Yes Indiana does have some big trees and spotted cats :)

what NC Mammal species?

Who wants a job as monkey chaser? www.wral.com/story/in-jap...

👍AI to help identify the species in a cameratrap 👎AI to change the pose and posture of your animal www.eco-business.com/news/ai-edit...

1 week left to apply to our Postdoc job with our lab using AI to analyze camera trap images at the NC Museum of Natural sciences and NCSU and in collaboration with Wildlife Insights https:/​/​jobs.ncsu.edu/​postings/​223025

Can domestic buffalos stand up to jaguars in the Pantanal of Brazil? Join us as we set cameras to find out youtu.be/aN-pk-GEYTs?...

Quick - apply for this job as manager of our #Biodiversity lab at the NC Museum of Natural Sciences and NCSU to work with #tech and #biodiversity including camera traps, #AI and student mentoring Deadline is 9/23/2025 www.governmentjobs.com/careers/%7B0...

Check out my new vid on Brazil's Wildest Babies Deep in Brazil’s Pantanal, camera traps captured rare and heartwarming moments from the wildest families in the animal kingdom. youtu.be/tOoadTYBAg8

Dances like wolves? Evaluating ecological replacement of apex predators in eastern North America stacksjournal.org/article/jens...

Hey Camera Trappers 📸🐺🐗🦌🦅Snapshot Europe is back for 2025! Join us in deploying cameras this Sept-Oct. Help build a crucial snapshot of European biodiversity. Learn more & express interest here ▶️ app.wildlifeinsights.org/initiatives/... Spread the word and help expand our community across Europe🙏

Check out our new paper in Current Biology on how well Chinese protected areas have preserved mammal and bird communities #cameratrap includes work-of-art figures by lead author Junjie Liu www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The analytics are now live for all users on Wildlife Insights for camera trap data. Here's the average detection rate for mammals in my back yard over the last few years. www.wildlifeinsights.org

Anticipated Job Opening - Biodiversity Lab Manager at the NC Museum of Natural Sciences. Come join our group using technology to monitor biodiversity #AI #Cameratrap #Animaltracking #GPS docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Cool funding opportunity for a new PhD student in ecology or evolution. www.simonsfoundation.org/grant/simons...

@AniMove is going to Costa Rica! Sign up animove.org/next-animove...

My student Vanessa Perez is analyzing hundreds of photos of the Barred Fruiteater. If you have some, you can help her fill some geographic gaps. A cool story is unwrapping ⛰️🪶 Please share! #birds #ornithology #speciation #andes

ok, this is a new one, a coyote excavating a cemetery in CA. Might make a nice den, but in mid May? Seems like the start of a horror movie www.newsnationnow.com/us-news/west...

Fellow Mammalogists. As many of you are aware, science is in a state of turmoil in the United States. Recent efforts to drastically reduce government workforces and research funding for science will lead to many adverse consequences for Earth’s remaining natural ecosystems.

This is amazing @mammalogists.bsky.social are the best ologists!

Roger Powell and I review my best camera trap videos and try to figure out how the heck fishers can kill a porcupine. youtu.be/Q3MR_N2ng84

🧪 Our Terminated NSF Grant Tracker is live 🧪 🔴 114 NSF grants listed so far 🔴 Cancelled grants focused on → Training scientists → Misinformation → AI → Climate change Credit to @noamross.net for all the work to build this & to all PIs who submitted their info. Link: airtable.com/appGKlSVeXni...

Nice paper showing cats are rare where coyotes roam in NYC link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Where are our weasels? Weasels are so sneaky – how would you know if their populations were stable or on the decline? To lure weasels in we did a test to figure out what their favorite food is, check out the result here. youtu.be/fKaPWv7YJIQ

Cool job as Director for the Great Plains Science Program, based out of Bozeman, MT. #conservation trustcareers.si.edu/postings/4c3...

Find the 🐸

🦖Get your plate! www.wral.com/lifestyle/no...

Glad to see this forest inventory package start back up at doserlab.com/files/rfia/

Check out Snapshot Japan - open camera trap data from the first national mammal survey (2023), keep an eye out for even more data from 2024 coming next year. bdj.pensoft.net/article/1411...

Found a friend in Peru 🇵🇪🐸

Continuing recovery of wolves in Europe journals.plos.org/sustainabili...

Big day for butterfly research. Many authors (led by @edwards-evoeco.bsky.social) and many more volunteers monitored across states to document rapid butterfly declines in USA. 🧪 Paper link: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... NYT story gift link: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Some federal workers are going back to work. The USDA has been ordered to temporarily give over 5,000 workers their jobs back. Dozens of CDC scientists have been reinstated after being illegally fired. The National Science Foundation has rehired half of the workers it fired.

Thanks to @jdrakephd.bsky.social for highlighting the importance of #amphibians in the services they provide to humans www.forbes.com/sites/johndr... #malaria #disease #frogs #tropical 🐸🧪🌎🦟

PhD Position open now in Wildlife Response to Wind Energy in Working Forests @ncstate.bsky.social #Cameratrap #Acoustics #Herps #Mammals #Birds docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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...

Trackers. What is making this drag mark on these coyote 🐾? They were consistent

This has to be one of the most remarkable contributions on an IUCN "Data Deficient" species (the armadillo) from @inaturalist.bsky.social www.inaturalist.org/observations...

Better luck next year young buck

Can you find the American Robin? #AI found it

Running #Deepseek with its Multimodal model Janus-Pro-7b locally is really crazy. I show this camera trap picture and ask: "Explain this picture. What animal species do you see?" See the answer in the follow up post. #tech4wildlife

Look what I made! 🦋 With help from Scholar Goggler scholargoggler.com

If you're a scientist that serves on an NSF panel that got cancelled today, I'd love to talk to you about it for an NPR story. DM, email or reach out on signal.

owl launch

Really nice video updating the NC Red Wolf story by Eleanor Spicer Rice youtu.be/abfzob7Pnpc?...

NEW TOOL in #ornithology to check the status of #birds tracked live with #telemetry - just enter #Movebank credentials and quickly check who is alive: https://buff.ly/4gUXgPD

This possum REALLY wants to be part of our bucket-cam small mammal survey

Congrats to the NYSDOT on their $324k award from the #WildlifeCrossingsPilotProgram and happy to say I had a small part in it! This allows us to develop a toolkit for identifying #roadkill and #connectivity opportunities. Safer roads! I look forward to working with you all!

PhD Position in Movement Ecology of Forest Elephants Kays lab @ncstate.bsky.social and the NC Museum of Natural Sciences Starting Fall 2025 docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Love this coyote from our Montana cameras