Meet Postdoctoral Research Associate @sandralai.bsky.social! 🦊 As an ecologist and carnivore researcher, Sandra’s work investigates the behavioural adaptations of mammals in extreme environments, from Arctic foxes in the High Arctic to the endangered Ethiopian wolf. [1/2] @biology.ox.ac.uk

EWCP, in partnership with EWCA, is leading the first large-scale preventive vaccination of Ethiopian wolves in the Bale Mountains. Combining vaccination and GPS collaring, we aim to protect the world’s rarest canid and the Afroalpine ecosystem they call home. @biology.ox.ac.uk @sandralai.bsky.social

🔥 I am thrilled to have been chosen as a 2025 Flag Carrier by WINGS Women of Discovery! With their support, I’ll join the team in Ethiopia’s Bale Mountains to vaccinate and GPS-collar endangered Ethiopian wolves. ➡️ wingswomenofdiscovery.org/explorer/san... @wildcru.bsky.social @biology.ox.ac.uk

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In 2020, a male Ethiopian wolf in the Simien Mountains sustained a severe leg injury caused by a gun shot. Unable to keep up with his pack, weak and bleeding, in a place as harsh and exposed as the Ethiopian highlands, that’s usually the end of the story. But this time, it wasn’t.

🌍🐺 Wolves Across Borders 2025 — EWCP joined the Himalayan Wolves Project and WildCRU colleagues in Lunteren to represent wolves from Africa, Europe and Asia. A powerful global gathering sharing field insights and coexistence strategies. Thanks to all who came to listen and share!

Over the years, we've published multiple #MovementEcology papers using the Arctic fox as a model. But I’ve never shared this video of a flying Arctic fox! Filmed on our Bylot Island study area by my former PhD student Clément Chevallier. #wildlife 🧪🌿🌎

The first publication of my postdoc on Scandinavian brown bears is now published in Ecology and Evolution! Go check it out! We used accelerometry data to evaluate bears' behavioural adjustments in response to temporal variation in hunting risk. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

EWCP delegates, Prof Claudio Sillero, Dr Jorgelina Marino and Dr Sandra Lai, just arrived in Lunteren, Netherlands, for the International Conference Wolves Across Borders 2025! 🧵1/ #WAB2025 #WildCRU #OxfordBiology #OxfordUniversity #WolvesBorders #conservation #research

African wild dog playback experiment gone bad 😂 #PhDLife #Fieldwork #nevergiveup

💥 Flash news: I’ll be at WAB 2025! Anyone else going? Let’s meet 🦊

Action on the sea ice: An Arctic wolf chases away a polar bear while other pack members rest nearby on the sea ice. While not a rare event, it's also not a common one at our CFS Alert biodiversity study area, Nunavut, Canada. Picture by Richard Cayer, 20 September 2020. 🌿🌎🦑 #addMam #wildlife

This female Arctic hare nursing her six leverets is perfect for Easter, especially with music added! Filmed by my former postdoc @sandralai.bsky.social at our biodiversity monitoring site CFS Alert, Nunavut, Canada. Music: Cumbia Deli.🌿🌎 #wildlife

“The three animals produced by Colossal are not dire wolves. Nor are they proxies of the dire wolf based on IUCN SSC guiding principles of extinct species for conservation benefit”—IUCN SSC Canid Specialist Group Read the full statement below ⬇️

Hi, canid scientist here! 🙋🏻‍♀️ All I’m gonna say is that Colossal is claiming "if they look like this animal, then they are the animal" when the animal in question was more likely to be brownish-red and not white… Kinda like another extant wolf species 👀 www.scientificamerican.com/article/dire...

When I look back at what we put our field cars through during the last field trip, I don’t even know how we made it successfully to the end… a miracle! All field cars know suffering… that’s universal fieldwork experience! What’s your worst field car story? 🎥 Abdi Samune

Register now for our annual meeting! Join us at the University of East Anglia on the 2nd and 3rd of September. This year's theme is Understanding Migration, but contributions in all areas of movement ecology are welcome. Abstract deadline: 30th June 🧪🌍 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/besmove202...

