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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

[banging on table] FAT BEAR WEEK FAT BEAR WEEK FAT BEAR WEEK FAT BEAR WEEK www.popsci.com/environment/...

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The Fat Bear Week 2026 bracket is here and chunkier than ever

Voting starts September 22 with a final winner crowned on September 29.

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Luca Santini @lsantinieco.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

In Castiello et al. (2026) we test how Biodiversity Enhancement Interventions impact forest-dwelling bats 🦇. Targeted microhabitat creation, deadwood retention 🪵, and structural complexity 🌲 significantly boost activity across different bat foraging guilds. @JAppliedEcology doi.org/10.1111/1365...

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Evaluating the role of biodiversity enhancement interventions in supporting bat conservation in a temperate forest

Our findings highlight that combining small-scale canopy interventions with the retention of habitat trees and deadwood can improve habitat conditions for bats. Canopy gap creation represents an effe....

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Luca Santini @lsantinieco.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

How can we measure human noise without confusing it with nature's background soundscape? 🔊🤖 Meet SANE (Selective Anthropogenic Noise Exposure), an AI-driven acoustic index by Giuliani et al. (2026) in @MethodsEcolEvol! 👇 doi.org/10.1111/2041...

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Brian J. Enquist @bjenquist.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Thrilled to announce that my department - Ecology and Evolutionary Biology - at the U of Arizona will likely be hiring for a tenure-track position in "Population and Community Ecology" this fall. Watch this space for more details and official announcements coming soon ... #Ecology #EcologyJobs 🌐🌾🧪

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Ecography @ecography.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

‘biomod2' – extending presence–absence species distribution models to multiple data types vist.ly/5dmbb #SDM #Abundance #Habitat

Graph showing software project milestones and citations from 2013 to 2025.

Flowchart showing BIOMOD workflow from data to prediction with various modules.

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Jens-Christian Svenning @jcsvenning.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

📢 We’re hiring at Aarhus University! Tenure-track or permanent on vertebrate-driven #ecosystem processes, especially large #mammals w/in @econovoau.bsky.social's strong interdisciplinary environment spanning #ecology, paleoecology, biodiversity science & global change biology 🦬🌿🌍 ➡️More info below

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GMA Lab @globalmammal.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

The Macroecology and Biodiversity Conservation (MBC) research group from Sapienza University is at #ECCB2026 in Leiden! 🌍 Excited to share our science, connect with colleagues, and promote conservation biology together. #GMALab #BGCLab #ECASLab 🦎🌱 #ConservationBiology #Biodiversity #TeamScience

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GMA Lab @globalmammal.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

How vulnerable are terrestrial mammals hunted for human consumption? An inspiring presentation by Michela Pacifici @scbitaly.bsky.social at #ECCB2026 explored this critical question, offering valuable perspectives for conservation planning and biodiversity protection🌍🐘 #ConservationBiology #Wildlife

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Andrea Zampetti @andrewzampetti.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Tomorrow morning (Wednesday 8th) I'll talk at #ECCB2026 about my recent work with @lsantinieco.bsky.social on the ifs, hows and wheres of predicting mammal population density🦊🦌🌍. If you're curious, come take a peek in Room C2 at 12:00! @eccb26leiden.bsky.social

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Martin Jung @martinjung.eu · 01/07/2026

We are soon opening up a research position on integrated spatial planning / ecological modelling @iiasa.ac.at Do reach out if interested and keep a look-out on iiasa.ac.at/employment/j...

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Job openings

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Mongabay @mongabay.com · 02/06/2026

Scientists have developed a new artificial intelligence tool to track wildlife high in the trees. TropiCam-AI can identify tree-dwelling species with 95% accuracy, filling a major gap in automated conservation tech that previously focused almost entirely on the ground.

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Most wildlife AI focuses on the ground. This model looks up in the trees

When it comes to decoding camera-trap images, artificial intelligence has become all the rage, especially for terrestrial animals, or those that dwell on the ground. But for more evasive species…

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Luca Santini @lsantinieco.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

What is the relationship between population density and home range? and what are the implications in terms of home range overlap? Our latest paper tackling these questions is finally out! nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... @giannijacca.bsky.social @marleetucker.bsky.social

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Luca Santini @lsantinieco.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

🚀 TetraDENSITY now has a dedicated web app! Explore the dataset interactively, filter by taxa 🐾, country 🌍 & more. Generate descriptive stats 📊 (overall or subsets), download data 💾 in seconds, and flag missing data or errors ⚠️ Dive in and have fun 🎉 andrewzamp.github.io/TetraDENSITY

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TetraDENSITY - A Global Database of Tetrapod Population Density Estimates

Official interactive explorer and publication page for TetraDENSITY, with global tetrapod population density data.

