Evolutionary ecologist; geeky but dreadful at typing
Imperial College London, UK
Joined February 2009
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Interested in biodiversity scaling? Join the Ecological Fractal Network! With plants and people at its core and optional data on other taxa, you can contribute with only 7 sites! Find out more ecofracnetwork.github.io/ @mjpsullivan @drnickisaac @bunnefeld @H_Mossman @JLembrechts
Enter the SPHERE/NBN biodiversity forecast challenge! Show us what you can do with the amazing NBN Atlas data, and have real-world impacts on how we carry out biodiversity monitoring.
Find out more (nbn.org.uk/news/sphere-ppl-a…) and enter (github.com/SPHERE-PPL/NBN-sp…)
Can you predict the UK’s next wheat disease outbreak? Enter SPHERE's forecasting contest, run in collaboration with @ADASgroup! Details (imperial.ac.uk/news/articles…) and GitHub to enter (github.com/SPHERE-PPL/ADAS-p…)
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Funding + recruitment news! 📢
I’m delighted to share that @willpearse and I have received a 2026 #APEX Award - Academies Partnership in Supporting Excellence in Cross-disciplinary Research - jointly awarded by @BritishAcademy_, @royalsociety, and the @RAEngNews, with generous support from The @LeverhulmeTrust . 🎉
And we’re recruiting! 👩🏻🔬
We’re looking for a full-time #ResearchAssociate / #PostdoctoralResearcher to join our interdisciplinary project at @ImperialBiz , @imperialcollege :
“From Policy to Planetary Health: Co-Benefits of Firm-Level Greenhouse Gas Policy for Biodiversity”
👑 The successful candidate will bring together environmental, industrial and biodiversity data to analyse the relationships between emissions, environmental conditions and biodiversity outcomes.
📊 This role would suit a quantitative researcher with strong data, modelling and coding skills, and an interest in applying these to environmental and biodiversity questions. The postdoc will work across disciplinary boundaries and contribute to research linking environmental policy, ecological change and planetary health.
Details and application link here:
imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-j…+
📆Deadline to apply: 2 July 2026
📆Expected start date: October 2026
Please feel free to contact Will or me with any informal questions.
#AcademicJobs #PostdocJobs #ResearchJobs #InterdisciplinaryResearch #EnvironmentalPolicy #Biodiversity #PlanetaryHealth #ClimateChange #Sustainability #DataScience #QuantitativeResearch #EnvironmentalEconomics #ImperialCollegeLondon #Modelling #JobAd #Postdoc
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Develop a forecasts of patient harm for the NHS! Every 4-hour delay in Emergency Department admission increases 30-day mortality risk by 8%: join the SPHERE forecasting contest and help the NHS reduce delays before they happen! Find out more here: imperial.ac.uk/news/articles…
Got what it takes to forecast for the NHS? 🏥
We’re releasing 1.3GB of data (2.5 years of records) for a massive forecasting challenge. Predict ambulance & admittance trends to help the NHS. Win 🏆 too...
Join here: github.com/SPHERE-PPL/NHS-EA…
Help identify AI training for environmental forecasting at the SPHERE-PPL Annual Meeting, and network!
📅14th Jan 2026 | The Alan Turing Institute
Find out more: sphere-ppl.org
Register: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F…
Spotlight on forecasting contests! 🎯
At the SPHERE-PPL Annual Meeting, you can shape AI forecasting challenges in Environmental Science!
📅 14-01-2026 | The Alan Turing Institute
Register now: forms.gle/iy6jC3Xg3QrTjBM67
Find out more: sphere-ppl.org/pages/Events/…
Will Pearse retweeted
Thinking of joining EcoFracNet or MicroFracNet? Now’s a great time - we can finally offer you free second-hand TOMST TMS4 sensors to support your fieldwork!
🛰️ Limited sensors available, so act fast.
📍 Details + how to join:
the3dlab.org/2025/07/04/join…
@willpearse
Two days of rewilding discussion and workshops? Sign me up! Or... you know... sign you up? Great opportunity to get involved with the BES rewilding SIG and meet other practitioners and academics britishecologicalsociety.org…
Take part in SPHERE-PPL's Lyme disease forecasting contest! Help improve our understanding of a dreadful disease *and* improve publicly available datasets for everyone! sphere-ppl.org/pages/Forecas…
Are you a data scientist looking for a new challenge? Are you a health decision-maker wrestling with a tricky data problem? Join the SPHERE-PPL network and come to our kick-off meeting at the @AlanTuringInsti in Jan-2025! Register now! sphere-ppl.org/pages/Events/…
Will Pearse retweeted
New preprint out (finally) !!!! We present YOLO-Behaviour, a flexible, easy to implement, robust framework for automated behavioural annotation from videos. @CBehav
biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
Last chance to register for StanCon 2024!
Come one, come all, to StanCon 2024! Some fantastic talks about applying, developing, and improving Bayesian models, and some hands-on tutorials about biodiversity and epidemiology supported by @turinginst - register now! mc-stan.org/events/stancon20…
Come one, come all, to StanCon 2024! Some fantastic talks about applying, developing, and improving Bayesian models, and some hands-on tutorials about biodiversity and epidemiology supported by @turinginst - register now! mc-stan.org/events/stancon20…
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In a bit of a COVID throwback, our new paper is out in Scientific Reports! We investigated the impact of environmental conditions on the transmission of different variants during their selective sweeps: doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-6…
@willpearse @IDorigatti @creswapi @mahika_dixit
Will Pearse retweeted
Our preprint on national acoustic monitoring of bird phenology across Norway is out! 🇳🇴
37k+ hrs of real-time data from deep in the arctic ☃️ to the southernmost tip 🌳, comparisons with ebird/BBS, national aSDMs and more!
Led brilliantly by Avery Bick doi.org/10.1101/2024.05.21.5…
Still time to apply (just!). Come do a three year post doc on biodiversity and data science!
Come and do a post-doc with me, @EttieUnwin and @flaxter at @turinginst ! We're building a probabilistic programming community (incl. Bayesian modelling) with this position focusing on biodiversity, but with collaborations with spatial and health modellers jobs.ac.uk/job/DHO617/resear…
Time for plant biodiversity class! The first year students at @imperialcollege are about to practice what they learned at our Silwood Park campus in central London! (Hopefully with slightly less gormless expressions than the one I'm pulling)
Will Pearse retweeted
🚨New Paper Out Now🚨
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
In @GlobalChangeBio from myself and @AlbertPhillimo2, @SBSatEd.
Ongoing seasonal shifts bring with them the serious risk of phenological #asynchrony and trophic #mismatch.
But some species are more resilient than others… 1/10 🧵
Come and do a post-doc with me, @EttieUnwin and @flaxter at @turinginst ! We're building a probabilistic programming community (incl. Bayesian modelling) with this position focusing on biodiversity, but with collaborations with spatial and health modellers jobs.ac.uk/job/DHO617/resear…