Work LIFE balance

I've had quite a frustrating time on trying to land a set of changes to the LIFE pipeline. I don't want this post to be a rant, but I also do believe in documenting when things don't work as well as when they do, so I'll try keep this concise :) What was I trying to do Last year we did some work in looking at how to improve the Jung et al habitat map we use in the LIFE extinction risk metric. The Jung et al map notably under-represents farmland, and in his paper using LIFE to look at the impact of food production on extintion rates Tom Ball created a hybrid map based on integrating data from Global Agro-Ecological Zones from the UN and the HYDE anthropogenic land use estimates that attempted to address this under-representation. Then in autumn last year we as a group looked at how we might do an improved version of this, and I did some implementation work on this. Whilst overall I liked the approach, one thing that I wanted to improve on was how we redistributed the updated habitats.…