🐗 New paper on zoning for African swine fever mitigation Based on GPS data from 527 wild boar across 46 European study sites, we found buffer sizes of ~8 km likely sufficient around most infection foci, but buffers up to 20 km may be necessary to limit wild boar movement! 📄 doi.org/10.1111/1365...

Big news! 🎉 𝚖𝚊𝚛𝚐𝚒𝚗𝚊𝚕𝚎𝚏𝚏𝚎𝚌𝚝𝚜 1.0.0 for #Rstats is out. It’s a big number and it feels like a big step. I wrote a blog on the challenges of interpreting statistical models, SPEED, cool new features, the future, and a 5 year package development and writing odyssey. arelbundock.com/posts/margin...

Red Squirrel Project by IZW @leibniz-gemeinschaft.de Sehr beliebt, doch noch immer zu wenig erforscht 🐿️ "Das Eichhörnchen" 👉 Schöner Artikel mit einem Interview-Beitrag unserer engangierten Nachwuchswissenschaftlerin Sinah Drenske: gruener-journalismus.de/5-meter-weit... #UrbanWildlife

5 Meter weit springen, 25 km/h schnell und nur 400 Gramm schwer: Das Eichhörnchen - Grüner Journalismus

Credits: Jon A. Juarez Sie gehören zu den beliebtesten Wildtieren Deutschlands und doch wissen die wenigsten, warum Eichhörnchen so unterschiedlich gefärbt sind. Ihr Fell reicht von Rot über Braun und...

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📣 📣 📣 UPDATE: The 2026-2027 list of faculty and postdoc positions in ecology and evolutionary biology is out! Be sure to check out this active and helpful community run resource! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

ecoevojobs.net 2026-27

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📝"New study on farm mice shows that antibiotic resistance is also an environmental problem, not just a medical one". 👉Read here our latest IZW@leibniz-gemeinschaft.de Press release: t1p.de/s59j5 ...by Gicquel et al, published @natcomms.nature.com #AntibioticResistance #MusMusculus #HealthChallenge

🐦 Job offer: Research Data Analyst – Wildlife Telemetry 📊 GPS • R • ecology • habitat selection 📍 Paris 📅 Apply by 29 Aug 2026 Join the #HABITRACK team at CESCO @mnhn.fr and help uncover how European birds use their habitats! 👉 recrutement.mnhn.fr/front-jobs-d... #EcologyJobs #ornithology #RStats

What #bird species are involved in #West-Nile-Virus cycling in #Berlin? Field season in full swing for the #OneHealth project together with the Institute of Virology | #Charité, funded by @bmftr_bund ▶️ shorturl.at/WQu27 Interested? Meet us at #OHS2026 in Berlin Oct 5th-7th!

Wolves have made a spectacular comeback in Europe. But attacks on livestock and humans have caused a heated debate about the limits of coexistence. Learn more: https://scim.ag/4a9BfLS

After six generations, virtually all spotted hyenas in a clan trace back to an alpha female line. Across generations, reproductive inequality shifts toward females, a pattern far weaker through fathers. doi.org/hccfsz

When mothers make the winners: How alpha female lineages dominate hyena clans

In mammals, males are usually stronger and more competitive than females. Males also show greater inequality in reproductive success—the number of offspring they produce—than females.

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🔊 CALL FOR ABSTRACTS OPEN #BOU2027 | 6-8 April 2027 | Nottingham, UK & Zoom & Bluesky Avian disease ecology: combining avian ecology and OneHealth to understand and mitigate disease Keynote line-up ⬇️ Submit your talk, poster or Bluesky abstract now! bou.org.uk/event/avi... #ornithology 🪶

📖 Published📖 Magnetic geolocation is a viable complementary tool for tracking small avian species, particularly in contexts where pressure-based methods cannot be used🐦️ 🌏️ 🧪 buff.ly/qjJvgZt

🌊 🌊 Don't miss the 7th World Conference on Marine Biodiversity organized by the VLIZ — a UN Ocean Decade Event | 17–20 Nov 2026 🐋 Excited to co-convene (with Ursula Siebert) a special session on Marine Mammals in the Anthropocene. 📅 Abstract submissions now open: wcmb2026.org/call-abstracts

You can now make chord diagrams in #ggplot2 🎉 Here's a short blog introducing the 'ggchord2' package and showing you how to make chord diagrams 📊 Link: nrennie.rbind.io/blog/chord-d... #RStats #DataViz #RLadies

Chord diagrams in R with ggchord2 – Nicola Rennie

Chord diagrams can be used to show relationships or flows between and within categories. This blog post introduces ggchord2, a new package that makes it possible to create them using ggplto2 in R.

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Nice piece about our recent study on play behaviour in Spotted #hyenas. phys.org/news/2026-07...

