Dr. Thilina Surasinghe
@thilinas.bsky.social
Conservation scientist, Professor, Dept of Biological Sciences, Bridgewater State University, MA, USA. Research: #EcoRestore, #biodiversity, #conservation #urbanEcology, invasive species PhD in Fisheries & Wildlife 🐢🐍🐸🐦 🐟🌃🧪🏞️📊🖥️🛰️🏳️🌈🌍🦤
Our #undergrad team is taking STEM beyond into the community! 🌍🔬🇨🇻 This week, our team is leading #STEM outreach activities with school students in #CapeVerde, sharing hands-on science and inspiring the next generation. Science is at its best when it's shared. 🧪🌱🌍🦤 #ScienceOutreach #SciComm
I will be at #esa2026. DM me if you are interested in applying if you want to meet up and chat. I will be at disease ecology, urban ecology, & aquatic ecology socials
Dr. Thilina Surasinghe@thilinas.bsky.social · 3w ago🚨 Grad Assistant - Masters in Biology🚨 🦌🕷️ wildlife ecology at Bridgewater State Uni, MA. #NSF; #wildlife #diseaseEcology, host–vector surveillance Submit cover letter; CV; unofficial transcripts; 2–3 reference contacts. 📧tsurasinghe@bridgew.edu sites.google.com/bridgew.edu/...
I will be at #esa2026. DM me if you are interested in applying. I will be at disease ecology, urban ecology, & aquatic ecology socials
Dr. Thilina Surasinghe@thilinas.bsky.social · 3w ago🚨 Postdoc in Urban Wildlife & Disease Ecology Join our NSF EEID project at Bridgewater State (MA) studying wildlife–tick–pathogen dynamics in Greater Boston. Details: sites.google.com/bridgew.edu/... 🔗 Apply: jobs.bridgew.edu/postings/33045 📧 tsurasinghe@bridgew.edu Please share! 🔁
Field season is officially in the books! 🌿🦂🏞️ This summer, our team sampled stream #macroinvertebrates across restored streams in SE MA to understand freshwater ecosystem recovery. Huge thanks to our outstanding #undergraduateResearch team for all their hard work. #GenerationRestoration 🪻🌱🌍 🦤
🚨 Grad Assistant - Masters in Biology🚨 🦌🕷️ wildlife ecology at Bridgewater State Uni, MA. #NSF; #wildlife #diseaseEcology, host–vector surveillance Submit cover letter; CV; unofficial transcripts; 2–3 reference contacts. 📧tsurasinghe@bridgew.edu sites.google.com/bridgew.edu/...
Post-Doctoral Research Associate, Staff Associate (Grant Funded)
The Post-Doctoral Associate will coordinate and participate in integrated field and analytical components of a multi-year project in southeastern Massachusetts (Greater Boston Area). The position will...
jobs.bridgew.edu
🚨 Postdoc in Urban Wildlife & Disease Ecology Join our NSF EEID project at Bridgewater State (MA) studying wildlife–tick–pathogen dynamics in Greater Boston. Details: sites.google.com/bridgew.edu/... 🔗 Apply: jobs.bridgew.edu/postings/33045 📧 tsurasinghe@bridgew.edu Please share! 🔁
Post-Doctoral Research Associate, Staff Associate (Grant Funded)
The Post-Doctoral Associate will coordinate and participate in integrated field and analytical components of a multi-year project in southeastern Massachusetts (Greater Boston Area). The position will...
jobs.bridgew.edu
🚨 Grad Assistant - Masters in Biology🚨 🦌🕷️ wildlife ecology at Bridgewater State Uni, MA. #NSF; #wildlife #diseaseEcology, host–vector surveillance Submit cover letter; CV; unofficial transcripts; 2–3 reference contacts. 📧tsurasinghe@bridgew.edu sites.google.com/bridgew.edu/...
Post-Doctoral Research Associate, Staff Associate (Grant Funded)
The Post-Doctoral Associate will coordinate and participate in integrated field and analytical components of a multi-year project in southeastern Massachusetts (Greater Boston Area). The position will...
jobs.bridgew.edu
🚨 JOB ALERT 🚨 🦌🕷️ Postdoctoral Research Associate in wildlife ecology at Bridgewater State Uni, MA. #NSF #EEID grant; #wildlife and #diseaseEcology, host–vector surveillance in Greater Boston. Apply: jobs.bridgew.edu/postings/33045 sites.google.com/bridgew.edu/... tsurasinghe@bridgew.edu
Post-Doctoral Research Associate, Staff Associate (Grant Funded)
The Post-Doctoral Associate will coordinate and participate in integrated field and analytical components of a multi-year project in southeastern Massachusetts (Greater Boston Area). The position will...
jobs.bridgew.edu
🌊🇨🇻 Field season is underway in São Vicente, #CapeVerde Over the past week, our NSF IRES-supported team has launched collaborative #coastal & #marine #biodiversity research with partners from #BridgewaterState, Universidade de Cabo Verde, Universidade Técnica do Atlântico and Biosfera.
"hunting not only targets areas used as refuges by wildlife, but also reduces recolonisation potential and may therefore alter source–sink dynamics"
Journal of Applied Ecology@jappliedecology.bsky.social · 2mo agoNew research from Cameroon suggests that "remote” rainforest areas aren’t safe refuges from hunting 🌴🌎 Hunters reach deeper than expected, meaning conservation plans must factor in human access, not just habitat 💭 🔗 doi.org/10.1111/1365...
As Arctic warming alters soil moisture, a key tundra sedge became less productive. soil drying reduced growth & photosynthesis across popns, with deeper drainage having the strongest effects. These Future hydrological changes could reduce tundra carbon uptake & alter Arctic ecosystem functioning.
