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Cara A Gallagher

@caragallagher.bsky.social
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Human girl - Ecomodeller - Tenure Track Researcher @aarhusuni.bsky.social - Energetics, behavior, & agent-based modelling ⚡🐾🖥️ - Graphic art enthusiast 🖌️ - Editor @ibe.pensoft.net & Movement Ecology

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Marine Mammal Research at Aarhus University, Ecoscience @marinemammalsau.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Last week, the section’s Cara Gallagher attended #NSOGFÖ2026, where she co-led the workshop "Using & Participating in Ecological Forecasting Challenges for Interdisciplinary Biodiversity Forecasts & Effective Conservation", exploring how forecasting challenges can improve biodiversity predictions🐬🔊🌱
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Maria Paniw @paniw.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
What do you do if THE top researchers in your field ask if they can use your published code to "stress test" your model results? 😨 You say: Go ahead! But you think: Nothing I can do about it, it's all out there now 😅 Anyway, this turned out to be a fun collaboration 🧪: doi.org/10.1111/2041...
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Challenging and diagnosing structured population models by testing predictions from stochastic demography
Structured population models are parameterized to accurately project expected population sizes, stage/state distributions and population growth rates, but they also predict the variation in outcom...
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Dustin Marshall @djmmeeg.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Out today in @cp-trendsecolevo.bsky.social our paper “Second Thoughts about First Principles in Biology.” www.cell.com/trends/ecolo... . We are in favour of first principles approaches in biology but we think that we need to do better in how we use them.
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Second thoughts about first principles in biology
First-principles approaches, based on physics or chemistry, are key pillars of biological theory. Despite their value, there are recurrent problems with many first-principles approaches in biology: th...
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Cara A Gallagher @caragallagher.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
We've decided to open up the deadline for this, so please reach out if you think you might have something relevant to submit! Details in the link below.
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Cara A Gallagher @caragallagher.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
It’s been such a joy helping to bring this together! I couldn’t have even dreamed that we’d receive such amazing submissions 😍 SMM members, please cast your vote for the new face of MMS! 🐋🎉🦭
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Cara A Gallagher @caragallagher.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Reminder: a little over one week left to submit abstracts for the individual‑based conservation topical collection. Happy to chat if you’re considering contributing!
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Society for Marine Mammalogy @marinemammalogy.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
First Event Announcement 📅 March 5th
⏰ 6 PM CET / 9 AM PST Dawn of Cetology: The Scientific Pursuit of Whales, from Antiquities to the Twentieth Century
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Ecological Dynamics Dept. | IZW Berlin @ecodynizw.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Disease dynamics in wildlife: We used a spatially explicit eco-epidemiological model to analyze classical swine fever spread in Northern Germany. Discover how host movement decisions shape disease spread. #EcoEpidemiology #FLI @ufz.de 🐖 Read here: doi.org/10.1002/ecs2...; @ecosphere-ua.bsky.social
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Individual-based Ecology @ibe.pensoft.net · 20/02/2026
Why do individual differences matter for species survival? 🧬 This is what our latest topical collection - "Individual-based #conservation" is trying to explore 💎 Diamond #OA (No fees for authors or readers) 📅 Deadline: 15 March 2026 Submit your abstract today ⤵️ ibe.pensoft.net/news/1106
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New topical collection 'Individual-Based Conservation' calls for abstracts
While conservation science often focus on the 'big picture' of populations and ecosystems, the unique traits of the individual are frequently overlooked. To address this, the diamond open-acce...
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GraphicsSci.bsky.social @graphicssci.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Whatever the level, we can tailor graphics to communicate your research to different audiences! These graphics both represent the same research but contain vastly different amounts of information.🧪🐡 We loved working on this project!🎨 Check out the fantastic paper here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A more complex natural landscape showing a river, mountains , and further down stream, farming and industry. The labels and arrows demonstrate a more complex relationship with cycling carbon and carbonate equilibrium.
