Sal Keith (she/her)
Senior Lecturer at Lancaster Uni, UK. Exploring macrobehaviour using coral reefs as a model system, interested in all things data sciencey. #MacrobehaviourLab sallykeith.weebly.com
- Reposted by Sal Keith (she/her)Is the public actually talking about biodiversity? 🐾 Our new #OA paper in @ConBiology introduces an automated NLP pipeline to measure wildlife saliency and attitudes from digital media Essential for tracking GBF targets! 📈 conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.... #ConservationScience #AI
- Reposted by Sal Keith (she/her)We've got ISSUES. Literally. We scraped >100k special issues & over 1 million articles to bring you a PISS-poor paper. We quantify just how many excess papers are published by guest editors abusing special issues to boost their CVs. How bad is it & what can we do? arxiv.org/abs/2601.07563 A 🧵 1/n
- Is anyone out there currently marking coursework managing to NOT do it in their "free" time?
- Reposted by Sal Keith (she/her)Our journals @dev-journal.bsky.social, @jcellsci.bsky.social & @jexpbiol.bsky.social offer Travelling Fellowships of up to £3,000 to graduate students and post-doctoral researchers wishing to make collaborative visits to other laboratories. Apply by 6 February 2026. biologists.com/grants/trave...
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- Very excited to be one of the new Fellows of the BES! It has always been the society where I feel I belong the most 🥰 www.lancaster.ac.uk/news/marine-... @britishecologicalsociety.org @lec-reefs.bsky.social @dsilu.bsky.social @macrobehaviour.bsky.social @lancasteruninews.bsky.social
- Super excited to be part of this! I’ve been a member since the 1st year of my PhD and love this society 🥰
- Reposted by Sal Keith (she/her)📖 Big news! We just released the first five chapters of our new book, Hello Data Science. It is a fully open-access resource written for beginners. Please help us spread the word! A few points about the book are below 👇 🔗 www.hellodata.science #rstats #datascience #tidyverse
- Reposted by Sal Keith (she/her)This is a great group to get involved with. Particularly looking for ECRs and people based outside the Uk to apply. But everyone welcome!
- Are you into macroecology and/or macroevolution? Want to make our field a better place? Please consider joining the BES Macro SIG Committee! We're currently recruiting for a vice chair and ordinary member(s). More info and how to apply (deadline Jan 20th!): mcusercontent.com/a9537304d9bd...
- Reposted by Sal Keith (she/her)A data collection mission that began in 2012 is finally released as AVONICHE. Designed as a companion to AVONET bird trait database and updated to Avilist taxonomy, it’s an Open Access dataset providing updated diets and a detailed breakdown of foraging behaviours used by all bird species. 🪶🌐
- New paper out! 🐦📊 We realease AVONICHE, a global dataset with detailed information on the proportional use of 32 foraging niches, combining dietary categories with the behaviours and substrates used to access resources. Openly access the paper and data in GEB: doi.org/10.1111/geb....
- For anyone at #TIBS2026 in the geology symposium, here is our (now fairly old) paper on the role of plate tectonics in determining global faunal breaks for tropical corals royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article... @biogeography.bsky.social In case it’s peaked your interest in this stuff!
- And another of my old papers (from my MSc…. ancient 😉) which suggests subduction zones + archipelago formation linked to vocal diversity of gibbons www.researchgate.net/profile/Sall... (not the GIF species!)
- Cool new method by Anastasia Mantziou to explore directed cycles in networks, using some of our butterflyfish data as inspiration link.springer.com/article/10.1... Collaboration between mathematicians + ecologists!
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- On my way to @biogeography.bsky.social #TIBS2026. Ouch, it’s early! See you there biogeographers 🐠🌏
- Reposted by Sal Keith (she/her)📢Please share📢 We have an opening for an exciting fully-funded PhD project on computer vision and machine learning applied to biodiversity monitoring with amazing Serge Belongie @belongielab.org and @aicentre.dk. Application deadline coming up on 15 January! phd.tech.au.dk/for-applican...
