Can you trust behavioral states inferred from HMMs? 🤔🐾 Using GPS + camera collars on caribou, we show that temporal resolution changes the story. Validate before you interpret!!! 📹

And again, a frontal assault by the federal government on MN and all Americans. 🌏 “There’s never been a president with zero interest in protecting the natural world until Donald Trump,” said presidential historian Douglas Brinkley.

Bring your own reusable container or don't get a coffee! ☕

Perú is also afflicted with the scourge of oil and gas development, often in protected areas and indigenous territories. How is it that peoples who have lived in the Amazon for thousands of years have such little say over the fate of their land? #amazonia 🌍 news.mongabay.com/short-articl...

(1) Ostriches are charismatic, but in this case they were still farm animals. Culls suck, but large-scale animal farming is always going to feature culls, particularly when dangerous viruses are spreading. If you don't want culls, reduce or halt meat consumption. 🌎 Besides this, there's also...

Cool piece about caribou in Alberta. Check it out! 🏔️ naturealberta.ca/get-to-know-...

🎉 Big milestone alert! 🎉 The CSEE has reached 1,000 members, and is still growing! A heartfelt thank you to every member for helping create such a supportive, inspiring community for ecologists and evolutionary biologists across Canada and beyond. 💚 Let's keep building this community together.

Palm: If you build it, they will avoid it: new mines in the Canadian Rockies will further diminish habitat connectivity for G-bears 🧪 conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

What if you knew him? What if you loved him? What if you saw him lying dead on the ground? How do you turn away from that? How do you look elsewhere? How do you just keep moving like nothing happened? No video of a gun “brandished” at ICE soooooo manyyyyyy cameras were out there. Hmmmm…

Watching horrific events unfold in the US, I’m reminded of Neil Young’s Ohio—written after unarmed students were killed by the state while protesting the Vietnam War. “What if you knew her and found her dead on the ground… How can you run when you know?” What if you knew Renée Good or Alex Pretti?

True, very true. That is why I will have nothing to do with MDPI, Frontiers and Hindawi. Quote: "Now, even the most mediocre researchers receive a flood of invitations to edit one of these countless special issues, which have become a multi-million dollar business" 🧪

Amazing! Way to go Minneapolis!

Many Oz mammals only persist in fox- and cat-free islands or fenced exclosures. The role of these 2 introduced predators on mammalian extinctions should be obvious. Peddling of alternative facts by Compassionate Conservation types required a data-based rebuttal 🧪 academic.oup.com/bioscience/a...

Last chance to contribute your voice againt more drilling in US coastal waters!

We need action now. Canada missed its 2025 conservation target while species decline and habitats keep being destroyed. Commitments without enforcement and funding are empty words. It’s time to protect nature, not just promise to. 🌱🇨🇦

After some reports of #caribou herd declines, some good news - the Baffin Island herd has reportedly rebounded to more than 48,000 after a low of 4,600 in 2014. New in our news section, www.northerncaribou.ca/news

Caribou wearing hockey pucks?! Some trail camera photos from summer of 2024 along the Hudson Bay coast in Wapusk National Park, of hockey puck sized something on these animals. Papilloma is our best guess so far. Have you ever seen this in caribou @irngutaq.bsky.social

Reading this paper on causal inference and attribution (onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... 🌎🌐), I came across this discussion. I used to favour simple models, even if I thought they could be biased, until my PhD cosupervisor (a math person) asked me "why would you choose a biased model?"

Habitat loss and development in the Rockies drove America's last caribou population in the lower 48 states to near extinction. The few remaining individuals were captured and sent to British Columbia. Now a mulitnational effort is underway to bring them back and protect old-growth forests. 🌎

New World Economic Forum Global Risks data provides a stark warning: While short-term crises dominate headlines, "Biodiversity loss and ecosystem collapse" jumps to the 2nd highest risk over the 10-year horizon. The long term is sooner than we think. Science-based policies via IPBES are crucial.🌍

📖Published! Can hierarchical modelling of co-occurrence data provide accurate inference into species interactions? This review finds pitfalls in the use of hierarchical models applied to co-occurrence data in understanding species interactions🧪 🌍 Read more:

Last day to submit an abstract for the Toronto meeting of the Canadian Society for Ecology and Evolution, May 11-14 An excellent meeting in a functioning democracy. event.fourwaves.com/csee2026/sub...

