Join us on March 25th at 16:00 GMT for the next WILDLABS Variety Hour!

Hear about open-source camera traps, tracking bats with mini GPS tags, accessible marine acoustic recorders & platforms for sharing animal movement & biodiversity data.

Read more and register here: wildlabs.net/event/catch-...

Shaping Wildlife Insights Data – Camera Trap Blog My workflow from downloading Wildlife Insights data to extract the detection history of one species

New blog post. @wildlifeinsights.bsky.social #cameratrap dlizcano.github.io/cameratrap/p...

‘I rarely get outside’: scientists ditch fieldwork in the age of AI Nature - In the race to embrace new technologies, some ecologists fear their field is losing touch with nature.

Some researchers are now studying ecology without touching a single plant

go.nature.com/4aRGile

Best practices for moving from correlation to causation in ecological research - Nature Communications Different scientific traditions offer seemingly disparate approaches to inferring causal relationships in ecological systems. This Perspective unifies the causal assumptions and methods from...

Excited to share our new paper in @natcomms.nature.com We synthesize causal discovery & inference approaches across traditions (regression adjustment, quasi-expts, SEMs, Granger causality, convergent cross-mapping, and more) into a unified workflow for ecologists. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Can plantations contribute to land use diversity? You guessed it... It depends! To find out, check this nice post about the first paper we wrote for my PhD! Stay tuned as we keep exploring the… | Sa... Can plantations contribute to land use diversity? You guessed it... It depends! To find out, check this nice post about the first paper we wrote for my PhD! Stay tuned as we keep exploring the multi...

Check out this nice post sharing the results of our publication, which is the first paper of my PhD. Find out more about the role of plantations in diversifying land uses.

🔗Link to the paper: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

💻 Original post on LinkedIn:
www.linkedin.com/posts/sara-p...

Warming and farming hasten bird losses across North America, study shows After half a century of steep declines, North America’s birds are disappearing faster than ever. A new study shows that populations are shrinking across most of the continent, with intensive…

After decades of decline, North America’s birds are vanishing even faster.

A new Science study finds populations falling across most regions, with intensive agriculture the strongest driver.

Scientists warn the losses threaten ecosystem services that support food systems and human well-being.

🤔Looking to make your #code more #reproducible? Check out our new and improved guide to Reproducible Code! 🧪🌍️

Find it here👇️
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Are you an relatively new to field ecology and data collection? Or are are you supervising students? Our guide for effective field data collection is now published in @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social! We also include a printable poster with a visual overview of the guide
doi.org/10.1111/2041...

An arboreal camera-trap image form the Brazilian Amazon rainforest. An animal is detected by TropiCam-AI, which analyzes its features and tries to determine what species it is.

TropiCam-AI analyzes the prompted image, and classifies it at the species level as a black spider monkey. Users can decide to let the model predict at the taxonomic level that achieves the highes confidence and accuracy, or force predictions at the desired taxonomic level.

New paper out in @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social!

📷We present TropiCam-AI: a machine learning model that identifies 84 taxa of Neotropical arboreal mammals and birds from camera-trap images and videos. 🐒🦜

📃Paper → doi.org/10.1111/2041-210x.70213
🌐Project → github.com/andrewzamp/TropiCam-AI

From First Clicks to Building Esperdyne: A Personal Journey into Bat Bioacoustics. Post provided by Ravi Umadi. On a humid, warm evening—close to 40 °C—in Mohali, India, I stood outside holding a bat detector, listening for something I had never heard before. Although I had never…

Read our new blog post! 🚨

Ravi Umadi talks about his new tool 'ESPERDYNE' - a dual-band heterodyne monitor and ultrasound recorder for bioacoustic field surveys 🦇 👂️

Read here 👇
methodsblog.com/2026/02/12/f...

Feb. update to the LLM+R guide 💪

8 new packages including:
code review, predictive modeling, speech-to-text, text-to-speech, HuggingFace integration, Gemini CLI companion, a CLI coding agent written in R🤯 ,and more!

available in English 🇱🇷 and Spanish 🇲🇽
luisdva.github.io/llmsr-book/
#rstats

I went to UseR! for the first time last year, and it was such an incredible event. You could feel the #Rstats love vibrating out of everybody 💓

I wish I could make it to Warsaw! I hope you are able to!

The past and future of known biodiversity: Rates, patterns, and projections of new species over time The number of known species on Earth is increasing rapidly, suggesting unexpectedly large numbers of many groups.

The past and future of known biodiversity: Rates, patterns, and projections of new species over time | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/full/10....

Colombia poised for another drop in deforestation in 2025, data show Deforestation in Colombia appears to have declined in 2025, with notable reductions in several departments that have historically struggled with forest loss. An estimated 36,280 hectares (89,650…

Deforestation in Colombia appears to have declined in 2025.

