Reposted by Adam F. Smith 🇺🇦🇮🇪Gernot Segelbacher 🪶 🧬 @gsegelbacher.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Christine Grossen demonstrating the reason of low survival in Central European lynx . Lethal alles first time demonstrated in the wild 083
Reposted by Adam F. Smith 🇺🇦🇮🇪Tommy's Outdoors @tommysoutdoors.com · 17/02/2026What 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 1173
Reposted by Adam F. Smith 🇺🇦🇮🇪Mongabay @mongabay.com · 29/01/2026Conservationists 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.news.mongabay.comWildlife attacks and strange animal behavior — fake images spark conservation concernsWhen 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… 04129
Reposted by Adam F. Smith 🇺🇦🇮🇪Fridolin Zimmermann @zifridolin.bsky.social · 15/11/2025Check 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 062
Reposted by Adam F. Smith 🇺🇦🇮🇪National College of Art & Design @ncad-ireland.bsky.social · 14/11/2025Dr 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 121
Reposted by Adam F. Smith 🇺🇦🇮🇪Darth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social · 14/11/2025Russia bombing civilians last night shows how much Ukraine doesn't want peace 6556124
Reposted by Adam F. Smith 🇺🇦🇮🇪The Journal @thejournal.ie · 14/11/2025Almost 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/6874325jrnl.ieOne dead, 24 wounded in 'massive' Russian attack on KyivRussia has in recent months intensified its attacks on infrastructure. 077
Reposted by Adam F. Smith 🇺🇦🇮🇪Laura Finnegan @lfinnegal.bsky.social · 30/10/2025Is this deer still considered an unmarked individual if it has such a distinctive (and stylish) coiffure? @friresearch.bsky.social #cameratrapping 032
Reposted by Adam F. Smith 🇺🇦🇮🇪UNITED24 Media @united24media.com · 16/10/2025In 2025, Russia brought horses back to the battlefield. Why? 🧵 1/5 ⬇️ 67629
Reposted by Adam F. Smith 🇺🇦🇮🇪Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 09/10/2025Over a hundred Russian drones over Ukraine right now. Our night starts with Russian terrorism. Again. 718861
Reposted by Adam F. Smith 🇺🇦🇮🇪Kathi Kasper @kathikasper.bsky.social · 02/10/2025Happy to see this first PhD chapter out in the big wild world. 365
Reposted by Adam F. Smith 🇺🇦🇮🇪Brian Gormley D7 @bgormley.bsky.social · 25/09/2025I’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 6191
Reposted by Adam F. Smith 🇺🇦🇮🇪Ben 🇺🇦⚒️🫧 @bskolo.bsky.social · 25/09/2025Very cool to learn that everyone is non-binary in Hungary 512218
Reposted by Adam F. Smith 🇺🇦🇮🇪Graeme Cumming @gscumming.bsky.social · 24/09/2025My 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....doi.orgConceptualizing and measuring ecological spillover effects from protected areasProtected 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... 1377
Reposted by Adam F. Smith 🇺🇦🇮🇪Mira of Kyiv 🇺🇦 @reshetz.bsky.social · 23/09/2025Zelensky got the tape didn’t he 2040951
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...thejournal.ieOPW has paid snipers €17,000 to kill 118 deer in Phoenix Park since last year - including fawnsFour culls took place at the park last year, resulting in 93 wild deer being fatally shot. 0122
Reposted by Adam F. Smith 🇺🇦🇮🇪Wildlife & Conservation at Uni Freiburg @wild-ecol-cons.bsky.social · 22/09/2025A 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.... 053
Reposted by Adam F. Smith 🇺🇦🇮🇪James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 16/09/2025We 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. 25941157
Reposted by Adam F. Smith 🇺🇦🇮🇪Mira of Kyiv 🇺🇦 @reshetz.bsky.social · 16/09/2025They just hit a university 31577228
Reposted by Adam F. Smith 🇺🇦🇮🇪Pádraic Fogarty @whittledaway.bsky.social · 13/09/2025North 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/...irishtimes.comEPA licensing rules to protect our fragile rivers are being repeatedly breachedPublic records about North Cork Creameries’ operations paint a disquieting picture of how regulators are performing 68145
Reposted by Adam F. Smith 🇺🇦🇮🇪Brian Gormley D7 @bgormley.bsky.social · 13/09/2025A 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.irishtimes.comEPA licensing rules to protect our fragile rivers are being repeatedly breachedPublic records about North Cork Creameries’ operations paint a disquieting picture of how regulators are performing 2199
Reposted by Adam F. Smith 🇺🇦🇮🇪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. 12616
Reposted by Adam F. Smith 🇺🇦🇮🇪Ian Moody @ianmoody.bsky.social · 11/09/2025Russian 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 13521
Reposted by Adam F. Smith 🇺🇦🇮🇪Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 08/09/2025I 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. 14465150
