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Vijay Ramesh Profile picture
Vijay Ramesh
@vjjan91
PhD Student @Columbia | 2020 @InsideNatGeo Explorer | Co-founder @project_dhvani | Historical ecology, bioacoustics, birds, citizen science.
Nov 3, 2021 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
I am very very skeptical of the methods in this paper...

What does it really mean when you historically 'reconstruct' the soundscape?

TL;DR: Authors used bird songs/calls (from xeno-canto) and randomly inserted it at different time periods/sites..

nature.com/articles/s4146… "Taking the first species listed in a site-year count data file, a 25 s sound file for that species was inserted at a random time point in an initially empty 5 min sound file".

If the authors were going for a space-for-time substitution and suggesting that /
Jun 25, 2020 • 15 tweets • 6 min read
Over the last few weeks, you must have read a lot about why the #DraftEIA2020 is horrible for our environment. Today, I analyzed over 48,000 clearance proposals that were approved/pending approval by the @moefcc and here's a gist of the results: #WithdrawEIA2020 As you already know, environmental clearances are organized by the @moefcc as 'Environmental', 'Forests' and 'Wildlife'. I was ONLY able to obtain the 'Forest' associated clearances as an excel file and after cleaning of the data..