Simple landscape showing a river flowing through a natural landscape. A black CO2 arrow points to the trees at the top and two black arrows show the carbon flowing down stream and also back into the atmosphere.
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Individual-based Ecology @ibe.pensoft.net · 03/02/2026
📣Call for Abstracts: Individual-Based #Conservation 🦁Explore how individual #heterogeneity drives conservation success in this new topical #collection from our💎Diamond #OA journal. 📅Deadline: 15 March 2026 More information can be found here⤵️
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New topical collection 'Individual-Based Conservation' calls for abstracts
While conservation science often focus on the 'big picture' of populations and ecosystems, the unique traits of the individual are frequently overlooked. To address this, the diamond open-acce...
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Cara A Gallagher @caragallagher.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Excited to announce our Topical Collection at @ibe.pensoft.net on Individual‑based Conservation! We aim to highlight approaches integrating individual heterogeneity into management and conservation practice. Please submit, share, & reach out with any questions! Details: ibe.pensoft.net/news/1106
Flyer describing the Topical Collection, with an image of a cheetah and journal information. Full details in the link.
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Cara A Gallagher @caragallagher.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Absolutely thrilled to see this project taking flight! 🚀 Such a fantastic team tackling a really important topic. Can’t wait for the full suite of forecasting challenges to drop, hoping many of you will jump in and give them a go once they’re live!
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Maria Paniw @paniw.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
Interested in doing a PhD in biodiversity predictions 📈🐦🌸🪲📈? The Ciaxa Foundation has launched a call for PhD fellowships in 🇪🇸 Excellence Research Centers. @ebdonana.bsky.social is one of them: lacaixafoundation.org/en/doctoral-... 🧪🌎
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Maria Paniw @paniw.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
🚨 Job alert 🚨 Postdoc position in ecological forecasting 📈 as part of the Horizon Europe OSCARS call. The postdoc will be based in lovely Sevilla (fantastic place to live) and will include working closely with several European forecasting projects. Apply by Dec 11! 🌎🧪 globalchangeeco.com/jobs
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Cara A Gallagher @caragallagher.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Postdoc position(s) available! Work on: - Muskox movement ecology - Ecosystem & carbon dynamics These can be done back-to-back for someone keen on both topics or split into two separate roles. 📄 Full details in the attached flyer! #AcademicJobs #PostdocPositions #Ecophysiology #EcologyJobs
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Billur Bektaş 🍃 @billurbektas.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
🧊 Did your model freeze in time? Let’s bring it back to life! Join our hands-on workshop “Building Near-Term Iterative Forecasting Workflows” at #TIBS2026 – Aarhus, 6 Jan 2026 🌍 We’ll explore how to turn static predictions into dynamic, self-updating forecasts. @paniw.bsky.social
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Billur Bektaş 🍃 @billurbektas.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Are you involved in ecological forecasting in Europe? We’re mapping forecasting applications across the continent — from SDMs to observatories with predictive potential. Our goal: make EU forecasting more connected and identify both immediate and long-term forecasting potential.
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Cassie Speakman @cassiespeakman.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
The latest paper from the DISCAR synthesis group is out at Ecology Letters! We discuss the key approaches to predicting human impacts on wildlife populations, highlighting avenues for incorporating indirect effects, such as energetic modelling. doi.org/10.1111/ele....
Title and author list for the synthesis paper titled "Understanding and Predicting Population Response to Anthropogenic Disturbance: Current Approaches and Novel Opportunities" published in Ecology Letters.
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Marine Mammal Research at Aarhus University, Ecoscience @marinemammalsau.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
New York Times article discusses @nature.com paper by our Rune Dietz, Christian Sonne, and others at @au.dk and the University of Copenhagen 🌐🐋🧪🌏 @newyorktimeshaiku.bsky.social @ucph.bsky.social #Science #Research #impact #Mercury #Arcticchange
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Study Shows Mercury Levels in Arctic Wildlife Could Rise for Centuries
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Cara A Gallagher @caragallagher.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
Animal energetics, movement, and coexistence are inextricably linked. What insights emerge when we consider these processes together? In our new paper, we present a conceptual framework that integrates these domains, outlines their connections, and highlights the value of their joint study.