Officials attribute the trend to collaboration with Indigenous communities and environmental zoning in rural areas, as well as ecotourism and a program providing financial incentives for communities involved in forest conservation.

Mosquitoes in Brazil’s Atlantic Forest prefer human blood As deforestation and habitat loss drive down wildlife populations, mosquitoes are increasingly turning to another source for their blood meal: humans. That’s the finding of a new study in Brazil’s…

As deforestation and habitat loss drive down wildlife populations, mosquitoes are increasingly turning to another source for their blood meal: humans.

That’s the finding of a new study in Brazil’s Atlantic Forest, a global biodiversity hotspot with under a third of its original forest remaining.

Guía Ilustrada de los Mamíferos de Colombia - Reseña de libro - Mammalogy Notes. doi.org/10.47603/man...

Advances in the Biogeography of Neotropical Mammals Recent computational and methodological advances in phylogenetics and bioinformatics, along with the increasing availability of evolutionary and ecological data, have produced deeper insights into the...

What do we know about mammal biodiversity patterns in the American tropics? Find out in the new book chapter by @liomys.mx and yours truly 👇

link.springer.com/rwe/10.1007/...

The whole book is a gem for those interested in the study of mammals of one of the world's most diverse regions!

Genome-wide SNP and mtDNA phylogeny of blind mole rats (Spalacinae Gray, 1821) reflects a complex history of relictualism, expansion, and speciation Abstract. The evolutionary history and systematics of blind mole rats (BMR), subfamily Spalacinae (Gray, 1821), are complicated by uneven geographic sampli

Genome-wide SNP and mtDNA phylogeny of blind mole rats (Spalacinae Gray, 1821) reflects a complex history of relictualism, expansion, and speciation academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/a...

Software Libre de Investigacion en America Latina · Community Call Venite a conversar con Diana Garcia, Erick Navarro y Luis Verde Arregoitia sobre su experiencia como campeon(e|a)s y mentores de rOpenSci y como podes aplicar para cualquiera de los dos roles.

Software Libre de Investigacion en America Latina ropensci.org/es/commcalls...

‘I rarely get outside’: scientists ditch fieldwork in the age of AI www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Our cover for December! 🦊

Martin et al.(2025) show that species like bobcats, cougars, coyotes, gray foxes, and martens largely avoid each other in space but share surprisingly similar diets—revealing how landscape conditions shape coexistence but also their delicate balance.

vist.ly/4h3ks

Privacy and AI Assistants - Posit Many of our LLM tools can execute code and access your files. What does this mean for privacy?

How do you use AI assistants in data science without compromising sensitive data?

As tools like Positron Assistant and Databot gain the ability to execute code and access files, this question becomes more urgent.

@simonpcouch.com and @sara-altman.bsky.social break it down: posit.co/blog/trust-l...

🌳 New research explores how woodland creation could reshape the future of British mammals…

As countries race to meet biodiversity targets, large-scale woodland creation is high on the agenda. But what does this mean for wildlife?

📖 Read here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Integrative phylogenetic analysis of the genus Episoriculus (Mammalia: Eulipotyphla: Soricidae) Shrews in the genus Episoriculus are among the least-known mammals in China, where representatives occur mainly in the Himalayan and Hengduan mountains. We sequence one mitochondrial and three nuclear...

Checkout this article I found at PLOS: dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...

Saving Bambi from the mower? Using a drone with thermal camera to evaluate a low-tech scaring technique to reduce roe deer fawn mortality during grass harvest vist.ly/4m5r7 #Drones #Cameras #AUV

Ecologists have limited options when modelling species distributions through time, especially when data are limited. The autoOcc R package provides a solution to this, making it simple to fit autologistic occupancy models, compare them, and make model predictions.

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/...

Astrophotographer Andrew McCarthy captured skydiver Gabe Brown falling across the sun in this precisely planned aircraft alignment, solar altitude, and jump, resulting in the striking image “The Fall of Icarus.”

#AstroPhotography #Photography

Brazil approves world’s first single-dose dengue vaccine Brazilian authorities on Wednesday approved the world’s first single-dose dengue vaccine, which they hailed as a “historic” achievement as cases of the mosquito-borne disease soar globally due to risi...

Brazil approves world’s first single-dose dengue vaccine

www.ctvnews.ca/health/artic...

Artificial supplementary food influences hedgehog occupancy and activity patterns more than predator presence or natural food availability vist.ly/4gc8i #UrbanEcology #Diet #Competition

New to town: home range size, habitat selection and behavioral adaptations by urban hares vist.ly/4g364 #UrbanEcology #Movement