- Reposted by Sal Keith (she/her)Precious Matsoso, a public-health official based in Pretoria, South Africa, brokered the world’s first pandemic-preparedness treaty after years of hard-fought negotiations. She’s part of Nature’s 10 for 2025. 🧪
- Reposted by Sal Keith (she/her)Closing out my year with a journal editor shocker 🧵 Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...
- Reposted by Sal Keith (she/her)Post-doc positions: "Academic freedom is under pressure today. This requires rescue havens of free research. ... [we] invite early career researchers, whose work is restricted due to political pressure in the USA..." uni-freiburg.de/frias/call-f...
- Reposted by Sal Keith (she/her)Excited to launch the new improved Reproducible Code guide from @britishecologicalsociety.org @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social FREE online here! www.britishecologicalsociety.org//wp-content/... Amazing work by some very talented ECRs. We hope it’s useful!
- We’ve reached proof of concept stage with our octonauts inspired marine heatwave scenario in the data immersion suite, I’m loving the portholes 🐠
- Still can't believe this - ZSL thought I've done good ;) portal.lancaster.ac.uk/intranet/new... @lec-reefs.bsky.social @dsilu.bsky.social 🥰 (I was awarded a medal!)
- Reposted by Sal Keith (she/her)Secondly, to Dr Sally Keith @lancasteruni.bsky.social for her research in the field of macrobehaviour, and commitment to advancing of our understanding of whole biological systems of coral reefs 🏆 @salkeith.bsky.social
- Reposted by Sal Keith (she/her)The ZSL Scientific Medal is presented to researchers for outstanding contributions to their field, made within 15 years of completing their PhD. This year, 3 Medals were awarded 👇
- Reposted by Sal Keith (she/her)The ZSL Marsh Award for Conservation Biology is awarded to Professor Tim Blackburn, @ucllifesciences.bsky.social, for his pioneering work in macroecology, contribution to invasion biology, and profound scientific and policy impact ⭐️🌍 @mothyblackburn.bsky.social
- Reposted by Sal Keith (she/her)Professor Nick Graham @lancasteruni.bsky.social is the winner of the ZSL Marsh Award for Marine and Freshwater Conservation. Nick's work bridging rigorous science with conservation practice and global policy advocacy distinguish him as a leader in marine conservation 🏅🌊 @nickajgraham.bsky.social
- As I head to the awards ceremony at @zslofficial.bsky.social, I’m remembering how I asked my teacher in primary school what it’s called when you try to understand animals. “A zoologist”, she told me. Well, here I am Mrs Sturgess! 🐠🪲🦧🦒🦩🦔
- Wow! Morecambe Bay Curriculum project has won Bronze for Sustainability Action in the QS Reimagining Education awards! Great recognition of lots of creative & hard work from the team portal.lancaster.ac.uk/intranet/new... I'm really excited to be involved this year! @lancasteruninews.bsky.social
- Cool TEDtalk by @sarameghanbeery.bsky.social outlining how we can harness existing data to transform our ecological understanding www.ted.com/talks/sara_b...
- Reposted by Sal Keith (she/her)Check out our new preprint, led by @melinaleite.bsky.social “Dispersion tests in generalised linear mixed-effects models - a methods comparison and practical guide” ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...
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- Reposted by Sal Keith (she/her)Looking for a PhD opportunity? I'm hoping to recruit someone to my group at Durham University to work on a project combining fieldwork and labwork to study speciation in rubyspot damselflies: iapetus.ac.uk/studentships... Get in touch if you want to chat!
- Ouch! Rejection again!
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- Reposted by Sal Keith (she/her)Thinking only of Rosalind Franklin today, and what was stolen from her (and so many other female scientists alongside her).
