📢 New paper out! 🐢🌧️ Seasonal rainfall in the Amazon reshapes parasite communities in the scorpion mud turtle, with a ~71% drop in parasite load during the dry season and clear temporal niche partitioning. 🔗 www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #Ecology #Parasitology #Amazon #OneHealth

More about my work… in a short article in the Pesquisa FAPESP Journal. Thanks to the various Brazilian media outlets for their interest in my work and for sharing it! 🥹🤩 #jaguar #oncapintada #wildcats #brazil #Leopardus #jaguarundi #puma revistapesquisa.fapesp.br/quando-falta...

Merry Christmas 2025 🎅🦌🎄

🌿 Our research is now featured in @oeco.org.br We reveal how Brazil’s wild cats react to human-driven changes 🐆 📊 Key facts: L. geoffroyi: 35.8% of records <10 m from roads L. guttulus: only 0.001% — a 3,500× difference! 🔗 Read: oeco.org.br/noticias/est... #Conservation #WildCats #Ecology #Brazil

📝 Fresh blog post is live! Since we just published our research on Brazil's wild felids, I wrote a detailed blog breaking down what we found and why it matters for conservation. Much more digestible than reading through GLM outputs 😅 Check it out: www.vanwildlife.com/brazil-wild-...

Brazil’s wild cats 🐆🐾 Our new study shows how 9 species respond to habitat change & roads using an open-data framework. Free access until Oct 23! 👉 authors.elsevier.com/a/1liqO1R%7E... 📢 Please share with your network! #Conservation #Ecology #BrazilianCats

🚨 New blog post! Fork-tailed Flycatcher (Tyrannus savana): key for Neotropical migration & conservation. Read more about this fantastic species 👇 www.vanwildlife.com/flycatcher-m... #BirdMigration #Flycatcher #NeotropicalBirds #Conservation

Small changes in ecosystems can trigger major shifts if thresholds are crossed. In my new blog, I explain: 1) What ecological thresholds are 2) Why do they matter in conservation 3) How to identify them Read: www.vanwildlife.com/thresholds/ #Ecology #Conservation

How do jaguars move across human-modified landscapes? I wrote about it on my blog, and the topic was also featured on Brazilian TV! 👉 www.vanwildlife.com/jaguarmoveme... #JaguarConservation #MovementEcology

Still relevant! 🐾 I wrote a piece on cross-validation for ecological models some time ago, and many of you still ask about it. Take a look: 👉 www.vanwildlife.com/cross-valida... Feedback is always welcome! #ecology #rstats #spatialecology #conservation

📢 New blog post! Ever struggled with authorship in science? Here are key reflections & questions to ask before saying “yes” to co-authorship. For early-career researchers, mentors & collaborators. 🔗 www.vanwildlife.com/co-authorship/ #SciComm #AuthorshipMatters #ResearchEthics

New on VanWildlife: What happens when jaguars live in landscapes shaped by humans? Forests, water, croplands and even roads play key roles. Sex and circadian rhythms make a difference. Is this a story of coexistence? 📖 www.vanwildlife.com/jaguarhabita... #Conservation #Jaguars #MovementEcology

🚨New preprint out! “Ecological traits explain wild felid responses to human-modified landscapes in Brazil” is now available on EcoEvoRxiv Check it out & share if you work on carnivores, roads, or conservation planning 🐆🌎 📄 doi.org/10.32942/X25...

Hace unas semanas, una colega del departamento @laranavesalegre.bsky.social y otros investigadores sacaron un monográfico sobre fototrampeo en la revista @ecosistemas-aeet.bsky.social. Los artículos están en español. Podéis echarle un vistazo aquí: www.revistaecosistemas.net/index.php/ec...

New review out in J Anim Ecol! We explore how to predict animal movements in human-modified environments, highlighting the need for mechanistic models to guide conservation. 📄 doi.org/10.1111/1365... #MovementEcology #Anthropocene

Nuestro próximo monográfico sobre fototrampeo se publicará dentro de muy poco. ¡En nuestra página web ya podéis leer 4 de los artículos que se incluirán en el monográfico! 🦡🦆🐈 revistaecosistemas.net/index.php/ec...