What’s happening on the Bathurst calving grounds? We found strong spatiotemporal overlap between grizzlies and caribou during calving, highlighting potential risk during this sensitive period. Deeply grateful to the collaborators who made this work possible! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

🦬 Wildlife and the carbon cycle🧪 In Resurgence & Ecologist, I report on research showing how herbivores, predators and marine species influence vegetation, soils and fire regimes 🌍 — and how these interactions shape carbon storage in changing ecosystems.🌐 #Ecology #CarbonCycle #Science #climate

An ecologist “lives alone in a world of wounds…. [He] must either harden his shell and make believe that the consequences of science are none of his business, or he must be the doctor who sees the marks of death in a community that believes itself well and does not want to be told otherwise.” 🌱🐋🌎🧪

"Cattle ranching is among the top causes of forest loss, with outsiders encroaching into Bosawás to clear forest for pasture. Indigenous advocates and residents say the loss of forest is threatening their way of life, and that they have faced violence due to encroachment."

Just watched this documentary about Gwich’in struggles in Alaska 🏔️ — a powerful reminder of why caribou matter, and why I work on caribou conservation in the first place. Especially urgent now, with renewed oil and gas drilling plans in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge!

Incredible opportunity to work towards caribou restoration with an Indigenous-led conservation non-profit in British Columbia! ⛰️🌲

Trump puts lumps of coal in Americans' Christmas stockings. Trump gave 2 gifts to coal: 2 coal-burning power plants in Indiana to stay open, and hundreds of coal plants given an additional 5 years before they need to prevent toxic chemicals from leaching into sources of drinking water.

Update on a worldwide soundscapes project to capture global #biodiversity 🌍 www.polytechnique-insights.com/en/columns/p... #Accoustics #Ecology #Sounds #Nature

A reminder that microplastics: ♳ have been building up in the environment for decades: phys.org/news/2025-04... ♴ spread across ecosystems via various means: www.nature.com/articles/s41... ♵ are even reaching insects in Antarctica: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 🪲🪳🧪🌎

🌲 A beautiful story of restoration and long-term commitment to helping caribou thrive again in the Boreal Forest. Worth watching!

Nice, accessible overview from WWF on caribou and reindeer and why they matter in a rapidly changing Arctic. It's been great to collaborate with Jan Adamczewski and WWF on caribou research across northern Canada. wwf.ca/stories/fact... #Caribou #Arctic #Conservation

Another reason to stop building out! Stop the sprawl!!! More 🏞️ and less standalone 🏡

It’s nearly Christmas. I can’t wait to give the gift of holding power to account for shitty decisions. Subscribe and donate to: @thenarwhal.ca @thetyee.ca @nationalobserver.com @ricochetmedia.bsky.social @breachmedia.ca @readthemaple.bsky.social @pressprogress.ca @theijf.org

A reminder: Biodiversity loss, climate change, and species invasions are among the top environmental drivers of infectious disease outbreaks. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

.. and not a word about scientists having been warning for years that this deadly parasite will be moved around by taxpayer-subsidized game farms. Do better, CBC www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

More about RFK Jr.'s colonialist medicine. The study team describes period before universal vaccination-at-birth in 2027 as a "unique window of opportunity". In a sense they're right. It's a unique window of opportunity for a wealthy country to experiment on citizens of the global south.

🗺️ New Bathurst barren-ground caribou migration map now live! A great visualization of seasonal movements and connectivity for one of the most iconic Arctic herds. Explore it here → www.cms.int/gium/migrati...

As far as I can tell, RFK Jr.'s latest antivax stunt runs counter to the WMA Declaration of Helsinki. Withholding HepB vaccination clearly does not meet any definition of clinical equipoise. Doing it anyway, overseas, is straight up colonialist medicine. Details in Dr. Jacobs's thread below.

Always fun to read about some wins for nature and climate amid all the bad news! 🏞️🌳

It was great to spend time in Yellowknife and skiing to meetings with caribou co-management, community, and GNWT partners. The -35 C temperature was less nice 😅

UF Biology is searching for an Asst Prof in Evolution, Ecology of Infectious Disease - spread the word! @ufresearch.bsky.social @ufgeog.bsky.social @sse-evolution.bsky.social explore.jobs.ufl.edu/en-us/job/53...

Beautiful!

Great work by DeCesare! All you need to know about moose in Montana

Do it for the birds!

I tested GPTzero's ability to identify hallucinated articles. It flagged real articles as fake sometimes. Worse, it flagged many hallucinated articles as real. And the kicker: it even gave me (hallucinated) links as evidence that the fake articles were real.

We must stop worshipping the detached standalone home and instead focus on shared space, shared land, and collective living as the real path to sustainable lifestyles. 🌍💚

Sounds like an incredible job!!!