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Adam F. Smith 🇺🇦🇮🇪

@adamfsmith.bsky.social
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PhD Nature Conservation / Wildlife biologist 🐺🦌 working in EU and Ukraine 🇺🇦🇪🇺 / Sometimes volunteer 🇺🇦 / Irish 🇮🇪 / All thoughts personal, not professional

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Gernot Segelbacher 🪶 🧬 @gsegelbacher.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Christine Grossen demonstrating the reason of low survival in Central European lynx . Lethal alles first time demonstrated in the wild
Speaker on stage, slide on back
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Tommy's Outdoors @tommysoutdoors.com · 17/02/2026
What does it take to track wildlife across 250 square kilometres of Irish woodland? How do you position cameras to capture elusive species like otters and pine martens without introducing bias into your data? Listen to my conversation with @adamfsmith.bsky.social 🌍🧪🦤🦊 🎧 pod.fo/e/390e95
A podcast episode cover for 'Tommy's Outdoors: Conservation and Science'. On the left, a black-and-white night vision trail camera image captures a sika deer stag facing the camera in woodland, its eyes reflecting the infrared light. On the right, a young man with short dark hair and a beard wearing over-ear headphones smiles at the camera during a video call, with a partial set of antlers visible as wall décor behind him. The episode title reads '60 Cameras Covering 250 Square Kilometres' in bold gold and white text on a dark green banner across the bottom.
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Mongabay @mongabay.com · 29/01/2026
Conservationists warn that realistic AI-generated wildlife images are fueling misinformation — making dangerous encounters seem normal, wasting authorities’ time on false sightings, and stoking fear of animals. Experts say it risks eroding trust, encouraging persecution, and harming conservation.
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Wildlife attacks and strange animal behavior — fake images spark conservation concerns
When Houssein Rayaleh received a WhatsApp message from a local ecotourism guide showing footage of a lioness in Djibouti, he was excited. The video showed the big cat running directly in front of a…
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Fridolin Zimmermann @zifridolin.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
Check our new paper on #wolf 🐺 diet in Switzerland. Congratulations to the whole team! @dee-unil.bsky.social @fbm-unil.bsky.social @korafoundation.bsky.social @philippinesurer.bsky.social @wildlifebiology.bsky.social
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National College of Art & Design @ncad-ireland.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Dr Adam Smith of UCD and the Urban Wildlife Information Network collected the wildlife camera for the Autumn cycle of wildlife capture. The #NCADFIELD is delighted to be part of UWIN, a network of 65 cities globally which put out cameras synchronously in green urban sites. @adamfsmith.bsky.social
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Darth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Russia bombing civilians last night shows how much Ukraine doesn't want peace
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The Journal @thejournal.ie · 14/11/2025
Almost every district in Kyiv was under "massive" attack Friday morning, the Ukrainian capital's mayor said, with one death reported and 30 residential buildings damaged across the city. jrnl.ie/6874325
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One dead, 24 wounded in 'massive' Russian attack on Kyiv
Russia has in recent months intensified its attacks on infrastructure.
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Laura Finnegan @lfinnegal.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Is this deer still considered an unmarked individual if it has such a distinctive (and stylish) coiffure? @friresearch.bsky.social #cameratrapping
Camera trap image from a Reconyx camera. The photo shows a showy boreal forest in late November. There are aspen and spruce trees in the background. There are two yellow and red vertical poles in the centre of the photo. To the right of the photo is an 8-pointed white-tailed deer buck with longer darker hair on the top of this head that looks kind of like a toupe.
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UNITED24 Media @united24media.com · 16/10/2025
In 2025, Russia brought horses back to the battlefield. Why? 🧵 1/5 ⬇️
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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Over a hundred Russian drones over Ukraine right now. Our night starts with Russian terrorism. Again.
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Kathi Kasper @kathikasper.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Happy to see this first PhD chapter out in the big wild world.
