Will Cornwell

Results from a globally replicated experiment: microbes respond to temperature in a very well known way, but termites are much more sensitive to temperature. Termites are massively understudied for how important they are globally, and warming is likely to make them more important

This new mobile-friendly tool lets you create personalised species checklists for a specified area 📋 Check out the app: spr.ly/60174PzBZ Made by @unswbees @thomasmesaglio @fonti_kar @will_cornwell and team. spr.ly/60184PzBw #rstats #Shiny #ecology

Faster than expected: release of nitrogen and phosphorus from decomposing woody litter Wijas et al. @BapsWijas @will_cornwell @AmyZanne 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/WWDDDMRE…

@NickDesnoyer is this easy enough to do in a teaching context?

Leaf infiltration is a widely used technique in plant science for delivering Agrobacterium or chemicals directly to plant cells 🍃🧬 For those who do it regularly, there’s a satisfaction in watching the liquid flow seamlessly through the leaf's airspaces—when done well..

New paper: doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoi… We compiled master plant species lists for 2 of the 5 oldest national parks: Royal (Australia) and Yosemite (USA) by combining herbarium vouchers + @inaturalist records + official expert park lists, extensively manually curating all records.

@Augustus__J @SatPaper At the risk of sounding astronomically illiterate, it would be cooler if the moon was closer.

@SatPaper "At the risk of sounding economically illiterate" at least the author is self-aware

“At the risk of sounding economically illiterate, I suspect the chief villain in the housing crisis is not supply, but an unsustainable shift in the pattern of demand,” writes social researcher Hugh Mackay. satpa.pe/1yUThbN

Hearing the NBA and Warner struck a deal for WBD to move out of the NBA’s house after this season. There will be no lawsuit. Zaslav got some much-smaller-stakes stuff to go away for good. Will Inside the NBA get licensed to ESPN next season? That’s the next subplot to watch.

@schmidtim @JonBeves @WAlexSyd @UNSWScience time for biology: extract DNA and send to Ancestry.com

UNSW deployed its full arsenal of analytical chemistry at the Coogee Beach Nuggets. The results were disgusting. @JonBeves @WAlexSyd @UNSWScience #chemtwitter #ozchem theconversation.com/black-balls-on…

Wild herbivores' impacts on vegetation in arid Australia translate to soil seedbanks shorturl.at/no5bn. @TongtongXu16 shows that seed density increased along an aridity gradient and that herbivores suppressed seed density at the most arid site. @willcornwelll @BapsWijas

@TimCurran8 @mikeletnic @TongtongXu16 @willcornwelll @BapsWijas haha thanks @TimCurran8 !

@mikeletnic @TongtongXu16 @willcornwelll @BapsWijas Cool project! Looks like you tagged the wrong @will_cornwell

📸@dandy_gumnut tells us the story behind this month's cover image: 🍂'I was going through hundreds of #herbarium sheets & realised that centuries of info across the globe were just waiting for someone to transcribe it as a digital dataset we can analyse' jecologyblog.com/2024/10/22/cov…

Congrats to iNaturalist 🇦🇺 for five laps around the sun! ☀️ 📊🤳 Thanks to you amazing #citizenscientists, they've just hit: - 9,000,000 species observations... - Of 60,000 different species... - From 100,000 observers! Read more below: 📚🔗 | spr.ly/6013qKWRh

New research often revises species taxonomies. Without a clear crosswalk, old datasets & studies can be challenging to amalgamate. #R package APCalign helps solve this, aligning names to #AustralianPlantCensus. Elizabeth Wenk & colleagues @UNSW @unswbees doi.org/10.1071/BT24014

Keen to do environmental science with impact? Come join us @UNSWScience Apply at: external-careers.jobs.unsw.edu.au/cw/en/job/5277…

@tngrainger The tidyverse section of our teaching website is here: environmentalcomputing.net/data-manipulat…

@Zambullida @timutteridge Global plant species with 1 reliable field photo is likely to be maybe 150,000 globally give or take. With enough photos for ML is much less. So you might be right about the Artificial Anti-intelligence. Our paper on plant photographs from Australia: nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

@timutteridge 500,000 of those species have been hallucinated by the Artificial Anti-intelligence.

Apparently, PlantSnap can "Identify 90% of all known species of plants and trees. 600,000+ plants in our searchable database." That's a lot of plants (some guesses on figures: angiosperms c. 380k, mosses, c. 15k, ferns 12k, gymnosperms 1k). plantsnap.com

@rsnaru Apple M-series does *some* big matrix operations super super fast. maybe using the GPU? Presumably the C++ libraries underlying R knows how to access this feature of the M-series chips, but I have yet to figure this out fully.

My R codes for handling large geospatial data (incl. sampling from raster) by mac M3 is 100x faster than by WSL Ubuntu core i9, SSD. No idea why such huge gap happens.

Our research group @UFWildlife and @UFIFAS_FLREC is looking to hire a postdoctoral researcher focused on quantitative ecology! Pay: 65-75k USD. Looking for someone to start late 2024 or early 2025. - Experience or interest in working with state and federal agencies a must!

@rahmstorf @MaxCRoser from AR5, not sure if it's been updated

@MaxCRoser That is why the IPCC reports about climate science provide the actual probability numbers for terms like „likely“ and „very likely“.

Why numbers are sometimes better than words. What people think you say when you say “little chance,” “probably not,” or “highly likely.”

@pbeasleyhall @DrMGuzik @brock_hedges Very cool paper! Loved the giant supplementary data too!

It's time to update how we think about life-history traits for AM fungi! Another great paper led by @t_camenzind