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Ollie Wearn @olliewearn.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

See the infographic and the link above for detailed information. Feel free to get in touch with any queries and I'd appreciate it if you could share with anyone you know!

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Ollie Wearn @olliewearn.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

🚨 Consultancy opportunity with the Snow Leopard Trust ✅ Advanced skills in species distribution modelling & spatial prioritisation ✅ Great communication skills ✅ An understanding of conservation realities in Central Asia/Asia snowleopard.org/wp-content/u... 🧪🌍 #conservationscience

Slide summarising the details of the job, specifying the main topic, which is SPARC (Spatial Planning for Protected Areas in Response to Climate Change). Deadline for proposals 30th Sept. Start date October.

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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

love that reporters now have to announce tech product launches the way your local water authority informs you of an effluent release about to hit your favourite beach

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Ollie Wearn @olliewearn.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

I cannot complain one iota about the vistas here. 📍 South Gobi, Mongolia

Red quad bike/ATV in bottom left of image, with desert landscape below blue skies of South Gobi, a mountain rocky outcrop in the middle distance and green bushes in foreground

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Ollie Wearn @olliewearn.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

There’s a certain poetic neatness to the Pacific Swifts nesting on the State Ballet & Opera Theatre in the centre of Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. I bloody love swifts, whether seen high on a mountain top or in the heart of a capital city. Don’t their screams in Summer bring everyone a bit of joy?

Neoclassical style column of the state ballet & opera theatre, with a Pacific swift nest in the light fitting

Close up of the nests around the light fitting

Front view of the theatre lit up at night

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Julia Koricheva @juliakoricheva.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Exciting times at @royalholloway.bsky.social Peregrines livestream! First chick has arrived (11.25) and now second is on its way (12.49) 🐣 www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDv_...

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Royal Holloway Peregrines

YouTube video by Royal Holloway Peregrines

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Ollie Wearn @olliewearn.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Ah thank-you. I clearly can’t read axis titles properly 🤦‍♂️

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Ollie Wearn @olliewearn.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Really interesting #dataviz that I’ve never seen before. Also what is happening to people once they enter their 40s?! (or alternatively what happened ~1985?)

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James Dyke @jamesgdyke.info · 28/04/2026

Good to see this new report from bank J.P. Morgan on deep uncertainty about climate change & tipping points. One way it could significantly reduce this uncertainty is by stopping being the world's largest funder of oil & gas. jpmorgan.celero.site/s/ab29c67c/c... bank.green/banks/jpmorg...

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Iago Ferreiro @iagoferreiro.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

1/8 🐺📢 Our study in Behavioral Ecology is out now! We explore the drivers of daily movements of wolves in human-dominated landscapes and found out that they shorten considerably their movements 🔗 Paper: sl1nk.com/xkue00q 🧵👇 (📸 Francisco J. Lema Fuentes).

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Ollie Wearn @olliewearn.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Scouting for #cameratrap spots 🤩 Spring is in full swing in green Spain! 📍Asturias, north of Spain

A verdant view over forests and mountains, with flower spikes (white asphodel) in the foreground

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Robert Francis @birdhistory.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

There are more than 11,000 kinds of birds. I evaluated them all and made a definitive list of the 100 greatest names. I consider myself a bird name connoisseur but these blew me away. Over the next 10 days I'll add them to this thread. This is the hardest thing I’ve ever done.

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Ollie Wearn @olliewearn.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Ah, closing the app and restarting seems to have fixed my problem with videos. Try that if you can’t play the video!

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Ollie Wearn @olliewearn.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Video doesn’t work for me - hopefully it does for you!

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Ollie Wearn @olliewearn.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Spotted a #wildcat, my 1st in broad daylight! 📍 Las Ubiñas-La Mesa Natural Park, Asturias, north of Spain Hybridisation likely an issue for the species in the park (as elsewhere); cat colonies are present in most villages. This one at least looks relatively pure bred to me (but genetics needed).

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Ollie Wearn @olliewearn.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

An ex-guillemot. On the beach in St Andrews (East Sands). Hoping these little guys are doing OK out there! #seabirds #deadseabird #beachcombing

A common guillemot (bright white belly, black head) lying on its back in the orange sand, one wing outstretched and with a small bracelet of wrack

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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

birds: they will never email you. and that’s a promise.