Functional Ecology@funecology.bsky.social · 2mo ago📰Published📰Drying soils threaten a key Arctic plant — but not all populations are equally at risk🌱 buff.ly/iThPUtF 🧪🌍️
#CitizenScience isn't just outreach—it can generate valuable biodiversity data. A study of CNC in Berlin found that #BioBlitz participants documented threatened, invasive, and previously unrecorded species, showing how community-driven observations can strengthen urban biodiversity monitoring.
International Biodiversity@ibioconsultants.com · 2mo agoCan #CitizenScience fill gaps in traditional #urbanwildlife tracking? #CityNatureChallenge data from #Berlin (2023–2024) was used to analyze species composition, data quality, and taxonomic biases against GBIF records to optimize future #biodiversity monitoring 🌍 link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Ecology is not yet ready for AI—and why that matters 🌎 @pnas.org doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
Ecology is not yet ready for AI—and why that matters | PNAS
Ecology is not yet ready for AI—and why that matters
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As part of our NSF IRES project, we had the opportunity to visit shrimp farms in São Vicente, #CapeVerde, and learn about the challenges and opportunities facing coastal aquaculture systems in island environments.
📖 New research Seasonal timing determines how warming affects mast-driven food webs🌍🌲🐱 🔎 Find out more: buff.ly/NmcES5s
🐘🐞🌍🧪Importance of elephants for dung beetle biodiversity and ecosystem functions www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Importance of elephants for dung beetle biodiversity and ecosystem functions
Ecologists theorize that removing highly connected species from ecological networks will trigger waves of coextinction, but empirical evidence is scant. We show that elephants are central to a general...
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Here, bromeliad communities were studied to see if water-use traits affected species distribution! Coastal species were found to have more water acquisitive traits compared to inland species, highlighting environmental filtering linked to water! Read more (2/2) 🌎🧪👇 doi.org/10.1093/biol...
Trait filtering amidst high diversity of water-use strategies in Bromeliaceae: a contrast between coastal and inland inselbergs in the Atlantic Forest
Abstract. Inselbergs are ancient rock outcrops that have undergone minimal weathering and harbour vegetation distinct from the surrounding matrix owing to
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Summer field season is underway in SE Mass! Our #undergradResearchers are surveying stream #macroinvertebrates across a restoration chronosequence—streams that differ in the amount of time since restoration. 🌍🧪🦤
Future conservationists - here's a FREE resource to get you started on your career. Launching your career in wildlife conservation - an online course training.wildteam.org.uk/course/launc... 🧪🌍🪶 #AcademicSky
Launching Your Career in Wildlife Conservation
From exploring the right role and building your competencies to preparing a strong application, performing at interview, and assessing an offer. This course can also be used as a training aid for anyo...
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Big week for our #undergrad researchers at #BridgewaterState 🎓🌿🧪🌍🦤 Bryce Molitoris, recipient of the ATP Summer Award, successfully defended his Honors thesis: “Essential Restoration Variables: Toward a Standardized Framework for Monitoring Stream Restoration Outcomes.” 🌊📊
Excited to kick off field season with a new team of #undergrads researchers surveying ticks across an urbanization gradient in eastern MA, the Greater Boston area 🌿🦠
📖 Published 📖 AutoPollS: A tool for automated monitoring of pollinators using deep learning🧪 An open-source system for automated, image-based monitoring of flower-visiting insects🐝 🌸 🌍 buff.ly/fdtN0x5
A belated winter throwback We hosted colleagues from the Uni of Cape Verde & Biosfera at Bridgewater State as we planned our upcoming #NSF IRES #marineEcology & #biodiversity project. Looking forward to an exciting & productive summer in São Vicente working alongside our team! 🐚🦀🌍🧪🦤
Undergrads in my lab getting hands-on training in stream macroinvertebrate surveys kick-netting, hess samplers to ID skills, they’re diving right into the tiny world that tells us BIG stories about ecosystem health 🔬🌱 #UndergradResearch #Macroinvertebrates #StreamHealth, #Wetlands
🧪🌎🔬 Global interventions show synergistic but uneven positive impacts on #climate and #biodiversity www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Global interventions show synergistic but uneven positive impacts on climate and biodiversity
Climate change and biodiversity loss are two of the most pressing and interconnected sustainability challenges. A one-sided focus on either climate ch…
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We are looking for a postdoc fellow to work with us on the #diet of small and medium-size #carnivores to better understand #predatorprey relationship #ecology supervised by Seb Devillard @lbbe-lyon.bsky.social and myself #job 🌍🧪fill free to spread more info 👉 emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...
Portail Emploi CNRS - Job offer - Post-doctoral fellow (M/F) Genomic Analysis of the Fox Diet
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🐸🌍🧪 Great paper that revisits a site in the Colombian Andes & finds massive losses of amphibian biodiversity: Shifting baselines in amphibian conservation: Historic survey uncovers disease-driven collapse of a once mega-diverse community link.springer.com/article/10.1... #ForensicEcology 🐸
Shifting baselines in amphibian conservation: Historic survey uncovers the disease-driven collapse of a once mega-diverse community - Biodiversity and Conservation
Periodic biodiversity surveys often reveal species declines leading to shifting baselines that should establish new norms for conservation. Climate change, habitat degradation and diseases are among t...
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Beyond single-species models: leveraging multispecies forecasts to navigate the dynamics of ecological predictability 🌎🌐🧪 peerj.com/articles/189...
Beyond single-species models: leveraging multispecies forecasts to navigate the dynamics of ecological predictability
Background Forecasting the responses of natural populations to environmental change is a key priority in the management of ecological systems. This is challenging because the dynamics of multi-species...
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Big congrats to my master’s student Regina Christen on successfully defending her thesis this Spring 2026 🎓🧪🦤🌍
