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talavgar.bsky.social
Wildlife movement and population ecology; Consumer-resource interactions; Ecological modelling and biometry; Scientific epistemology and inference Wildlife Eco-informatics Research Group (WEiRG) and Wildlife Science Centre, UBC Okanagan
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submitted 1 day ago • 1542 comments

Avail to anyone in Canada: A pay-what-you-can 4-week education and support group for parents of TTNB youth offering education and information on gender identity, communication, and peer support. Created by TransParent Okanagan and Moving Forward Family Services. See poster for registration info!

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Canada wants primary and secondary teachers!!

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

I am excited to announce that @neeltjeboogert.bsky.social and I are co-editing a special collection in the journal Animal Cognition on "Cognition in the Wild". Submissions are due by June 15. We are excited to see the amazing work you have been doing! link.springer.com/collections/...

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

Interesting work by van der Meersch et al. out in Ecology Letters, nicely illustrating that process-based models are more robust than correlative models for predicting species distributions under novel climatic conditions doi.org/10.1111/ele....

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

Last May, the Tahltan Central Government and the Wildlife Science Centre co-hosted a knowledge gathering workshop on northern mountain caribou in Dease Lake, BC. Tune in March 3 to hear the story of the Northern Mountain Caribou Summit. youtu.be/p_t0WYXPOuA

submitted 7 days ago • 2 comments

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/...

submitted 9 days ago • 2 comments

Open position for an Associate Professor in Marine Biodiversity in the Dept. of Biology at NTNU in Trondheim. Deadline 31 Mar 2025. #ecology www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

Full Professorship (W 3) for Fire Ecology, University of Freiburg, Germany uni-freiburg.de/en/job/00004... 🧪🌿🔥🌍🔥🌳 wildfires #sciencejobs #academicsky

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

Postdoc opportunity: work with the Boreal Avian Modelling project on habitat models for boreal birds! Applications are being accepted until the position is filled. tinyurl.com/3bkb838e #remotesensing #avianecology @ellycknight.bsky.social

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

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Registrations and submissions for #CSEE2025 are now OPEN! Don’t miss your chance, submit your abstract and register before March 15th. Registration: event.fourwaves.com/scee2025/pages. Accommodation: event.fourwaves.com/scee2025/pag... #phdsky #evolbiol #ecology 🌎

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

A thread of #ConservationJobs (and career resources) in conservation-related science, policy, practice, communication, etc. I'll add to it over time. Focus will be mostly in Canada, with occasional posts for other parts of the world. Share job ads with me and I'll link here. 🌎🧪

submitted 164 days ago • 15 comments

A celebration of a new way to build partnerships for wildlife research in Canada - featuring @talavgar.bsky.social and with a shoutout from Minister @stevenguilbeault.bsky.social ! @ubcokanagan.bsky.social @biodivpathways.bsky.social biodiversitypathways.ca/eccc-funding...

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) and Biodiversity Pathways have established a four-year contribution agreement to improve science capacity for caribou research and human footprint mapping in British Columbia. Learn more on our news page: biodiversitypathways.ca/eccc-funding...

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

NEW MSc POSITION! We're starting a new study system on eastern small footed bats in Ontario. Please share widely and/or apply if you're interested in foraging ecology, bats, and conservation! Link to application is here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

Like birds and models? Dr. Erin Bayne and I are currently recruiting a 2 year postdoc to come work with us at the Boreal Avian Modelling project on boreal bird models and applications of those models. Full details are here tinyurl.com/4yxju63k. Feel free to get in touch with qs!

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

Join a new and growing lab in wonderful Newfoundland! (who wouldn't want Gros Morne National Park on their back doorstep?). #MSc position available in Dr. Sean Boyle's lab: Population and community #ecology of invasive amphibians.

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

The Reconnecting the Rockies:BC project aims to mitigate the impact of Highway 3 on wildlife habitat connectivity and reduce wildlife-vehicle collisions in southeast British Columbia. A 2020-24 progress report is now online: wildlifescience.ca/projects/wil...

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

NEW PAPER: The @libererofellows.bsky.social team led by Dr. Schiller looked at what's working for species recovery in 🇨🇦. Species recovery wasn't affected by human or financial capacity provided but was possible when the primary cause of decline was alleviated. www.facetsjournal.com/doi/full/10....

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

Quick reminder that if you see a headline from a source you’ve never heard of that isn’t being reported by anyone else, you really should do some due diligence before spreading it around as fact. There’s enough misinformation floating around already; no need to add more.

submitted 28 days ago • 289 comments

Posting on behalf of Eric Vander Wal ( #Wildlife Evolutionary #Ecology Lab, Memorial University, Newfoundland, #Canada): We're looking to recruit a #graduate student to work on #caribou that #migrate through a new gold mine: csee-scee.ca/two-graduate... 🌎

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

From a journalist friend: Just spreading the word. The CDC is purging data, so people should archive their favorite CDC datasets today, namely ones around race/ethnic diversity, LGBTQ, and reproductive health. Also health data involving climate. The youth risk behavior survey has already gone down.

submitted 29 days ago • 166 comments

Congratulations to #WiRELab alumni Mateen Hessami for his award winning efforts at building partnerships and recovering wildlife both during and after his MSc! @biodivpathways.bsky.social @ubcokanagan.bsky.social

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

Hi Bluesky! We are a non-profit scientific organization that tracks changes in wildlife and their habitats. Follow us for #mammal research and monitoring, the use of #environmentalsensors, and human footprint mapping in British Columbia! biodiversitypathways.ca/annual-repor...

submitted 96 days ago • 0 comments

🎉 We’re absolutely thrilled to announce that the #RLadies #RotatingCuration program is restarting Monday! 🔍 Learn more at: tinyurl.com/p9fvk7s2 🙋‍♀️ Want to become a curator? Sign up: tinyurl.com/44twdsbu 🌟 Know someone who’s a perfect fit? Nominate them: tinyurl.com/5yny5cae

submitted 34 days ago • 0 comments

9 days left to submit a proposal for a workshop or symposium for the 2025 meeting of the Canadian Society for Ecology and Evolution in Sherbrooke this July! Come visit me and the Eastern Townships! 🧪https://event.fourwaves.com/scee2025/pages/6ba90353-d44a-4202-ab93-60d0eb09f35f

submitted 38 days ago • 1 comment

Really looking forward to working with someone on Indigenizing quantitative methods! The position is very flexible (FT or part time, remote or in person, can be made a postdoc) anticipating a range of researchers. #IndigeousSTEM civiclaboratory.nl/2025/01/18/p...

submitted 39 days ago • 0 comments