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Dr. Joan Dudney @dudney-joan.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

New #causalinference paper just dropped! As an ecologist, I was trained to ask: "What do the data tell me?" This paper: there are only specific instances when this question is appropriate—when you lack domain knowledge, which we often have! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Society for Conservation Biology @society4conbio.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

#ECCB2026 deadline extended! The deadline for parallel (regular) sessions is now March 1, 2026. 📍 July 6th-10th, Leiden, NL 👉 Submit here: eccb26leiden.eu/parallel-ses... Share this opportunity with colleagues and collaborators who might be interested in participating! #conservation #networking

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Andrea Zampetti @andrewzampetti.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

New paper out in @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social! 📷We present TropiCam-AI: a machine learning model that identifies 84 taxa of Neotropical arboreal mammals and birds from camera-trap images and videos. 🐒🦜 📃Paper → doi.org/10.1111/2041-210x.70213 🌐Project → github.com/andrewzamp/TropiCam-AI

An arboreal camera-trap image form the Brazilian Amazon rainforest. An animal is detected by TropiCam-AI, which analyzes its features and tries to determine what species it is.

TropiCam-AI analyzes the prompted image, and classifies it at the species level as a black spider monkey. Users can decide to let the model predict at the taxonomic level that achieves the highes confidence and accuracy, or force predictions at the desired taxonomic level.

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SCB Italy @scbitaly.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Un nuovo BioSpritz è in arrivo! 🍹 Questa volta, @andrewzampetti.bsky.social ci parlerà di intelligenza virtuale e biodiversità 🖥️🌿 Appuntamento fissato per il 23 febbraio alle ore 18.00, in Viale dell'Università 32 (Roma)📆 Link: forms.gle/vUkcziENT1bU... #scbitaly #conservationbiology

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Sara Beery @sarameghanbeery.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

How do we do more with biodiversity data we've already collected? I gave a TED Talk on scientific discovery in ecological databases at a joint TED Countdown and Bezos Earth Fund event for #NYClimateWeek this year, and it's now live! @inaturalist.bsky.social #AIforConservation

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Andrea Zampetti @andrewzampetti.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

Does survey area extent bias population density estimates? Spoiler: yes, and method matters. Want the details? Come check my poster next week at @britishecologicalsociety.org #BES2025 (Tuesday 16th, 18:00 - Lennox Suite, n°A5.25), and let's have a chat!💬 Co-authored with @lsantinieco.bsky.social.

Mammal density estimates are usually higher in small study areas. This can reflect several factors, like studies targeting high-density sites, edge effects from high perimeter-area ratios, or methodological artefacts; however, the actual causes remain untested. Understanding how this pattern originates and its consistency across methods is crucial for reliable population assessments and comparative analyses. Using a global dataset of mammal density estimates, we quantified the effect of sampling extent on population density across different estimators, and then ran simulations to isolate its contribution from other biological signals. We found that when sampled area is below ~3 times animal home-range size, density is systematically overestimated (+80% on average) due to high perimeter-area ratio. Yet, some methods (e.g. capture-recapture) are more sensitive than others (e.g. spatial capture-recapture), while others are robust to this effect (e.g. Random Encounter Model). Explicitly accounting for this bias will improve both local population assessments and cross-study analyses.

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GMA Lab @globalmammal.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

🎉Proud to share GMA Lab member Marco Davoli won the Early Career Researcher Best Paper Award2024 @consbiog.bsky.social🏆Thanks to @jcsvenning.bsky.social @tobiaskuemmerle.ecoevo.social.ap.brid.gy Sophie Monsarrat Jennifer Crees Michela Pacifici Andrea Cristiano onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal...

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bes-quantitativegroup @bes-quantitative.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Thrilled to announce our webinar series: 🌱📈 Quantifying Ecology 📈🌱 We are collaborating with our SIG friends to bring you quantitative methods in different ecological contexts. Kicking off with Dr @jamesaorr.bsky.social and @bes-aquaticgroup.bsky.social on 5th August. More details to come!

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Science Magazine @science.org · 29/05/2025

A game-changing new opponent has stepped onto the badminton court. But don’t worry; it’s still a beginner. Researchers have developed a robot that can successfully volley a shuttlecock, tracking down the object and moving across the court to send it back to its human adversary: scim.ag/4kz3nKW

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cameratraps @ppalencia.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

Another promising paper on the transition from AI models for image classification to user friendly apps. Let's see how it works! #cameratrapping peercommunityjournal.org/item/10.2407...

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Methods in Ecology and Evolution @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

📖Published📖 Matthew Kling presents phylospatial, a new R package that fully supports probability, abundance, and binary community data across a range of spatial phylogenetic diversity (PD) analyses 🌎 🧪 Check the article out here 👇 buff.ly/onf4BV6

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Luca Santini @lsantinieco.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

The first paper of the "Urbis project" focusing on the urban ecosystem of Rome is out in Urban Forestry & Urban Greening! Here we characterize the urban landscape and propose a multiscale framework to better support urban biodiversity research and planning doi.org/10.1016/j.la...

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Jennifer Ouellette @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

Capuchin monkeys kidnap baby howler monkeys, shocking scientists www.popsci.com/environment/...