Reposted by Adam F. Smith 🇺🇦🇮🇪Alan McElligott @amcell.bsky.social · 04/09/20252025. 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....esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.comDoes hunting benefit wildlife conservation?Click on the article title to read more. 023
Reposted by Adam F. Smith 🇺🇦🇮🇪Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 23/08/2025In 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. 23183101963
Adam F. Smith 🇺🇦🇮🇪 @adamfsmith.bsky.social · 20/08/2025I'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. 0192
Reposted by Adam F. Smith 🇺🇦🇮🇪European Parliament @europarl.europa.eu · 14/08/2025Travelling 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 524857
Adam F. Smith 🇺🇦🇮🇪 @adamfsmith.bsky.social · 14/08/2025Deer, 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. 141
Reposted by Adam F. Smith 🇺🇦🇮🇪Allan Mee @kerryeaglemee.bsky.social · 07/08/2025Lynx could thrive in Northumberland with most in area supporting return www.theguardian.com/environment/...theguardian.comLynx could thrive in Northumberland with most in area supporting return, study findsRelease of 20 lynx over several years into Kielder Forest area would create population of about 50 animals 044
Reposted by Adam F. Smith 🇺🇦🇮🇪Rob Knell @robknell.bsky.social · 06/08/2025Yes 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. 681
Reposted by Adam F. Smith 🇺🇦🇮🇪British Ecological Society @britishecologicalsociety.org · 05/08/2025Interested 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 🌳🚶 0104
Adam F. Smith 🇺🇦🇮🇪 @adamfsmith.bsky.social · 05/08/2025Many 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...independent.co.ukThe struggle to protect wildlife around the world as Trump’s aid cuts start to biteSix 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 ... 020
Reposted by Adam F. Smith 🇺🇦🇮🇪Alan McElligott @amcell.bsky.social · 02/08/20252025 - 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....zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.comSnow leopard prey selection on the mountain‐adapted ibex: seasonal switching between prime‐aged males and newborn kidsWe 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 .... 072
Reposted by Adam F. Smith 🇺🇦🇮🇪James Bullock @jmbecologist.bsky.social · 04/08/2025OMG 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 062
Reposted by Adam F. Smith 🇺🇦🇮🇪Jocelyn Poissant @jocelynpoissant.bsky.social · 19/12/2024A 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! 11712
Reposted by Adam F. Smith 🇺🇦🇮🇪Christina Hansen Wheat @chansenwheat.bsky.social · 11/07/2025JOB 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...tech.au.dkTenure-Track Assistant Professor in Biodiversity Research Using Genetics - Vacancy at Aarhus UniversityVacancy at Center for Quantitative Genetics and Genomics, Aarhus University 02027
Reposted by Adam F. Smith 🇺🇦🇮🇪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. 19433
Reposted by Adam F. Smith 🇺🇦🇮🇪Juliano Sarmento Cabral @jsarmentocabral.bsky.social · 10/07/2025Hiring/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/Bzzdtshorturl.atProgrammer in Ecological ModellingFull-time, permanent, EG 10, Reference number: 2025/72 25893
Reposted by Adam F. Smith 🇺🇦🇮🇪The Wildlife Society @thewildlifesociety.bsky.social · 30/07/2025Despite a lack of threats, utility-scale solar energy still repels pronghorn. Read the full story 👇 wildlife.orgUngulates turn away while humans embrace solar - The Wildlife SocietyDespite lack of threats, utility-scale solar energy still repel pronghorn 023
Adam F. Smith 🇺🇦🇮🇪 @adamfsmith.bsky.social · 29/07/2025Despite 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... 141
Reposted by Adam F. Smith 🇺🇦🇮🇪Pádraic Fogarty @whittledaway.bsky.social · 25/07/2025A small milestone passed today as I prepare the latest batch of rewilding plans 0364
Reposted by Adam F. Smith 🇺🇦🇮🇪Wildlife & Conservation at Uni Freiburg @wild-ecol-cons.bsky.social · 24/07/2025Sind 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... 021
Reposted by Adam F. Smith 🇺🇦🇮🇪Maria Popova @popovaprof.bsky.social · 22/07/2025Huge 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.. 28014
Reposted by Adam F. Smith 🇺🇦🇮🇪Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 19/07/2025Ukraine is under russian missile and drone attack right now ‼️ 313236
Adam F. Smith 🇺🇦🇮🇪 @adamfsmith.bsky.social · 12/07/2025Luckily 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 1124
Adam F. Smith 🇺🇦🇮🇪 @adamfsmith.bsky.social · 12/07/2025In the abandoned city of Pripyat, in the Ukrainian Chornobyl Exclusion Zone 🇺🇦 A number of beautiful murals of wildlife. 0193
Reposted by Adam F. Smith 🇺🇦🇮🇪Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 12/07/2025Morning in Lviv, Ukraine. 24303131
Adam F. Smith 🇺🇦🇮🇪 @adamfsmith.bsky.social · 10/07/2025After 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 🇺🇦 1112