- Fully prepping new Applied Data Science for Biodiversity MSc module now! Why do we need it, where we are now, macrobehaviour, XR and gamifying conservation, ecological role of colour and responsible AI. Others are on bioacoustics, automating species ID, acoustic telemetry & Earth observation 😎🤯🫠
- Reposted by Sal Keith (she/her)Applications are currently being accepted for UBC's ✨️ Biodiversity Postdoctoral Fellowship ✨️ (two positions!!), due Jan. 15 Please share far and wide 🚀 (See thread)
- Reposted by Sal Keith (she/her)🐠💥2 year postdoc in fish sensory ecology!! 💥🐟 If you’re into animal colour, collective behaviour, predator-prey interactions, enjoy behavioural experiments and fieldwork, please apply! Based in Oxford with fieldwork in northwest Thailand (and elsewhere). Please repost! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNM294/p...
- So cool! Specific sounds attributed to 46 fish species in Curacao, linked to video of that fish www.fisheyecollaborative.org/library There's even an aggressive butterflyfish 🤗
- Reposted by Sal Keith (she/her)Our new review on the “circular seabird economy” - how seabirds circulate nutrients betwem ocean and land, supporting ecosystems and livelihoods …https://www.nature.com/articles/s44358-025-00099-w
- Reposted by Sal Keith (she/her)🪸 🪸 🪸 Postdoc position in my group at Bristol to study the role of venom in surviving environmental stress in corals! 🪸 Interested in venom biochemistry and coral ecology?Please apply by November 24! @bristolbiosci.bsky.social www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...
- Who's coming to the marine one? Me 🙋🏻♂️
- Reposted by Sal Keith (she/her)❓ Want to join us? 📢 Fully funded #PhD for UK-domiciled Black heritage candidates 🐵 Biological market monitoring & manipulation in social animals #mongooses #macaques #fieldwork 👥 With me, #LaurenBrent & #PatrickKennedy 🎓 @bristolbiosci.bsky.social ℹ️ www.findaphd.com/phds/project... 🙏Share widely
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- Reposted by Sal Keith (she/her)Interested in how animals use the sky? 🌌 I’m recruiting a PhD student (Fall 2026, Purdue University) to study Purple Martin flight behavior and airspace use using barometric transmitters. Details ➡️ jobs.rwfm.tamu.edu/view-job/?id... #Aeroecology #AvianEcology
- @ruchakarkarey.bsky.social is in Vogue India! Great article about India's women marine defenders www.vogue.in/content/once...
- Reposted by Sal Keith (she/her)🌊 🎓Apply for a PhD to assess spatial and temporal approaches to managing scallop fisheries to achieve good environmental status with a viable commercial fishery. 🪸🐙 @sosbangor.bsky.social @em-oyster.bsky.social www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
- Reposted by Sal Keith (she/her)📣 @asab.org grants BOOSTED! 📣 We've increased most of our research-related grants by 50%, effective from the next deadline of 1st Feb 2026. Check out what we offer here: www.asab.org/grant-overview
- Reposted by Sal Keith (she/her)Interested in a PhD in quantitative animal behavior? Applications are open through October for PhD projects starting in 2026: imprs-qbee.mpg.de/32524/apply For an inside look at the projects, let our doctoral students be your guide 👇 Videos by @alexhhchan.bsky.social
- How do animals perceive the behavior of others? IMPRS-QBEE student Chi Yu Lee working with @einatcouzin.bsky.social tells us more about his work with locusts VR youtu.be/Uc91vXNX71k?...
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- I’ve been awarded the ZSL Scientific Medal 😃🥳 Still pinching myself! Best bit - this tiny card and flowers I found next to my bed when I went up last night 🥹🥰
- Reposted by Sal Keith (she/her)"Right now, if one of my students came to me and said, 'Hey, as part of my Ph.D. I want to enter the world's birds into a dataset,' I'm like, 'No, you're not doing that. You'll never finish your Ph.D.' " Too true omg 😂 Anyway, this is a very exciting dataset! phys.org/news/2025-09...
