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Quantitative ecologist | Camera traps | Hierarchical models | Urban ecology | Line drawings | 🐦 & 🦝 | Views mine | He/him | masonfidino.com
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Our analysis of BBS data (through 2023) just came out! doi.org/10.5066/P1F2...

SAY CHEESE πŸ§ͺ #cameratrapping

Thanks so much to Lila for this LA Times article about our new publication about social-ecological influences on coyote movement in Los Angeles! πŸ§ͺπŸŒŽπŸ™οΈ Check out the publication here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

I’m down in Argentina right now to teach some workshops on camera trapping, reproducible science, and statistical modeling as well as learn about a lot of research being conducted at @grinbic.bsky.social First day was yesterday, and I’m really looking forward to the rest of the week!

Where do we look to monitor biodiversity? In a new preprint, @karinorman.bsky.social brings some good news: the different site selection algorithms tend to reach a similar efficiency, even though they recommend different locations! πŸ§ͺ🌎 ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...

2nd chapter of my PhD just published in @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social doi.org/10.1111/2041... Another step towards linking animal migration and population dynamics using integrated modelling! The secret lies in a neat equation relating survival and transition probabilities between migratory regions

Want to increase your scientific impact? Maybe try working with absolute rockstars? It works for me. @mhmurray.bsky.social www.cbsnews.com/newyork/vide...

Another video in my series on applied time series and forecasting with the {mvgam} #rstats πŸ“¦. This one introduces State Space hierarchical GAMs and GPs for tackling multivariate series youtu.be/2POK_FVwCHk?...

Absolute first today. I was just invited by a journal to review a manuscript from one of my direct co-workers, like we work in the same lab. I declined the review because wow, what a conflict of interest! Has this ever happened to you? πŸ§ͺ

Please spread the word! UF is hiring a tenure track quantitative ecologist in the Wildlife Ecology and Conservation Department: explore.jobs.ufl.edu/en-us/job/53...

Yesterday a coyote went into a grocery store in Chicago. news.wttw.com/2025/01/13/c...

Quick thread on some new papers on the science of impacts of bird feeding since the publication of our papers here www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... and here britishbirds.co.uk/journal/arti... #Ornithoogy #UKBirding🧡 1/

Revising a manuscript we submitted to @stacksjournal.bsky.social and I have to say that the collaborative review process is nice. Reviewers being able to see each others comments, and comment on them as well, is pretty unique!

I've been looking at different parameterisations of multi-season occupancy models, and it seems that dynamic (with colonisation and emigration) and auto-logistic models aren't all that different. Auto-logistic might be preferred with \alpha being a sort of average log odds. @masonfidino.bsky.social

I started working at the Lincoln Park Zoo 14 years ago in January of 2011. I'm looking forward to what the next year of science will look like with my excellent coworkers at LPZ! They truly make this place a great place to work.

I'd like to encourage folks to publish their code. Not only does it make studies more transparent and reproducible, but it also increases citation rates! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

I thought I had enough opossum art in my life but I was wrong. Dead wrong.

Once again on that date/time grind set while cleaning #cameratrapping data. #rstats

Internships are posted! vtecostudies.org/about-us/emp... Share with your undergrad/postgrad networks! These four positions are meant to be 'starting points' for folks looking for thier first experience in #ecology. Field-based, interdisciplinary, & office-based positions available.

The next season of www.chicagowildlifewatch.org is now live! The exciting news from this season is that we had to add a new species to our list: North American River Otter! Will you be the person to tag this species in the dataset? #Chicago #cameratrapping πŸ§ͺ

Making new slides for talks is sometimes fun

Are you interested in species interactions and how we model them? Then this thread is for you! Our new paper in Ecology on the role of abundance in species interactions provides new statistical tools for modelling species interactions. shorturl.at/Sqz9m 🧡(1/13)🧡

This is tragic. If you handle a bat w/o protection, wake up at night and realize a bat has been in your room, pretty much anything 'bat and I may have come into physical contact' you should go ahead and assume you have been bitten and get treated for rabies. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

I get asked to review about 10 papers per month. PLEASE let me know if, for some reason, you are thinking to yourself you would like me to put your name down as an alternative. Most papers are about urban ecology, quantitative ecology, and/or diel behavior in animals (e.g., nocturnality).

Well it only took 14 years or so, but our team has finally detected river otters in the Chicago suburbs. A testament to the clean-up of Chicago's waterways, and to our stubborn determination to keep putting camera traps out forever. Hoping for bobcats next! www.lpzoo.org/otters-spott...

Working on identifying Census tracts to survey people along occupancy gradients of coyote, raccoon, and income throughout Chicago. Really digging these Bivariate Choropleth maps for visualizing these patterns (e.g., North and South side are high occupancy but have very different incomes).πŸ§ͺ

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Thanks, new followers! 😍 I mainly study human-carnivore conflicts. Starting a 'bluedive' 🧡 on my research. Starting with an oldie because many things we learned are still very true today (especially about misinformation & having a voice). www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

No time for Twitter. Time for πŸ”΅β˜οΈ Hi everyone! Happy to connect. πŸ‘‹πŸ‘‹ I'm an ecologist and modeller of all things #wildlife, habitat change, and #climate. Check out us #WILDlab folk @laurierbiology.bsky.social here: www.stewartresearch.ca Including @vlucet.bsky.social and @claudiahaas.bsky.social

Periodic reminder that I have a curated list of resources for scientific writers: scientistseessquirre... Just updated yesterday with a reader-suggested website I didn't know about!

I see your video of a common opossum on a football field and raise you this opossum vs possum rap video www.instagram.com/reel/DBs_9hi...

We've been doing camera trapping in urban greenspace throughout the Chicagoland area for the last 15 years. We've amassed MILLIONS of images. This last Fall deployment was special though, as we photographed a North American River Otter for the VERY FIRST TIME! πŸ§ͺ shorturl.at/r6XMR

A reminder to everyone who has recently left twitter for here. Remember the last slide of those invited talks you've been giving? Well chances are you need to update that if you have your twitter handle on there. And yes I just gave a talk and yes I forgot to update that slide. πŸ§ͺ

If you are interested in #rstats, hierarchical modeling in ecology, and in particular occupancy models, then check out my blog! The one post that gets the most traffic is this one here on how to combine presence-only and detection/non-detection data. πŸ§ͺ masonfidino.com/bayesian_int...

Being a part of UWIN has been the absolute best thing for my career. So many amazing scientists are in this group and we get to do such great science together! If you are interested in urban wildlife ecology, passive sampling technologies, and long-term studies, then check out this group! πŸ§ͺ