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Mark Harrison @drmarkharrison.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Excited to share this paper on impacts of wildfire and haze on primates globally (TLDR: generally not great!), and to work with such a great team on it! 🔥🐒 with 👥 A. C. de Andrade, @emmalokuciejewski.bsky.social, @georgiaallen.bsky.social & M. A. Imron 🔗 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Alice Rosen @alice-rosen.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

The first paper from my PhD is now out in the world 🌲📖 Modelling forest dynamics using IPMs and repeat lidar doi.org/10.1002/rse2...

Pipeline for integrating lidar data with structured demographic models for ecological inference. (a) Forest populations are surveyed at appropriate time intervals with a lidar scanner to produce high-resolution 3D point clouds. Point clouds are processed into canopy height models (CHMs) and digital terrain models (DTMs). (b) Individual tree segmentation is performed using a CHM-based algorithm (e.g. Dalponte & Coomes, 2016). (c) Relevant environmental variables are derived. For example, TWI is an indicator of soil moisture accumulation (Kopecký et al., 2021) and is calculated from the DTM. Local competition is inferred from the canopy density surrounding each tree, using the CHM. (d) Trees are matched across time points using a crown-matching algorithm (Battison et al., 2024; Olsoy et al., 2024), before measuring changes in size and classifying mortalities. (e) Continuous traits (e.g. height and crown area) are evaluated for their ability to predict survival and growth across the life cycle. (f) Selected traits and environmental parameters are used to model the vital rates using regressions. (g) The integral projection model (IPM) is constructed based on the selected vital rate models and key life history traits (e.g. mean life expectancy, longevity, generation time) are calculated. (h) Finally, IPM outputs are analysed to test ecological hypotheses.

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Emma Lokuciejewski 🦧 @emmalokuciejewski.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

I plotted thousands of GPS points of orangutans moving through the rainforest, over many years. Each colour represents a day following an orangutan. 🦧 Zoomed in, the results stop looking like output data from an extensive r script, instead look more like abstract art! 🎨

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🦧💚The Rimba 🦧💚 @therimba.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

As the new year begins, we’re continuing to share ‘The Rimba’— a self-published, not-for-profit children’s book created to help young readers understand rainforest loss and the role consumer choices, including sustainable palm oil, play in protecting forests & #orangutans

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Koen Van den Eeckhout @vandeneeckhoutkoen.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Arrows are tricky. For us, as the designer of the visual, it will be super clear what it means. But for someone looking at our visual for the first time, it can be highly ambiguous. Depending on the reader, the same arrow can mean sequence, zoom, range, label, movement,... 1/2

A three-column infographic showing that simple arrows are ambiguous because people interpret them in many different ways. The left column displays nine identical right-pointing arrows. The middle column lists possible interpretations: “First this, then that,” “Zooming in,” “Zooming out,” “This is the range,” “This element’s name is,” “The trajectory,” “All of this,” “Things come together,” and “Things split apart.” The right column offers visual alternatives for each meaning: numbered steps for sequence, magnification insets for zooming, a 0–100% bar for range, a label pointing to an element for naming, a dotted path for trajectory, a bracket for grouping “all of this,” a merging fork for things coming together, and a branching fork for things splitting apart.

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Orangutan Land Trust @orangutanlandtrust.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

"Humans are to blame for the decline of these amazing apes — but people are also responsible for saving orphaned orangutans and helping them learn how to survive in the wild." - @emmalokuciejewski.bsky.social therevelator.org/save-this-sp...

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Save This Species: Bornean Orangutan • The Revelator

Humans are to blame for the decline of these amazing apes — but people are also responsible for saving orphaned orangutans and helping them learn how to survive in the wild.

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Emma Lokuciejewski 🦧 @emmalokuciejewski.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

After many years of trying to combine my 2 passions, art 🎨 and science 👩‍🔬, into something meaningful, i have created an educational #ChildrensBook! 📚 ✨ Meet The Rimba🦧, a gentle, lyrical tale about a wise orangutan guardian spirit who protects her rainforest home and the creatures who depend on it.

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Emma Lokuciejewski 🦧 @emmalokuciejewski.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

I have published a childrens book! 📚🦧 'The Rimba' is a lyrical tale about the rainforest’s guardian spirit, a wise orangutan named Rimba, who rises to protect her home and the creatures within it, from the impacts of deforestation for palm oil. 🌴 #NewBook #ChildrensBook #orangutan #conservation

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Emma Lokuciejewski 🦧 @emmalokuciejewski.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

Are you also sick of seeing a poster full of text and 6 blue rectangles around it at a conference? 🙄 If you know someone who could benefit from professional scientific illustration for figures, presentations, and posters, please like, share, or tag them! #ScientificIllustration

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Movebank @movebank.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Next AniMove course for #animaltracking data will be in Costa Rica, Nov-Dec 2025! Find out more and sign up here: animove.org/next-animove...

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Next Animove 2025, Costa Rica | AniMove

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Emma Lokuciejewski 🦧 @emmalokuciejewski.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

🚨 A stark contrast... On one side of the river, the productive and vibrant rainforest - home to #orangutans, tigers, gibbons, hornbills and countless other species. On the other, never ending swathes of #OilPalm plantations, creeping closer every day. 🌴

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Emma Lokuciejewski 🦧 @emmalokuciejewski.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Or we could just stop them needing to be translocated in the first place... 🤔 ‘Like kidnapping your grandpa’: why relocating orangutans threatens their survival www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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‘Like kidnapping your grandpa’: why relocating orangutans threatens their survival

The endangered great apes of Malaysia and Indonesia struggle when translocated despite efforts to protect them, finds research

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Sasha Winkler @sashawinkler.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

New article by my PhD advisor Erica Cartmill that does a fantastic job summarizing our lab's research on playful teasing in great apes! I bet you'll be ape-solutley tickled to read it (ok sorry I had to): www.scientificamerican.com/article/grea... #primates #animals #humor #science #anthropology

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Great Apes Joke Around, Suggesting Humor Is Older Than Humans

Studies of great apes hint at why and when clowning behavior evolved

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Emma Lokuciejewski 🦧 @emmalokuciejewski.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Hi, I'm Emma, an orangutan-ologist 🦧 and digital illustrator 🎨. Follow me for content on #conservation, #AnimalBehaviour, #ScientificIllustration, and obviously #orangutans. 👋🤓

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