🐯 Survey on collaring and welfare of wild felids 🐈‍⬛ If you've worked with telemetry-collared wild felids, we'd value your insights. Your responses will help improve welfare-informed telemetry practices across species and field settings. Form: forms.office.com/e/6ygtXB9DK3 🧪🌎 #WildlifeResearch

One paper resubmitted, two sent back to coauthors for comments. PROGRESS!

Survey data is a bit like a town. At first glance it's a crowd. Then you realise it's actually many crowds, a secret society, and a small dog wearing a hat. That is to say - I've written a blog post on analysing survey data in R. arcaravaggi.github.io/posts/2026-0... #rstats #Statistics

It's #TransDayOfVisibility! Feels weird to post about it this year considering how visible I've had to become to drive my fundraising. Being visible is a mixture of joy and absolute terror but, more than anything else, it's necessary for me right now 🏳️‍⚧️

Robin Hayward 🌳 🏳️‍⚧️@canopyrobin.com · 5mo ago

Want to help me pay for my transition? Thank you!! 🩷🏳️‍⚧️ I sell pride pins at canopyrobin.etsy.com and have a tip jar at pay.sumup.com/b2c/QP6VYR07 Facebook & Tiktok pay me for views, comments etc so following me there also helps 😊 • www.facebook.com/share/1DEkUw... • www.tiktok.com/@canopyrobin...

I'm building an intro to R course to help students get up to speed on the basics. It's called 'R for Nervous Humans'. Modules 1-4 are up now. No interactivity though, for reasons. Feedback welcomed. arcaravaggi.github.io/r-for-nervou... #statistics #rstats

I’m not sure if I ever shared on Bluesky this article we wrote on how almost everyone giving career advice is susceptible to survivorship bias, but I think it was good and you should read it www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Beware survivorship bias in advice on science careers

For objective careers advice, talk to those who left science as well as those who stayed.

nature.com

I really want to get more involved on here but it's been a long time since I was consistently active. Since Twitter fell, really. Recommendations for follows, etc., would be much appreciated.

Gotta love AI sometimes. I was looking for the URL for one of my papers (a commentary on reporting ethics for live capture studies) and Google told me this:

📌Welcome to the bat-feed! A place for posts by bat-scientists, ecologists, photographers etc. DM me to ask to be added as a contributor. Then use the 🦇 emoji for posts you want to show up in the feed. Rules in the next post: bsky.app/profile/did:...

Decoding Owl Calls: Refining Occupancy Inference From Passive Acoustic Monitoring | doi.org/10.1002/ece3... | Ecology and Evolution | #ornithology #RaptorResearch 🪶

Let’s set aside the question of whether these edited animals *are* the species they’re claimed to be - what possible argument would there BE for releasing them into a wild that isn’t the ecosystem they went extinct from? It would likely be condemning behaviorally-unequipped animals to slow death.

The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com · 10mo ago

One of the world’s most important nature groups is weighing a call for a temporary ban on allowing genetically engineered plants or animals, such as canines edited to appear like extinct “dire wolves,” from being released into the wild.

I've had quite a few students try to use ChatGPT to do their stats but there were serious errors in literally every instance because they didn't know how to do the stats and coding in the first place. I still plan to teach R and stats, supported with the supervised and informed use of AI.

Terry McGlynn@hormiga.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Y'all. I just got ChatGPT to do everything in R for this manuscript. I mean EVERYTHING. And it's all legit and reproducible. I'm shook. How are we mentoring our trainees in statistics now? Who needs to learn coding in R line by line, and who doesn't? scienceforeveryone.science/statistics-i...

Come and have fun with me! #seabirds

The Seabird Group@theseabirdgroup.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Assistant Journal Editor position on our ExComm! Description ➡️ www.seabirdgroup.org.uk/files/Assist... Apply by sending max. 200 words to secretary@seabirdgroup.org.uk explaining why you're interested 🤩 [Arctic skua egg image: Danni Thompson] #seabirds #SEABIRDJournal #science

Pine Marten has returned to Exmoor NP after an absence of more than a century:

Pine Marten reintroduced to Exmoor

Pine Marten has returned to Exmoor NP after an absence of more than a century. Nine females and 10 males were released during September 2025 at secret locations owned by the National Trust and Forestry England. The releases mark the return of an animal which was once common locally but lost due to hunting and the decline of its favoured woodland habitat. The Pine Martens were sourced from healthy wild populations in north-west Scotland.