Triangle of links between the processes, highlighting their general interactions.
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Lila Buckingham @lilabuckingham.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
Do you use geolocators to estimate foraging time, behaviour, or energetics in diving seabirds? See our new paper for insights from a study of Common Guillemots. doi.org/10.61350/sbj... @theseabirdgroup.bsky.social
A graphical abstract depicting the paper title, author list, and brief description of the paper. One images displays an adult common gullemot with one logger on each leg, next to a chick. The second image displays a close-up of a common guillemot's legs with both loggers shown. The text reads: 
An improved method to derive behavioural budgets and energetics from geolocator data in Common Guillemots Uria aalge
Lila Buckingham, Maria Bogdanova, Francis Daunt, Robert Furness, Sophie Bennett, Ruth Dunn, David Jardine, Mark Newell, Ewan Weston & Jonathan Green
We deployed two devices (time-depth recorder & geolocator) on 39 Common Guillemots for one non-breeding season.
We allocated time to behaviours using 1) both devices (see Buckingham et al. 2023) and 2) only geolocators, following previous methods. 
We compared the behavioural budgets. We could not extract foraging behaviour (diving) when only using geolocator data.
We devised an improved method for estimating behaviours and energetics in Common Guillemots using geolocator data. We also provide guidance for studies of other diving seabirds that rest at sea.
Photos by Andrew Carter
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Mathieu Buoro @matbuoro.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
After years of non-stop brainstorming and hard work with @alamarins.bsky.social & co, we're thrilled to present IBASAM (v3): a spatially explicit demo-genetic individual-based model for anadromous salmonids (meta)populations. @inrhttps://ibe.pensoft.net/articles.php?id=153305
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IBASAM: a spatially explicit demo-genetic individual-based model for anadromous salmonids (meta)populations
To improve our understanding and management of species’ response to environmental and anthropogenic changes, there is a critical need for integrative modeling approaches that encompass demographic, ec...
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Marine Mammal Research at Aarhus University, Ecoscience @marinemammalsau.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Our Senior Researcher Fredrik Christiansen recently completed the third photogrammetry field season on bowhead whales in Disko Bay, Greenland. See Thread. 🌐🌏🐋🧪 @FChristiansen.bsky.social #marinemammology #ecology #cetaceanresearch #Arctic #MarineEcology #Research #Science
Our Senior Researcher Fredrik Christiansen completed the third photogrammetry field season on bowhead whales in Disko Bay, Greenland. Together with MSc student Oliver Nowak and local hunters, he measured over 500 whales during March to June to investigate their prey consumption and condition.
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Emily T Griffiths @emilytgriffiths.com · 26/06/2025
This week I'm out in the Danish #BalitcSea on the #SAMBAHII Project, working to monitor the remaining 500 Baltic #harborporpoise. Here, we are deploying a 4-channel array to calculate the #dectectionFunction, or the likelihood of detecting porpoise #echolocation in the study area.
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marikimient.bsky.social @marikimient.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
📣 New paper alert ! 📣 Image-based bio-logging offers unique insights into marine predator behaviour 🦭 🦈 🐧 🐢 and ecosystem functioning, but demands advanced analytical tools. #MarineConservation #AI #ComputerVision #BioLogging Grateful to the global inter-disciplinary collaborative effort! 🙏 😊
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Cara A Gallagher @caragallagher.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Excited to share our new paper on how empirical research can better support mechanistic models—through realistic, interdisciplinary data and by embracing complex, individual-level mechanisms. Born from a @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social symposium! doi.org/10.1111/2041... @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social
Graphical abstract illustrating four recommendations for ecological modeling with aquatic animals.