🚨New on the blog🚨 Can you guess how many Ethiopian wolves we captured?🦊 14 people, 10 days, 4 camps, 3 cars Read more about my most insane (but meaningful) fieldwork ever! ➡️ ethiopianwolf.org/news/notes-f... #EWCP #WildCRU @wildcru.bsky.social #Oxfordbiology @biology.ox.ac.uk

🚨New on the blog🚨 Jaguars in the trees: how big cats thrive in the Amazon’s flooded forest Guilherme Costa Alvarenga (WildCRU, University of Oxford) studied an extraordinary population of jaguars living an arboreal lifestyle in the Mamirauá Reserve ➡️ wp.me/pcNAUj-aC @wildcru.bsky.social

🦊 Fieldwork essentials🦊 Go ahead, judge me on anything! I’ll be posting about fieldwork with Ethiopian wolves soon! Stay tuned! ✨

❄️7th International Arctic Fox Conference❄️ When: September 26-29, 2025 Location: Churchill, Manitoba, Canada CALL FOR ABSTRACTS! Please fill this form: forms.gle/kPhgGfJMC2XV... The deadline to submit abstracts is Thursday, May 1, 2025.

❄️Join us in Churchill, Manitoba for the 7th International Arctic Fox Conference, September 26–29, 2025!❄️ 📢 RSVP now: forms.gle/Y6VR6TT1UJXh... 🔗 Info: churchillscience.ca/internationa... 📧 Questions: [email protected] #ArcticFox #Churchill #ArcticEcology #2025ArcticFoxConference

While Britain agonises about a few lynx, a new inspiring analysis of tiger recovery in India, the world's most human-populated country, by @ninadm.bsky.social and others. Both land sharing and sparing are needed, and cultural acceptance and economic benefits... www.science.org/doi/full/10....

Ethiopian wolves’ breeding season is fully on! Pups have started emerging. I took this video almost 2 years ago now. It was my first time seeing Ethiopian wolf pups. Because of how the den was carved under big rocks and a strong wind, they couldn’t see or hear us, leading to this miraculous sight!

The BES Movement Special Interest Group @besmovesig.bsky.social has made it to Bluesky! Make sure to follow if you're interested in animal movement 🧪🌍

As seen on BBC's Winterwatch: wood mice finding their way! In this amazing footage from @pavelstopka.bsky.social and David Macdonald's research, wood mice can be seen arranging leaves in a specific orientation, creating portable waymarkers as they forage. 🎥 bit.ly/4hBWl6F 📖 bit.ly/3PYrRQK

What type of ‘actionable conservation scientist’ are you? (are you one?) I think there is a discrepancy between what people ARE, what they THINK they are, what they SAY they are, and what they actually WANT to be. A cause of internal and external conflict, which is quite damaging on all levels.

You know the academic publishing system is completely broken when you see that PhD students with no first author publications are now being reached out directly by editors and asked to review manuscripts… Really, is this the future of peer-reviewing?

Fieldwork is calling 📳

✨Happy New Year 2025! May your fieldwork be legendary, your data results finally be significant, and your camera traps not decide they’re done with you halfway through the field season.🤓 Here’s to surviving another year of chasing elusive creatures and funding! Let's goooo✨

Field biologists have the reputation of not knowing how to dress well, but what are stereotypes if we can’t break them? #HappyHolidays #MerryChristmas #Oxford

Story time! Watch the beautiful new footage of the wolves and the flowers 🔥 Read the story behind the paper in my piece for The Conversation UK "Wolves with a taste for nectar" ➡️ bit.ly/3ZYD7Ce

Vaccination and monitoring are crucial for conserving endangered species like Ethiopian wolves. Rabies and CDV co-infections reveal challenges in disease control. 🧵 1/

✨New publication✨ A curious case of wolves behaving like bees?! 🐝 🦊 🌱 ➡️ esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... @wildcru.bsky.social @oxfordbiology.bsky.social

Hi! Just migrated here! I’m a fieldwork biologist studying mammals living in extreme environments (Arctic and high mountains)! Please say hello! :)