Matthias longer story on how ravens "know" when to be where.

Work done by @matthiasloretto.bsky.social! Congratulations to the amazing team and such a privilege to have been part of this journey.

Ravens anticipate wolf kill sites across broad scales Scavengers generally rely on patchily distributed, unpredictable carrion. A long-standing hypothesis suggests scavenging ravens reliably locate such food by directly following large carnivores to thei...

You know those people who magically appear whenever there’s free food? Ravens do that too – but in Yellowstone, it’s not luck and not because they trail wolves. Instead, they remember where and when kills happen, navigating a mental map of the “landscape of death". www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Excited to announce our courses for #MovementEcology.🤗

This year we will be in #Africa @mpalarc.bsky.social at Mpala Research Centre. Starting with a basic R course designed for #AfricanResearchers, followed by a two-week international Animove workshop. animove.org/basic-r-cour... Please share 👍

Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio) YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.

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Breaking News: #Animovesummerschool is back this year in #Africa. Please repost. Thank you!

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I am not saying there aren't any of those of myself or that I have not taken such pictures of colleagues. But I am increasingly wary of the message that such pictures convey. Communicating our work through pictures is important. What I miss in those pics is context and I question the message.

There is something I increasingly wonder about: Should wildlife biologists continue posting pictures of themselves holding wild animals into a camera? I don't mean those pictures showing us at work, documenting what we do. I mean: a smiling someone in portrait mode with an animal in hand.

Sometimes the timing of things that happen can't be beaten. To mark transition and progression, the moveTraits paper was published just before year's end. A movement based trait database. dx.doi.org/10.1111/ele.... @larissabeumer.bsky.social @thomasmueller.bsky.social @animaltracking.bsky.social

I see, sure.

And don't get me wrong, I have withdrawn from projects. My rationale there was that those projects were in fact better off without me. Mainly due to uselessness and lack of time to be of value.

If you consistently and repeatedly commit to projects you need to quit, maybe you should consider getting counselling before you give your word to yourself and others. Personally I can't stand having to admit I was wrong, hence I try to bow out gracefully when the situation requires it.

I see your point, but in my reality the decision rarely is one person's only. Seeing people regularly walk away from commitments others are involved in, will haunt you. Often I need(Ed) to just suck it up and get it done, however terrible that "yes" was I uttered even knowing I shouldn't have.

Not dropping every of those projects everyone can blatantly see were sorry projects, marks to some extent those who did push through because they stood by their commitment. Believe me there are many things I have to see through I just have no option to drop. Apparently part of a career in science.

Maybe rephrase to "just wrap it up" and I fully agree. Like the post and consider sending it to the lab, because after all time is the most precious resource we have as scientists, but stamina and seeing some things through belong to the profile of the successful.

It is time to say Goodbye 🥺 Today is the last day of #Animove at #OTS #LaSelva in Costa Rica. It was two weeks of fun in the jungle with many motivated #animalmovement researchers learning different methods for analysing their data. Stay in touch!

#Animove in #CostaRica 🐸🦇🦜🐒🕷️🦂🦥
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Burden of a failed error culture in biologging Driven by technological advancement and low cost, biologging has rapidly transformed the study of animal behaviour and ecology, providing unprecedente…

2025. Burden of a failed error culture in biologging. #AnimalWelfare #AnimalEthics via @asab.org #AnimalBehaviour www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Gustavo Alarcon-Nieto | Movement of oilbirds YouTube video by Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior

How can we learn about animals that hide from view? IMPRS student @galarconnieto.bsky.social, working in @safilab.bsky.social tells us more about his research on oilbirds!
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Most people are right- some left-handed or ambidextrous - and so are honey buzzards when turning in thermals! But, unlike us, mastering flight means these birds must overcome laterality as they grow. A gem of a preprint led by @enourani.bsky.social. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

ECODATA: A toolbox to efficiently explore and communicate animal movements alongside environmental and anthropogenic context using geospatial big data Integrating complex geospatial data into research and applications for wildlife ecology remains a challenge. For example, animations of wildlife tracking data can be useful for developing hypothes...

This could be useful. ECODATA an #OpenSource tool to visualize and analyze #AnimalTracking data with custom geospatial layers to create powerful animations 🌍

#Wildlife #Ecology #GeospatialData #Conservation

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Citizen scientist coders for wildlife conservation – a MoveApps story Post provided by Andrea Kölzsch. I am a movement ecologist and have until recently worked as a PostDoc at the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior in Radolfzell, Germany. My research focusses, o…

A behind the scene story that exemplifies what can happen if brilliant and motivated people work together to turn cheap ideas into precious outcome. methodsblog.com/2025/08/28/c...

"I now can do a review in 1-2 hours". I am in science industry for over 2 decades engaging in all it takes. Reviewing a MS I handle still takes me several days, at least 1 full day. 1-2 hours I need just to properly read it a first time. But aside that the story matches my editorial experience.

Do you use Earth Observation #data for #wildlife #ecology? Take this survey to share how you use remotesensing, climate and weather data. Part of SOS (www.dfg-sos.de), a project of @dlr-de.bsky.social, @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social, ‪@uni-wuerzburg.de‬

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Preprint @ecoevorxiv.bsky.social arising from @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social animal welfare workshops. How can we develop a better error culture in animal biologging where we can learn from our, and others, mistakes and experiences?

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Dan, please don't get this wrong, I do love your posts and your work, as I too love my job and working with wild animals too. But I can't avoid finding social media posts with captured animals as not really something we should use too lightly (at all). Just say'n, and really appreciating your work.

Partially agree. Problem is that these pro-reviewers would become gatekeepers. They would need to remain on the bleeding edge. That is why reviewers should be part of the very same community. Separation of powers imo can't remain fair and good, it would essentially remove the "peer" from the process