4 spots still available 👇👇

I'm willing to support a MSCA application to host a postdoc in Vilnius, Lithuania on all things animal movement, habitat selection and connectivity - if you're interested, let's discuss

Theme & rules:

euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/hosting...

More on my research and supervision:

fattebert.weebly.com

14th International Symposium on Wild Boar and Other Suids, September 9-11, Zagreb, Croatia + euroboar 7-8 Sept.

14iwbs.agr.hr

Who's going?

🙋

It's been 250 years though

Battle Over Bison: How the Icon of the American Prairie Became a Political Lightning Rod A dispute over the national mammal that reaches far beyond one herd and into the future of grazing law, tribal restoration, and the tension between ranching and conservation in the West.

A dispute over the national mammal that reaches far beyond one herd and into the future of grazing law, tribal restoration, and the tension between ranching and conservation in the West.

Giant otters, river sentinels, now listed as threatened migratory species With evidence that the giant river otter is in an increasingly perilous state, delegates to the United Nations Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species (CMS) listed it as an animal requirin...

Studies reveal that the giant otter population decreased by 50% over the past 25 years as their habitat disappears and fragments and growing pollution fouls rivers.
#endangeredspecies #otters 🦦
news.mongabay.com/2026/04/gian...

Un-brie-lievable: A cheese-eating Eurasian Oystercatcher Haematopus ostralegus

NEW SHORT COMMUNICATION by Trevor MacLaurin

www.waderstudygroup.org/article/20174/
#waders #shorebirds #research #ornithology

Four Asian elephants of different ages bathing on a pond.

Predicted DNA methylation age from the final epigenetic clock model. It shows a relationship close to 1 (r = 0.96).

Scientists built a DNA methylation clock for Asian elephants with 96% accuracy of age prediction, associating aging to genes for neurogenesis, oxytocin, and metabolism. This can be linked to-life history traits. Great tool for conservation and evolutionary biology 🐘⏰

doi.org/10.1111/eva.70236

Why the link shows a
breaching Humpback I have no idea. AI-llucination, maybe?

Poster advertising the Arican Raptor Leadership Grant - African antionals applying for MSc or Hons courses at AP LEventis Ornithological Research Institute (Nigeria), Fitzpatric Institute of African Ornithology (UCT, South Africa) or Mohammed V University (Morocco) are invited to apply via https://raptorresearchfoundation.org

Are you a national of an African country? Looking to study birds of prey at one of three leading ornithological research university across the contient? This might be for you! raptorresearchfoundation.org/grants-award...

Wait—snakes eat seeds? Seeds are more likely to germinate after being pooped out by snakes

Snakes often feast on small mammals and help keep prey populations balanced. New research shows that our snakes are spreading the seeds collected and stored in the cheek pouches of their mammalian prey—and their waste might make a powerful manure.

14th International Symposium on Wild Boar and Other Suids, September 9-11, Zagreb, Croatia + euroboar 7-8 Sept.

14iwbs.agr.hr

Who's going?

🙋

I'm willing to support a MSCA application to host a postdoc in Vilnius, Lithuania on all things animal movement, habitat selection and connectivity - if you're interested, let's discuss

Theme & rules:

euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/hosting...

More on my research and supervision:

fattebert.weebly.com

Switzerland has reduced its greenhouse gas emissions by 27% since 1990

www-rts-ch.translate.goog/info/environ...

This looks like a great PhD on #rhinos opportunity with an excellent team at @dice-kent.bsky.social !

Bad news After 36 years, the garage fridge finally died. Been through a lot together. Outlasted 3 trucks, 2 wives. Went out quiet, like a cowboy. Must've kept 10,000 beers cold. Thinking about giving it a proper funeral

"Must've kept 10,000 beers cold"

🥳🥂

a pie chart that looks like a pyramid inside

Finally, a pie chart that I like!

A lot changed along the way, but this is still my master's thesis and first first-authored paper! It's only uphill from here!!

Grateful to you @fattebertj.bsky.social and @antoniouzal.bsky.social for paving the way!

🚨PhD opportunity!
Study brown bears in the Balkans using ancient DNA 🧬🐻
Interested in paleogenomics & conservation? Apply!
@lpcg.bsky.social

🔗 Details here: www.uw.edu.pl/wp-content/u...

#PhD #AncientDNA #Paleogenomics #ConservationGenomics #WildlifeConservation

Paper accepted! 🥳🥳

Congrats @kalpapran.bsky.social ! 🍻🍻

Fish climbing in the upper Congo Basin (Central Africa), first report for the shellear Parakneria thysi on the Luvilombo Falls

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

📢 Update: We’ve extended our survey deadline! During 2026, we will undertake a major renewal of the Movebank system. Help us build a more scalable, sustainable database for your projects. Your feedback will directly shape the future of Movebank. Survey: survey.academiccloud.de/f/221856?lan...

Yes. Seems to be a standard for me in rotational sleep grazing here

[oh, and about the fence: no I don't have chicken or sheep. This is against my own dog. Or not😅]

Glimpse on the Alps from home.

7/ This makes the challenge harder in a fundamental way.

If the sink weakens, the same emissions produce faster concentration growth.

Cuts that would once have stabilised CO₂ no longer will.

We need to run faster just to stay in the same place, and the pace required is accelerating.

Single-panel chart. Scatter of annual seasonal drawdown amplitude (d) (green dots) from 1958 to 2024, ranging from about 4.5 to 7.5 ppm. A black quadratic fit line rises to a peak around 2009 then levels off, with a shaded 95% confidence interval. A vertical red dashed line marks the fitted peak year. The curve replicates the finding of Curran & Curran (2025).

6/ Worse still: the land sink may be plateauing.

The seasonal CO₂ drawdown in the Keeling Curve, a proxy for terrestrial sequestration, peaked around 2009 & has shown no growth since, a sign that the biosphere is struggling to keep up. Replicating Curran & Curran (2025) doi.org/10.1002/wea.7668

Two-panel chart. Top: total emissions (black trend line) and total sink (blue trend line) 1959–2024, with the widening orange gap between them representing CO₂ remaining in the atmosphere. The emission slope (+0.418) is roughly twice the sink slope (+0.230). Bottom: scatter of annual airborne fraction with a dashed upward linear trend and 95% confidence interval, with decade averages annotated: 0.35 (1960s), rising to 0.51 (2020s).

5/ In the 1960s, natural sinks absorbed ~two thirds of our emissions. Today they absorb barely half.

The sink is growing, but not keeping pace. So more of every tonne of fossil fuel burned now stays in the atmosphere, and that share is still rising.