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Brian Gormley D7 @bgormley.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
I’m at a #NatureRestoration event where the dinner menu has wild venison to create a discussion about invasive species and the reintroduction of predators. A tasty way to stimulate debate. @irishrainforest.bsky.social @whittledaway.bsky.social @thinkorswim.bsky.social
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Ben 🇺🇦⚒️🫧 @bskolo.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Very cool to learn that everyone is non-binary in Hungary
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Graeme Cumming @gscumming.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
My latest paper, just published in #ESA's Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, focuses on the need to think about spatial patterns and sampling design when attempting to measure ecological #spillovers from protected areas. 🌍🦑🧪 doi.org/10.1002/fee....
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Conceptualizing and measuring ecological spillover effects from protected areas
Protected areas influence their surroundings in a variety of ways. These “spillover effects” can change an area's conservation value and affect its social license. Advanced statistical tools for quan...
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Mira of Kyiv 🇺🇦 @reshetz.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Zelensky got the tape didn’t he
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Adam F. Smith 🇺🇦🇮🇪 @adamfsmith.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
- Science-based herd monitoring - Science-based, sustainable cull plan - Vension goes into the food chain - Public safety a priority, hiring very experienced vets and hunters (not snipers, the headline is misleading) A good example of urban wildlife management 🦌 www.thejournal.ie/opw-has-paid...
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OPW has paid snipers €17,000 to kill 118 deer in Phoenix Park since last year - including fawns
Four culls took place at the park last year, resulting in 93 wild deer being fatally shot.
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Wildlife & Conservation at Uni Freiburg @wild-ecol-cons.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
A new #EUROLYNX paper out on variability in the movement and foraging behaviour of female Eurasian #lynx during the denning season across Europe! 🐈 🐾Movement metrics and kill-to-den distances were evaluated using GPS data from two climatic regions. 📄Read more here: doi.org/10.1002/oik....
Map showing th distribution of the standardized GPS data (green circles), of den sites (orange triangles) used for the analysis of movement patterns and den use of female lynx, and of field-checked kill sites and corresponding dens (blue squares) used to analyse kill site distribution in relation to the den.
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James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
We could have been providing military aid to Ukraine. We could have been building our partnerships in the Pacific. We could have strengthened Europe’s defense industrial base. We could have helped build state capacity in South America. What a fucking disaster this has all been.
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Mira of Kyiv 🇺🇦 @reshetz.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
They just hit a university
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Pádraic Fogarty @whittledaway.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
North Cork Creameries is a member of Bord Bia's 'Origin Green' greenwashing programme despite 125 non-compliance notices since 2020 and listing on the EPA's top polluter watchlist 🙈 www.irishtimes.com/environment/...
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EPA licensing rules to protect our fragile rivers are being repeatedly breached
Public records about North Cork Creameries’ operations paint a disquieting picture of how regulators are performing
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Brian Gormley D7 @bgormley.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
A brilliant piece by @ellamcsweeney.bsky.social in the @irishtimes.com this morning highlights the lack of enforcement of environmental legislation. North Cork Creameries (a member of Bord Bia’s Origin Green programme) has been issued with 125 non-compliance notices since 2020.
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EPA licensing rules to protect our fragile rivers are being repeatedly breached
Public records about North Cork Creameries’ operations paint a disquieting picture of how regulators are performing
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Richard K Broughton @richardkbroughton.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
#BirdStudy welcomes submissions on all aspects of #ornithology, eg. distribution/abundance patterns; movements/dispersal; habitat effects; census, marking & tracking, behaviour; conservation. Main focus Europe, Atlantic, Afro-Palearctic Flyway, N Africa, but useful papers considered from any region.
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Ian Moody @ianmoody.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Russian drones violated Polish airspace on the night of Sept 9/10 in what NATO & European officials have suggested was an intentional Russian incursion.The large number of Russian drones that violated Polish airspace suggests that this was likely an intentional Russian effort. understandingwar.org
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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 08/09/2025
I respect Anil so I want to talk seriously about harm reduction and public health messaging. First let me acknowledge that yes, many regular, not-super-online people are trying out AI tools. Of course they are! It's been aggressively pushed into everything and given heavy institutional support.
