people than just a couple of experts, even if a community has a fairly high chance of occurring at a site!

@EcolSocAus @NSWDPIE_Water Thank you! Had to plot that data several times to make sure it was right! It certainly is