Oilbird movement strategies and differences in flight effort. Happy to share the first publication on the oilbird project: link.springer.com/article/10.1... @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social @kamransafi.bsky.social @animaltracking.bsky.social

Oilbirds performing non-seasonal intra-tropical migrations reduce flight effort compared to individuals that frequently return to the colony roost - Movement Ecology

Individual behavioural variation is a driver of population dynamics and key for the adaptation and persistence of species. In colonial species, individuals share the same ecological niche and aggregat...

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Removing outliers is one of the first things to do when analysing movement data. With porting the remaining move functions to move2 in move2utils package, I also wrote some functions to address the GPS outlier problem. The preprint is out and you can find it here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Self-thresholding hierarchical outlier-detection for animal movement tracks

1). Erroneous locations are ubiquitous in animal tracking data and prove notoriously difficult to remove, particularly so in an unsupervised manner. Whether caused by poor satellite geometry, atmosphe...

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We have finally ported the last remaining functions from move to the move2 package and while doing so we also started move2universe to accommodate the future additions to the R-package family designed to work with movebank. Move2Utils: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Stay tuned

move2utils: a utility toolkit for the move2 ecosystem https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.07.07.736908v1

Some kids are always on the move – others prefer a good book. We show that early-life behaviour in golden eagles 🦅 cascades across life stages: more active nestlings fledge earlier, explore more, and disperse sooner. tinyurl.com/3sb8jnsz @vogelwarte.bsky.social @safilab.bsky.social #ornithology

Matthias longer story on how ravens "know" when to be where.

Matthias Loretto@matthiasloretto.bsky.social · 5mo ago

For decades biologists assumed ravens follow wolves to their kills. Our paper @science.org shows something different: ravens rarely follow wolves far. Instead they remember areas where wolf kills are common and return to them—sometimes from >150 km away. doi.org/10.1126/science.adz9467 📷Dan Stahler

You know those people who magically appear whenever there’s free food? Ravens do that too – but in Yellowstone, it’s not luck and not because they trail wolves. Instead, they remember where and when kills happen, navigating a mental map of the “landscape of death". www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Ravens anticipate wolf kill sites across broad scales

Scavengers generally rely on patchily distributed, unpredictable carrion. A long-standing hypothesis suggests scavenging ravens reliably locate such food by directly following large carnivores to thei...

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Excited to announce our courses for #MovementEcology.🤗 This year we will be in #Africa @mpalarc.bsky.social at Mpala Research Centre. Starting with a basic R course designed for #AfricanResearchers, followed by a two-week international Animove workshop. animove.org/basic-r-cour... Please share 👍

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)

YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen

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Breaking News: #Animovesummerschool is back this year in #Africa. Please repost. Thank you! #AfricanResearchers #ConservationScience #AnimalBehaviour @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social

AniMove@animove-course.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Excited to announce our courses for #MovementEcology.🤗 This year we will be in #Africa @mpalarc.bsky.social at Mpala Research Centre. Starting with a basic R course designed for #AfricanResearchers, followed by a two-week international Animove workshop. animove.org/basic-r-cour... Please share 👍

Contract Opportunity: MoveApps Developer (Survival Analysis) Y2Y.net team are seeking a developer to design, implement, and deploy an survival analysis within the MoveApps platform (Movebank). This role focuses on implementing survival analysis methods using R implemented on MoveApps.

There is something I increasingly wonder about: Should wildlife biologists continue posting pictures of themselves holding wild animals into a camera? I don't mean those pictures showing us at work, documenting what we do. I mean: a smiling someone in portrait mode with an animal in hand.

Sometimes the timing of things that happen can't be beaten. To mark transition and progression, the moveTraits paper was published just before year's end. A movement based trait database. dx.doi.org/10.1111/ele.... @larissabeumer.bsky.social @thomasmueller.bsky.social @animaltracking.bsky.social

It is time to say Goodbye 🥺 Today is the last day of #Animove at #OTS #LaSelva in Costa Rica. It was two weeks of fun in the jungle with many motivated #animalmovement researchers learning different methods for analysing their data. Stay in touch!

