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Adam Ford

@adamtford.bsky.social
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Canada Research Chair in Wildlife Restoration Ecology, Department of Biology, University of British Columbia #WiRELab Syilx Territory & Kelowna, BC atford.weebly.com

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Adam Ford @adamtford.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Thank you @ubco-principal.bsky.social and thanks to the @ubcokanagan.bsky.social community for their support and mentorship of the #WiRELab to help make this happen
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Remington Moll @remingtonmoll.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
New book on carnivores and humans! Exceptional group of authors: @scrappynaturalist.bsky.social @kaitlyngaynor.bsky.social @nickwright98.bsky.social @justineasmith.bsky.social, @conservresearch.bsky.social @adamtford.bsky.social, @maipoisson.bsky.social & others! academic.oup.com/book/63020
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Apex Predators in the Anthropocene: How Humans Shape Large Carnivore Populations
Abstract. Humans and carnivores have shared landscapes for millennia, but never before have these interactions been more intense, complex, or consequential
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Adam Ford @adamtford.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
How have researchers undertaken Indigenous and West Scientific Knowledge weaving? Our recent systematic map tackles this very question: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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Adam Ford @adamtford.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Sharing our findings on connectivity and Chronic Wasting Disease to government and non-govt partners!
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Adam Ford @adamtford.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
nice story in the @thenarwhal.ca featuring recent #WiRELab postdoc @m-mclellan.bsky.social, now with @biodivpathways.bsky.social , on grizzly bear restoration. #WildlifeRestoration B.C. First Nations are bringing grizzlies back to the North Cascades | The Narwhal share.google/eKDozFh1potq...
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B.C. First Nations are bringing grizzlies back to the North Cascades | The Narwhal
In the cross-border North Cascades mountain range, First Nations in B.C. are working to restore an ecological and cultural relationship with grizzlies
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Adam Ford @adamtford.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
The McLeod Lake Indian Band, biologists, and governments are bending the curve on another herd of #caribou in #BritishColumbia. Learn more about this project here: mlibwildlife.ca/program/
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Adam Ford @adamtford.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Hockey parents travelling for their kids tournaments right now. #coquihalla #hockey 🇨🇦🏒
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Adam Ford @adamtford.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Had a great day in Kamloops workshopping #connectivity with community leaders, managers, and scientists. @biodivpathways.bsky.social
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Adam Ford @adamtford.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
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Adam Ford @adamtford.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Good chatring with @castanet.net news about deer in the Okanagan.
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Adam Ford @adamtford.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
2026 is going to be better than 2025 on many levels, and one way is appreciation for the aurora themed goalie pads of Petteri Rimpinen from Team Finland 🏒
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Adam Ford @adamtford.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
In the interior of BC, we have green grass and flowers growing in the valley bottoms, but are surrounded by mountain passes, avalanches, floods, and other road closures. It can feel like we are on an island.
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Adam Ford @adamtford.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Safe travels to everyone on the move over the coming weeks.
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Randene Neill @randeneneillmlabc.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
These two new cases are deeply concerning, and we are working with our partners to limit the spread of CWD as much as possible. Hunters, First Nations and the community are key to helping us manage CWD to protect our wildlife. (2/4)
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Adam Ford @adamtford.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
This is what cougars think of the US-Canada border: #connectivity
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🍁 Alex Smith 🍁 @alexsmithants.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
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drake meme where the first panel says "launching billion dollar plan to recruit top researchers" and the second panel says 'funding and retaining existing canadian researchers
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Adam Ford @adamtford.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
close call..after a "non negative result" in the #Okanagan, British Columbia's Chronic Wasting Disease still only found in a cluster near Cranbrook, BC. Tests confirm no chronic wasti... www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Tests confirm no chronic wasting disease in case of deer in B.C.'s Okanagan | CBC News
The B.C. government says testing has confirmed a sample from a deer harvested in the Okanagan region was negative for chronic wasting disease.
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Barney Luttbeg @barneyluttbeg.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
There is STILL TIME to register for the 2026 Predator-Prey Gordon Conference. It's happening in late January in Tuscany. The meeting has a single session attended by everyone, poster sessions, and encourages finding new collaborations. See the program and register below. www.grc.org/predator-pre...
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2026 Predator-Prey Interactions Conference GRC
The 2026 Gordon Research Conference on Predator-Prey Interactions will be held in Lucca (Barga), Lucca Italy. Apply today to reserve your spot.
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Adam Ford @adamtford.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
As a boy, I learned that there was a 'highway to the danger zone' and in that moment, knew that i wanted to be a #roadecologist.
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Adam Ford @adamtford.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
good coverage from @ainsliecruickshank.bsky.social on an overlooked issue: rail-wildlife collisions. Featuring @biodivpathways.bsky.social scientist @claytontlamb.bsky.social www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Hundreds of animals killed by trains on B.C. railroads, documents reveal. So, what’s being done to stop it? | CBC News
Documents obtained through freedom of information requests by The Narwhal and shared with CBC News show hundreds of animals have been killed in collisions with trains on B.C. tracks owned by Canada's ...
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Adam Ford @adamtford.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Thanks to Bart at the Oceola Fish and Game Club for hosting Mitch Brunet and I last night as we updated stakeholders on current deer research happening in the #WiRELab, in partnership with: @bcwf.bsky.social @hctfbc.bsky.social
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Biodiversity Pathways @biodivpathways.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
We're #hiring a Manager of Operations! Respect and collaboration are integral to our work: if you have a track record of successfully building multi-stakeholder biodiversity research and monitoring programs, consider joining our team! Full details, including compensation, are available below 🔽
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Adam Ford @adamtford.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Outstanding new job at @biodivpathways.bsky.social and @ubcokanagan.bsky.social ubc.wd10.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/ubcsta...
