Oh man this is so sad In May I finally got to see #GlenHansard in Manchester after years of missing him on tour being based overseas Truly a top musician & anyone unfamiliar with his music should go check it out A huge loss to music. Rest in peace, Glen www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Oscar-winning songwriter Glen Hansard killed in crash

Hansard, who was 56, won the best song Oscar for the 2007 low-budget musical film Once.

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My wife 🇺🇸 & I 🇬🇧 applied for a spousal visa to the UK Our application was rejected (I'll get on to that) but first, read this statement from the rejection letter Now imagine they are telling this to families who might have been apart for months, in extremely difficult circumstances, it's shameful

Course is filling up quickly, but there are still some spots available until the minimum of 10 participants is reached. Grab your spot!

FatBear wildlife science solutions@fatbear-bio.bsky.social · 5mo ago

📢COURSE ANNOUNCEMENT📢 Mont Rigi, Belgium, July 2026 🐻📊Join FatBear's Applied Movement Data Analysis in R courses for wildlife grad students & practitioners. Beginners & R users welcome 🌍📈 Info and registration: fatbearbio.weebly.com/workshops.html 🐾

📢 Competition funded PhD with @iapetusdtp.bsky.social: Occupancy, density & the ecology of terrestrial British mammals - what can years of systematic camera trapping tell us? Apply by 5th January 2026. 👇 iapetus.ac.uk/studentships... @mammalweb.bsky.social @ptes-org.bsky.social @durham.ac.uk #phd

A great opportunity for anyone looking to develop their skills with movement data and spatial analysis! 🗺️📊 Julien (@fatbear-bio.bsky.social 🐻) has delivered this course twice at NMU and it's been hugely beneficial for our students and external participants! Plus... NAMIBIA! 🤩🇳🇦

FatBear wildlife science solutions@fatbear-bio.bsky.social · 8mo ago

📢COURSE ANNOUNCEMENT📢 Katima, Namibia, February 2026 🐻📊Join FatBear's Applied Movement Data Analysis in R courses for wildlife grad students & practitioners. Beginners & R users welcome 🌍📈 Info and registration: fatbearbio.weebly.com/workshops.html 🐾

There are 3 exciting postdoctoral openings to work on biodiversity research, monitoring and conservation with us at UBC - check them out! 2 positions: biodiversity.ubc.ca/training-and... 1 position: science-bcbiodiversitynetwork-2025.sites.olt.ubc.ca/opportunities/

To “my students and to anyone who might listen, I say: Don’t surrender to AI your ability to read, write and think when others once risked their lives and died for the freedom to do so.” www.huffpost.com/entry/histor...

I Set A Trap To Catch My Students Cheating With AI. The Results Were Shocking.

"Students are not just undermining their ability to learn, but to someday lead."

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Out today, a companion article for my autoOcc R package: Estimating species occupancy across multiple sampling seasons with autologistic occupancy models via the autoOcc R package. #rstats 🧪 besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

🦔📉Habitat and predator heterogeneity influence density of a declining mammal 📷 © 1 Emily Clark 2 Hongli Yu vist.ly/4c62s #ErinaceusEuropaeus #LandscapesOfFear #MelesMeles #PopulationEcology #SpatialCaptureRecapture #SpatiotemporalCovariateHeterogeneity

🦁🐆🐾 Lions, leopards, and spotted hyaenas share the African savanna—but how do they coexist at such fine scales? Our new study in Oikos reveals the hidden dance of predators. doi.org/10.1002/oik....

African large carnivores in space and time: insights from camera‐traps on the fine‐scale spatio‐temporal dynamics of lions, spotted hyaenas and leopards

Coexistence of sympatric large carnivores is common in many ecosystems. On the one hand, the potential for competitive interactions, from kleptoparasitism to intraguild predation, is high, so species...

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📣📣📣 CONSERVATION GENETICS WORKSHOP - Few more spaces left! ConGen Population Genomic Data Analysis Course 🧬💻💡 University of Pretoria, South Africa 🌍 7-14 December + field trip to Kruger NP! 🦁🐃🐘🐆🦏 More info & registration here: www.umt.edu/congen/africa/

Congratulations to Hongli Yu for leading this huge effort investigating hedgehog density over an 11-year period from Brackenhurst Campus, Nottinghamshire nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... We estimated 🦔 density between 2009-2022, accounting for habitat features & 🦡 presence

Habitat and predator heterogeneity influence density of a declining mammal

Accurate density estimates are crucial for effective conservation management. However, in highly dynamic landscapes where variation in habitat composition and predator–prey interactions in both space...

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TFW your student wins the award for the best MSc talk at the conference! Go Yasmin! Cc @robdavis1104.bsky.social

a man applauds in front of a sign that says " so proud of you "

ALT: a man applauds in front of a sign that says " so proud of you "

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A blog post on our recent Mostela paper looking at the methods' applicability for small carnivore monitoring!