#Animove in #CostaRica 🐸🦇🦜🐒🕷️🦂🦥 @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social @animaltracking.bsky.social @safilab.bsky.social

AniMove@animove-course.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Weekend break was fun, now back to work 👍 Whilst the first week was teaching heavy, the second week is focusing on the learned new methods using data sets that everyone has brought along to work with.

2025. Burden of a failed error culture in biologging. #AnimalWelfare #AnimalEthics via @asab.org #AnimalBehaviour www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Burden of a failed error culture in biologging

Driven by technological advancement and low cost, biologging has rapidly transformed the study of animal behaviour and ecology, providing unprecedente…

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How can we learn about animals that hide from view? IMPRS student @galarconnieto.bsky.social, working in @safilab.bsky.social tells us more about his research on oilbirds! @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social youtube.com/shorts/lGagO...

Gustavo Alarcon-Nieto | Movement of oilbirds

YouTube video by Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior

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Most people are right- some left-handed or ambidextrous - and so are honey buzzards when turning in thermals! But, unlike us, mastering flight means these birds must overcome laterality as they grow. A gem of a preprint led by @enourani.bsky.social. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

This could be useful. ECODATA an #OpenSource tool to visualize and analyze #AnimalTracking data with custom geospatial layers to create powerful animations 🌍 #Wildlife #Ecology #GeospatialData #Conservation besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

ECODATA: A toolbox to efficiently explore and communicate animal movements alongside environmental and anthropogenic context using geospatial big data

Integrating complex geospatial data into research and applications for wildlife ecology remains a challenge. For example, animations of wildlife tracking data can be useful for developing hypothes...

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A behind the scene story that exemplifies what can happen if brilliant and motivated people work together to turn cheap ideas into precious outcome. methodsblog.com/2025/08/28/c...

Citizen scientist coders for wildlife conservation – a MoveApps story

Post provided by Andrea Kölzsch. I am a movement ecologist and have until recently worked as a PostDoc at the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior in Radolfzell, Germany. My research focusses, o…

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Do you use Earth Observation #data for #wildlife #ecology? Take this survey to share how you use remotesensing, climate and weather data. Part of SOS (www.dfg-sos.de), a project of @dlr-de.bsky.social, @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social, ‪@uni-wuerzburg.de‬ survey.lamapoll.de/EarthObserva...

Preprint @ecoevorxiv.bsky.social arising from @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social animal welfare workshops. How can we develop a better error culture in animal biologging where we can learn from our, and others, mistakes and experiences? ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...

Apply for a MSCA fellowship to pursue a postdoc in your dream research institution in Europe.

MSCA opens €404.3 million call for Postdoctoral Fellowships

Postdoctoral Fellowships offer researchers holding a PhD the opportunity to acquire new skills through advanced training and international, interdisciplinary, and inter-sectoral mobility.

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Although I stay out of politics, today going to work this image popped up in my mind.

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AniMove@animove-course.bsky.social · last yr.

To all Animovers out there: Our next workshop will take place from the 30th of November until the 13th of December 2025. More information about location, price and how to apply will follow soon....🤗🐒🦥🌎🐸🐊🕷️🪱

We are hiring! We look for a person with programming skills in R and/or Python. Application deadline is March 14th 2025. All details here: www.ab.mpg.de/654153/job_f...

Technical Assistant (m/f/d) | Moveapps

Help maintain and improve existing apps, create new apps, help maintaining the user manual up to date, support other developers if they encounter issues when developing their apps

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I am trying to find 2 reviewers for a paper on camera traps and predator-prey interactions. 16 invitations sent, 6 declined, the rest are ghosting me, and we're 60 days into submission. Is it that Peer community in Ecology is asking to review? We might be deserving the mess we find ourselves in.

Just returning from a kickoff meeting at the Schneeferner Umweltforschungsstation located on top of Germany. A most stunning place to start a DFG Forschungsgruppe with high ambitions in joining ecology and remote sensing through cutting edge IT research.

You can't have your cake and eat it! There would be no cherished and social media advertised papers WITHOUT EVERYONE (corresponding a MS) also reviewing AT LEAST 4 MSs. Not even speaking of serving as editor etc. Be a mutualist not a parasite! You are risking to die with your host. Happy holidays!