Be interdisciplinary and across levels: Includes icons for population biology (a bar chart of age structure) and behavioral ecology (a pie chart showing habitat use), plus a zoomed-in illustration of individual porpoises within a group.

Use mechanistic modeling instead of statistics as a conceptual framework: A curved line plot shows respiration increasing with temperature, with data points color-coded by temperature and a shaded area indicating stressful conditions.

Emphasize realism over precision: Shows a fish in a naturalistic habitat with plants and conspecifics, contrasted with a lone fish in a bare tank.

Include stressful conditions: Reiterated through both the curved plot and a separate graph with three treatments, where respiration increases across treatments and with temperature, with the highest temperature range shaded in red.
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Juliano Sarmento Cabral @jsarmentocabral.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Postdoc call in Mechanistic Biodiversity Modelling (up to 6 ya) at my lab @unibonn.bsky.social. We focus on modelling terrestrial plant communities, island biogeography, range dynamics, eco-evolutionary feedbacks, diversity gradients, tropical forests, vascular epiphytes. Pls rt! shorturl.at/CL1ny
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Postdoc in Mechanistic Biodiversity Modelling with temporary civil servant status (“Akademische*r Rätin*Rat)
100%, A 13, Reference number: 2025/49
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Ecological Forecasting Initiative @ecoforecast.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
✏️The African EFI Chapter has officially launched! The group will host a short course in Cape Town late 21-25th July. Applications close 9 June. Find details and the link to the application form at: ecoforecast.africa/events/curre... Please share with African colleagues and collaborators!
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GraphicsSci.bsky.social @graphicssci.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Tomorrow is the last day to apply! 🏃‍♀️
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Cara A Gallagher @caragallagher.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Excited to share our new paper led by Leonna Szangolies! We used a mechanistic, individual-based model grounded in animal energetics to explore how drought and habitat fragmentation interact to shape species coexistence 💻🐁🐀🐿️
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British Ecological Society @britishecologicalsociety.org · 17/04/2025
Well done, Leonna Szangolies, for winning the 2024 Elton Prize in @animalecology.bsky.social!🏆  Leonna’s research models how habitat fragmentation affects coexistence among species of different body sizes. 🐁  besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com…
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Jens-Christian Svenning @jcsvenning.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
🚨Postdoc opportunity @econovoau.bsky.social 🌍 Help forecast how rising ecological novelty reshapes #biodiversity & #vegetation 🌿 Work at the interface of species distribution models & dynamic global vegetation models 🌐🍃♨️- based in Aarhus, Denmark shorturl.at/t45JT #ecology #ecologyjob #macroecology
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2-yr postdoc on Forecasting Biosphere-Scale Effects of Ecological Novelty Using Species Distribution and Vegetation Models - Vacancy at Aarhus University
Vacancy at Department of Biology - Ecoinformatics and Biodiversity, Aarhus University
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Noam Ross @noamross.net · 19/04/2025
🚨Report your NSF grant terminations! 🚨 We are starting to collect information on NSF grant terminations to create a shared resource as we have for NIH. The more information we collect, the more we can organize, advocate, and fight back! Please share widely! airtable.com/appGKlSVeXni...
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Leibniz-Institut für Gewässerökologie und Binnenfischerei (IGB) @igb-berlin.de · 21/03/2025
📢 We invite applications for a 2-year postdoctoral position in modeling of eco-evolutionary community dynamics: karriere-igb.softgarden.io/job/54679292... #ScienceJobs in #Berlin #PostdocPosition
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Postdoctoral position in modeling of eco-evolutionary community dynamics (m/f/x) at Leibniz-Institut für Gewässerökologie und Binnenfischerei
We're looking for: Postdoctoral position in modeling of eco-evolutionary community dynamics (m/f/x) (Full or Part Time) • Müggelseedamm, 12587 Berlin, Deutschland
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Cassie Speakman @cassiespeakman.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Latest work from the DISCAR synthesis group. This was a really fun and interesting effort to lead with a great group of collaborators! I hope you enjoy it as much as I do! www.authorea.com/users/898395...
