Dr Rosemary Hohnen
@rhohnen.bsky.social
Liber Ero Postdoctoral Fellow @laurierbiology.bsky.social and @stewartresearch.bsky.social | Research Associate @charlesdarwinuni.bsky.social | Threatened species | Mesocarnivores | Tea | The big outside | www.rosemaryhohnen.com
The highly contagious and deadly H5 bird flu has arrived on the Australian mainland and is expected to trigger a ‘genuine wildlife emergency.’ www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘A genuine wildlife emergency’: everything you need to know about the arrival of H5 bird flu in Australia
What is the virus? Where did it come from? Are humans at risk? What does it mean for the agricultural sector and wildlife? Experts answer your questions
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Very excited that the journal we are submitting one of Laura's manuscripts too asks for a graphical abstract! #Drosophila #DrosLife #SciArt
Tristan A.F. Long@thelonglab.bsky.social · last yr.Big congratulations to @laurierbiology.bsky.social grad student Laura Hampel who successfully defended her #LaurierBiology MSc thesis on the physiological and behavioural consequences of prolonged blue light exposure! #DrosLife #DrosLight #ScienceDoughnuts
Amos: successful elimination of rusa deer after idiots introduced them illegally on an Australian island in 2005. Deer trampled flatback turtle nesting habitat. Much effort and money over 6 yrs. Helicopters, aerial shooting, thermal imaging, camera traps. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Rapid eradication of invasive rusa deer (Cervus timorensis) from Wild Duck Island, Australia, using thermally assisted aerial culling and a camera trapping grid - Biological Invasions
Non-native rusa deer (Cervus timorensis) were introduced to the 380-ha Wild Duck Island, an important flatback turtle nesting site in Broad Sound Islands National Park, Queensland, Australia, in the m...
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Another museum, another delightfully mishapen #echidna. I reckon #echidnas are the world's most consistently misrepresented #taxidermy species. In #museums, their legs have usually been twisted to point in the wrong direction - like this one in @ulstermuseum.org - in life they point backwards.
A running thread of articles, blog posts, and more about the Government of Canada’s proposal to fast-track “major projects” and weaken federal environmental laws and regulations.
Melissa Guzman, a 2021 fellow, just published her Liber Ero research on the impact of pesticide use on wild bee distribution! Check it out: www.nature.com/articles/s41... and check out the USC press release: dornsife.usc.edu/news/stories...
Impact of pesticide use on wild bee distributions across the United States - Nature Sustainability
Bees provide important pollination ecosystem services in agricultural landscapes, but the extent to which they are affected by pesticide use on a continental scale has yet to be explored. This study e...
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We are pleased to announce the 2026 Liber Ero Fellows! liberero.ca/meet-the-fel...
Meet The Fellows - Liber Ero Fellowship Program
We are pleased to announce the 2026 Liber Ero Fellows! Mirjam Barrueto Project: Toward one hundred quiet zones: predicting, locating, and managing wolverine reproduction, connectivity, and source-...
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It’s the time of year when fishers start moving around a lot, leaving all sorts of beautiful snow tracks. Bonus points for wolf tracks in a spot that wolves don’t usually occur!
Plant nerds - how cool is this?! Bushwalkers in SW Tasmania stumble across new population of super rare triploid clone, King’s Lomatia 👑 🌱 tasmanianinquirer.com.au/news/very-ex...
New site of critically endangered Tasmanian species found
A group of bushwalkers walking in remote southwest Tasmania has discovered a new population of a critically endangered plant, King’s lomatia.
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I’m really excited to announce I’ve been awarded one of the 2026 Canadian Liber Ero Fellowships! 🐺 For my project, I’ll be examining the relative impact of wolves and wolf control on mesocarnivore distributions across Western Canada 🐺 More info here: liberero.ca/meet-the-fel...
Meet The Fellows - Liber Ero Fellowship Program
We are pleased to announce the 2026 Liber Ero Fellows! Mirjam Barrueto Project: Toward one hundred quiet zones: predicting, locating, and managing wolverine reproduction, connectivity, and source-...
liberero.ca
In this work led by Josh Wilson, we labelled 4824 drone-based images containing 49990 birds from 101 species and trained a bird detection and ID model. The model achieved precision = 0.91 for detection & 0.65 for species/age/sex classification. zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Big Bird: A global dataset of birds in drone imagery annotated to species level
Drones are a valuable tool for surveying birds, but manually detecting and identifying birds in drone images is costly. We assembled a diverse dataset of 23 865 images of birds captured with 21 diffe...
zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
Ready to connect science with the world? Your next chapter starts here! Expressions of interest are now open for associate editors for #PacificConsBio If you think this is you, click connectsci.au/pc/pages/edi...
Not to brag but I made a whole new galaxy this weekend
Arctic Science Journal and the Canadian Journal of Zoology encourage submissions examining individual to ecosystem-level dynamics, integrating seasonality and extreme weather into models. Submission requirements ▶️ https://ow.ly/y7fA50XC2l7 📷 Fabrice Simon
MAJOR NEWS! We just launched an awesome new tool! The illustrated Birds of the World Phylogeny Explorer lets users trace any bird’s lineage, compare species relationships, and explore major evolutionary milestones with a click of a button. SHARE and EXPLORE! birdsoftheworld.org/bow/news/phy...