🚨 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

Are you interested in learning more about the publishing process? I am running two workshops with @mammalsocietyyouth.bsky.social in April and May on reviewing articles and how to publish a literature review. Sign up here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/reviewing-... www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/writing-an...

✨ Nature SPAM Filter, launched this week, is an easy and fun reading-based project to help wildlife globally. Look at real newspaper article titles from archives and complete a simple yes-or-no task to identify animals and wildlife in the news. Try it here: www.zooniverse.org/projects/dve...

Do interactions between hyaenas and lions impact how they select habitat? GPS-collar data reveals hyaenas don't avoid areas used by lions and may even be attracted to lions because of scavenging opportunities. Study by Andrew Loveridge and David Macdonald 👉 bit.ly/41hn02a @biology.ox.ac.uk

I completely re-worked my course "Introduction to Bayesian statistics with brms" and taught it for the 1st time this week. It is meant as a tutorial for ecologists, but should be general enough for other sciences as well github.com/benjamin-ros... #stats #Rstats #brms #Stan #Bayesian

Look for the bear necessities 🐻 Polar bears are found across the arctic, however limited movement data has been collected on males as their necks are wider than their heads, and cannot be radio collared. 🤖 Explore >9.3k polar bear records: 🔗www.gbif.org/species... #InternationalPolarBearDay

Thanks so much to Lila for this LA Times article about our new publication about social-ecological influences on coyote movement in Los Angeles! 🧪🌎🏙️ Check out the publication here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

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....🤗🐒🦥🌎🐸🐊🕷️🪱

Excited to share a new publication, just off the press!! This time back to the terrestrial ecosystem, 📣 led by PhD student Charlie, @thecharlieroger.bsky.social , on using machine learning 🤖〽️ to identify wolf behaviours from accelerometer data #biologging, #movementecology. Congrats!! 👏

"New research reveals how predators and prey adjust their behaviours in space and time! 📷 Using camera-trap data from Brazil and Suriname, we found that red-rumped agoutis adjust their activity patterns in response to ocelots' presence." buff.ly/40QU0hz

👋 ¿Te interesa la ecología del movimiento 🛰️ y la selección de hábitat 🗺️? Hemos publicado un artículo de divulgación sobre ello en la revista AmbioCiencias de la Universidad de León. ¡No te lo pierdas! 👉 shorturl.at/AkSHj @zaiortega.bsky.social

Post-migratory movements in the nonbreeding season are in fact displayed by a surprising number of birds around the world, with diverse resource- or weather-based cues. Two former students in the lab wrote a paper documenting examples of this: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

How good are our #conservation efforts? New publication thread. Are bird counting schemes really providing important information regarding population trends and phenology? We try to answer this for two amazing places - Eilat, Israel and Batumi, Georgia: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 1/n

Se você utiliza armadilhas fotográficas no Brasil, inscreva-se aqui para participar de uma nova pesquisa nacional do Snapshot. If you run camera traps in Brazil sign up here to join a new national Snapshot survey docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

So happy to be able to contribute to this paper and for the US Animal Telemetry Network to be part of such a collaborative group! I'm excited to see our community continue to grow! #biologging #telemetry #opendata 🌐🌊📈

🌟📢 New Article Published! 🌟 🌿 #Jaguars & #peccaries in the #Pantanal 🐾: This study explores predator-prey dynamics, showing how landscape and prey density shape interactions. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/author... @biotropica.bsky.social @agenciafapesp.bsky.social #Conservation #Ecology

"Today, November 29th, we celebrate #JaguarDay, a powerful symbol of our ecosystems. 🐆 Stay tuned for our upcoming article on jaguar conservation, soon to be published in #BIOTROPICA. Let's unite to protect the king of the Americas! 🌿💚"

I was deeply disappointed by the lack of nature/science/climate/enviro on many major end-of-year book lists—so I decided to make my own! Introducing: ✨🎁📚 The 2024 Holiday Gift Guide to Nature & Science Books ✨🎁📚 Please share: Let's make this go viral in time for Black Friday / holiday shopping!

🐆🌍 New research! Our study shows how jaguars adapt their movement in human-altered landscapes—navigating forests, farms, and roads. 🌿🐾 🔗https://sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2530064424000506 #Jaguars #Conservation #BigCats #MovementEcology