www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202... #Biodiversity

🧵 Have you ever wondered how far an animal can actually travel? We did, and the answer will blow your mind. 1/4 esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

President Moetai Brotherson announced an expansion of marine protections, placing 30% of French Polynesia’s waters under full protection from industrial fishing and seabed mining. The 1.4 million-sq-km (540,500 mi2) reserve shields critically endangered sharks, marine mammals, and seabirds.

🌍 Global Translocation Study – call for contributors 🐾 We’re compiling post-release movement data from translocated, reintroduced, relocated & rehabilitated vertebrates worldwide. Interested in taking part? Quick survey below 👇 tinyurl.com/global-trans... Feel free to pass it on to colleagues 😊

New online! A call to integrate animal movement into biodiversity indicators

Ask a LLM😅

"We employed an interdisciplinary approach to maximize the use of data collected opportunistically and non-academically to report a previously undocumented natural phenomenon, the Mababe Cape buffalo mega-herd, which includes a minimum of 3676 animals, making it the largest buffalo herd on record"

Yup.

Yes, yes, the Swiss and the Swedes are playing each other in the IIHF worlds 1/4 finals tonight, and they're from 2 different countries! 😜

Intense #hunting pressure drives roost use in the Egyptian fruit bat: Conservation and #OneHealth implications zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #fruitbats #batroosts @wileyecology.bsky.social

New paper alert 📣 #griffonvulture #windturbine #sardinia www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

New #lynx paper out on age-specific patterns of reproductive success in wild female Eurasian lynx across Europe!🐈 Temporal and latitudinal variations suggest that environmental conditions and lynx age shape reproductive patterns in Eurasian lynx. 🐾 📜 doi.org/10.1098/rsbl... #euromammals #eurlynx

We are offering a PhD position with the WildBotics project @uni-konstanz.de! Want to join an interdisciplinary research network and use drones and computer vision to study animal behavior, ecology and conservation in Kenya? 🇰🇪🐘 Please apply! Deadline June 21 🧪🌍🌿 Full details: tinyurl.com/yn8jkzcf

Latest articles from the WJO: Brood parasitism and competition for nest sites as factors in conspecific aggression in the Northern Flicker (Colaptes auratus). #ornithology doi.org/10.1080/1559...

Five countries are launching an inaugural plan to protect the Amazon’s iconic migratory catfish. These species undertake river journeys of up to 12,000 kilometers, but a surge in dam construction and shipping routes is blocking their critical pathways. @gufalei.bsky.social reports for #Mongabay

www.radiotamazuj.org/en/news/arti... #Conservation

New study on the drivers of the distribution of Golden jackal Canis aureus in Europe, by Nathan Ranc, Miha Krofel and many #LCIE members 🦊. Core message: jackals avoid wolves, and have much higher densities. Wolves avoid humans, so humans shield jackals from wolves 1/n

Yup. 30C here today in the Swiss lowlands

HISTORY IS COMING: 40c IN EUROPE This will arguably be the harshest spring heat wave in European history We can see up to 40C in Spain,35C in Central Europe for days. Thousands of records will be pulverized in Spain,Portugal,France,Benelux,UK;SCandinavia,Germany,Alps,Czechia,..

"Estonia is one of the most densely forested countries in Europe, but pressure on its forests has increased significantly in recent years, under the growing demand for wood biomass" voxeurop.eu/en/estonia-f...

Worth reading the whole thread

So essentially, Italian wolves are dingoes 😝

Genetic evidence reveals extensive wolf-dog hybridisation in peninsular Italy: warnings against ineffective management "Peninsular Italian wolves suffer from widespread (46.7 %), ongoing dog introgression" Not. Good. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Dynamic Lake Ice Conditions Shape Caribou Water‐Crossing Behavior in the Arctic 🔗 buff.ly/DGcYL4a

How it started. How it's going. #HappyMothersDay

Thanks for all the data, bud ! #InternationalLeopardDay

#InternationalLeopardDay bsky.app/profile/fatt...

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!