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Alan McElligott @amcell.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
2025. Does hunting benefit wildlife conservation? "animal welfare theorists might raise ethical questions about the legitimacy of some or all forms of hunting, even if it benefits conservation" esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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Does hunting benefit wildlife conservation?
Click on the article title to read more.
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 23/08/2025
In 25 years, every business school in the country will be doing case studies about how a long defunct company known as “Google” once had an unbeatable lock on online information retrieval and then started doing shit like this.

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No, Dunkin' Cereal Milk is not gluten-free because it contains milk, which is a common allergen, and as a result, it is not suitable for those with celiac disease or gluten intolerance.
However, coffee drinks, dairy milk, and non-dairy milks like oat, almond, and coconut milk are naturally gluten-free at Dunkin'.
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Adam F. Smith 🇺🇦🇮🇪 @adamfsmith.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
I'm terrible at updating you all on conservation and ecology work, but I can promise you this: It is the biggest year for Irish camera trapping since records began, and it's not even close. Why is this important? With this data, we can guide management and learn more about Irish nature.
A wildlife camera trapA fallow deer doe photographed by a camera trap.
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European Parliament @europarl.europa.eu · 14/08/2025
Travelling outside the EU this summer? You can count on the EU for help! If something goes wrong, and your country does not have an embassy or consulate in the country that you are travelling to, you can get help from another EU country that does - your right as an EU citizen. 🔗 europa.eu/!7nGx9R
A meme with two pictures of a boy in a red shirt. In the upper picture, he looks scared and has the following text next to him: Losing my passport where my country doesn't have an embassy. In the bottom picture, he looks happy and confident, has EU stars behind him and the text says: Realising EU citizens can get help from any EU country’s embassy.
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Adam F. Smith 🇺🇦🇮🇪 @adamfsmith.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
Deer, seals, the whole bunch... People will willfully ignore signage and instructions for a photo. This is also wildlife crime. The only thing for it is wardens, fines, and a culture of shaming those who believe they should be allowed to approach, feed, or pick up wildlife for fun.
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Allan Mee @kerryeaglemee.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Lynx could thrive in Northumberland with most in area supporting return www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Lynx could thrive in Northumberland with most in area supporting return, study finds
Release of 20 lynx over several years into Kielder Forest area would create population of about 50 animals
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Rob Knell @robknell.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Yes trophy hunting is weird and unpleasant, but money from hunting funds the conservation of more land in Sub-Saharan Africa than is conserved in national parks. It is not as simple as most keyboard-jockeys from Europe or the USA think.
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Nikolaj Bichel @nikolaj-bi.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Kenya again.
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British Ecological Society @britishecologicalsociety.org · 05/08/2025
Interested in understanding how public access to nature can be balanced with wildlife conservation? Check out Tom's thread on the long-running project from our English Policy Group exploring this very topic 🌳🚶
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Adam F. Smith 🇺🇦🇮🇪 @adamfsmith.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
Many don't realise that USFWS and USAID supported conservation work all across the world, and now the programmes protecting nature in the world's wildest places are stuggling to adapt... www.independent.co.uk/climate-chan...
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The struggle to protect wildlife around the world as Trump’s aid cuts start to bite
Six months on from the US president’s order to halt all foreign assistance, Nick Ferris explores just how badly wildlife conservation programmes have been impacted – and how they have managed to keep ...
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Alan McElligott @amcell.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
2025 - Snow leopard prey selection on the mountain‐adapted ibex: seasonal switching between prime‐aged males and newborn kids. zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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Snow leopard prey selection on the mountain‐adapted ibex: seasonal switching between prime‐aged males and newborn kids
We examined seasonal prey selection by snow leopards (Panthera uncia) on different age and sex categories of Siberian ibex (Capra sibirica) in the Tost Mountains of Southern Mongolia. Large solitary ....