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Manager of Operations, Biodiversity Pathways and the BRAES Institute
Staff - Non Union Job Category M&P - AAPS Job Profile AAPS Salaried - Research and Facilitation, Level C Job Title Manager of Operations, Biodiversity Pathways and the BRAES Institute Department U...
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Adam Ford @adamtford.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Ive never heard one of our papers described as 'beautiful' before, but here it is, referring to Kamaru et al 2024 [DOI: 10.1126/science.adg1464] www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJxe...
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Deadly Serious Games: The 212th Evolutionary Lens with Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying
YouTube video by Bret Weinstein
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Adam Ford @adamtford.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Our 2020 essay on human–wildlife coexistence led by @hjkoenig.bsky.social has become a key reference in the global debate on how people and wildlife share landscapes. conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... /1
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Adam Ford @adamtford.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
"...but wait until they get to the playoffs." source: higheredstrategy.com/scholarly-ou...
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Adam Ford @adamtford.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
its still a headline eh
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UBC News @news.ubc.ca · 16/06/2025
Recent #cougar sightings have seen a temporary trail closure in Garibaldi Provincial Park. @ubcokanagan.bsky.social‬ PhD student Siobhan Darlington discusses cougar behaviour with @vancouversun.bsky.social vancouversun.com/news/cougars...
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Adam Ford @adamtford.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
happy harvest moon from Kelowna,BC ,Canada +
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Adam Ford @adamtford.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
It was a bluebird day.
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Adam Ford @adamtford.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Please enjoy yesterdays trailcam image of this omnivorous void.
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Adam Ford @adamtford.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Enjoy this live feed of the supplemental feeding station for the Kennedy Siding caribou herd in British Columbia, Canada: mlibwildlife.ca/live-cam/ 1/2
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Adam Ford @adamtford.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
I thought I knew, but i really didn't know, what laughter was until I sat with a 7 year old watching Tom and Jerry for the first time.
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tom from tom and jerry is wearing a hat and dancing in a doorway .
ALT: tom from tom and jerry is wearing a hat and dancing in a doorway .
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Adam Ford @adamtford.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Please enjoy our synthesis on apparent competition in African savannas: ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...
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In African savannas, are donor and trophic control of ungulate prey coupled by apparent competition?
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Adam Ford @adamtford.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
yes!
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Adam Ford @adamtford.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
A cool TedEd animation of our @aaas.org Science paper on ants-tree cover-predation: ed.ted.com/lessons/can-...
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Can you figure out the savanna mystery? - Cella Wright
In the early 2000s, one of the world’s most widespread invasive species landed in Kenya’s Laikipia Plateau: big-headed ants. They expanded rapidly into super-colonies, preying on other insects, spider...
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Adam Ford @adamtford.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
Just a reminder that the greatest music video ever made from 🇨🇦 CANADA 🇨🇦 was the "Darkest One" by the Hip. let me know what you think! youtu.be/s_DR45Mtrsg?...
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The Darkest One - In Violet Light - The Tragically Hip
YouTube video by The Tragically Hip
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Adam Ford @adamtford.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
thats a deep cut NYT. what does this mean?!?
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Adam Ford @adamtford.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
One of our cameras recorded a single vehicle collision near a major highway. Passengers walked out a few minutes later. #RoadEcology
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Adam Ford @adamtford.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
People are not sticking their head in the sand on this issue.
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Adam Ford @adamtford.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
What are you reading this summer?
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Adam Ford @adamtford.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
now we're doing so many peaches
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Adam Ford @adamtford.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
porting this thread from that other app to here...#Kelowna #DumpsterFire x.com/adamTford/st...
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Adam ™ Ford on X: "Signing back on to this dumpster fire of an app to update ongoing thread about the #kelowna #DumpsterFires https://t.co/KHACTYnAAm" / X
Signing back on to this dumpster fire of an app to update ongoing thread about the #kelowna #DumpsterFires https://t.co/KHACTYnAAm
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Adam Ford @adamtford.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Remember the prescient RATM lyric for our current time? Pepperidge farms remembers: #CodingError
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Bonky @shesbonky.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
If you think a golden ballroom is more important than childhood cancer research… I have nothing left to say to you. Please unfollow me. #pediatriccancer #cancermom
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Adam Ford @adamtford.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
when your 7u BPs on dollar store whiffles. #baseball
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Adam Ford @adamtford.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
New week, new fruits from friends! July in the #Okanagan is such a gift 🍑🍑🍑
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Adam Ford @adamtford.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
POV: its July, you live in the #Okanagan, and have neighbors that like to share their bounty.🔊
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Unofficial TorontoStar (All News) @torontostar-rss.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
‘Sheila just went for it’: York University scientist Sheila Colla remembered as a fierce advocate to save wild bees
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‘Sheila just went for it’: York University scientist Sheila Colla remembered as a fierce advocate to save wild bees
Colla, 43, died Sunday of cancer. She successfully fought for the rusty-patched bumblebee to become the first bee listed as an endangered species in Canada and the U.S.
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Adam Ford @adamtford.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
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Can Kelowna build housing and leave room for nature? | The Narwhal
Kelowna hopes to increase housing density, instead of sprawl, while a proposed Okanagan wildlife corridor seeks to conserve rare ecosystems
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