Publishing Assistant – Nature Publishing Group (November 2015-September 2016)
Research Assistant – Action for the Wild (Summer 2014) & Cetacean Research and Rescue Unit (June 2016)
Publications
Peer reviewed
Cornford, R., Millard, J., González‐Suárez, M., Freeman, R. and Johnson, T.F (2022) Automated synthesis of biodiversity knowledge requires better tools and standardised research output. Ecography, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/ecog.06068
Millard, J., Freeman, R., Newbold, T., 2020. Text-analysis reveals taxonomic and geographic disparities in animal pollination literature. Ecography, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/ecog.04532
Millard, J., Gregory, R., Jones, K., Freeman, R, 2020. The species awareness index as a conservation culturomics metric for public biodiversity awareness. Conservation Biology, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.08.17.254177.
Millard, J., Outhwaite, C., Kinnersley, R., Freeman, R., Gregory, R., Adedoja, O., Gavini, S., Kioko, E., Kuhlmann, M., Ollerton, J., Ren, Z-X., and Newbold, T., Global effects of land-use intensity on local pollinator biodiversity. Nature Communications, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-23228-3
Newbold, T., Adams, G.L., Robles, G.A., Boakes, E.H., Ferreira, G.B., Chapman, A.S., Etard, A., Gibb, R., Millard, J., Outhwaite, C.L. and Williams, J.J., 2019. Climate and land-use change homogenise terrestrial biodiversity, with consequences for ecosystem functioning and human well-being. Emerging Topics in Life Sciences, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1042/ETLS20180135
Johnson, T. F., Cornford, R., Dove, S., Freeman, R., Millard, J. Achieving a real-time online monitoring system for conservation culturomics. Conservation Biology, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/cobi.14096
Skinner, S., Purvis, A., Cooke, R., Raw, C., K, Junghyuk., Millard, J. Dynameta: a dynamic platform for ecological meta-analyses in R Shiny. SoftwareX. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.softx.2023.101439
Millard, J., Outhwaite, O., Dicks, L., Ollerton, J., Ceausu, S., Newbold, T., Key tropical crops at risk from pollinator biodiversity loss due to climate change and land use. Science Advances, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adh0756
Verissimo, D., Johnson, T., Millard, J., Roll, U., Adopt digital tools to monitor social dimensions of the global biodiversity framework. Conservation Letters (in press)
In prep
Millard, J., Akimova, E., Ding, X., Leasure, D., Zhao, B., Mills, M., Stringent COVID-19 government restrictions were associated with a marked increase in Twitter activity in Europe. SocArXiv. DOI: https://doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/g9apk
Williams, J., Newbold, T., Millard, J., Groner, V., Pearson, R., Important pollinators respond less negatively to anthropogenic land use than other animals
Scheepens, D., Freeman, R., Millard, J., Newbold, T., Large language models provide a significant improvement in automating synthesis of ecological information
Invited talks and Symposia
Royal Society Recovering Nature event: building on Georgina Mace’s work to ensure a biodiverse and liveable future – invited as one of 12 contributed speakers building on Georgina’s work
ICCB 2023 round-table symposium; Large scale monitoring of perceptions of nature: state of the art and ways forward – co-author on accepted proposal, and then group lead on presentation entitled “Achieving a real-time online monitoring system for conservation culturomics”
NHM & Turing AI Lunch Series – invite only lunch for AI scientists working in the natural and environmental sciences