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James Bullock @jmbecologist.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
OMG reintroducing animals is not rewilding Still seeing publicity for reintroductions making this error Based, I think, on an assumption that the reintroduction will somehow drive ecosystems to become more wild
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Jocelyn Poissant @jocelynpoissant.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
A bit early to advertise, but why not... 👉 I will be recruiting a post-doc to work on gut microbiome variation in wild ungulates starting at some point in 2026. Strong expertise with shotgun data and host phenotype-microbiome associations would be very valuable. Email me to discuss!
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Christina Hansen Wheat @chansenwheat.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
JOB ALERT 🚨 Tenure-track assistant professor in population genetics, comparative genomics and/or bioinformatics applied to biodiversity monitoring and conservation biology at Aarhus University, Denmark. Aarhus is super nice y'all. Apply! 🧪 🌍 🧬 #AcademicSky #ScienceJobs tech.au.dk/en/about-the...
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Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in Biodiversity Research Using Genetics - Vacancy at Aarhus University
Vacancy at Center for Quantitative Genetics and Genomics, Aarhus University
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UNITED24 Media @united24media.com · 31/07/2025
🔴 Russian forces conducted another massive attack on Ukraine overnight. The main target of the attack was Kyiv. Preliminary reports suggest Shahed drones, Iskander-K missiles, and decoy drones were deployed.
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Juliano Sarmento Cabral @jsarmentocabral.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Hiring/Seeking a *permanent* programmer in ecological modelling at my lab @unibonn.bsky.social. We mechanistically model plant communities, island biogeography, species range dynamics, eco-evolutionary feedbacks, diversity gradients, tropical forests, vascular epiphytes. Pls rt! shorturl.at/Bzzdt
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Programmer in Ecological Modelling
Full-time, permanent, EG 10, Reference number: 2025/72
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The Wildlife Society @thewildlifesociety.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Despite a lack of threats, utility-scale solar energy still repels pronghorn. Read the full story 👇
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Ungulates turn away while humans embrace solar - The Wildlife Society
Despite lack of threats, utility-scale solar energy still repel pronghorn
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Adam F. Smith 🇺🇦🇮🇪 @adamfsmith.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
Despite concerted efforts in Ireland to prevent harmful deer-feeding by the public in city and national parks, this kind of content is rampant in Facebook groups and cheered on by people blind to the potential harm being done... doi.org/10.1111/csp2...
A post on Facebook about a man hand feeding a wild deer
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Pádraic Fogarty @whittledaway.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
A small milestone passed today as I prepare the latest batch of rewilding plans
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Wildlife & Conservation at Uni Freiburg @wild-ecol-cons.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Sind Sie Jäger in Deutschland, oder kennen Sie einen? Wir suchen Teilnehmer*innen, die uns bei unserer Forschung zum Thema Wildschwein und ASP unterstützen! 🐗 Wir freuen uns über jeden, der sich an diesem anonymen Fragebogen beteiligt: questionpro.eu/a/TakeSurvey...
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Maria Popova @popovaprof.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Huge self-inflicted sabotage of Ukraine's path towards EU integration! Whether civil society w EU backing manages to stop this attack on the anticorruption institutions will determine the future strength of EU conditionality and anticorruption efforts. If Zelensky signs the law, it'll signal that..
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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
Ukraine is under russian missile and drone attack right now ‼️
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Adam F. Smith 🇺🇦🇮🇪 @adamfsmith.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
Luckily I was in the countryside and avoided this, but most of the civilian population of "safe" western Ukraine were just subject to a hail of drones and missiles by their terrorist neighbours
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Adam F. Smith 🇺🇦🇮🇪 @adamfsmith.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
In the abandoned city of Pripyat, in the Ukrainian Chornobyl Exclusion Zone 🇺🇦 A number of beautiful murals of wildlife.
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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
Morning in Lviv, Ukraine.
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Adam F. Smith 🇺🇦🇮🇪 @adamfsmith.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
After a couple of years, I'm happy to be back in the Chornobyl Exclusion Zone for wildlife monitoring in one of Europe's most unique places! I'm even happier about just being in Ukraine 🇺🇦
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