Evolutionary ecologist; geeky but dreadful at typing
Imperial College London, UK
Joined February 2009
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Will Pearse retweeted
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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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
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/…
Will Pearse retweeted
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…
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 🧵
Will Pearse retweeted
2 tips for requesting a meeting with a busy prof 1) Suggest a specific date/time, in your first email. In the same email, provide many alternative times. Don't just say "When are you available?" Profs suffer from decision fatigue mathemagicalconservation.wor… - ht @Rob_SalGo 1/5
Will Pearse retweeted
🚨 Want to fit a molecular clock, or 2? 🚨
👉 Try clockor2.github.io - a client side tool for fitting global and local clocks with root-to-tip regression.
Developed in collaboration with @wytamma, @arambaut, and @sebduchene (rb.gy/dro6j)
Will Pearse retweeted
Our paper on how life history traits constrain the adaptation of arthropods to climatic warming (or cooling!) is out: nature.com/articles/s41559-0…
Remember, arthropods (especially insects) are the most abundant animals on planet earth across land and water!
Will Pearse retweeted
I am thrilled to be launching Elimia: a new consultancy with the objective of harnessing the power of data and analytics to unearth actionable insights and support positive outcomes for biodiversity.
To find out more about Elimia, visit elimia.io
Will Pearse retweeted
After 2+ years, my masters project is finally published in @AvianBiology ! With @RderAbi, @TA_Burke, @willpearse and @Jj255
doi.org/10.1111/jav.03167
A quick 🧵
Will Pearse retweeted
Spent today surveying the Reinischkogel for @willpearse et al. (ecofracnetwork.github.io). Had help from 2 amazing students: a current and a recently graduated BA. Very grateful to them, and to my colleagues @UniGraz, for being/training such stellar field biologists & taxonomists!
Will Pearse retweeted
Observation suggests that people are switching to using ChatGPT to write things for them with almost indecent haste. Most people hate to write as much as they hate math. Way more than admit it. Within a year the median piece of writing could be by AI.
Will Pearse retweeted
600 children at Beacon Rise Primary in Bristol have been rather busy this afternoon. Look at what they achieved. @BBCNews @itvnews @bbcpointswest @itvwestcountry @RoyalFamily #coronation @Coronation2023 @KensingtonRoyal
Will Pearse retweeted
16 years after the first EDGE List for the world’s mammals was launched, we are excited to present our new-and-improved approach to identify the world’s most evolutionarily distinct and threatened species, published today in @PLOSBiology tinyurl.com/2p95v6z3 - thread: (1/11)
ALT The Mountain Pygmy Possum (Burramys parvus) is the new number one EDGE mammal, identified using a new approach. Image credit: ‘Australian Alps’ on Flickr. Text/graphics added.
ALT The Aye-aye, number 2 on the EDGE mammal list, is the largest nocturnal lemur and the only species in its entire family, Daubentonidae. Image credit: ZSL
ALT The top 25 EDGE mammals under the 'EDGE2' approach. Credit: Gumbs et al. 2022 - PLOS Biology
Will Pearse retweeted
PhD position 📢📢
Supervised by @willpearse and myself, in collaboration with Mombak.com
Amazing opportunity for field work in the Amazon, using acoustic monitors and eDNA to understand how biodiversity changes through time! Check out👇
imperial.ac.uk/media/imperia…
Will Pearse retweeted
So @AdamRutherford is receiving a lot of skepticism about his tweet saying that if Cheddar Man has any genealogical ancestors today, he is the common ancestor of all present-day humans. Adam is correct about this — I think this is such a cool finding, so I'll explain it below.
Will Pearse retweeted
Kwasi’s #UTurn means I now lose my 5p tax cut
I’d started trickling down & folk I met were experiencing moisture because of this.
Take Jill in the bakers
I WAS going to trickle down on her by spending an extra 95p a week on her buns
Not now
Kwasi is WRONG
I fear for the bankers☹️
