🚨✨ JOB OFFERS ✨🚨
🧠 Interested in disgust and human disease avoidance? 🦠🤢
🎓 2 PhD positions (Montpellier 🇫🇷) + 1 postdoc (Stockholm 🇸🇪) now open!
📢 Exciting projects in VR, psychophysiology, psychoneuroimmunology, social behavior, and health
🧵 Details + deadlines in thread below!
Addresses an emerging gap in wildlife monitoring + you KNOW the #dataviz is going to be pretty when @cedricscherer.com is a coauthor 💅
The influence of urbanisation & human activities. This study aimed to understand the potentially novel predator–prey interactions in private gardens of Berlin, specif. between #redsquirrels and #redfoxes, #raccoons, #martens, and #cats. A joint paper by J. Louvrier & @josefavergaras.bsky.social
Urban wildlife interactions aren’t straightforward🐿️🏘️
In #Berlin gardens, red squirrels occur more with higher tree cover and in autumn. Plus they tend to avoid cats🐱 but show no clear patterns with foxes, raccoons, or martens🦊🦝***New paper out @wildlifebiology.bsky.social
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PhD students reflect on how their supervisors made a meaningful difference — from quiet acts of kindness to career-shaping guidance
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Join us for the European Conference for Behavioural Biology (ECBB) 1-4 September 2026, Cambridge, UK!
I'm thrilled to be giving a keynote talk on social cognition in a human world. Submissions for oral/poster presentations close 30 April. www.aru.ac.uk/events/confe...
You want to know more abot An’s PhD work? See below…
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An wearing his fantastic doctoral hat
Congratulations to An Nguyen on successfully defending his PhD!!!
His work stands out by combining one of the largest #Camtrap datasets with advanced modelling to reveal how snaring drives #Defaunation in Vietnam - providing actionable insights for targeted #Conservation and #SpeciesProtection.
🎉 ggauto is now on CRAN 🎉
An #RStats package that selects better chart types, and provides more accessible styling for #ggplot2 plots 📊
Blog post explaining why I made it and how it works: nrennie.rbind.io/blog/introdu...
#DataViz
Wolves infected with Toxoplasma gondii take more risks. Also they probably contract Toxo from cougars.. very interesting stuff!
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Congrats, Ella and team!!!
👉 One trait — how quickly females reproduce again — was better predicted by proportional rank.
So reproduction isn’t just about resource access, but also social constraints (e.g. ability to nurse cubs at communal den).
Take-home: “rank” isn’t one thing—metrics shape the story.
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New #hyena study out @ecol-evol.bsky.social ! 📢🧪
What does it mean to be “high-ranking”?
And does it always predict reproductive success? 🤔
Turns out: how you *measure* rank can change the answer.
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If you enjoyed the paper below👇👇, you might also be interested in our symposium on “Eco-Evolutionary Dynamics in a Changing World” at the Nordic Oikos-GfÖ conference! The amazing Viktoriia Radchuk will be giving a talk, and we still have a few spots open, reach out to if interested! #NSO2026 🐦🌴🐝🌡️📉
Long-lasting negative effects of poor early life conditions on cognitive performance in adulthood in a wild bird
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Home page for available jobs at NINA with a photo of a red fox
Three PhD positions are open at NINA: seabird ecology in a changing arctic (25 mar), areal planning and land use change (15 apr) and geospatial AI tools for fine-scale ecosystem accounting (15 apr). Study applied ecology at a major research institute in Norway! nina-english.attract.reachmee.com/jobs
@biotropica.bsky.social
How long do Sunda clouded #leopards live? 🐆📷 By photo-tracking this elusive carnivore over many years, we gained new insights into #survival and #demography, and documented the oldest known individual to date: a 6.51-year-old female. @kathikasper.bsky.social. Read here: doi.org/10.1111/btp....
Tracking #seabirds has become increasingly important to collect data about their space use - but how to attach the #loggers? Colleagues from @ninanatureresearch.bsky.social have developed a clamp system, which helps to keep loggers in place for several weeks to months. seapop.no/en/2026/03/n...
Want to get to know about an R package for quantifying ecological stability? Join the #MEE @britishecologicalsociety.org webinar by L. Figueiredo and V. Radchuk presenting package #estar on 12th of March at 11:00 am CET. More info and registration: www.britishecologicalsociety.org/content/mee-...
Dr. Ludmilla Figueiredo from #iDiV, Sonia Kéfi, Paul J. Van den Brink, @jsarmentocabral.bsky.social, @cedricscherer.com ...nice collaboration together with our #IZW staff from D6!
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Our package estar for quantifying ecological stability is out: MEE @britishecologicalsociety.org! Provides 11 stability metrics for measuring stability at different levels of organization, from individuals to populations, communities + ecosystems. besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Published in @jappliedecology.bsky.social!😀
We show how (Hierarchical) Hidden Markov Models ((H)HMMs) can be tailored to different epidemiological scenarios to infer disease status directly from animal movement data.
🔗 ttps://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1365-2664.70323
🌍 Excited to share the Move Disease Archive (MDA)—co-led by me and @kmorelle.bsky.social with support from Movebank, Move BON, Euromammals, and many partners!
A global collection of wildlife movement + disease data to understand behavior, spread & spillover!
🔗 kimx3725.github.io/move-disease...
📈Keen to learn how to quantify ecological stability? Join the EFI webinar by Ludmilla Figueiredo @idiv-research.bsky.social & Viktoriia Radchuk from #IZW to learn about package estar March 2nd, 18:00 CET.
@ecoforecast.bsky.social
Atlantic Puffin at Hornøya, Norway
New opening for a 3-year PhD project in 'Seabird Ecology in a Changing Arctic' at the Norwegian Institute for Nature Research (Tromsø) and the Arctic University of Norway (UiT). Apply before 25 Mar 2026. #seabirdscience @ninanatureresearch.bsky.social nina.attract.reachmee.com/jobs/84-phd-...
📢 You look for a student #Job? You'd like to contribute to current research topics about birds🪶🐦 & #WestNileVirus?
Then be part of a consortium on "Combating #WNV through an integrated #OneHealth approach" #TUBerlin , #Charite, #FUBerlin, #UniBayreuth ... Apply here at #IZW:
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Disease dynamics in wildlife: We used a spatially explicit eco-epidemiological model to analyze classical swine fever spread in Northern Germany. Discover how host movement decisions shape disease spread. #EcoEpidemiology #FLI @ufz.de 🐖 Read here: doi.org/10.1002/ecs2...;
@ecosphere-ua.bsky.social
Graphical depiction of workflow summarizing sample selection and two objectives: (I) investigating sex-specific excursion characteristics and (II) examining factors shaping excursions using generalized linear mixed models. Figure 1 from the paper: Extra-territorial excursions of Eurasian lynx (Lynx lynx) during the mating season across Europe
PhD student Yutong posing together with a statue of a metal Lynx (her research species for her PhD) outside in the Bavarian Forest National Park
First PhD paper from Yutong Liang on excursions of Eurasian #lynx during the mating season!🐱
Using data from 125 lynx across Europe, they found that extra-territorial mating excursions are a male-biased strategy, indicating active mate-searching🐈💕🐈
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#Eurolynx #euromammals
Meta-analysis is ubiquitous in ecology, but it is poor at determining which conservation interventions work in which contexts
That’s why we’ve developed Precision Ecology, using methods developed in, eg, medicine to inform precise, data-informed conservation
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