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Diego Ellis Soto @diegoellissoto.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

🐾🎶 What do the hidden lives of animals sound like? 🌎 Nature is always moving. Sometimes we simply need new ways to listen. 🎧 www.youtube.com/watch?v=3r7Q... Eight wildlife species become a musical ensemble in my new audiovisual piece, The City Remembers — Counterpoint of Coexistence. 🦝🦉🦆🦃 1/

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Listening to the hidden lives of animals: When movement becomes music

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Diego Ellis Soto @diegoellissoto.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Fresh off the press ! New work led by @drjerbs.bsky.social showing the importance of considering extreme weather when understanding species distributions and biodiversity predictions

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Diego Ellis Soto @diegoellissoto.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

🐾 New paper out in Proceedings B! How does wildlife respond to the presses, pulses & pauses of human activity? 🌍 📄 Open access: doi.org/10.1098/rspb... Thread bellow ⬇️ With Briana Abrahms, Kaitlyn Gaynor, Christian Rutz, and Christopher J. Schell.

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Wildlife movement responses to the press–pulse–pause of the Anthropocene

Abstract. Wildlife is increasingly forced to share space with humans, facing disturbances that operate across different spatial and temporal scales. The pr

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Diego Ellis Soto @diegoellissoto.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

This makes me wanna do a second PhD! Looking for a PhD or Postdoc project? Interested in quantitative approaches to investigate how wildlife copes with extreme weather events? Cannot recommend working with Jeremy and this department enough!

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Andrew Abraham @andrewabraham.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Doubled-edged Dispersal! In the Anthropocene, animals disperse a lot of things. From seeds and nutrients, to pathogens and invasives. Our new paper discusses the need to balance trade-offs when both desirable and undesirable functions occur simultaneously www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Diego Ellis Soto @diegoellissoto.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Check out our 'how to' of integrating extreme heat into studies of organismal biology and biogeography!

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Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

For research that "has transformed our understanding of bird migration" Andrea Flack is awarded the British Ornithologists’ Union Early Professional Award @anflack.bsky.social As Andrea's students will attest, "she is an excellent supervisor" too. Congrats @anflack.bsky.social and the Flack Flock

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Jeremy Cohen @drjerbs.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

🚨Now out! For 98 hummingbird species, we jointly model presence-only GBIF data + presence-absence ebird data, leveraging both simultaneously to arrive at more accurate predictions for under-surveyed species. And got the cover! Led by Jussi Mäkinen 🧪🌐 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

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Model‐Based Data Integration Improves Species Distribution Models for Data‐Deficient and Narrow‐Ranged Hummingbird Species

Aim For species with narrow ranges or low population sizes, a deficiency of species occurrence records can limit the capacity to build accurate species distribution models (SDMs). Model-based integr...

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Diego Ellis Soto @diegoellissoto.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

Making music with the birds 🐦🎶 Read this new piece on a portable, outdoor toolkit that combines: 🐦 listen to birds → 🎙️ record them → 🥁 turn them into beats 📖 Open access: esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... Turning bird sounds into music creates joy, curiosity, and connection.

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Listening and Making Beats With the Birds: An Outdoor Music‐Based Toolkit for Youth Engagement and Conservation Technologies

Biodiversity loss and unequal access to nature limit both ecological knowledge and opportunities for experiential learning. Here I present a portable, power outlet–independent educational toolkit tha....

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Diego Ellis Soto @diegoellissoto.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Thrilled to share our new preprint: “Extreme Heat as the New Normal” 🌡️🔥 We introduce a roadmap + code for identifying and mapping extreme heat 📏 and linking it to ecology: 🧭 Species distribution models 🐦 🌿 Biophysical models & microclimates 🦎 📉 Population dynamics 👥 doi.org/10.64898/202... 🧵 ⬇️

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Diego Ellis Soto @diegoellissoto.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Over the moon to be featured on NPR’s The Wild with Chris Morgan 🎧✨🌍🎶 From turning animal & plant data into music—🐢 🐜 🐦 🌿 —to educational programs I also share how music + nature supported me through my cancer survivorship journey 🎻🏥 🎧👇 www.kuow.org/stories/let-...

