Len Thomas
@len_thom
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Ecological statistician at CREEM (Centre for Research into Ecological and Environmental Modelling), University of St. Andrews. He/him.
St. Andrews, Scotland
Joined September 2015
Interested in an academic position in statistical ecology at St Andrews? Closing date coming up soon: 23rd October. .
Come work with us! We're recruiting a chair / reader in statistical ecology @CREEM_cake @StA_Maths_Stats @univofstandrews @NCSE_UK #statsjobs #ecologyjobs
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Congratulations to David Borchers of @univofstandrews who is the recipient of our 2024 Barnett Award for environmental statistics, for the development of new and accessible methodologies in wildlife monitoring & conservation
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RT @statsStAndrews: Come work with us! We're recruiting a chair / reader in statistical ecology @CREEM_cake @StA_M….
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Excellent close-kin mark-recapture paper by @ftpetersma.
New paper in @Ecol_Evol!.@len_thom Darcy Bradley @dvharris1 @Dr_Yannis and I used simulation to explore effects of ageing error on abundance estimates from close-kin mark-recapture, motivated by a 🦈 case study. Is it a problem? Give it a read to find out:
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Many congratulations to my fantastic PhD student @CallisteFJ who today submitted his thesis on "GPU-accelerated computational statistics in ecology". Way to go, Cal!
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I'm looking forward to co-teaching another Camera Trap Distance Sampling workshop in May. It's inspiring to meet people from all around the world who are using these methods, and the real-world problems they raise are always thought-provoking.
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PhD📢: Fully-funded studentship @univofstandrews "Estimating spatial and temporal patterns in density of harbour porpoises in the North Sea using datasets from passive acoustic ocean observation networks with data flow to EU Digital Twin Ocean database"
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Proud indeed: it’s been a privilege to work with Felix. And fun too!.
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Curious about the use of GPU computing for massively faster fitting of statistical models (especially state-space models)? Nice paper by my fabulous PhD student Cal Fagard-Jenkin, with some "getting started" components. Paper: Code
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RT @statsStAndrews: The pipes are calling! We are advertising two lectureships in statistics: Teaching-and-resea….
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Congratulations to my fantastic PhD student @EmpacherFa for defending her thesis this week, and thank-you to co-supervisor @KenNewm20028163 of @BioSScotland and @EdinUniMaths for all his help. Go Fanny!
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RT @TheoMichelot: Now in Annals of Applied Statistics: "Continuous-time modelling of behavioural responses in animal movement". We use stoc….
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Great to be working in-person with Greg Breed. Thanks to @royalsociety for facilitating this, via a Wolfson Visiting Fellowship to Greg.
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#ProudSupervisor Brilliant work Fanny! Thanks to cosupervisor Ken Newman of @BioSScotland for great support and ideas throughout.
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Thanks to @ProfParksSU and her lab for hosting me this week in sunny Syracuse. Been working on a joint southern right whale passive acoustic density estimation project. Note to @CREEM_cake: the pastries here are really good! 😊
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Proud to announce my inaugural professorial lecture is now online, at Tried to summarize a quarter century of collaborations with wonderful colleagues @CREEM_cake @univofstandrews and worldwide. Thanks to all of you!
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RT @TheoMichelot: Where will ISEC 2026 take place? Please share widely!. @rocio_joo @oaggimenez @NulisInVerba @vianey_lb @len_thom @fbuderm….
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Felix's brilliant work on methods for messy real-world acoustic spatial capture-recapture now published by @JABES - see It's his first ever academic paper, so please send kudos to @ftpetersma!!.
link.springer.com
Journal of Agricultural, Biological and Environmental Statistics - Passive acoustic monitoring is a promising method for surveying wildlife populations that are easier to detect acoustically than...
Cool paper by @ftpetersma @len_thom et al accounting for false positives (incorrect detection of the target species) in acoustic spatial capture-recapture models w/ application on bowhead whale 🐳🔊. #rstats code 🗞️#303-2023
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