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Understanding and predicting population response to anthropogenic disturbance: Current approaches and novel opportunities
Effective conservation of biodiversity depends on the successful management of wildlife populations and their habitats. Successful management, in turn, depends on our ability to understand and accurat...
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Cara A Gallagher @caragallagher.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Steve Railsback & Volker Grimm, the dynamic duo of agent-based ecological modeling, are offering another short course in Chicago this year! I can’t recommend these courses highly enough—spread the word to anyone who might be interested! Details here: www.railsback-grimm-abm-book.com/shortcourse/
Gif showing output of the InSTREAM v7 agent-based trout model developed by Railsback & Harvey
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Floris M van Beest @beestfloris.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
New study out!! 25 years of harbour porpoise tracking data shows a decline in overlap between habitat suitability and the location of MPAs across the North Sea–Baltic Sea transition zone. Relevant info for the design of future MPAs under the EU Biodiversity Strategy 2030! shorturl.at/scIGB
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Shifts in habitat suitability for harbour porpoises leads to reduced importance of marine protected areas
Marine ecosystems across the globe are under pressure requiring evaluations of whether marine protected areas (MPAs) remain effective in safeguarding …
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Jacob Nabe-Nielsen @jacobnabe.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Exciting news! Our reports on the impact of offshore wind farms on wildlife in Denmark, including marine mammals, are now available: dce.au.dk/fileadmin/dc.... Great initiative by the Danish Energy Agency commissioning this important work 🧪🦭🐋 #dkgreen #AarhusUni
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Dr Vicky Boult (she/her) @vlboult.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
Excited by the idea of using #AI for #biodiversity #conservation? Interested in developing practical tools to mitigate human-wildlife conflict? Check out this #funded #PhD with me and @roboyd91. Deadline 27th Jan, get in touch with any Qs! www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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Leveraging Artificial Intelligence for Real-Time Early-Warnings of Human-Wildlife Conflict at University of Reading on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - Leveraging Artificial Intelligence for Real-Time Early-Warnings of Human-Wildlife Conflict at University of Reading, listed on FindAPhD.com
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Jens-Christian Svenning @jcsvenning.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
Check our two open PhD positions in #ecology at @econovoau.bsky.social www.linkedin.com/posts/svenni... (note - as always in #Denmark - these positions come w/ full academic salaries) 🐎🍃🌎🌤️ #megafauna #vegetation #wildhorse #modelling
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Jens-Christian Svenning on LinkedIn: #modeling #wildhorses #wilderness #herbivores #ecosystems #ecology…
📢 Exciting PhD Opportunities in Ecology & Biodiversity! 🌍 Are you passionate about understanding and shaping the future of ecosystems? At Center for…
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Nicholas Per Huffeldt @nphuffeldt.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Here’s a few more biology/science related starter packs if you would like to add them Chronobiology go.bsky.app/Sw8L4aS Movement and migration ecologists go.bsky.app/SSiWN2u Tracking scientists go.bsky.app/3dwGu1c Nordic Researchers go.bsky.app/V9URRDU
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Jan Geert Hiddink @jangeerthiddink.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Join the seminar @sosbangor.bsky.social by Marianna Chimienti on “How can image-based bio-logging contribute to conservation?” Friday 29 November at noon: teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-joi...
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Francesco Garzon @garzonfrancesco.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
What do you do when an orca eats your research project? Why, you continue tracking of course! #trackingNotSlacking 🌊 New paper describes how orcas catch bluefin tuna, and shows the longest high-resolution tracking of an orca ever! @exetermarine.bsky.social 🦑🐠🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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High-resolution biologging of an Atlantic bluefin tuna captured and eaten by a supposed orca - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - High-resolution biologging of an Atlantic bluefin tuna captured and eaten by a supposed orca
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