Happy to see this @econovoau.bsky.social paper out in the new issue of Journal of Animal Ecology - higher herbivore activity is linked to greater herb diversity & plant functional redundancy besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.... #ECONOVO #Biodiversity #savanna #SouthAfrica #Rewilding

🎁 A New Year’s gift to the geospatial community: a brand-new QGIS plugin that unlocks access to 80+ petabytes of satellite imagery and geospatial datasets with zero coding required.

Serval population status in the Greater Kafue Ecosystem, Zambia: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Some reading for the holidays☺️

Multiple anthropogenic stressors can negatively impact species but can a single stressor also have multiple, concurrent impacts? Here we show that light pollution creates several simultaneous impacts to the nocturnal movement ecology of a moth and a spider: tinyurl.com/5eku5bff (1/5)

Ocelots, jaguars, margays and pumas don’t want to fight over dinner. New research shows they divide hunting in the rainforest based on the areas that their prey lives.

📢COURSE ANNOUNCEMENT📢 Katima, Namibia, February 2026 🐻📊Join FatBear's Applied Movement Data Analysis in R courses for wildlife grad students & practitioners. Beginners & R users welcome 🌍📈 Info and registration: fatbearbio.weebly.com/workshops.html 🐾

20 Years of Bears in Switzerland via @korafoundation.bsky.social www.kora.ch/en/news/20-y...

A great opportunity for anyone looking to develop their skills with movement data and spatial analysis! 🗺️📊 Julien (@fatbear-bio.bsky.social 🐻) has delivered this course twice at NMU and it's been hugely beneficial for our students and external participants! Plus... NAMIBIA! 🤩🇳🇦

Heart-warming ☺️

How does hunting disturbance influences social contact rates in a group-living wild mammal?🐗 New paper from #euromammals on wild boar behaviour shows that hunting modality plays a significant role in shaping intra-group, but not inter-group, contacts. 📄Read more here: doi.org/10.1111/1365...

On lynx in Slovenia

Wolf packs in Switzerland and border areas

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🐺 Advantageous snow conditions – in terms of snow depth and density – are among the most important features of the winter landscape for two apex predators, regardless of hunting strategy. Read the full paper here ➡️ buff.ly/pXSMNRK

I feel ya!

This is The Academic Way 😎

Researchers in Uganda say the country’s only nesting site of critically endangered Rüppell’s vultures is under threat from hunting, charcoal burning and farming.

first ever white Iberian Lynx www.euronews.com/green/2025/1...

Nature Futures Framework scenarios reveal contrasting landscape connectivity for European mammal translocations Ascensão+ doi.org/10.1016/j.bi... analyzing connectivity using circuitscape on Dou+ (doi.org/10.1016/j.gl...) land-use scenarios

Do you also have a "To Read" folder that’s basically a black hole? 🕳️ My new blog post explores why that’s okay. And how to orbit the black hole instead of getting sucked in. You’ll Never Keep Up with the Scientific Literature (and That’s Okay) jenteottenburghs.wordpress.com/2025/10/28/y...

A lot of pressure on the different grant schemes, and pretty much independent of career stage.

#ornithology www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Haven't we known this for a while? Asking lion ppl

Canids seem to be the routine lovers, reusing their travel routes more than felids. This shapes hunting, encounters, and even disease spread. Insights from 1,239 GPS-tracked carnivores, including the Arctic foxes we track on Bylot Island 🧪🌿🌎🌐🦊. Read in the latest PNAS at bitly.cx/TxI2

"It is surprising, if not deeply concerning, that despite decades of advances in biodiversity modeling, the GBF overlooks the anticipatory power of these tools and does not mention “model” or “prediction” anywhere in its text."

Switzerland: Up to 25,000 cows could be slaughtered due to US tariffs www-rts-ch.translate.goog/info/economi... But: the wolf!

Sometimes I think about how from 1935-1975ish, Bell Labs produced an insane amount of revolutionary science and technology, including 11 Nobel Prizes, the transistor, UNIX, C, the laser, the solar cell, information theory, etc. The secret? Provide scientists with ample, steady, no-strings funding.

This is becoming real 😅

Something cool to start your weekend: a Blue Jay x Green Jay hybrid from Texas! #ornithology

Lions across Africa are under threat from habitat loss, poaching, and wildlife trade. A continent-wide survey of 132 lion subpopulations was conducted in collaboration with landscape managers and lion researchers to determine perceived threat severity. [1/2] @biology.ox.ac.uk

I need one! "The Publish or Perish Game is a humorous party game about academic publishing. Players race to publish manuscripts with useless nonsense while sabotaging each other's research and delivering "very helpful" comments, Reviewer 2 style." publishorperish.games

Every week is FatBear week! 😁 bsky.app/profile/glob...

#Wildlife population counts are only population size estimates, always wrong but some more than others - here technology suggests 50% out! www.ox.ac.uk/news/2025-09...

TFW your student wins the award for the best MSc talk at the conference! Go Yasmin! Cc @robdavis1104.bsky.social

Wildfire and Drought Alter the Ecology of Jaguars and Co‐Occurring Mammals in the World's Largest Wetland 🔗 buff.ly/tNzo2KM

Wolves use diverse tactics to track partially migratory prey. Cool paper !! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

New on European conservation science: Wolf-dog hybridization can rapidly increase without intervention. Model shows sterilization or removal of hybrids reduces admixture. Success depends on mate choice, immigration & mortality by humans. Santostasi et al. in Cons. Biology doi.org/10.1111/cobi...

Pro tip for writers: A very bad first draft is not a failure—it’s a great start, Congratulations! You can’t revise a blank page, but you can shape a bad one into something really great 🌟Editing is easier than Creating🌟

You're not alone 😬

📢New paper 📢 MS student Clara Dawson's 1st chapter is out! Does increased habitat connectivity always increase wildlife-vehicle collision rates? No! We found nonlinear effects of connectivity on wildlife-vehicle collisions Free access: rdcu.be/emUU3

Despite a lack of threats, utility-scale solar energy still repels pronghorn. Read the full story 👇

Pro tip for writers: Your abstract cannot be an afterthought It’s the most important paragraph in your paper—often the only one people read Make every word count!

From bio-logging to conservation 🔽 New paper by an @animaltracking.bsky.social dream team @diegoellissoto.bsky.social @anflack.bsky.social @arispeshkin.bsky.social Timm Wild, Hannah Williams, @teagueo.bsky.social @cbehav.bsky.social @uni-konstanz.de www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

🛰️🐦 Bio-logging can fundamentally reshape how we measure conservation success—from individuals ➡️ populations ➡️ species. 4/

Thrilled to share our new article in @pnas.org highlighting global gaps in where we study animal movement—and outlining the next generation of smart bio-loggers. 👉 Read the full study in PNAS: lnkd.in/exP8NCeZ 1/

From the archives: Climate co-benefits of tiger conservation: www.nature.com/articles/s41... Ancient DNA reveals genetic admixture in China during tiger evolution: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I guess this is now official