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Wildlife ecologist | Carnivores-Ungulates-Large landscapes Founder @fatbear-bio.bsky.social
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The Iberian lynx is to be reintroduced to the La Veguilla y Sierra Jarameña region of the province of Cuenca in Spain’s Castilla-La Mancha autonomous community. This will be the fifth region of Castilla-La Mancha to receive a lynx reintroduction. 🌍 www.ecoticias.com/naturaleza/c...

New #rstats pkg gander is now on CRAN! gander is a coding assistant that knows how describe the objects in your global R environment. So, when you're working with data, LLMs will know the names, types, and distributions of data columns, resulting in much more effective completions.

When one of your co-authors agree with reviewer #2...

The Netherlands "with one of the highest human population densities in the world, has more than 100 wolves spread among 11 packs" www.irishtimes.com/science/2025...

Interesting post-doc opportunity in species distribution modelling with projections in antiquity! emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...

🚨 New paper just out🚨 Our review sheds light on the #distribution, #conservation, and #threats of the Asian black #bear 🐻 by analyzing the most important studies conducted in the last 50 years in #Pakistan 🇵🇰 Happy reading! shorturl.at/gtKEm @CNRsocial_ @nbfc_italy

Kunstformen der Natur Leipzig und Wien: Verlag des Bibliographischen Instituts, 1899-1904. (source: https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/47388315) #nature #illustration #art

As bad as it is, it's also a stark reminder that conservation is a ill-designed industry way too reliant on donor money instead of making itself self-sustainable. It will be actually interesting to see where this will have most and least impact and why.

Our special feature/passion project at AmNat, "Demystifying fundamental theories in ecology", co-organized with @sebastianschreiber.bsky.social is out now 🤩 www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/an/2025/...

Anyone knows how the Pittman–Robertson cash flow for wildlife is gonna end up under the DT/EM dictatorship?

Exclusive: These universities have the most retracted scientific articles A first-of-its-kind analysis reveals which institutions are retraction hotspots Read the full story here: https://go.nature.com/3CUmFKI

Oh damn Prime actually published their failed chatgpt prompt in the description

Balancing ecotourism and wildlife management through a conservation behavior approach conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Our new paper, based on data from 1,705 studies, shows that pesticides are toxic to organisms they are not intended to harm, including fungi, microbes, plants, insects, & vertebrates such as ourselves. Questions the wisdom of applying over 3 million tonnes of them every year...

Questioning the sixth mass extinction www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...

Predicting animal movement with deepSSF: a deep learning step selection framework https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.02.13.638055v1

Follow us if you would like more information about our projects on large #carnivores, the #wildcat, the golden #jackal and #ungulates @korafoundation.bsky.social 🐺🐾🐗🦌😻

Must have mixed up the units. Bloody Farenheits!

*New paper* Denialism campaigns are growing in attempts to discredit science, scientists, and the scientific process generally. Biodiversity loss denial is a new phenomenon that needs our attention. -With @alexanderlees.bsky.social + Eliza Grames! #CommSky 🧪🌏 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Yay.

Climate-conscious Europe braces for fossil-fuelled Trump 2.0 voxeurop.eu/en/climate-e...

The tiny lizard that will test Trump’s “drill, baby, drill” agenda www.vox.com/down-to-eart...

Friday SCOOP: @vox.com has learned that USFWS has frozen its vast portfolio of international conservation grants. This is far beyond the scope of USAID-funded work and will inevitably harm wildlife internationally and in the US. @benjij.bsky.social has the story: www.vox.com/down-to-eart...

Sorry, but while I believe it is spread in good faith, I think this is a good time to call out this common mistruth in the Irish ecological community. Indulge me for a minute, I just finished 5 years in Europe working with wolves, lynx, and deer. "Lack of wolves" is not the problem. Short🧵

"The world’s wealthiest nations are “exporting extinction” by destroying 15 times more biodiversity internationally than within their own borders" Paper: Global biodiversity loss from outsourced deforestation www.nature.com/articles/s41...

National Nuclear Security Administration officials are attempting to notify some employees who had been let go that they are now due to be reinstated — but they're struggling to find them because they don't have their new contact information. nbcnews.to/4104StF

Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz reaches back to Tiananmen Square to call on American defiance.

Incompetence in Washington puts every American at risk, no matter how you voted. No one should be happy that the DOGE team - the same folks who randomly published classified U.S. security information online today - wants access to your bank account & Social Security numbers.

insightful example of #MisplacedConservation - displacement of agricultural impacts from lower biodiversity/local areas to higher biodiversity/off-site areas. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

A second #wolf has been seen near Millas at 20km from the centre of Perpignan, south of France, illustrating that the Pyrenean population is not completely isolated. New arrivals and new departures. Unfortunately, it was hit by a car. #naturewriting

Just published today! We analyzed the SLOS dilemma for maintaining connectivity through urban sprawl besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Nature doesn’t stop at park borders. 🛑 Even inside reserves, mammal diversity drops as human pressure outside rises. 16 people/km² nearby = 1% species loss Habitat loss beyond reserves still impacts wildlife within. #StopDeforestation #PlanLandscapesNotParks #BoostConnectivity #ProtectBeyondBorders

Then: Shoot, Shovel, Shut up Now: Shoot, take picture, post on social media. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Just 10 of the 195 countries signed up to the landmark Paris Agreement have published their new emissions-cutting plans. Those missing the 10th Feb deadline represent 83% of global emissions and nearly 80% of the world’s economy, according to @carbonbrief.org @daisydunne.carbonbrief.org analysis.