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- I'm in the final throes of writing a Turing Interdisc Fellowship, thinking of it as buying an unlikely raffle ticket for the total of 12 that will be funded across ALL disciplines. Already feeling like this to have got through the internal round 😂 Good luck y'all #InItToWinIt
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- Yes! My MSc was in Primate Conservation so she was definitely part of opening the route into science for me - a fantastic role model for so many of us
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- What an inspiration and a wonderful legacy www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c9... Pioneered animal behaviour with empathy - she was first person to give the animals she studied names rather than numbers and a tireless fighter for conservation 💪😥
- Cool - newbie scientists less stuck to old ideas so can be more innovative www.nature.com/articles/d41...
- Does anyone have intel on why the new NERC AI call is explicitly "terrestrial ecology"? www.ukri.org/opportunity/...
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- Cool article on our PhD student Annabell Klinke's research, asking are fish less smart on less structurally complex reefs? womenlovetech.com/world-first-... @lec-reefs.bsky.social
- PAPER hints at ecological traps for damselfish settlement - dead corals chosen for settlement if an adult is present, could cascade to bad ends! besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... Led by @lisabe.bsky.social @lec-reefs.bsky.social @animalecology.bsky.social
- Field of view affects damselfish anti-predator responses BUT other metrics of structural complexity do not. Implications for how we measure structure & predict its effects academic.oup.com/beheco/advan... @jamesboon.bsky.social is on fire today! @lec-reefs.bsky.social @envisiondtp.bsky.social
- New PAPER shows greater depths NOT correlated with more stable communities on Caribbean reefs, contrary to expectations. Led by @jamesboon.bsky.social link.springer.com/article/10.1... @lec-reefs.bsky.social @envisiondtp.bsky.social @opwallscience.bsky.social
- Does anyone have a contact at @cefasgovuk.bsky.social who I can talk to abut possible research collaboration please? It's related to Turing Interdisc Fellowship application around remote monitoring & #AI
- It's all in the title: Restoration cannot be scaled up globally to save reefs from loss & degradation www.nature.com/articles/s41... Comprehensive analysis of current + projected future success of reef restoration. Most important predictor of site selection is accessibility, not ecological factors
- Reposted by Sal Keith (she/her)Pick an idiom: "more than meets the eye", "beauty more than skin [feather] deep" etc. In work led by Rosalyn Price-Waldman, we describe a hidden (and ignored!) black or white layer found below the visible surface of bird feathers which helps make bird colours so striking! 🧪 🪶 #colsci
- Reposted by Sal Keith (she/her)We can't wait to hear Dr.Brian McGill's talk for this month's Funk lecture! Learn more and register here: www.biogeography.org/news/news/se...
- PAPER: Territorial damselfish are more aggressive to neighbours if their neighbour is larger, but this weakens If they don't know each other link.springer.com/article/10.1... Led by my awesome former PhD student @sheppardcat.bsky.social @lec-reefs.bsky.social @envisiondtp.bsky.social #FishInBottles
- Reposted by Sal Keith (she/her)New paper by Catherine Sheppard et al. examining aggressive behaviour in damselfish in the coral reefs of Honduras. Results showed predicting aggressive responses can be complex, extending beyond simply whether the subject of the aggression is a “neighbour” or a “stranger”: tinyurl.com/mr3vhef9
- Reposted by Sal Keith (she/her)Come join us in the @biology.ox.ac.uk at @ox.ac.uk! New Associate Professor position in Animal Behaviour, with Merton College: my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
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- Reposted by Sal Keith (she/her)Breaking News 🚨: Our #bioacoustics 🔉🐬🦇lab seeks a permanent new colleague in a tenure-track assistant professor 🥷position. Excited? Then join our vibrant group of 15 researchers, postdocs and PhD students at AU who work with #marinemammal #acoustics, #conservation #physiology and #effectsofnoise!
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