An avoidable cat-astrophe in Western Australia. Every month ~800 pet cats and ~4M birds, mammals & reptiles die because current policy prevents pet cats from being contained. This paper reveals broad support for change: 78% of local govts want containment laws. Let's get this done. #bioinvasions 🌐🌏
Pacific Conservation Biology@pacificconsbio.bsky.social · 6mo agoTime to paws and reflect: Responsible cat care is the purr-fect move Gillian Bryant and @drbrucewebber.bsky.social from @wafcwg.bsky.social looked at past, current and planned efforts in Western Australia to improve responsible cat ownership #OpenAccess in #PacificConsBio buff.ly/p4chswW
Happy New Year folks! In 2026 I'm hoping to bring the vibe of this northern pygmy owl, feat dead mouse. I hope you manage to catch your mice too, or learn things in the process, be kind to yourself and others, and find the space to try again. ✨️🦉
A great story on the impacts of cats on islands, showcasing Christmas Island's story. Amazing work and an amazing team. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
Revered and reviled, cats in the crosshairs on Christmas Island
On a speck of land in the Indian Ocean, one of the world's most ambitious wars is being waged against feral cats. But not everyone is celebrating.
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With an alarming rise in the international trade of African hornbills, wild populations are plummeting. As key seed dispersers, their demise also threatens the survival of the forests they inhabit.
With ‘terrifying’ trade in African hornbills, scientists call for increased protection
For millions of years, the African landscape — the rainforests, woodlands, savannas and scrublands — has echoed with the booms and cackles of large, raucous, strange-looking birds: hornbills. When…
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"What mattered, I realized, was not to be some imaginary perfect mentor with all the answers, but to get to know my mentee ... and offer whatever guidance and support I could based on my own experiences." #NationalMentoringDay https://scim.ag/47mSs29
Once abundant on Christmas Island, the tiny, five-gram shrew filled the night forest with its high, thin cry before vanishing into silence. Its loss adds to Australia’s grim record of extinctions—a quiet reminder of fragile lives erased by invasion, neglect, and the noise of human expansion.
In memory of the Christmas Island shrew
It never weighed more than a spoonful of sugar. Five or six grams of life, soft-furred and sharp-nosed, darting among the roots and leaf litter of a tiny island in the Indian Ocean. At night, its…
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PhD offer on island extinctions. Last week to apply! 👇🏼
Ferran Sayol@ferransayol.bsky.social · 10mo ago🚨PhD offer 👩🎓: Fascinated by island biodiversity, palaeoecology & human impacts on ecosystems? 🌴🦜🌍 Join @creaf.cat to explore how island life changed over the last 11,700 years. Deadline: 27 Oct 2025 Selection: ~November Starting: ~January 2026 Supervision: @sandranogue.bsky.social & me More info👇
This is not a drill! Baudin's black-cockatoos have been polling 2nd over the last week, but behind Tawny frogmouths. Frogmouths are great, but not facing extinction! Voting closes in <24 hrs VOTE BAUDIN,'S NOW! 🪶🌏 (overseas votes count) www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Australian bird of the year 2025: vote for your favourite #birdoftheyear in the Guardian / BirdLife Australia poll
From little penguins to (very big) cassowaries, every bird has its fans. Vote for your favourite in the 2025 Guardian/BirdLife Australia poll
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Our new paper ‘Wolverine in the slipstream: A systematic review of caribou-focused conservation benefits, gaps and uncertainties for wolverine in Canada’ is out! 🌠 🌠 🌠 conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @stewartresearch.bsky.social Matt Scrafford @wcscanada.org
Wolverine in the slipstream: A systematic review of caribou‐focused conservation benefits, gaps and uncertainties for wolverine in Canada
With rates of biodiversity loss accelerating globally, debate exists regarding the most efficient ways of allocating resources to conserve species. Woodland caribou are the focus of many Canadian con...
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The WildCo Lab @wildco.bsky.social is recruiting 2 postdocs in quantitative ecology to work on mammal population estimation and monitoring from camera trap data. 🐺🐻🦌📷📈 Please share the word or apply to join us at UBC in lovely Vancouver, Canada! wildlife.sites.olt.ubc.ca/files/2025/0...
The Australasian Marsupial and Monotreme Specialist Group has a new Bluesky account! @aciucn.bsky.social @cgsg.bsky.social @uq-cbcs.bsky.social
It's USA #PublicationDay for my kids book WILD! 🤩🎉 It encourages kids to spot similar features in completely different groups of animals, and to wonder why. Why are so many animals spiky?🦔 Or have white bellies and black backs?🐧 Or paddles?🦭 Or venom?🐍 Or eyes on tops of their heads?🐊 a.co/d/31fo6M4
Wild: A Family Guide to the Animal Kingdom (In Our Nature)
Wild: A Family Guide to the Animal Kingdom (In Our Nature) [Ashby, Jack, Meadows, Sara Boccaccini] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Wild: A Family Guide to the Animal Kingdom (In Our Nature)
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🎇News: coldregions.ca/a-strong-sta... Big thank you for the great kickoff to the Laurier–ARI Spring Speaker Series! 70+ gathered at Makerspace YK to hear talks about snowfall on YK lakes ❄️ & muskox movement 🐂. Next up: May 8 – permafrost & carbon in the Shield! #Yellowknife #SCIENCE #Community
It's #InternationalPallasCatDay! Finding wild Pallas's cat was one of the most amazing experiences of the last year. It was hunting voles on a Himalayan plain, wriggling its tail - the only part of its body that isn't camouflaged - presumably to distract the voles. #MammalWatching #WildIndia #Ladakh