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Rosemary Mosco @rosemarymosco.com · 03/04/2026

I posted about this on my Facebook page, but I'm heartbroken about the God Squad's recent decision to allow oil and gas companies to harm Rice's Whales. You can learn more about these whales here: www.ourgulfwhale.org

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Ran Blekhman @blekhman.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

I wrote about why every lab should have AI use guidelines, and how to do it. open.substack.com/pub/blekhman...

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You need to make AI guidelines for your lab

Here's why you should, and how to start

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Ollie Wearn @olliewearn.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

Gold is great for forcing rich institutions/funders to pay tho, which doesn’t happen under hybrid models. I imagine this has led to a smidgen more equality North-South 😎. But the biggest winners in all of this are the mega publishers. Gold OA does nothing to reduce their stranglehold on science.

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Ollie Wearn @olliewearn.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

Gold OA has allowed those in the Global South & in conservation NGOs w/out journal subscriptions to jump the paywall, finally. Whilst also, partially (could do a lot better) protecting the ability for those same people to publish through waivers. So there’s also that. #conservationscience 🧪🌍

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Mike Kaspari @mikekaspari.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

NSF LTER program “archived”. LTER=“Long Term Ecological Research”. This program has been incredibly successful, incredibly frugal for what they accomplish, and…of course…targeted by evil know-nothings. My heart is breaking.

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Ollie Wearn @olliewearn.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

Mongolia 2027! (I gather you’ve run trips there)

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Ollie Wearn @olliewearn.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

They might work OK in the Global North, but beyond that, no chance. The training data are just not there yet, and for the long-tail of rare species in the tropics, it’ll take a long time to remedy this. Human experts can often provide likely IDs, by combining data with priors & info on habitat etc.

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Ollie Wearn @olliewearn.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

And as an extension of this: BirdNet and other global AI classifiers are not useful, generally, for biodiversity research. Despite the #AIhype 😏 For example, I saw a recent paper in PNAS using BirdNet concluding that bird diversity was higher in pasture and agriculture than in old-growth forest 🙃

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Miguel Clavero @chikichanka.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Surprising piece of information: on average, European eel reach sexual maturity at large age than any whale species. And certainly much older than any other exploited fish species. That's why short-term measures are not useful. Eels need a moratorium mimicking the whaling ban (see below)

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Ollie Wearn @olliewearn.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

Celebrated #WorldRewildingDay looking for brown bear signs in a wild corner of northern Spain. Success! Evidence of a bear enjoying last autumn’s beech mast. We also found clues of other interactions with the beech tree: some glistening inkcaps, and a dormice’s cache of hazelnuts inside a treehole

A lone hiker is in the mid distance, traversing heather & gorse, with a beech forest behind. In the distance a snow capped ridge of mountains

A series of bear dung boluses filled with beech seed husks sits in a crack in a rock surrounded by soft dry moss

A wonderful ent of a beech tree, its centre completely rotted out and three tripod legs left holding it up. All the “legs” and branches a shooting out a twisting at different angles

A cluster of glistening inkcap mushrooms growing inside a tree hole, surrounded by mulch filled with beech seeds and hazelnuts

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Ollie Wearn @olliewearn.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

It’s actually from the Editor-In Chief of the journal! 👀

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Ollie Wearn @olliewearn.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

I've had this from a journal: "Print your figure in a a letter size paper, place it *on the floor*, stand next to the page. Any text or number that you can´t read from that distance needs to be enlarged" Who is reading papers like this?! Also, I haven't had access to a printer since about 2007...

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Ollie Wearn @olliewearn.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

At the sharp edge of defending nature across the planet, rangers suffer. That’s for sure. They are also largely overlooked and undervalued. Hence, the importance of this call for urgent mental health support for rangers👇 Now that we can’t claim we didn’t know, what are we all going to do about it?

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Ollie Wearn @olliewearn.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

My kind of paper: tech (collars/tags), cool movement data, a hypothesis rooted in field observations, and a surprising finding!

