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📣 SIG positions available! 📣 We're looking for three enthusiastic volunteers to join the committee as Chair, Communications Officer and Events Officer. Find out more at: www.britishecologicalsociety.org/content/quan...

📣 Funded UK PhD opportunity 📣 Integrating environmental DNA into national biodiversity datasets to uncover drivers of biodiversity loss 🧬🌳 Supervised by J. Littlefair (UCL), C. Outhwaite (ZSL) & E. Matechou (QMUL). Start Oct ’26. Apply: bit.ly/3NqcN0a Email j.littlefair@ucl.ac.uk to chat.

🎉 Feeling inspired by this year's annual meeting? #BES2025 Our SIG will be seeking a new chair in 2026, which is a fantastic way to get more involved with the BES. 📩 Get in touch at quantitative@britishecologicalsociety.org to register interest and get more info!

Thanks to everyone we met at #BES2025! If you have a minute pre-xmas break, please help us shape our BESAG 2026 Annual Meeting by filling out our super short questionnaire below! Also, keep your eyes peeled on our socials in january, we'll soon be looking for a new comittee member 👀 🪸🦑🦭🌊💧🐟

📣 Today’s the day! 🕕 Meet the SIGs: 18:00-19:00 📍 Mezzanine Come meet the Quantitative SIG, then head with us from the Atrium to The Fox & Faun from 7:30pm for our SIG social with Aquatic & Teaching & Learning. See you there! 📊🍻 #BES2025

Coming to #BES2025 this week? 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 We'll be there too! Come find us at the Meet the SIGs session! 🌊 📍Mezzanine 🕰️ 6-7pm We'll then head to the pub for drinks and food for a joint social with Teaching and Learning & Quantitative @bes-quantitative.bsky.social SIGs! 🍻 📍Fox & Faun 🕰️ 7.30pm

📈 Quantitative ecologists at #BESAnnualMeeting - we’d love to see you! Join the Quantitative SIG at Meet the SIGs (Tue 18:00–19:00), then come along to our joint social with @bes-aquaticgroup.bsky.social and Teaching & Learning SIG. Good company, games, food & drinks to be had! 🍻

📊 Heading to #BESAnnualMeeting next week? Come and meet the Quantitative SIG at Meet the SIGs on Tuesday 18:00–19:00 at the EICC. A great chance to chat quantitative ecology, hear what we’re up to, and get involved 👋 Stick around afterwards for the SIG socials!

There's still time to sign up! Don't miss out on today's Quantifying Ecology webinar. 11am BST.

1 week to go until our next Quantifying Ecology webinar with @besaldernetwork.bsky.social! Feat. Taiwanese forest SDMs and RainbowR, an organisation promoting LGBT+ voices in the R community. Tues 14th Oct @ 11am BST Sign up here: bit.ly/3HWpEol

🍄 Opportunity alert! Natural England are looking for a UK-based collaborator to support analytics for a Fungal Red List for Great Britain. Tasks include bias assessment, Frescalo modelling, AOO/EOO, and data presentation (Shiny or Excel). 📩 Get in touch: Matthew.Wainhouse@naturalengland.org.uk

Anyone interested in queer ecology, forests or SDMs... roll up! 🌲🌈📈

📣 Two weeks to go! 📣 Don't forget to sign up using the link below.

Join us for our next webinar, with @besaldernetwork.bsky.social! Catherine Mercer and Ella Kaye will present their work predicting forest distributions using SDMs, and with @RainbowR, an organisation promoting LGBTQIA+ voices in the R community. Tues 14th Oct @ 11am BST Sign up: bit.ly/3HWpEol

Walsh PhD Scholarship: Modelling the impact of climate change on #forest productivity Details at: drjonyearsley.github.io/agriadaptPhD... Apply by 30th Sept 2025 @bes-quantitative.bsky.social @bes-forests.bsky.social @ucdscience.bsky.social @ucdearth.bsky.social @teagasc.bsky.social

Last chance to sign up!

📣 Last chance to sign up! 📣 Tomorrow at 10am.

📣 Don't forget to join us on Tuesday for our next webinar!

One week to go before the next webinar in our Quantifying Ecology series. Don't forget to sign up!

Don't forget to register for our Hackathon event! We'll be discussing and testing a protocol to check whether published data/code is actually reproducible... Registration closes on the 15th September 🕤 Find out more and register here 👉 buff.ly/XTON0lV

📣 Join us for our next Quantifying Ecology webinar! 📣 This time, Dr Rémi Fay will present in collaboration with @bes-parasitesgroup.bsky.social : "Modeling the dynamics of brucellosis in an wild Alpine ibex population." 9th Sep @ 10am BST bit.ly/3HWpEol

This was a great way to start a Tuesday - thanks to @jamesaorr.bsky.social‬ and looking forward to the rest of the talks in the series 💻🌿

📣 One more day to register! 📣 We kick off tomorrow at 9am BST.

