Thanks for all the data, bud ! #InternationalLeopardDay

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Shameless plug: 16/42 of my published research papers are on leopards Fattebert et al. 2013 Long-Distance Natal Dispersal in Leopard Reveals Potential for a Three-Country Metapopulation www.researchgate.net/publication/... #InternationalLeopardDay

Happy #InternationalLeopardDay 😻🐆

Impostor syndrome

I had a good laugh @yorkswildlife.bsky.social !

I see this way too often in students' work nowadays. From BSc to PhD and even postdocs. Draft papers full of m-dashes and literature hallucinations. I thought my role was to bring ecological thinking to a data-only-driven generation. I now have to do the lame (and boring) reference check too.

Can we "perceive" how species populations change? No. Need #structured #biodiversity monitoring. Cool new paper led by Catalina Munteanu, suggesting widespread shifting baselines and change blindness in biodiversity experience: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

I'm willing to support a MSCA application to host a postdoc in Vilnius, Lithuania on all things animal movement, habitat selection and connectivity - if you're interested, let's discuss Theme & rules: euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/hosting... More on my research and supervision: fattebert.weebly.com

4 spots still available 👇👇

Don't be shy to take on a little two-week side project. These five months will be the most precious three years of your academic journey.

Tomorrow is the last day of April. A third of the year is gone. Christmas is coming. (and yes, you should be writing).

When 'ricans debate euro lifestyle or policies among themselves, it's always funny to watch. And you wonder who's gonna get a passport eventually😅

Really nice to see our recent paper picked up in a Dispatch. It highlights a point we care a lot about: even in a conservation success story like humpback whales, recovery is about more than numbers.🐳 Dispatch: www.cell.com/current-biol... @currentbiology.bsky.social @seamammalresearch.bsky.social

Give hyenas some luv on #InternationalHyenaDay

Bealer: predation on calves leads to fatter elk females. 🧪 besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Adaptive harvesting of two trophic levels stabilises predator–prey dynamics. Simulations with Eurasian lynx and European roe deer vist.ly/4zwns #Lynx #RoeDeer #Harvest #Predation

Hormuzapan😅

Eighteen wolves found dead in Italian national park in suspected poisoning www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

For EcoEvo journals, is novelty the enemy of the replicable? Interesting preprint by Cabugos et al. suggests most journals discourage replication ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...

Bazzicalupo et al analyzed introgression in Iberian and Eurasian lynx with the application of a deep convolutional neural network, detecting specific regions of the genome with signals of gene flow in three populations of these species. 🖌️Paula Martin Art 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/molb... #evobio #molbio

Just released mori 0.1.0 on CRAN — a new R package for shared memory across processes. Parallel R no longer has to mean duplicating your dataset in every worker's RAM. opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-04... 🧵 1/3

Good scicomm advice!

14th International Symposium on Wild Boar and Other Suids, September 9-11, Zagreb, Croatia + euroboar 7-8 Sept. 14iwbs.agr.hr Who's going? 🙋

A dispute over the national mammal that reaches far beyond one herd and into the future of grazing law, tribal restoration, and the tension between ranching and conservation in the West.

Studies reveal that the giant otter population decreased by 50% over the past 25 years as their habitat disappears and fragments and growing pollution fouls rivers. #endangeredspecies #otters 🦦 news.mongabay.com/2026/04/gian...

Un-brie-lievable: A cheese-eating Eurasian Oystercatcher Haematopus ostralegus NEW SHORT COMMUNICATION by Trevor MacLaurin www.waderstudygroup.org/article/20174/ #waders #shorebirds #research #ornithology

Scientists built a DNA methylation clock for Asian elephants with 96% accuracy of age prediction, associating aging to genes for neurogenesis, oxytocin, and metabolism. This can be linked to-life history traits. Great tool for conservation and evolutionary biology 🐘⏰ doi.org/10.1111/eva.70236

Why the link shows a breaching Humpback I have no idea. AI-llucination, maybe?

Are you a national of an African country? Looking to study birds of prey at one of three leading ornithological research university across the contient? This might be for you! raptorresearchfoundation.org/grants-award...

Snakes often feast on small mammals and help keep prey populations balanced. New research shows that our snakes are spreading the seeds collected and stored in the cheek pouches of their mammalian prey—and their waste might make a powerful manure.

14th International Symposium on Wild Boar and Other Suids, September 9-11, Zagreb, Croatia + euroboar 7-8 Sept. 14iwbs.agr.hr Who's going? 🙋

I'm willing to support a MSCA application to host a postdoc in Vilnius, Lithuania on all things animal movement, habitat selection and connectivity - if you're interested, let's discuss Theme & rules: euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/hosting... More on my research and supervision: fattebert.weebly.com

Switzerland has reduced its greenhouse gas emissions by 27% since 1990 www-rts-ch.translate.goog/info/environ...

This looks like a great PhD on #rhinos opportunity with an excellent team at @dice-kent.bsky.social !

"Must've kept 10,000 beers cold"

Finally, a pie chart that I like!

A lot changed along the way, but this is still my master's thesis and first first-authored paper! It's only uphill from here!! Grateful to you @fattebertj.bsky.social and @antoniouzal.bsky.social for paving the way!

🚨PhD opportunity! Study brown bears in the Balkans using ancient DNA 🧬🐻 Interested in paleogenomics & conservation? Apply! @lpcg.bsky.social 🔗 Details here: www.uw.edu.pl/wp-content/u... #PhD #AncientDNA #Paleogenomics #ConservationGenomics #WildlifeConservation

Paper accepted! 🥳🥳 Congrats @kalpapran.bsky.social ! 🍻🍻

Fish climbing in the upper Congo Basin (Central Africa), first report for the shellear Parakneria thysi on the Luvilombo Falls www.nature.com/articles/s41...

📢 Update: We’ve extended our survey deadline! During 2026, we will undertake a major renewal of the Movebank system. Help us build a more scalable, sustainable database for your projects. Your feedback will directly shape the future of Movebank. Survey: survey.academiccloud.de/f/221856?lan...

Glimpse on the Alps from home.

7/ This makes the challenge harder in a fundamental way. If the sink weakens, the same emissions produce faster concentration growth. Cuts that would once have stabilised CO₂ no longer will. We need to run faster just to stay in the same place, and the pace required is accelerating.

6/ Worse still: the land sink may be plateauing. The seasonal CO₂ drawdown in the Keeling Curve, a proxy for terrestrial sequestration, peaked around 2009 & has shown no growth since, a sign that the biosphere is struggling to keep up. Replicating Curran & Curran (2025) doi.org/10.1002/wea.7668

5/ In the 1960s, natural sinks absorbed ~two thirds of our emissions. Today they absorb barely half. The sink is growing, but not keeping pace. So more of every tonne of fossil fuel burned now stays in the atmosphere, and that share is still rising.

In case you were wondering: Yes, there is a Jonathan the Great Tortoise angle to the Pam Bondi firing news.

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