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Juliana Vélez Gómez

@julivg.bsky.social
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Postdoc, Natural Capital Project @Stanford | Chair, IUCN SSC Tapir Specialist Group | Fulbrighter | Passionate about improving agricultural systems to protect ecosystems and biodiversity. #Wildlife #Tapirs #HealthyEcosystems #LatinaInSTEM 🇨🇴

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Juliana Vélez Gómez @julivg.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Excited to assume the role of Chair of the IUCN SSC Tapir Specialist Group! 🌱 Threats to all four tapir species demand action. Grateful to Patricia Medici for 25 years of inspiring leadership & excited to collaborate with our global network to scale conservation! #Tapirs #IUCN #Biodiversity
Team of researchers collecting hair samples during a tapir capture!
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Juliana Vélez Gómez @julivg.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
🌿 An honor to present at UC Berkeley's Wildlife Seminar where I talked about the use of AI + species distribution models to study agriculture's impacts on wildlife and One Health. Thanks @ornithoale.bsky.social for hosting me! #Wildlife #Tapirs #OneHealth #AIinConservation #UCBerkeley
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Monica G. Turner @monicagturner.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Hmmm…
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Juliana Vélez Gómez @julivg.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Very excited to connect with the Berkeley wildlife community tomorrow and share my work on tapirs, expansion of vector-borne diseases, and One Health! 🌱 🦌 🦠 #Biodiversity #AI #Nature #OneHealth #Climate #Tapirs #DiseaseEcology #Screwworm #Conservation #CameraTraps
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John M. Drake @jdrakephd.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
An ambitious new report, commissioned by #TheLancet, seeks to reframe #OneHealth to be an even more encompassing framework. I spoke with co-chairs Andrea Winkler and John Amuasi about their process. The report: www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... My interview: www.forbes.com/sites/johndr...
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The Lancet One Health Commission: harnessing our interconnectedness for equitable, sustainable, and healthy socioecological systems
Industrialisation, urbanisation, and globalisation have substantially improved human life expectancy over the past century. In tandem, an expanding array of interlinked threats to humans, other animal...
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Juliana Vélez Gómez @julivg.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
Our paper on New World Screwworm outbreaks in wildlife is out! This flesh-eating parasite isn’t just attacking livestock & humans—it’s now threatening the endangered mountain tapir, a keystone Andean species. #Screwworm #Wildlife #InfectiousDiseases #Tapirs #OneHealth wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/...
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Laura Dee @lauradee.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Foundations and future directions for causal inference in ecological research, forthcoming w/ @katherinesiegel.bsky.social: tinyurl.com/4mm57zzd. We wrote it based on our experience teaching causal inference to ecologists w/ some stuff we wish other papers had reviewed to share w/ the students 1/n
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Carl Boettiger @cboettig.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Great paper surveying practices around occupancy modeling in ecology doi.org/10.1111/ecog... from @ben-r-goldstein.bsky.social & co. Not a flattering view -- from data collection to statistical methods to peer review we're falling short, but many actionable suggestions here!
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How do ecologists estimate occupancy in practice?
Over 20 years ago, ecologists were introduced to the site occupancy model (SOM) for estimating occupancy rates from detection-nondetection data. In the ensuing decades, the SOM and its hierarchical m....
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Vincent Arel-Bundock @vincentab.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Our JSS article is out! And now I get to focus on {marginaleffects} 1.0.0. Stay tuned. www.jstatsoft.org/article/view...
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Robbi Bishop-Taylor 🛰️🌏 @satellitesci.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
One of my favourite data discoveries this year: Google's mind-blowing ARCO-ERA5 dataset: hourly data for ~300 climate variables, available globally from 1940! 🤯 Loadable with a single line of Python code from a single cloud-friendly Zarr file! Below: a month of wind waves + swell: 🌊
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Dustin Marshall @djmmeeg.bsky.social · 07/11/2024
I wrote (ranted) on experimental design as I was frustrated as an editor at how little guidance students were getting. I underestimated the interest in the issue: it has been downloaded 10,000+ times! Clearly it’s something we need to be talking about more. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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Principles of experimental design for ecology and evolution
Here I argue that we do not discuss experimental design, often until it is too late. This editorial seeks to begin a conversation about how and where to replicate appropriately.
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Nicolas Mainville @carbonick.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
*Don’t trade off #carbon for #biodiversity* The scientific consensus is clear: we cannot address climate change by industrialising the biosphere. #Climate solutions must protect ecosystem integrity and support biodiversity, not compromise them for carbon gains.🌎 theconversation.com/the-climate-...
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The climate and biodiversity crises are entwined, but we risk pitting one against the other
In our race to cool the planet, we must not compromise the ecosystems on which we depend.
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Nate Looker @regolithhealth.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Un tramito de la red de “caminos de bestia” que aprovechan de los parteaguas prolongados de la cuenca del Río Pixquiac en las faldas orientales del Cofre de Perote en Veracruz, México #TropicalMontaneTuesday #TephraTuesday
A foot/mule trail eroded into volcanic ejecta, adorned by moss and ferns
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Mason Fidino, PhD @masonfidino.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Interested in quantifying animal diel activity with hierarchical models? Check out this amazing how-to guide from @fa-bio-la.bsky.social , @science-action.bsky.social , and John Fieberg! 🧪 besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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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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David Lowry @davidlowry.bsky.social · 08/11/2024
Just wanted to let folks know that I am still looking to fill this position. I am hoping to start reviewing applications on Monday. Thanks for passing this along to anyone who might be interested.
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Sara Mendes @sarammendes.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
🔥 Paper in Science🔥 We found that at least a third of the seed dispersers and interactions face potential extinction, in Europe 🌿🌳🐦‍⬛🦆🌍 #seeddispersal www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Evidence of a European seed dispersal crisis
Seed dispersal is crucial for ecosystem persistence, especially in fragmented landscapes, such as those common in Europe. Ongoing defaunation might compromise effective seed dispersal, but the conserv...
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 18/11/2024
A species of curlew found in mainland Europe, north Africa and west Asia has become the first bird in the regions to become extinct Conservationists said the demise of the slenderbilled curlew was one of the “most devastating losses in a century”.
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"Conservation shock as curlew species dies out"

The story reports the extinction of the slender-billed curlew (Numenius tenuirostris), a bird species that was once found in mainland Europe, North Africa, and West Asia. It is the first bird to become extinct in these regions in recent times and represents one of the most devastating losses in a century, according to conservationists.
The article is accompanied by two images:

An archival black-and-white photo showing several slender-billed curlews.
A more recent color photo of the curlew in its natural habitat, highlighting its distinctive slender bill and speckled plumage.
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Juliana Vélez Gómez @julivg.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Introductory post! I’m an ecologist who applies quantitative methods to study wildlife in disturbed areas. Challenging myself to go beyond quantifying species’ response to the environment, to developing ecosystem-scale experiments to identify effective conservation actions.
Equipping a lowland tapir with a GPS collar and measuring its physiological parametersA female lowland tapir and her calf detected by a camera trapDeployment of acoustic recorders paired with camera traps to monitor threats to wildlife Jaguar detected by a camera trap
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