Brian Gerber
science-action.bsky.social
Brian Gerber
@science-action.bsky.social
Political science 27%
Sociology 16%
our paper on how light pollution affects bird vocal behavior is out today in Science!!

w/ @brentpease.bsky.social

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Reposted by Brian J. Gerber

Join us for another season of Snapshot Europe!

#cameratraps #wildlife #snapshoteurope
Hey Camera Trappers 📸🐺🐗🦌🦅Snapshot Europe is back for 2025!
Join us in deploying cameras this Sept-Oct. Help build a crucial snapshot of European biodiversity. Learn more & express interest here ▶️ app.wildlifeinsights.org/initiatives/...
Spread the word and help expand our community across Europe🙏
Hey Camera Trappers 📸🐺🐗🦌🦅Snapshot Europe is back for 2025!
Join us in deploying cameras this Sept-Oct. Help build a crucial snapshot of European biodiversity. Learn more & express interest here ▶️ app.wildlifeinsights.org/initiatives/...
Spread the word and help expand our community across Europe🙏

Reposted by Brian J. Gerber

If you're interested in the Pacific Northwest, urban carnivores, wolverines, amphibians, bats, #conservationtechnology, or how woodlandparkzoo.bsky.social is conserving wildlife, check out fox13.bsky.social ‘s “Saving Wildlife.” The first episode just dropped:

www.fox13seattle.com/video/1642484
Saving Wildlife: Discovering NW Nature
Saving Wildlife: Discovering NW Nature
www.fox13seattle.com

Reposted by Brian J. Gerber

New blog post sharing updates on the latest version of the Diel.Niche R package, which we just released about an hour ago. Interested in quantifying if a species is nocturnal with data? Well it is easier than ever now! 🧪 #rstats #cameratrapping

masonfidino.com/Diel.Niche_u...

Reposted by Ricardo Rocha

New research led by @science-action.bsky.social and team exploring the daily activity patterns of animals using camera trap data from across the globe.

www.popsci.com/environment/...
Morning lark or night owl? Prevailing ideas of mammal activity are outdated
Many species can't be easily categorized as nocturnal or diurnal, a new study suggests.
www.popsci.com

Reposted by Fabiola Iannarilli

When the wild things are: Defining mammalian diel activity and plasticity | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/abs/10.1...
When the wild things are: Defining mammalian diel activity and plasticity
Many species of mammals worldwide are highly plastic in their timing of diel activity, which has unknown fitness consequences.
www.science.org

Reposted by Brian J. Gerber

Counter to our hopes and dreams, marbled murrelet surveys yield little information about nest locations…(led by Jonathan Valente). journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

Reposted by Brian J. Gerber

New BBC story on conservation efforts for arctic fox populations in Scandinavia led by researchers at NINA www.bbc.com/future/artic...
'If we stop now, they're gone forever': The Nordic countries breeding Arctic foxes
Arctic foxes were almost hunted to extinction in Sweden, Norway and Finland. Can projects to breed and feed them help this native species return for good?
www.bbc.com

[Iannarilli et 2024](besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...) show how to use hierarchical models to estimate animal diel activity. We can also use this type of modeling to [estimate diel overlap between species](github.com/diel-project...).
github.com

Reposted by Brian J. Gerber

🚨New paper out 🚨

We put together a how-to guide on analyzing diel activity patterns using hierarchical models while accounting for site-to-site variability and sampling effort.

Check out the paper: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
and tutorial: hms-activity.netlify.app
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...
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com