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! 🤩🇳🇦

There are 3 exciting postdoctoral openings to work on biodiversity research, monitoring and conservation with us at UBC - check them out! 2 positions: biodiversity.ubc.ca/training-and... 1 position: science-bcbiodiversitynetwork-2025.sites.olt.ubc.ca/opportunities/

To “my students and to anyone who might listen, I say: Don’t surrender to AI your ability to read, write and think when others once risked their lives and died for the freedom to do so.” www.huffpost.com/entry/histor...

Out today, a companion article for my autoOcc R package: Estimating species occupancy across multiple sampling seasons with autologistic occupancy models via the autoOcc R package. #rstats 🧪 besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

🦔📉Habitat and predator heterogeneity influence density of a declining mammal 📷 © 1 Emily Clark 2 Hongli Yu vist.ly/4c62s #ErinaceusEuropaeus #LandscapesOfFear #MelesMeles #PopulationEcology #SpatialCaptureRecapture #SpatiotemporalCovariateHeterogeneity

🦁🐆🐾 Lions, leopards, and spotted hyaenas share the African savanna—but how do they coexist at such fine scales? Our new study in Oikos reveals the hidden dance of predators. doi.org/10.1002/oik....

📣📣📣 CONSERVATION GENETICS WORKSHOP - Few more spaces left! ConGen Population Genomic Data Analysis Course 🧬💻💡 University of Pretoria, South Africa 🌍 7-14 December + field trip to Kruger NP! 🦁🐃🐘🐆🦏 More info & registration here: www.umt.edu/congen/africa/

Congratulations to Hongli Yu for leading this huge effort investigating hedgehog density over an 11-year period from Brackenhurst Campus, Nottinghamshire nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... We estimated 🦔 density between 2009-2022, accounting for habitat features & 🦡 presence

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

A blog post on our recent Mostela paper looking at the methods' applicability for small carnivore monitoring!

Happy to share our new paper estimating lion density in Pilanesberg National Park 🇿🇦 and assessing optimal sampling guidelines for improved monitoring efficiency 🦁 wildlife.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #mammals

Really happy to share our new paper exploring the Mostela as a monitoring tool for African small carnivores! besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

📝 Are you using multispecies occupancy models to investigate interactions in species occupancy (i.e. co-occurrence)? 🦁🦓 Check out our new paper for advice on the number of sites you need to reliably detect interactions under different scenarios ⬇️

Happy to share our new paper, led by Cornelia Warrer, investigating large carnivore snaring rates & drivers of snare occurrence across Kruger NP! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... We found that carnivores were highly susceptible to being caught in snares & predicted snaring hotspots in Kruger

Awful photos but a great sighting (before the photos 😆) of caracal on the way to the office this morning! 🤩 Not a bad "commute"! 😊 #caracal #mammals #SouthAfrica

Happy #InternationalLeopardDay! 🐆 I didn't get to see a leopard today, but I'm lucky enough to get to work on projects involving them and got to spend today hiking in Cape leopard country in the Outeniqua Mountains 🤩🐆⛰️🏞️

🐆🐆 TWO M.S. POSITIONS AVAILABLE IN MY LAB!! Focus will be bobcat and coyote dynamics in an ocelot pre-reintroduction landscape. Come join the fun. Deadline is June 1 for an August start 🐆🐆 Position posting is here: tinyurl.com/5y3uhbf3

Missed the NHMP talk hosted by @zslscience.bsky.social ? 🦔 Catch up & find out how we're tracking hedgehogs across the country: shorturl.at/jP54j @ptes-org.bsky.social @hedgehogsociety.bsky.social @zslofficial.bsky.social @mammalweb.bsky.social @durham-university.bsky.social & Nottingham Trent Uni

Last call for expressions of interest in a Quantitative Ecology post-doc based mostly in South Africa. If you are interested, drop Lourens and me a line 👇 www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/jaxqx...

There are still spots available on both courses. Pre-register before end of April to secure your spot!

Super excited to share this new pub led by @wilsonsherm.bsky.social! We used Nextdoor posts to explore human-carnivore interactions in Los Angeles. Nextdoor offers a useful data source for understanding urban human-wildlife interactions, if human biases are accounted for. Check it out! 🧪🌎

Great to have our paper out on community-camera-trapping: an innovative conservation incentive approach where local communities monitor their wildlife & generate points, which are translated into locally-chosen community benefits onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Applications are open for the African Research Fellowship - a grant of up to $1,750 offered by the American Society of Mammalogists to support African graduate students! A nice opportunity to get funds for equipment & field costs! Apply by the 15th April! 👇 www.mammalsociety.org/index.php/co...

A proud supervisor moment yesterday as my MSc student, Marna Visagie, presented her study on carnivore densities from Tswalu Kalahari Reserve at #ecm9 in 🇬🇷 Presenting for the 1st time at an international conference & representing the #WildlifeEcologyLab Thanks @timhofmeester.bsky.social for the 📸

Excellent free book by the world’s expert on spatially explicit capture-recapture (with lots of examples in R)

Our datapaper "Global Roadkill Data: a dataset on terrestrial vertebrate mortality caused by collision with vehicles" is now online on #ScientificData: nature.com/articles/s41... #RoadEcology @ebdonana.bsky.social

Julien came and taught a shorter version of this workshop last September for our MSc/PhD students - the course was a massive help for them & all our students are now progressing well with their spatial data analysis! 🤩🗺️ Sign up for the full course & also see our beautiful George Campus! 🐾🌿🌲🇿🇦 👇

Looking for your first quantitative ecology post-doc? Then get in touch. I will be co-supervising a post-doc with Lourens Swanepoel (based in SA: @Univenofficial). You will have access to many awesome data sets and the focus will be on applying hierarchical models.

