Our preprint is out! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Peter Skovorodnikov and I are excited to present FERAL: a new video-understanding toolkit that maps raw video directly to behavior, no pose estimation required. It works across species, from lab to field, and even in collective systems. (🧵1/n)

🦌 Deer migration, deer density, tick distribution and incidence of a tick-borne zoonosis ➡️ buff.ly/4wXYf5c

The next International Statistical Ecology Conference (ISEC) will take place in Mérida, México, on January 8-15, 2027. Very exciting! The organisers are inviting submissions for workshops and round table discussions: statisticalecology.org (Deadline: November 15th)

🪶 If you are able, you donate here: birdpop.org/pages/do... We lost roughly $1 million in funding without warning. Projects cancelled included all of our bird monitoring work for the National Park Service & projects w/ the Bureau of Land Management on Gunnison's Sage-Grouse, Pinyon Jays & more. 1/4

🚨 New preprint! Have you ever wondered if we can detect disease in wildlife just by looking at their movement? We show how hidden Markov models can link animal trajectories to infection states — tested on reintroduced scimitar-horned oryx and simulated data. 👉 arxiv.org/abs/2509.21132

The hmmTMB paper is finally out in the Journal of Statistical Software! An R package for hidden Markov models with random effects, flexible spline-based covariate effects, and fast inference using TMB or Stan. Check out the GIthub repository for more examples. doi.org/10.18637/jss...

Perceived and observed biases within scientific communities: a case study in movement ecology New paper out in @royalsocietypublishing.org, originally conceived at a Gordon Research Conference 👉 royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

If there is an optimal behavior, why is there so much variation in the world? We found that, for white storks, context is everything. @anflack.bsky.social @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social New paper! @cellpress.bsky.social doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2025.06.044 🧵1/5

We're #hiring a Statistical Wildlife Ecologist! This position analyzes large, complex datasets to support landscape management throughout Canada. Learn more and apply through the University of Alberta by May 27, 2025: wildlifescience.ca/hiring-stati... #biodiversity #mammals #wildlife

Animal telemetry postdoctoral fellow at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, applications due 20 May: trustcareers.si.edu/postings/cd7...

Post-doctoral research fellow for the Urban Exploration Project at the University of St Andrews, applications due 9 May: www.vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk/Vacancies/I/...

I am currently looking for an MSc student to join my research group for September 2025 to investigate moose habitat selection in the context of apparent competition in Ontario's Far North. Please share and contact me for further details!

Come study these most adorable - and tough - #Arctic ungulates with us! 🦌 Fully funded 4-year PhD position in Svalbard Reindeer Movement Ecology at The University Centre in #Svalbard: shorturl.at/DaHpw Application deadline is the 25th of April 2025!

In case you need more depressing news this week. (Remember how thriving duck populations were supposed to be a bright spot amid general North American bird declines? Yeah, not anymore.) www.audubon.org/magazine/swe...

I have created a Movement Ecology feed here on Bluesky! 🌍🐾 bsky.app/profile/did:... Currently, it tracks posts with the #movementecology, #animalmovement, #animalmigration, and #wildlifetracking tags from contributors. 🔹 Want to be added? Message me or reply here! #Ecology #WildlifeResearch

🚨 Shrew paper alert! 🚨 Our latest study found that brain size changes stayed on track, but behavior? 🤔 Not so much❗ Captivity makes shrews hyperactive and less motivated to learn, hinting at chronic stress. 🐾 Curious? Full paper here: doi.org/10.1098/rsos... #Shrews @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social

We have a cool new job that just opened up at the museum. Head of Conservation ($50-$88K) Be the champion for the conservation activities and the related messaging for the NC Museum of Natural Sciences. www.governmentjobs.com/careers/%7B0...

To all Animovers out there: Our next workshop will take place from the 30th of November until the 13th of December 2025. More information about location, price and how to apply will follow soon....🤗🐒🦥🌎🐸🐊🕷️🪱

This Registered Report masterpiece just dropped at BMC Biology, brilliantly led by a great team with the help of 300+ analysts & reviewers Same question, same data: go figure! tl;dr: Substantial heterogeneity among results comes from differences among analytical choices 🔗 doi.org/10.1186/s129...

The first many-analysts study in ecology is finally published! 🥳🙌 300+ coauthors and 5+ years, this was a massive effort by @elliotgould.bsky.social Hannah Fraser Tim Parker and co. Open access 👉 bmcbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

Like birds and models? Dr. Erin Bayne and I are currently recruiting a 2 year postdoc to come work with us at the Boreal Avian Modelling project on boreal bird models and applications of those models. Full details are here tinyurl.com/4yxju63k. Feel free to get in touch with qs!

We are hiring! We look for a person with programming skills in R and/or Python. Application deadline is March 14th 2025. All details here: www.ab.mpg.de/654153/job_f...

Updated vignette on Bayesian inference for hidden Markov models with hmmTMB: specifying priors, extracting posterior samples, visualising posterior uncertainty for estimated distributions and covariate-parameter relationships, etc. Based on Stan, so it's pretty fast too! github.com/TheoMichelot...

3-year Postdoc Position Join our team @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social and investigate the dynamics of seasonal songbird migration using biologging technologies See details here: bit.ly/3ZojW38 Please get in touch if interested & share with anyone else who might be!

Are you passionate about California’s unique biodiversity and conservation? Mongabay is hiring a California-based Staff Writer to cover biodiversity corridors, wildlife ecology in the context of climate change, and Indigenous conservation practices etc. Apply now: mongabay.org/opportunity/...!

Three year postdoc on bird migration www.ab.mpg.de/639728/job_f...

Until the next Animove in 2025, please find all lecture recordings and downloads here. animove.org/lecture-reco...

🚨New paper out 🚨 We put together a how-to guide on analyzing diel activity patterns using hierarchical models while accounting for site-to-site variability and sampling effort. Check out the paper: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... and tutorial: hms-activity.netlify.app

Such a long journey! My second PhD chapter is out! - We review approaches for incorporating memory into step-selection analyses (SSAs), a frequently used movement modeling framework. Thanks to all of my collaborators and my advisor, John Fieberg! doi.org/10.1186/s404...