The language of play: Hyenas use facial expressions and vocalizations to de-escalate

Scientists observed spotted hyenas (Crocuta crocuta) playing in the wild and found that their precise, sophisticated communication is on par with that of many primate species. Hyenas play and romp wit...

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We are excited to announce that #Behaviour2027 (XXXIX International Ethological Congress) will be taking place in Vienna, Austria! We are looking forward to having you all join us next year from August 23-27. Please follow and share!

Why haven't 🐺 in 🇪🇸 expanded their range despite lots of suitable habitat? It may be due to high resident mortality! A 10% reduction in mortality in established packs could double the occupied range, even if disperser mortality doesn't change: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Resident mortality determines grey wolf range dynamics

In the Iberian Peninsula, enabling recovery may require effective population-level protection. More broadly, down- and de-listing policies should be supported by explicit evaluation of the indirect d...

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Due to your feedback and interest (thank you!) we have extended the Abstract Submission for the upcoming International One Health Symposium 2026 (October, 5th - 7th 2026) till June, 29th 2026 (23:59 CEST)! You'll find more information here: evis.events/event/689/

Submit your poster presentation for the upcoming annual meeting now! The annual meeting will take place from 16 to 20 September at the University of Mainz. The main topics are #LifeHistory, #BehaviouralEcology, #MovementEcology, and environmental endocrinology. www.do-g.de/veranstalten...

#movementecology Abstract deadline 30th June www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/besmove202...

BESMove2026 -- Movement Ecology Annual Meeting

The Movement Ecology Annual Meeting will move to the University of Cardiff this year, under the theme Movement Dynamics in a Changing World

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📖 Published📖 This paper presents a broadly applicable and computationally efficient tool to quantify barrier permeability for large animal tracking datasets, available in the permeability R package 🌍 🧪 Read more here 👇 buff.ly/fCRrU21

Viktoriia Radchuk attended the symposium **Room for the tiger** in Delft. Wildlife biologists, ecological modellers, geneticists and engineers were brought together to further enhance the model for designing conservation maeasures for tigers in India. Let them survive❗ #largecarnivore #conservation

Check out our latest IZW press release together with the Institute of Virology, #Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, about West Nile virus (WNV) within Berlin urban area. The virus circulates between native 🦟mosquitoes & 🪶birds 👉https://www.izw-berlin.de/en/press_releases.html #urbanbiodiversity

Our colleague Viktoriia Radchuk has attended #BE20conference in Berlin last week and presented the #estar package to quantify stability across levels of organisation. Great conference, inspiring keynotes and ample time for interactions!👍 @bexplo.bsky.social

📢 Last chance to submit an abstract and to get the Early Bird discount for the Annual Meeting 2026! Early Bird registration and abstract submission close today at midnight! Late registration will be open until 31 August. Register and submit an abstract here: 👉 www.mammalian-biology.de/meetings

I've started re-working some of my resource lists, to collect them all in one place! More resources on other topics will be coming soon 📊 Link: nrennie.rbind.io/resources/ #RStats #DataViz #Maps #RSpatial

This is how you can generate a custom color scheme in #tidyplots 🌈 #rstats #dataviz #phd

1/2 Did you know high survival rates driven 20 years of wolf expansion in Germany: rebrand.ly/wcyq7i5? Have you heard of Biosphere Expeditions, helping scientists track the Gray Wolf in Lower Saxony: rebrand.ly/f1g3xr5? #SaveBiodiversity #DontLetSilenceBeTheLastSound

Reminder: Early bird registration for our September conference in Berlin ends soon! 👉 www.mammalian-biology.de/meetings Look forward to our amazing keynote speakers: Tim Flannery, Rainer Hutterer, @selinabrace.bsky.social, Marcus Clauss, Eduardo Eizirik and @paleoiris.bsky.social. 1/2 #mammals 🦊🧪

Congratulations, Yutong and #euromammals #eurolynx !

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New #lynx paper out on age-specific patterns of reproductive success in wild female Eurasian lynx across Europe!🐈 Temporal and latitudinal variations suggest that environmental conditions and lynx age shape reproductive patterns in Eurasian lynx. 🐾 📜 doi.org/10.1098/rsbl... #euromammals #eurlynx

🦊🦝🐿️Das IZW @leibniz-gemeinschaft.de ist mit dabei: Langer Tag der #Stadtnatur. Meldet Euch an! Erhaltet u.a. Einblicke in unsere Hyänen-Forschung @hyenaproject.bsky.social, lernt das Netzwerk "Wildtiernah Berlin" kennen...Nice pics, talks & more: 30.5. 👉 www.langertagderstadtnatur.de/angebote/det...

Erforscht wilde Tiere!,

Kennt ihr schon das WildtierMobil? Heute bieten wir euch exklusiv die Möglichkeit, bei uns am IZW einen Blick in unsere mobile Tierarztpraxis zu werfen! In unserem Hof warten außerdem spanne

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