Ecol. Solutions & Evidence | Applied Ecol. Resources@aer-ese-bes.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Don’t forget the little guys: improving monitoring efforts for African small carnivores 🐾📸 New blog post out! 👇

Happy to share our new paper estimating lion density in Pilanesberg National Park 🇿🇦 and assessing optimal sampling guidelines for improved monitoring efficiency 🦁 wildlife.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #mammals

TWS Journals

We conducted a follow-up population survey of lions (Panthera leo) in a small, fenced reserve in South Africa, 2 years after the population numbers were significantly reduced by management. Our study....

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Really happy to share our new paper exploring the Mostela as a monitoring tool for African small carnivores! besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

📝 Are you using multispecies occupancy models to investigate interactions in species occupancy (i.e. co-occurrence)? 🦁🦓 Check out our new paper for advice on the number of sites you need to reliably detect interactions under different scenarios ⬇️

Sample size considerations for species co‐occurrence models

Multispecies occupancy models are widely applied to infer interactions in the occurrence of different species, but convergence and estimation issues under realistic sample sizes are common. We conduc...

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Happy to share our new paper, led by Cornelia Warrer, investigating large carnivore snaring rates & drivers of snare occurrence across Kruger NP! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... We found that carnivores were highly susceptible to being caught in snares & predicted snaring hotspots in Kruger

Awful photos but a great sighting (before the photos 😆) of caracal on the way to the office this morning! 🤩 Not a bad "commute"! 😊 #caracal #mammals #SouthAfrica

Happy #InternationalLeopardDay! 🐆 I didn't get to see a leopard today, but I'm lucky enough to get to work on projects involving them and got to spend today hiking in Cape leopard country in the Outeniqua Mountains 🤩🐆⛰️🏞️

🐆🐆 TWO M.S. POSITIONS AVAILABLE IN MY LAB!! Focus will be bobcat and coyote dynamics in an ocelot pre-reintroduction landscape. Come join the fun. Deadline is June 1 for an August start 🐆🐆 Position posting is here: tinyurl.com/5y3uhbf3

Missed the NHMP talk hosted by @zslscience.bsky.social ? 🦔 Catch up & find out how we're tracking hedgehogs across the country: shorturl.at/jP54j @ptes-org.bsky.social @hedgehogsociety.bsky.social @zslofficial.bsky.social @mammalweb.bsky.social @durham-university.bsky.social & Nottingham Trent Uni

Developing a National Camera Trap Survey for Hedgehog Conservation

YouTube video by ZSL Science and Conservation

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Last call for expressions of interest in a Quantitative Ecology post-doc based mostly in South Africa. If you are interested, drop Lourens and me a line 👇 www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/jaxqx...

There are still spots available on both courses. Pre-register before end of April to secure your spot!

FatBear wildlife science solutions@fatbear-bio.bsky.social · last yr.

📢COURSE ANNOUNCEMENT📢 George, South Africa, August 2025 🐻📊Join FatBear's Applied Movement Data Analysis in R courses for wildlife grad students & practitioners. Beginners & R users welcome 🌍📈 Info and registration: fatbearbio.weebly.com/workshops.html 🐾

Super excited to share this new pub led by @wilsonsherm.bsky.social! We used Nextdoor posts to explore human-carnivore interactions in Los Angeles. Nextdoor offers a useful data source for understanding urban human-wildlife interactions, if human biases are accounted for. Check it out! 🧪🌎

Wilson Sherman@wilsonsherm.bsky.social · last yr.

"The wildlife Nextdoor: Socioeconomics and race predict social media carnivore reports" is out in Science of the Total Environment. @scrappynaturalist.bsky.social, Christopher Schell, and I looked at how people post about coyotes and black bears on Nextdoor. doi.org/10.1016/j.sc...

Great to have our paper out on community-camera-trapping: an innovative conservation incentive approach where local communities monitor their wildlife & generate points, which are translated into locally-chosen community benefits onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Community Camera Trapping: A Novel Method for Encouraging Human–Big Cat Coexistence on Human‐Dominated Land

Human–wildlife conflict poses a major threat to conservation and livelihoods. Here, we outline two innovative approaches: one where local people monitor wildlife on their land using camera-traps and ....

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Applications are open for the African Research Fellowship - a grant of up to $1,750 offered by the American Society of Mammalogists to support African graduate students! A nice opportunity to get funds for equipment & field costs! Apply by the 15th April! 👇 www.mammalsociety.org/index.php/co...

A proud supervisor moment yesterday as my MSc student, Marna Visagie, presented her study on carnivore densities from Tswalu Kalahari Reserve at #ecm9 in 🇬🇷 Presenting for the 1st time at an international conference & representing the #WildlifeEcologyLab Thanks @timhofmeester.bsky.social for the 📸

Excellent free book by the world’s expert on spatially explicit capture-recapture (with lots of examples in R)

Brian Gerber@science-action.bsky.social · last yr.

murrayefford.github.io/SECRbook/

Our datapaper "Global Roadkill Data: a dataset on terrestrial vertebrate mortality caused by collision with vehicles" is now online on #ScientificData: nature.com/articles/s41... #RoadEcology @ebdonana.bsky.social