Ramya Roopa
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Ecologist. Data Analyst @WCT_India👩💻📊📈. Alum #ErasmusMundus Master in Applied Ecology. #wildlife • #turtles • #trade • #rstats • #geospatial
Bengaluru, India
Joined November 2015
New Preprint🚨 Our new #rshiny app and preprint on #flood-season river water level monitoring for 24 rivers and 107 gauging stations across the Gangetic plains is now up on @EarthArXiv! with Nachiket Kelkar & the riverine ecology team @WCT_India 🔗 https://t.co/0TX9a0Ky78
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I am recruiting two funded graduate students (1 MS, 1 PhD) to join the lab and the Fisheries, Wildlife, and Conservation Sciences program at Oregon State University! If you are into small mammals and population ecology then check this out. Please share/repost widely!
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Super excited to launch our flagship course End-to-End Google #EarthEngine on YouTube! Completely free for self-study and with no ads. Get started now at https://t.co/LihwBQLxIr
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I must say, rumors of #ScienceTwitter's demise have been greatly exaggerated. Almost without fail, when I get a Google Scholar alert about a paper, I already saw it on Twitter a day or two earlier. To all the incredible scientists on here- please stay! You're making an impact.
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Guess we have 31 #species of tortoises and freshwater #turtles in India now! New research @RandAJournal. 🔗 https://t.co/3b6JXN9TYW
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Lizards in Wonderland! New book from @heydaybooks coming April 2025. :-) https://t.co/MpMZyXfkEF
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Multiple reasons to continue to support and herald good taxa- and region-specific #science that might often lie in low #impactfactor journals! https://t.co/nHNVUZU0Tl
conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
Academic review, promotion, and tenure processes place a premium on frequent publication in high-impact factor (IF) journals. However, conservation often relies on species-specific information that...
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Calling all urban ecologists working in the tropics! Please consider submitting to @Biotropica and @theATBC's 2026 Special Issue on Urban Ecosystems.
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I am thrilled to introduce the Conservation Ecology Lab @UCSC_ENVS @ucsc. Our lab investigates anthropogenic threats to tropical birds and ecosystems, to propose solutions powered by spatial ecology using field and citizen science data. 🧵
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The @WWF Russell E. Train Fellowships to support master’s or doctoral degree in conservation and related fields. Note: India is not an eligible country; but a whole list of other priority nations are. https://t.co/1NyHUtzihy
worldwildlife.org
WWF offers fellowships to support future conservation leaders pursuing advanced degrees in biodiversity and environmental science.
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Who knew tortoises could be so affectionate?🐢💚 Aldabra giant tortoises absolutely love getting their heads and necks scratched. When scratched, some tortoises will rise to their full height with their neck extended and the head pointing upwards. 📷 @jonasndersson
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Want to apply to grad school? The SSAR DEI Committee is having a final virtual event on grad school in September, this one focused on preparing application materials! Info here: https://t.co/mRmPouEpNY
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Anonymize a GitHub repository for double-blind peer review. I just learned about this - a great solution to the clumsy situation of providing data/code but also (trying) to remain anonymous! 😎 https://t.co/EJohLM5Fii
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Free 45-Minute Statistical Consultancy for PhD Students Since you're all such fantastic folks, we are excited to offer 10 free 45-minute statistical consultancy sessions via Zoom. This opportunity is exclusively for PhD students—free as in 'truly free', with absolutely no strings
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Our lab is looking to recruit a PhD student in Jan 2025. If you are interested in doing PhD in Evolutionary Biology with us, please get in touch. More details of our research and the application are here:
sites.google.com
Our research focuses on one of the overarching questions in ecology and evolutionary biology: "What generates and maintains biodiversity?” Tropical forests are storehouses of biodiversity and offer...
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Are you or someone you know looking for a funded MS or PhD position in freshwater ecology starting August 2025? Consider applying to work with me & collaborate on a project linking river oxygen dynamics with freshwater biodiversity. More info/how to apply: https://t.co/KcPVnECoKh
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We're hiring staff to work on Desert Tortoise head-starting in the Mojave National Preserve. Duties include radio-telemetry and husbandry. Experience with the species is preferred, but you will receive training for permitting. Please help share this ad: https://t.co/nJ3vOuOlKE
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Silence of the Lambs was perhaps an oracle. New study on the online sale and use of #painted #bats
https://t.co/NKbe7V6TA7
link.springer.com
European Journal of Wildlife Research - Many wild-animal species are harvested and sold as ornaments—a lucrative trade that contributes to the global extinction crisis and increasingly...
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Hey #ESA2024 @ESA_org ! Anyone have any cool “synthesis” projects they’re looking for an awesome place to publish!?! Try @Ecology_Letters! Let me know if you have something or see something. Would be delighted to consider it. https://t.co/ocFdvvlLR6
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
Ecology Letters is a broad-scope ecology journal considering all taxa, in any biome and geographic area, and spanning community, microbial & evolutionary ecology.
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Absolutely thrilled to be co-organising this symposium with Umilaela Arifin & Oliver Hawlitschek just in a few days’ time! #WCH10, get ready for the island species diversification talks! We thank @Co_Biologists & @SystAssn for funding us! 🙌🏾🐍🦎🐸
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