Ramya Roopa

New Preprint🚨 Our new #rshiny app and preprint on #flood-season river water level monitoring for 24 rivers and 107 gauging stations across the Gangetic plains is now up on @EarthArXiv! with Nachiket Kelkar & the riverine ecology team @WCT_India 🔗doi.org/10.31223/X5NM41

I am recruiting two funded graduate students (1 MS, 1 PhD) to join the lab and the Fisheries, Wildlife, and Conservation Sciences program at Oregon State University! If you are into small mammals and population ecology then check this out. Please share/repost widely!

Super excited to launch our flagship course End-to-End Google #EarthEngine on YouTube! Completely free for self-study and with no ads. Get started now at youtube.com/watch?v=jGuCnu…

I must say, rumors of #ScienceTwitter's demise have been greatly exaggerated. Almost without fail, when I get a Google Scholar alert about a paper, I already saw it on Twitter a day or two earlier. To all the incredible scientists on here- please stay! You're making an impact.

Guess we have 31 #species of tortoises and freshwater #turtles in India now! New research @RandAJournal. 🔗doi.org/10.17161/randa…

Lizards in Wonderland! New book from @heydaybooks coming April 2025. :-) heydaybooks.com/catalog/califo…

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Multiple reasons to continue to support and herald good taxa- and region-specific #science that might often lie in low #impactfactor journals! conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/co…

@annainthefield Congratulations!😍

Life update! I got married on Saturday 🥰 Bobby has fervently supported me over 10 years as I finished undergrad, applied to PhD programs, finished my PhD, and began my current position as a postdoc. I couldn't do what I do without him. I am so lucky.

Calling all urban ecologists working in the tropics! Please consider submitting to @Biotropica and @theATBC's 2026 Special Issue on Urban Ecosystems.

@AJThurston Is it faster than shinyapps.io? My experience with shinyapps.io is that while they say that you can host upto 5 apps on the free tier, it can be really slow even with two :(

Learned how to deploy a #Rstats Shiny App with Heroku today. It looks like you can have 100 apps on the free tier! This tutorial was the only one that worked for me: @gracemwendemicheni/deploy-r-shiny-app-to-heroku-31b48fb6eb39" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">medium.com/@gracemwendemi…

I am thrilled to introduce the Conservation Ecology Lab @UCSC_ENVS @ucsc. Our lab investigates anthropogenic threats to tropical birds and ecosystems, to propose solutions powered by spatial ecology using field and citizen science data. 🧵

The @WWF Russell E. Train Fellowships to support master’s or doctoral degree in conservation and related fields. Note: India is not an eligible country; but a whole list of other priority nations are. worldwildlife.org/projects/russe…

Who knew tortoises could be so affectionate?🐢💚 Aldabra giant tortoises absolutely love getting their heads and necks scratched. When scratched, some tortoises will rise to their full height with their neck extended and the head pointing upwards.  📷 @jonasndersson⁠

Want to apply to grad school? The SSAR DEI Committee is having a final virtual event on grad school in September, this one focused on preparing application materials! Info here: ssarherps.org/2024/08/virtua…

Anonymize a GitHub repository for double-blind peer review. I just learned about this - a great solution to the clumsy situation of providing data/code but also (trying) to remain anonymous! 😎 anonymous.4open.science

Free 45-Minute Statistical Consultancy for PhD Students Since you're all such fantastic folks, we are excited to offer 10 free 45-minute statistical consultancy sessions via Zoom. This opportunity is exclusively for PhD students—free as in 'truly free', with absolutely no strings attached. For details on how to sign up, visit us at highstat.com. Follow the link to Consultancy

Our lab is looking to recruit a PhD student in Jan 2025. If you are interested in doing PhD in Evolutionary Biology with us, please get in touch. More details of our research and the application are here: sites.google.com/view/jahnavijo…

Are you or someone you know looking for a funded MS or PhD position in freshwater ecology starting August 2025? Consider applying to work with me & collaborate on a project linking river oxygen dynamics with freshwater biodiversity. More info/how to apply: hotchkisslab.com/opportunities/…

We're hiring staff to work on Desert Tortoise head-starting in the Mojave National Preserve. Duties include radio-telemetry and husbandry. Experience with the species is preferred, but you will receive training for permitting. Please help share this ad: toddlab.ucdavis.edu/opportunities.…

Silence of the Lambs was perhaps an oracle. New study on the online sale and use of #painted #bats link.springer.com/article/10.100…