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

In 2023, I sought to explain to a parliamentary committee what a structural collapse of the global food system would look like, and why this this is plausible - even likely. I think the likelihood has just ratcheted up a notch. I beg you to read and understand. Thanks www.monbiot.com/2023/03/09/t...

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The Hunger Gap

A gulf in public understanding prevents us from seeing how and why our food supply is at risk.

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Ollie Wearn @olliewearn.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Incredibly shortsighted decision by our govt to cut development funding, including taking an axe to nature recovery projects. It diminishes us a country, both at home & abroad. And so we slip inexorably ever closer to the little Britain dream of Farage and his billionaire mates.

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Ollie Wearn @olliewearn.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

You can now add (for $20) an AI agent to your RStudio session… Any support for non-profits @posit.co? This could help to speed up analyses in wildlife conservation.

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Ollie Wearn @olliewearn.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Broadly agree, Zack, & really important to hold Starmer to account for his own words! But not sure I agree with the last sentence, at least on current evidence. It doesn’t seem to be the case that Starmer’s doing anything T wants, more that he’s playing the long game.

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Chris Sharpe @sharpebirder.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

Although we have known this for many years—e.g. @neobirdconserve financed early work by Vitek Jirinek—this should have been the top news headline last week. These declines in 'pristine' tropical forests are well-documented, poorly understood and continue apace. www.science.org/content/arti...

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Birds are vanishing from tropical forests. Is another ‘silent spring’ coming?

As mysterious bird declines crop up in the Amazon and beyond, scientists suspect climate change may be to blame

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Ollie Wearn @olliewearn.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

I didn’t notice anywhere that it said it was AI, but also didn’t notice the name of an author either, which is a bit of a red flag

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Ollie Wearn @olliewearn.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Hi Laura, this write-up is AI generated I think? Just flagging this for others.

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Ollie Wearn @olliewearn.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Yep I agree, SCR certainly not easy, but the statistical foundations are solid, and it’s easier than the ‘unmarked’ route (REM/REST etc.)! There’s no reason why it shouldn’t be being applied across lynx populations in Europe in a standardised way. Interesting study, too, thanks for sharing!

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Miguel Bastos Araújo, PhD @miguelbaraujo.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

Some argue protected areas in fire-prone landscapes can undermine forest carbon (fuel build-up → higher fire risk). This paper shows Spanish protected areas consistently outperform comparable unprotected lands, strongest in National Parks. iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...

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Ollie Wearn @olliewearn.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Lynx (including Eurasian) are actually one of the “easier” ones, since you can identify individuals (unlike for, say, deer). Done with good survey design (and that doesn’t mean throwing a few cameras up and hoping for the best 🤓) and analysis, you can get an accurate & precise population estimate.

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Ollie Wearn @olliewearn.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

I don’t know what this is, but I am here for the team names

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Ollie Wearn @olliewearn.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

Essential reading for conservation scientists & ecologists (in fact anyone doing science across borders!) 🌍🧪https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ele.70227?af=R Remote-control science is an internet-enabled form of "parachute" science FWIW, I see a lot of this in AI and macroecology research

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Remote‐Control Science in Ecology: A Hidden Face of Scientific Neocolonialism

We introduce the concept of “remote-control science” as a modern form of scientific neocolonialism in ecology, where researchers, preferably from the Global North, control projects in the Global Sout...

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Miguel Clavero @chikichanka.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

"Podemos vivir sin lobos (...) como estuvimos a punto de vivir sin linces, como posiblemente podamos vivir en pocos años sin urogallos, salmones y anguilas (...). Pero somos muchas las personas que no queremos vivir sin ellos" Léete estoy de @ernestodmartin.bsky.social elpais.com/clima-y-medi...

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Podemos vivir sin lobos; viviremos peor

Matar 100 ejemplares, como ya ha sucedido en los montes asturianos y cántabros, es una muestra de populismo rural que desprecia el conocimiento científico y la ética

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Nadieh Bremer @nadiehbremer.com · 12/02/2026

📣 NEW! I’ve just released the BIGGEST and perhaps most creative project I’ve ever worked on! “Searching for Birds” searchingforbirds.visualcinnamon.com 🐤 A project, an article, an exploration that dives into the data that connects humans with birds, by looking at how we search for birds.

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