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Joshua Twining @joshuaptwining.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Are you looking to get a graduate degree in Fisheries, Wildlife, and Conservation Sciences? This funded MS project at OSU is focused on testing a range of non-invasive method for small mammals (enclosed camera trapping + thermal cameras mounted on drones) against SCR applied to live trapping data.

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Joshua Twining @joshuaptwining.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

I am recruiting two funded graduate students (1 MS, 1 PhD) to join the lab and the Fisheries, Wildlife, and Conservation Sciences program at Oregon State University! If you are into population ecology and a combination of fieldwork and modeling - then check this out! Please share/repost widely!

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Tapani Hopkins @tapani-hopkins.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

About time. Not that I'm a fan of ranking journals, and of course there are genuine articles published in those journals, but this is just stating facts. If it's in most of MDPI/Frontiers, we can't trust it's been properly peer reviewed.

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Taal Levi @taaltree.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

Our department of Fisheries, Wildlife, and Conservation Sciences at Oregon State University is hiring a new Department Head. Any full profs out there wanting to lead us?! jobs.oregonstate.edu/postings/162...

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Department Head

The Department of Fisheries, Wildlife, and Conservation Sciences is seeking a Department Head. This is a full-time (1.00 FTE), 12-month, professional faculty position. The Department of Fisheries, Wil...

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Jack Bamber @jackantbam.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

⏰New Research ⏰ We quantified the direct impact of diversionary feeding on capercaillie productivity. We show an increase in the proportion of hen with a brood in DF sites (37% -> 85%) and, as a result, a 131% increase in chicks per hen. Read more here: www.researchgate.net/publication/... 1/7

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Galatea H @galateainthewild.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Advent Sci-Fact 9: Invasive squirrels do not avoid predator scent! Grey Squirrels (Invasive in the UK) do not avoid feeders with Pine Marten scent. Native Red Squirrels visit scented feeders less frequently, for shorter visits and are more vigilant! Paper: tinyurl.com/23u944wq #SciComm #SciArt 🧪🌍🐿

Two panel diagram. Left panel shows red (native) squirrel and grey (invasive) squirrel eating a peanut.
Right panel shows a peanut covered with Pine Marten (Native Predator) scent. The grey squirrel is eating the peanut, the red squirrel does not. Text shows it is avoiding the feeder and behaving more vigilantly.

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Joshua Twining @joshuaptwining.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Are you interested in species interactions and how we model them? Then this thread is for you! Our new paper in Ecology on the role of abundance in species interactions provides new statistical tools for modelling species interactions. shorturl.at/Sqz9m 🧵(1/13)🧵

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Abundance‐mediated species interactions

Species interactions shape biodiversity patterns, community assemblage, and the dynamics of wildlife populations. Ecological theory posits that the strength of interspecific interactions is fundament...

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Sarah B. Bassing, PhD @sbassing.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Very cool model and paper!

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Joshua Twining @joshuaptwining.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

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Abundance‐mediated species interactions

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