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Capuchin monkeys kidnap baby howler monkeys, shocking scientists

The disturbing fad could be the result of boredom.

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Irene Mendoza @phenogirl.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

A new preprint on the best configuration settings of BirdNET for improving bird detections, lead by Cristian Pérez-Granados & David Funosas. A derived paper of the WABAD dataset, with more than 4,000 minutes of annotated audios. Enjoy reading!! #bioacoustics www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-6...

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Optimisation of passive acoustic bird surveys: a global assessment of BirdNET settings

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Cher Chow 周馥溢 @cherfychow.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

🚨New data paper/open data alert!🚨 BioTIME v2.0 is out now! We've expanded the database with improved spatial and taxonomic coverage, with a new R package! As always, free, public, and open acess :) Paper: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... Database: biotime.st-andrews.ac.uk

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BioTIME 2.0: Expanding and Improving a Database of Biodiversity Time Series

Motivation Here, we make available a second version of the BioTIME database, which compiles records of abundance estimates for species in sample events of ecological assemblages through time. The up...

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Jarrett Byrnes @jebyrnes.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

More shots fired in the #causalInference #ecology literature! 🌍

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Elif Akata @elifakata.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Our paper is now out in Nature Human Behaviour! 🎉 We use games from behavioural economics to explore how LLMs behave in repeated social interactions, revealing both self-interested strengths and coordination blind spots, and propose strategies to improve AI-human collaboration.

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SCB Italy @scbitaly.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

The Student Award for Best Oral Presentation goes to @andrewzampetti.bsky.social for his talk on TropiCam-AI: an automated classifier of Neotropical arboreal mammals and birds from camera-traps. Well done, Andrea! Special mention to Claire Louise Penton for securing 2nd place—congrats! #ECR2025

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Virginia Gewin @virginiagewin.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Currently, roughly 90–95% of AI usage in biodiversity and conservation research is simply identifying a species of interest in gobs of data, says @sarameghanbeery.bsky.social of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, co-founder of MegaDetector. But that promises to change swiftly.

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GMA Lab @globalmammal.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Excited to share that Martina Fernando, PhD student at our Global Mammal Assessment Lab, just presented her work "Developing a global probability map of illegal hunting on terrestrial mammals"with Michela Pacifici and Marco Davoli 🐘🌍 #ConservationScience #IllegalHunting #ECR2025

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Jonas Geschke @jgeschke.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

Adoption of AI in conservation will lead to beneficial outcomes for conservation effectiveness and improve our understanding of the natural world. However, it will not wholly replace established conservation techniques, education, and on-the-ground research. 📑 doi.org/10.1016/j.tr...

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Dan Larremore @danlarremore.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

😳 WithdrarXiv 🙏 - Dataset of 14K+ withdrawn arXiv papers - associated retraction comments - entire history through 09/24 - taxonomy of retraction reasons, from critical errors to policy violations - WithdrarXiv-SciFy, enriched version w/ scripts for parsed full-text PDFs arxiv.org/abs/2412.03775

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WithdrarXiv: A Large-Scale Dataset for Retraction Study

Retractions play a vital role in maintaining scientific integrity, yet systematic studies of retractions in computer science and other STEM fields remain scarce. We present WithdrarXiv, the first larg...

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Global Ecology 🌐 @global-ecology.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Great worflow and R package for any one working of ecological trait database !! by Elizabeth Wenk et al. in Ecological Informatics Nov. 2024 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 🧪🌐🌍

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Kirsty Franklin @kirstyfranklin.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

New paper! If you use time-lapse cameras, this one's for you! Proud of this collaboration with UEA Computing Sciences' Marcus Jenkins & Michal Mackiewicz to improve object detection for time-lapse imagery using temporal features. 📷🖥️⏲️ Open Access in Sensors: mdpi.com/3088004

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Sara Beery @sarameghanbeery.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

I started to put together a starter pack for research in AI+Ecology, check it out and let me know if you would like to be added! go.bsky.app/8zugFF6

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Andrea Zampetti @andrewzampetti.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Can AI improve #cameratrap studies? Our study in @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social shows how #machinelearning can enhance wildlife surveys by automating species detection & classification and enabling unbiased density estimates 📷🦌. Check it out! ⬇️ besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Ginny Hendricks @ginsta.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

Welcome to all the researchers and scientists joining Bluesky, here’s a good resource to help get started!

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Davide Mirante @davidemirante.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Wildlife hates noisy neighbors as much as I do! Thrilled to announce my first paper, published online in GECCO! We explore how wildlife adjusts its spatio-temporal niche in the short term, to cope with human presence. Read it here! 👉https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gecco.2024.e03053

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Redirecting

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Davide Serva @daviser95.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

I made this starter pack to connect all early career researchers (ECR) interested in conservation biology topics! 🌍🌱🐼 If you would like to be added DM me or comment! 🔊 Let's grow it to increase connections 🌐 go.bsky.app/KXiSj3j #ConservationBiology #EarlyCareerResearchers #Conservationists

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