Our Quantifying Ecology series is kicking off next week! Join us on Tues 5th Aug for our first webinar 🐟

📬 Subscribe now to receive this month’s Quantitative Ecology Newsletter! Featuring the latest on events, research, opportunities, and of course, our quantitative meme of the month. Sign up here: bit.ly/3Ieke7T (Photo credit: Instagram @britishecolsoc)

📣 Don’t forget to sign up to our first Quantifying Ecology webinar! 📣 We join Dr James Orr in collab with @bes-aquaticgroup.bsky.social for: ”Variability of community-level responses contains information about ecosystem functioning and global change impacts” 5th Aug @ 9am BST bit.ly/44SzlwG

📣 Don’t forget to sign up to our first Quantifying Ecology webinar! 📣 We join Dr James Orr in collab with @bes-aquaticgroup.bsky.social for: ”Variability of community-level responses contains information about ecosystem functioning and global change impacts” 5th Aug @ 9am BST bit.ly/44SzlwG

Question: what’s one piece of advice you’d give to somebody starting out in quantitative ecology? #QuantitativeEcology #Statistics #R

📆 Workshop Opportunity 📆 The ANdinA workshop aims to bridge the gap between modelling and applied ecology to advance ecological predictions in real-world systems. Nerín, Spain 8-12 June 2026 More info: andinaspain2026.com

SO excited to kick off our Quantifying Ecology webinar series on 5th August. Don't forget to sign up! #QuantifyingEcology @britishecologicalsociety.org @bes-aquaticgroup.bsky.social

Join us for our first Quantifying Ecology webinar: ”Variability of community-level responses contains information about ecosystem functioning and global change impacts” With Dr @jamesaorr.bsky.social in collab with ( @bes-aquaticgroup.bsky.social). 🐟📈 5th Aug at 9am BST. Sign-up: bit.ly/44SzlwG

Quantitative methods underpin all of ecology - whether we like it or not! Join our new webinar series, 🌱📈 Quantifying Ecology 📈🌱, where we team up with other BES SIGs to explore quantitative methods in their research fields. Kicking off on 5th Aug. Keep following for updates and links!

Thrilled to announce our webinar series: 🌱📈 Quantifying Ecology 📈🌱 We are collaborating with our SIG friends to bring you quantitative methods in different ecological contexts. Kicking off with Dr @jamesaorr.bsky.social and @bes-aquaticgroup.bsky.social on 5th August. More details to come!

💼 Job alert! Professor in Landscape Ecology at SLU Closes: August 2025 Details: bit.ly/3HUiDEk Know someone perfect for this? Share away!

📣 Job Vacancy 📣 The University of St Andrews is seeking to enhance its research strength in Statistics by appointing a new Chair in Statistical Ecology. Closing date 21/07/2025. www.vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk/Vacancies/I/...

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Interested in ecological/environmental #stats? Join us at the EnvEcoStats conference at Lancaster Uni 1-3 July 2025 envecostats.wordpress.com 14 days left to submit an abstract - come on ecologists! @bes-quantitative.bsky.social @besmacro.bsky.social @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social #RStats

📣 Job Vacancies 📣 The Offshore Renewables group at BioSS is looking to appoint two new positions at a statistician grade, who have an interest in working on the impacts of offshore renewable energy on seabirds and marine mammals. www.bioss.ac.uk/vacancies/ec...

Hi there, my student is making a survey about the use of R packages in Ecology, could you please spend two mins on filling it 🥹 Very appreciated! And if you could spread it further (RT), that would be just awesome. ❤️ docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

** Upcoming quantitative conference: ** 📈 Environmental and Ecological Statistics Conference 📈 1-3 July, Lancaster, UK. Contributed abstract submission closes 1st April.

If you're interested in quantitative ecology, make sure to follow our newsletter for monthly updates about our events and opportunities! britishecologicalsociety.us17.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=...

'Quantitative Ecology' means different things to different people, but one thing's for sure: we can't avoid using numbers in ecological research. Complete our survey today to let us know what it means to you, and help us tailor our resources and events to our members' needs. 📋 shorturl.at/n6jRd

We've now got the green light to revamp this booklet and we're looking for volunteers to write/peer review sections. Express your interest here: forms.gle/ZYFLPaC3k2RF.... We want to feature diverse ECR writers from across the world. Women of colour are especially encouraged!

Thanks everybody for a fantastic BES meeting! @britishecolsoc.bsky.social It was great to meet so many new faces at our social on Wednesday night. Please complete our survey to let us know how we can provide the best resources and events in the upcoming year! 📋 🔗 shorturl.at/n6jRd

Meet us for our joint social with the BES Teaching & Learning Group at next week's BES Annual Meeting for food, fun and new faces! We'll be at the Pump House at 7.15pm on Wed, just 10 mins from the conference venue. Make sure to bring along your quizzing brains! 🧠 maps.app.goo.gl/22sq5M286w3e...