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JOB ALERT: We have an exciting Senior Research Assistant post available for a project tracking predators and prey simultaneously starting early 2026. We need someone with experience tagging adult raptors or wader chicks. This you? app.vacancy-filler.co.uk/salescrm/Car...

More evidence of bats chasing down and eating migratory birds at night 🦇 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Greater noctule bats prey on and consume passerines in flight

Despite billions of passerines seasonally migrating during the night at high altitudes, only three bat species have been found to consistently tap into this rich prey resource. However, it remains unk...

science.org

This is important.

Carl Zimmer@carlzimmer.com · 10mo ago

Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE

Asscoiate Editor: "One of the reviewers has identified many serious problems in your manuscript" Reviewer: "The study design is sound, my major comments revolve around more information required about the methods, and a few thoughts on the analysis." AEs, do better!

🚨New Paper!🚨 Does a wildlife-aircraft collision cause a strike event with other wildlife species? We wanted to find out! ✈️ Have a read: wildlife.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... @uccresearch.bsky.social @dublinairport.bsky.social @atu-ie.bsky.social @thonoir.bsky.social

Having some grub at Chapter with @thonoir.bsky.social. Like old times, but more bass apparently

Wild (non-political) story about how a couple of orcas fucked around and triggered a trophic cascade. I’m fascinated by these sorts of tales, in which *individual* animals, not just wildlife populations, prove powerful enough to alter ecosystems. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

‘Awe-inspiring and harrowing’: how two orcas with a taste for liver decimated the great white shark capital of the world

A decade ago, up to 1,000 of the apex predators lived in one South African bay. Now they have gone, fleeing from killer whales. But the gap they have left creates problems for other species

theguardian.com

Has anyone from the UK taken out travel insurance specifically for #cameratraps? If so, do you have any advice? They're going in additional luggage but I'm unsure as to the level of insurance needed.

Labour’s desperation for growth at all costs including the environment and climate. They’ll fail on all fronts. They’ll be a one term government and let the Tories straight back into Downing Street. This’ll be a very damaging and wasted five years.

George Monbiot@georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 2y ago

In my column today I argue that, unbelievably, Labour are worse on environmental issues than the Conservatives. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

1/ New #BTOScience using tracking data shows Nightingales breeding in the UK overwinter in a very small area of West Africa. This unusual degree of migratory connectivity has implications for conservation of this fast-declining species. Read the #OpenAccess paper➡️ bit.ly/nightingale-... #Ornithology

Preliminary results of a pilot program in the Peruvian Amazon providing communities with unconditional conservation basic income (CBI) payments show that the communities have stopped engaging in unsustainable or illegal forest activities. 🌍 news.mongabay.com/2025/01/earl...

Early results suggest communities stop logging during basic income pilot project

Three Indigenous communities in Peru’s Amazon are no longer engaging in unsustainable or illegal forest activities to make ends meet as they complete one year of a conservation basic income (CBI) pilo...

news.mongabay.com

Out now in @nature.com! Our comprehensive meta-analysis of global terrestrial and marine genetic diversity demonstrates rapid loss of genetic diversity and identifies conservation interventions that could mitigate this process www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧪🌍🦤🧬 #consgen #PopGen

Global meta-analysis shows action is needed to halt genetic diversity loss - Nature

A comprehensive meta-analysis of global terrestrial and marine genetic diversity covering more than three decades of research demonstrates rapid loss of genetic diversity and identifies conservation i...

nature.com

I've shut down X and Facebook and I missed my sci peeps so thought I'd try to pick things up again. Throw me follows, engagement tips, etc. and help me get going. Plz? Kthanx.

We often hear about the risks of trees in schools - falling branches or kids falling out of them - but trees can be highly beneficial for children's mental & physical health - and improve learning outcomes 🧪🌏

Ben Paris @nzbatman.bsky.social · 2y ago

🌳 Does your school have enough trees? Here’s why they’re great for kids and their learning theconversation.com/does-your-sc...

I'm getting more and more of these AI-generated job invitations via email and WhatsApp. Grumble.