Yesterday, I successfully defended my PhD dissertation about Free-ranging cattle in the boreal forest. A huge thanks to my supervisors, the farmers, and anyone who I met along the way giving ideas and inspiration. Read here the digital version: lnkd.in/eNxD7eJf

2024. Cattle have intricate social lives that aren't readily apparent: www.earth.com/news/cattle-...

Cow tool use - www.sciencefocus.com/news/cow-too...

My PhD defence is coming up. Friday next week. The title of my dissertation is: "Free-Ranging Cattle in the Boreal Forest: Predicting behaviours and exploring behavioural drivers with virtual fencing technology." www.inn.no/english/rese...

Recent visit of a lynx passing just behind my backyard.

This week the evaluation committee has decided that my PhD dissertation with the title: “Free-Ranging Cattle in the Boreal Forest: Predicting behaviours and exploring behavioural drivers with virtual fencing technology” is approved. The defence will be held on January 30.

Check out our most recent blog post by Marianna Chimienti! 🚨 In the blog, ‪@marikimient.bsky.social‬ explains the idea behind their new review paper on advance Image-Based bio-logging in marine ecosystems 🌊 Read the blog post here 👉 buff.ly/Bdf3oxu Read the full article here 👉 buff.ly/Uac74yI

Yes, as of last week, we "officially" left X - but we've been winding down our presence for a long time now. Interestingly, comparing our final conference on X (Winter 2024) post-for-post, on Bsky we had nearly triple the likes, six times the reposts and twelves times the comments/quotes.

Looking forward to September! My abstract with the title "How advances in livestock technology can aid wildlife coexistence: a case study on free-ranging cattle in the boreal forest", got accepted for a speed talk

POD CAST: Yellowstone National Park wildlife biologist Doug Smith and Professor Barbara Zimmerman (Univ. of Inland Norway) discuss the past, present and future of wolf ecology, distribution and management. https://soundcloud.com/user-340086209-186066255/wolves-across-borders #Wolves #Management

Finally out our paper 'Continuing recovery of wolves in Europe' published yesterday in PLOS Sustainability & Transformation. Very grateful to have been active part of this article and worked with LCIE-IUCN members. I hope it gets red & shared widely! journals.plos.org/sustainabili... ©Miha Krofel

Second paper out this week 😱😱 We present YOLO-Behaviour, a flexible, easy to implement, robust framework for automated behavioural annotation from videos, published in @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social!! [paper] doi.org/10.1111/2041... [documentation] alexhang212.github.io/YOLO_Behavio...

My backyard is full of surprises...

Backyard moose

We got like half a meter of snow the last few days. The fluffs are enjoying it. I just keep shoveling snow, as it also keeps snowing 😅🌨️❄️

Already getting excited for #ASABSpring2025 ! Our Spring conference is aimed at postgrads and postdocs (though all are welcome to join!) It also always includes a great workshop for developing practical skills. Highly recommended! Come join us in Liverpool in April! Registration is now open ⬇️

Check out our 2025 ethical guidelines! #AnimalEthics #AnimalBehaviourJournal

After being in the Netherlands for three weeks Henry is happy to be back in the cold and snowy Norway. I measured -23 degrees Celsius this morning at my house

The program for the upcoming 'wolves across borders' conference in the Netherlands is online. Looking forward to presenting my PhD work. www.wolvesacrossborders.com/preliminary-...

Opinie: De grutto help je niet door de vos af te schieten maar wel met een hoger waterpeil @caringfarmers.bsky.social www.volkskrant.nl/columns-opin...

🇺🇳 The Standing Committee of the #Bern Convention just voted down the protection status of the #wolf 👉 This will not solve the challenges for livestock. This is not based on science but was political. #Wolves play a crucial role in ecosystems. And: we cannot allow risking the EU Habitats Directive! 🐺

"If we want to allow the full range of wolf behaviours—or, in other words, to allow them to choose when to be active—we must decrease our disturbance in time as well as space.” www.endangeredlandscapes.org/news/whos-aw...

Three year postdoc on bird migration www.ab.mpg.de/639728/job_f...

No one likes a poorly attended inauguration... so please join me in London or online on 3 Dec for my inaugural lecture, "The Edge of Sentience". www.lse.ac.uk/Events/2024/...

In our latest #SORTEEjournalclub blog post, authors Graziella DiRenzo , Ephraim M. Hanks and David Miller present a step-by-step guide to understanding complex models using data simulations, including how to use simulations effectively. 🔗https://buff.ly/4i6Z5tP

My second PhD paper got published today 😊😀 animalbiotelemetry.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

So-called 'negative results' still often go unpublished - leading to systematic bias in the literature. But tools to reduce bias (like Registered Reports) are spreading. Read more on: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

An ErrantScience PhD working hours cartoon from 2018 that we were inspired to reshare this week

Looking forward to the winter meeting. I am planning to join in person

Research fellowships are always a funding route worth considering for anyone with unlimited time, resources, and patience also the right connections. In the unlikely event you don't have all of that then other more rewarding options are available

Working from home... Very hard to not get distracted

Awesome! I would have loved to join, but unfortunately I am traveling those days. #phdlife #openscience

Got a new book in the mail today. Looking forward to reading and discussing it #bookclub #animalwelfare

Applications are rolling in, but there is still plenty of time to apply for one of the NSO Grants! Apply by 1st September for the ECR or the Networking and Education grant! www.nordicsocietyoikos.org/grants

26 meta-studies confirm preregistration & registered reports reduce research waste! Check out this Nature Ecology & Evolution paper by Marija Purgar, Paul Glasziou, Shinichi Nakagawa and Antica Culina: t.co/hahQ6jOx6b Feel free to share your feedback on the proposed measures below.

In June’s #SORTEEcodeclub session, Steffi LaZerte hosted a workshop on how to code our own website. #codereview Missed Code club? Read back in our blog: www.sortee.org/blog/2024/07... "How to use Markdown and Quarto to create and host a website on GitHub!"

Just moving over from X (Twitter) to Bluesky.