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Reyhane Rastgoo

@reeyraa.bsky.social
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Ph.D. Student at Virginia Tech 🦃 | Conservation Social Scientist | IGC Fellow | For Wildlife 🐾🌲 linktr.ee/Reeyraa

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Global Change Center at Virginia Tech @globalchangevt.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Congratulations 2026-27 IGC GSO Officers! Thank you to our outgoing GSO members for their service, and welcome to the new officers who will help support the IGC community through educational, social, and organizational initiatives. More: globalchange.vt.edu/news/news-st...
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Congratulations to New IGC GSO Officers for the 2026-2027 Academic Year
The IGC GSO exists to benefit the IGC community as a whole through student contributions and activities.
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Reyhane Rastgoo @reeyraa.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Webinar Alert 📣 Join us for a webinar presenting findings from a new literature review and practitioner interviews led by me, Kingsley Oppong, Dr. Ashley Dayer, Dr. Shorna Broussard Allred, and Dr. Katie Krafte Holland.
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Ethan Doney @ethanddoney.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Excited to share our new paper on habituation! It was such a privilege to work with such a brilliant team of collaorators on this work.
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Global Change Center at Virginia Tech @globalchangevt.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
🌎🐦 GCC faculty affiliate Dr. Ashley Dayer is using social science to protect Atlantic Flyway shorebirds! Her research guides conservation strategies from New York to Florida and informs Virginia’s Wildlife Viewing Plan.
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A rare Hawaiian bird’s history guides conservationist’s research today
Ashley Dayer’s work connects people and wildlife across continents.
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Michael Paul Nelson @michaelpaulnelson.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
We have a cool new post-doc appointment available at Oregon State, with secure private foundation funding! Help us help organizations who aspire to "nature-centrism" become more "nature-centric." #naturecentrism #sustainability #conservation #ecocentrism hr.oregonstate.edu/open-postdoc...
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Postdoctoral Research: Mainstreaming nature-centric thinking in organizations | Office of University Human Resources
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yvoscience.bsky.social @yvoscience.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
✨🍁Now Open! 🍁✨ The application for the Fall 2025 Young Voices of Science Program is now open through Friday, September 5th! Please share with your community! Application Form: forms.gle/Q7PvvNWQowF9... 🔗No need to be a student to apply! #science #sciencecommunication #scicomm
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People and Nature @peopleandnature.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
🐻 New Research - Who welcomes the bear: Evidence for a disconnect between attitudes and acceptability of killing brown bears ➡️ buff.ly/d4hqs0t A study in Iran recommends gender-inclusive outreach and economic diversification for bear conservation
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Reyhane Rastgoo @reeyraa.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
I'm happy to share our new article, published in People and Nature, in collaboration with a great team including @danialnayeri.bsky.social, Alireza Mohammadi, Alistair Bath, and Mohammad Farhadinia, exploring attitudes toward killing brown bears.
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yvoscience.bsky.social @yvoscience.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Here is a sneak peek of our YVoS Outreach Project Showcase! 🔎 ✨YVoS Alumn: Reyhane Rastgoo (Spring 2025) 💻Science Communication Program: Young Voices of Science 🍃Organization: @hubbardbrook.bsky.social #science #sciencecommunication #scicomn #pine #education #sciencecommunicator #infographic
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Reyhane Rastgoo @reeyraa.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
I am happy to share our new article, published in Biological Conservation, in collaboration with a fantastic team including Danial Nayeri, Alireza Mohammadi, Mohammad Farhadinia, Jeremy Bruskotter, and John A. Vucetich, exploring attitudes toward killing in the name of conservation (KITNOC).
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Reyhane Rastgoo @reeyraa.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
It was once said that a squirrel could travel through longleaf pine canopies from Virginia to Texas without touching the ground. But today, these majestic trees have declined by 90% from their original range and are now considered an endangered and vulnerable ecosystem.
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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Science friends! Many of you, alarmed by grant funding cuts that make expensive field ecology research difficult or impossible, have been thinking about what to do instead. Great idea. Some of you have been saying "I'll just do some social science surveys," without learning how. Bad idea! 🧵🧪
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Anthony (Tony) J. Martin @ichnologist.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Lovely burrow-inspired art! Gopher tortoises are the ecosystem engineers & the "landlords" of longleaf pine-wiregrass communities in south Georgia, with this cutaway view showing why. 🧪🎨
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Ashley Dayer @spokenbird.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
How can #birding be more accessible to people with #disability? See our research on constraints and facilitators!
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Accessible birding in the United States: constraints to and facilitators of birding with disabilities
While approximately one-quarter of the U.S. population has a disability, many people with disabilities remain excluded from equitable participation in birding. In this study, we compared the constr...
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Mark Andrachuk he/him @markandrachuk.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
I haven't seen a conservation social sciences starter pack so I decided to make one #ConSocSci #MarSocSci I am sure that I have missed people... please help me identify more people to add and let me know if you'd like me to add you! go.bsky.app/AdXdpZd
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Reyhane Rastgoo @reeyraa.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Hello Blue Sky!🦋
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