u/ImpressiveChapter534

Hi everyone,

I'm finishing my Bachelor's in Environmental Science this September and starting a Master's in Research (MRes) in Environmental Science right after. I'm reaching out because I'd like to collaborate with researchers on publications, ideally as a way to build real co-authorship experience early on.

My main research interests are invasive species, entomology, and dendrochronology/dendroclimatology. That said, I'm not narrowly limiting myself to that niche as I'm comfortable with R for statistical analysis and data wrangling more broadly (mixed models, community ecology stats, time series), so if you or someone you know has ecological data that needs analysis, cleaning, or modelling help and could use an extra set of hands, I'd genuinely welcome that conversation too. If anyone here is working on something in this space and could use analytical help in exchange for co-authorship or just the experience, I'd love to hear from you.

(I've kept some details vague here for anonymity, but I'm happy to share a portfolio or examples of my data analysis work directly if that would help anyone evaluate whether it's a fit.)

Hi everyone,

I'm finishing my Bachelor's in Environmental Science this September and starting a Master's in Research (MRes) in Environmental Science right after. I'm reaching out because I'd like to collaborate with researchers on publications, ideally as a way to build real co-authorship experience early on.

My main research interests are invasive species, entomology, and dendrochronology/dendroclimatology. I did an internship at a Forest Institute contributing to research on bark-eating beetles, led an independent (unpublished) study on the impact of an invasive gall wasp on chestnut leaf physiology, and my thesis is a dendroclimatological study of Mediterranean pines. I've presented posters at 3 conferences, including IUFRO Division 7 in Lisbon.

That said, I'm not narrowly limiting myself to that niche as I'm comfortable with R for statistical analysis and data wrangling more broadly (mixed models, community ecology stats, time series), so if you or someone you know has ecological data that needs analysis, cleaning, or modelling help and could use an extra set of hands, I'd genuinely welcome that conversation too.

I don't know if this is a slightly unusual ask on this sub, but I'd rather be upfront: if anyone here is working on something in this space and could use analytical help in exchange for co-authorship or just the experience, I'd love to hear from you. I'm equally happy to just hear general thoughts on how early-career people (pre-PhD) typically find their way into these collaborations.

(I've kept some details vague here for anonymity, but I'm happy to share a portfolio or examples of my data analysis work directly if that would help anyone evaluate whether it's a fit.)

Thanks for reading.