now that the moose broadcast has been pretty slow/uneventful this year, the virtual campfire function becomes all the more important: people stoke the embers and conjure up user activities to keep things fun & active

"I älgvandringen kan man associera till sin egen miljö. Det är kanske lite tråkigare, men också mer oförutsägbart på ett tilltalande sätt" Erica von Essen på @sthlmresilience.bsky.social om varför Den stora älgvandringen väcker starkt engagemang. @ericavonessen.bsky.social www.dn.se/kultur/sa-bl...

I'm at a workshop on digital surveillance tech on animal interaction in Potsdam and i'm sitting next to a professor who designs toys for Pallas cats in zoos. his fieldwork is literally playing with cats like margays. im still processing

Colleagues are in their rat era: would you be interested in a PhD on the social sciences of the human-rodent-disease interface? www.inn.no/english/rese... @aivelo.bsky.social

it's so funny how academic fields start their papers in such distinct styles. my people are always dramatic w it 'in the sixth mass extinction/in the global sustainability crisis'. my anthropology colleagues always at the micro level of vignettes 'the snow crunched underneath my boots...'

Preach!

Soliciting reviewers lately is intense. I don't blame any of y'all for declining but this level of daily rejection gotta be doing something to my psyche

Getting Black Friday emails from businesses you don’t remember ever having subscribed to

For us wildlife folk, June 2026 is stackedt with conferences: POLLEN, Pathways, World Biodiversity Forum, European Congress of Conservation Biology. Any missing? I am paralyzed by indecision.

2 new jobs working with our FinBio.org project @sthlmresilience.bsky.social Social-ecological systems and Natural capital Postdoctoral fellow su.varbi.com/what:job/job... RA, full-time 12 months: su.varbi.com/what:job/job...

Interested in doing a PhD on #zoonotic diseases & #wildlife trade within a #politicalecology approach? Look no further, @geofrancismasse.bsky.social seeks a potential candidate to be based at @durham.ac.uk 👇

Me with research funding like

Given the long history of species releases and the diverse range of actors involved in them it almost seems like a human impulse. a bit like feeding animals. but this article does a good job unpacking the political dimensions of it.