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Musical termites? What happens when you let nature sing

Host Chris Morgan interviews Dr. Diego Ellis Soto about his work to turn the movement and sounds of animals into music, combining science, technology, and music theory to reveal the hidden rhythms of ...

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Diego Ellis Soto @diegoellissoto.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Who knew termites can jam?! 🐜🎶 The collective behavior of 8 termites on a petri dish, translated into music. 🎧 Hear it here: soundcloud.com/diegoellis/w... How collective behavior becomes music: 🧠 www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYN5... 1/🧵

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Who knew termites can jam

Termites decide to create an animal opera in a petri dish sized world. I used artificial intelligence to track eight termites and map many of their collective and individual behaviors used for scienti

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Andrew Straw @andrewstraw.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

Have you ever wondered what you would find if you could keep your eyes on a bee for more than a few meters? Us, too! preprint (with videos!) + thread 🧵 Precise, individualized foraging flights in honey #bees 🐝 revealed by multicopter drone-based tracking www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 1/9

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

ARTISTS! I need your help! In collab. w/the Society for Integrative & Comparative Biology, I'm organizing a group of artists to come to our Jan. meeting! We're looking for artists to create based on what they learn at the conference. $1000 stipend. Application is V short! forms.gle/ah1i8KwNJinZ...

A picture of a frog on a leaf with the SICB and Skype a Scientist logos on the bottom right with the following words on top: "Call for Artists!" Learn about the latest animal research adn create art inspired by the science at the SICB meeting in Portland, OR. Deadline to apply: dec 12, Project dates Jan 3-7, Stipend $1000"

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AniMove @animove-course.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

🥳64 more days until the start of #Animove at #LaSelva Organization of Tropical Studies in #CostaRica. 22 participants, 6 tutors,2077 plant species,125 mammal species,470 bird species,48 amphibian species,87 reptile species,45 fresh water fish species and 10000 insects, arachnids and other.🐒🦇🦜🐊🦂

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Jeremy Cohen @drjerbs.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

🚨Now out in @pnas.org! Our group provides a framework to mathematically link environmental niches from individual to population and species scales. Our approach enables more accurate forecasting of biodiversity change across organismal levels. 🧪 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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Flo Grattarola @flograttarola.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

Muy feliz porque nuestro artículo sobre "un caso de ciencia comunitaria en América Latina desde una perspectiva crítica" fue finalmente publicado 💚 Fueron meses de trabajo, otros de reflexión y algunos más de proceso editorial. Pero finalmente ve la luz. Yo, ¡feliz! revistas.ufpr.br/made/article...

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NaturalistaUY no Uruguai: um caso de ciência comunitária na América Latina a partir de uma perspectiva crítica | Desenvolvimento e Meio Ambiente

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Diego Ellis Soto @diegoellissoto.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

Urban ecology meets urban agriculture and EJ ! Stay tuned for exciting updates in this space ... we are currently cooking up new curriculums integrating open source technologies. From bird biodiversity, to vegetation surveys and more ...

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Justine A Smith @justineasmith.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

Herculean effort by @kaitlyngaynor.bsky.social and our incredible NPS colleagues to explore variation in wildlife responses to recreation across our National Parks. Come for the COVID-19 lockdown data, stay for the typologies of animal responses to human activity.

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Diego Ellis Soto @diegoellissoto.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

Thrilled to share our new article in @pnas.org highlighting global gaps in where we study animal movement—and outlining the next generation of smart bio-loggers. 👉 Read the full study in PNAS: lnkd.in/exP8NCeZ 1/

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Open Acoustic Devices @openacousticdevices.info · 28/07/2025

I (Peter) have been a big fan of @bennjordan.bsky.social's work for ages, so it was great getting such praise for AudioMoth in his latest video. A fascinating dive into bird vocalisation with some great advice for taking your first steps into listening to the birds around you.

