Meshach Pierre 🇬🇾
@meshach_pierre
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MA in Criminology, @UF. From Guyana 🇬🇾. Conservation criminology, human-wildlife co-existence, and bird and mammal ecology. 🐆 #GAD, #MDD, & #ADHD-C. (he/him)
Gainesville, FL
Joined April 2017
[1/5] New paper alert! We just published our work on human-black caiman conflict in the North Rupununi wetlands, Guyana in @ConservationSP. Please see the link for the paper (it's open access!), and the below for a brief overview. https://t.co/ep8BfqXjBF
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Looking for tips on staying on top of scientific literature while out of academia. Advice is welcome!
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Wait #GuyanaTwitter - whatever happened to "The Guyana Book?"
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Say hello to Dr Harris @Tortured_Minds_ Another #Bicknell_lab graduate, in collaboration with @DICE_Kent and @IwokramaGuyana. Well done Ari!
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Genuinely quite interesting thread
NEW PAPER: Ever wondered why insects fly in all sorts of crazy patterns around lights at night? So did we! We set about recording flying insects to work out what's going on. I'll summarise what we found in this 🧵. Spoiler: We don't think they confuse lights with the moon.
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Congrats Douglas! Doing us Panthers proud!
Very cool to see this paper of Douglas Kamaru, a graduate from the course I'm the lead tutor in. This is exactly why we aim to train young, bright conservationists from biodiversity rich developing countries! Congrats Douglas! @7465166281614ae
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Publishing absence is not something you often see. It might not be the result you wanted, but well done to get this out @cesearle !
A new paper led by @cesearle presents a lack of evidence for #cheetah presence in #Tanzania’s Selous-Nyerere landscape. Based on spoor & camera trap surveys conducted from 2020 to 2022 in addition to enquiries with PA management staff & tourism operators: https://t.co/EG0sQU8IQY
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Happy to share our first translation of the @IUCN SSC Guidelines on Human-Wildlife Conflict & Coexistence – now available in Portuguese 🇧🇷🇵🇹🇲🇿🇦🇴🇬🇼... Download here: https://t.co/6S93mQFONG More languages coming soon 🌎🌍🌏
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Our own McCarty Woods in the heart of UF campus has in the past three years experienced a revival thanks to hundreds of volunteers. Check out the story of how this university green space united our local community: https://t.co/6qRiaTRJ0h
@soltislab @FLAS_herb @FloridaMuseum
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Yes I will offer my online science-focused Statistical Rethinking course again starting in January 2024. Registration going up at the end of this month. All the course materials are already online though, so why wait? Update your posterior today
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Congrats @ElisaSeres!
How does a species balance the costs and benefits of living in a group through time allocation? A new paper published in @SpringerNature, led by WildCRU’s @ElisaSeres explores this question in a study of #Ethiopian #wolves. https://t.co/kaqpn2mCVD 1/3
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The mice package in R is excellent for this. This paper walks through a multiple imputation problem step by step and is great as a how-to. https://t.co/xYRTKL847W
jstatsoft.org
The R package mice imputes incomplete multivariate data by chained equations. The software mice 1.0 appeared in the year 2000 as an S-PLUS library, and in 2001 as an R package. mice 1.0 introduced...
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Missing data is ubiquitous yet the most common method to address it is to delete missing rows. This ignores the processes that result in missing data, as missing data are not always random. Instead there is multiple imputation. https://t.co/OHtljLNt8z
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Excited to be at @meshach_pierre MS defense seminar!! Great presentation exploring wildly conflict in Guyana. Congratulations! @TCD_UF @UFSocCrim @mhallett2320 @J_Kahler_PhD
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Was great to be part of this. It's something most us have experienced in the review process, so hopefully this could provide some guidance.
Just accepted (@RSocPublishing #procB). We hope this is a useful paper for folks using AIC and grappling with interpretation: "Practical advice on variable selection and reporting using AIC" https://t.co/wiimIlbK2O
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Please to announce our new paper is out now exploring the impact of human settlements on bird communities in 2 distinct Northern Amazonian ecoregions! https://t.co/0Tcd1Doohi
@JEBicknell Brian O'Shea @meshach_pierre Asaph Wilson @srcsrupununi @DICE_Kent @UniKentSAC @UniKentGCDC
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Judge's Award went to Kayla de Freitas @KayladeFreitas1 from @RHULGeography for "Keeping Watch: Traditional Savanna Burning", which as well as a fantastic photo, had a powerful poetic narrative. Congratulations Kayla! #Wildfires #leverhulmewildfires2023
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Out recently: an editorial in Oryx on human-wildlife conflict by Claudio (@ClaudioSillero), and a group of @WildCRU_Ox Panthers (alumni of the Intl. Wildilfe Conservation PgDip program), including Ardiantiono (@Ardiantiono) and myself (@meshach_pierre).
'... to understand human–wildlife conflict properly, we need to dig into its multiple layers: the disputes, the underlying causes and any deeper issues’. In July's Editorial @ClaudioSillero et al. explore the challenges of the human–wildlife interface: https://t.co/ZHDYj7WTbM
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