When dominant predators decline, mid-sized predators often increase, but it’s not that simple. A new review led by Emily Madsen shows suppression happens across sizes, with canids often studied in subordinate roles. Read more👉 bit.ly/4iDv18M @biology.ox.ac.uk

We'll cover: 📸 Practical deployment - incl. field work in a nearby game reserve 🦁🐘🦓 🗺 Survey design 💻 How to collect, manage & process camera trap data 📈 Data analysis (incl. occupancy, activity, density & abundance) 👨‍🏫 The chance to discuss & analyse your own data

We're running our #cameratrap course again! 🇿🇦📸🐆 This time from the #GreaterKruger, the course will give participants a fantastic mix of practical & analytical modules to become a camera trapping pro! 📸💻🐘🦏🐾 More info can be found here: wildecolabdotcom.wordpress.com/courses Please share widely! 🤩

🎉 Celebrating 1 Year of Wild Achievements! 🐾 One year ago, FatBear Wildlife Science Solutions set out on a mission to bridge the gap between cutting-edge science and wildlife conservation. Follow the link for a glimpse of the incredible work we’ve been part of! www.linkedin.com/posts/fatbea...

We're running our #cameratrap course again! 🇿🇦📸🐆 This time from the #GreaterKruger, the course will give participants a fantastic mix of practical & analytical modules to become a camera trapping pro! 📸💻🐘🦏🐾 More info can be found here: wildecolabdotcom.wordpress.com/courses Please share widely! 🤩

It's always an amazing & lucky sighting if you see an #aardvark! 🤩 But this night drive in #MountainZebra NP really delivered! Aardvark, 3x aardwolf, brown hyaena, bat-eared fox! Such an undervisited & amazing park! 🇿🇦🦓 Especially if you like the often overlooked species! 😊 #mammals

Hot off the press🚨🚨!! Our study looks at densities and distribution of #hedgehogs & #badgers in England & Wales, exploring how food, habitat, & badger density shape hedgehog distributions. @britishecolsoc.bsky.social @richardyarnell.bsky.social @robdavis1104.bsky.social doi.org/10.1002/ece3...

I am recruiting two funded graduate students (1 MS, 1 PhD) to join the lab and the Fisheries, Wildlife, and Conservation Sciences program at Oregon State University! If you are into population ecology and a combination of fieldwork and modeling - then check this out! Please share/repost widely!

Starting a petition to call these two lynx Voodoo and Java! 🤣 @apartridgeqotd.bsky.social #Lynx #Rewilding #Conservation #Wildlife www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Note to self: do more camera trapping work on wine estates... 📸🍷 • They're beautiful 🤩🌿🌾 • There's cool wildlife 🐾 • You can buy good wine when you've finished 🍷🥂 #cameratraps #SouthAfrica

Seems there are some Botswanan #elephants in South Africa that don't care about fences! 🤣🐘🇿🇦 Elephants and potholes, a true African road in SA! 😆 On the R572 to Mapungubwe NP! 🐘 #Mammals

A beautiful place to watch a lion (if you can spot it!) with the Waterberg Mountains in the background! 🤩🦁🐾🇿🇦 #Mammals #Wildlife #Lion #SouthAfrica #Nature

Seems like elephants object to small carnivore monitoring! 🤣😤 Elephants 🐘 - 1 Mostela 📸 - 0 A nice trunk selfie at least for the trouble! 🤣🐘 #mammals #conservationscience 🌍 #elephants

Wow! Amazing opportunity here for South Africa based 🇿🇦 researchers to develop their quantitative skills! 🤩💻 Two workshops: • An intro to stats in R • Applied hierarchical modelling The course is FREE! These opportunities rarely come about in 🇿🇦, so share widely & sign up! #conservationscience 🌍

An interesting/depressing situation in Madikwe GR 🇿🇦 where overpopulation (~2 🐘 per km²) & bush encroachment has led to limited resources & widespread starvation But what to do about it when most SA reserves are also at 🐘 capacity & culling is so controversial? #mammals nspca.co.za/madikwe-game...

There are a bunch of interaction models out there, when should you think about using this one? Check out our flow diagram to help you decide! (13/13) Please share widely and contact me if you can't access the paper!

Are you interested in species interactions and how we model them? Then this thread is for you! Our new paper in Ecology on the role of abundance in species interactions provides new statistical tools for modelling species interactions. shorturl.at/Sqz9m 🧵(1/13)🧵

🦁🦁🦁 We are seeking a Research Technician to assist our South Texas Lion Project! Work duties include maintaining our camera traps, investigating kill sites, and participating in lion work-ups. A phenomenal opportunity in the South Texas brush country. See below for more: shorturl.at/aftKp 🦁🦁🦁

Please keep me updated if you know any other carnivore ecologists that just joined 🦋 so I can add them to the Starter Pack! go.bsky.app/7hdbr6C

A couple of cool #spottedhyaena papers came out this week detailing new geographic range extensions & long range movements! 🤩 #conservationscience 🌍 1) The first ever spotted hyaena record from #Egypt! 🇪🇬 500 km north of the species' known distribution range! 🌍 www.degruyter.com/document/doi...

Wahoo proud supervisor moment! 🤩 My Honours student, Kamil, received the top mark in his class for his research project where we tested the Mostela as a monitoring tool for African small carnivores! 📸🇿🇦🐾 We got some fantastic results & great to see his hard work pay off! 😊

🚨 New paper in #FoodWebs We report on trophic interactions between #cheetah & #baboon and suggest baboons could be an underreported source of food loss & kleptoparasitism! doi.org/10.1016/j.fo... Thanks to Wildlife Act in Hluhluwe–iMfolozi for some great 📸! #mammals 🦊