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Carl Boettiger @cboettig.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

Tidyverse team is doing some phenomenal work empowering RAG-based workflows in #rstats, github.com/tidyverse/ra...

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GitHub - tidyverse/ragnar

Contribute to tidyverse/ragnar development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Qiusheng Wu @giswqs.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

🚀 GeoAI Tutorial 21: Training a Segmentation Model for Water Detection from Satellite Imagery — with Just One Line of Code 🛰️ While previous tutorials focused on geospatial raster formats like GeoTIFF, this one adds support for non-georeferenced images such as JPG and PNG!

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AniMove @animove-course.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

🌿Apply now! 🌿🌴🦜 We’re thrilled to announce that applications for Animove are NOW OPEN 🥳 Learning new methods in animal movement analysis and connecting with nature in one of the most biodiverse places on Earth. We can't wait to see your application come through. See you in Costa Rica! 🇨🇷 #LaSelva

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IPBES @ipbes.net · 07/02/2025

🌿Are you an interdisciplinary expert on #biodiversity & nature's contributions to people? Here's your opportunity to be an author on the new @ipbes.net #GlobalAssessment2!🌍 🎯Academics, Indigenous knowledge-holders, practitioners etc.🧪 Apply by 28 March: www.ipbes.net/second-globa...

A close-up photo of a jaguar’s face, Overlay text reads “Call for nominations of experts for the second global assessment of biodiversity and ecosystem services. Deadline: 28 March 2025, #GlobalAssessment2”

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MoveApps @moveapps.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

We are hiring! We look for a person with programming skills in R and/or Python. Application deadline is March 14th 2025. All details here: www.ab.mpg.de/654153/job_f...

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Technical Assistant (m/f/d) | Moveapps

Help maintain and improve existing apps, create new apps, help maintaining the user manual up to date, support other developers if they encounter issues when developing their apps

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IPBES @ipbes.net · 30/01/2025

Various animals have achieved fame as 'endlings’ - the last individuals of their species. Can their tragic stories help to protect other threatened species? To unpack this, we talk to @alexanderlees.bsky.social & @joannalilley.bsky.social on #NatureInsight. bit.ly/3Ow0Wef

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IPBES @ipbes.net · 29/01/2025

'Endlings’ are the last individuals of their species. In the final episode of Season 4, @alexanderlees.bsky.social & @joannalilley.bsky.social talk about processing the loss of endlings (& the importance of conserving what's left) through science & art. Listen: Nature Insight: bit.ly/3Ow0Wef 🧪🌍

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Ben Sheldon @sheldonbirds.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

Unsurprisingly I am very much in agreement with this article. I've put a lot of effort in recently to prevent the undermining of field-based teaching, including pointing out the invisible subsidy that field-based teaching (& research) provide other teaching & research www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...

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Extinction of experience among ecologists

Fieldwork-based research and education in ecology are under multiple threats and are progressively declining. We call for greater attention to this ongoing loss of direct field experience within the e...

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Methods in Ecology and Evolution @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

📖Published📖 In our new Application article, Papadopoulou et al. present the swaRmverse package, an R package for the comparative analysis of collective motion 🌎 🧪 Find out more here👇 buff.ly/3CSAEQW

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Aerin Jacob, PhD @aerinj.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

Happy New Year! I updated my webpage of envirionment-related scholarships, grants, & awards: www.aerinjacob.ca/funding--awa... It includes: * science * action & policy * communication * travel awards * international tho' emphasis on N Am, Africa, & women Please share. #ConservationFunding

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Funding & awards

A list of conservation-related scholarships, fellowships, funding, and awards.

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Fabiola Iannarilli @fa-bio-la.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

🚨New paper out 🚨 We put together a how-to guide on analyzing diel activity patterns using hierarchical models while accounting for site-to-site variability and sampling effort. Check out the paper: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... and tutorial: hms-activity.netlify.app

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A ‘how‐to’ guide for estimating animal diel activity using hierarchical models

We illustrate how hierarchical models can be used to estimate animal diel activity whilst accounting for variability in activity levels and sampling effort. These models also allow researchers to mor...

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