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Cara A Gallagher
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Human girl - Ecomodeller - Tenure Track Researcher @aarhusuni.bsky.social - Prev. postdoc @ Uni Potsdam - Energetics, behavior, & agent-based modelling ⚡🐾🖥️ - Graphic art enthusiast 🖌️ - Editor @ibe.pensoft.net & Movement Ecology
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cassiespeakman.bsky.social
The latest paper from the DISCAR synthesis group is out at Ecology Letters! We discuss the key approaches to predicting human impacts on wildlife populations, highlighting avenues for incorporating indirect effects, such as energetic modelling. doi.org/10.1111/ele....
Title and author list for the synthesis paper titled "Understanding and Predicting Population Response to Anthropogenic Disturbance: Current Approaches and Novel Opportunities" published in Ecology Letters.
August 23, 2025 at 10:40 AM
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marinemammalsau.bsky.social
New York Times article discusses @nature.com paper by our Rune Dietz, Christian Sonne, and others at @au.dk and the University of Copenhagen 🌐🐋🧪🌏

@newyorktimeshaiku.bsky.social @ucph.bsky.social
#Science #Research #impact #Mercury #Arcticchange
Study Shows Mercury Levels in Arctic Wildlife Could Rise for Centuries
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September 3, 2025 at 12:47 PM
caragallagher.bsky.social
Animal energetics, movement, and coexistence are inextricably linked. What insights emerge when we consider these processes together? In our new paper, we present a conceptual framework that integrates these domains, outlines their connections, and highlights the value of their joint study.
Triangle of links between the processes, highlighting their general interactions.
August 13, 2025 at 6:41 AM
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lilabuckingham.bsky.social
Do you use geolocators to estimate foraging time, behaviour, or energetics in diving seabirds? See our new paper for insights from a study of Common Guillemots.

doi.org/10.61350/sbj...

@theseabirdgroup.bsky.social
A graphical abstract depicting the paper title, author list, and brief description of the paper. One images displays an adult common gullemot with one logger on each leg, next to a chick. The second image displays a close-up of a common guillemot's legs with both loggers shown. The text reads: An improved method to derive behavioural budgets and energetics from geolocator data in Common Guillemots Uria aalge Lila Buckingham, Maria Bogdanova, Francis Daunt, Robert Furness, Sophie Bennett, Ruth Dunn, David Jardine, Mark Newell, Ewan Weston & Jonathan Green We deployed two devices (time-depth recorder & geolocator) on 39 Common Guillemots for one non-breeding season. We allocated time to behaviours using 1) both devices (see Buckingham et al. 2023) and 2) only geolocators, following previous methods. We compared the behavioural budgets. We could not extract foraging behaviour (diving) when only using geolocator data. We devised an improved method for estimating behaviours and energetics in Common Guillemots using geolocator data. We also provide guidance for studies of other diving seabirds that rest at sea. Photos by Andrew Carter Seabird 37 (2025) Early Release
August 11, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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matbuoro.bsky.social
After years of non-stop brainstorming and hard work with
@alamarins.bsky.social & co, we're thrilled to present IBASAM (v3): a spatially explicit demo-genetic individual-based model for anadromous salmonids (meta)populations. @inrhttps://ibe.pensoft.net/articles.php?id=153305
IBASAM: a spatially explicit demo-genetic individual-based model for anadromous salmonids (meta)populations
To improve our understanding and management of species’ response to environmental and anthropogenic changes, there is a critical need for integrative modeling approaches that encompass demographic, ec...
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June 13, 2025 at 6:33 AM
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marinemammalsau.bsky.social
Our Senior Researcher Fredrik Christiansen recently completed the third photogrammetry field season on bowhead whales in Disko Bay, Greenland. See Thread.

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@FChristiansen.bsky.social

#marinemammology #ecology #cetaceanresearch
#Arctic #MarineEcology #Research
#Science
Our Senior Researcher Fredrik Christiansen completed the third photogrammetry field season on bowhead whales in Disko Bay, Greenland. Together with MSc student Oliver Nowak and local hunters, he measured over 500 whales during March to June to investigate their prey consumption and condition.
June 30, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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emilytgriffiths.com
This week I'm out in the Danish #BalitcSea on the #SAMBAHII Project, working to monitor the remaining 500 Baltic #harborporpoise. Here, we are deploying a 4-channel array to calculate the #dectectionFunction, or the likelihood of detecting porpoise #echolocation in the study area.
June 26, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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marikimient.bsky.social
📣 New paper alert ! 📣
Image-based bio-logging offers unique insights into marine predator behaviour 🦭 🦈 🐧 🐢 and ecosystem functioning, but demands advanced analytical tools. #MarineConservation #AI #ComputerVision #BioLogging

Grateful to the global inter-disciplinary collaborative effort! 🙏 😊
predateursmarins.bsky.social CEBC Predateurs Marins team @predateursmarins.bsky.social · Jun 23
Out in Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Chimienti et al. Reviewing seas of data: Integrating image-based bio-logging and artificial intelligence to enhance marine conservation
dx.doi.org/10.1111/2041...

#ecology #seabirds #ai #biologging @cebc-chizelab.bsky.social @cnrsecologie.bsky.social
Examples of challenges encountered in image-based bio-logging (both camera and microsonar tags): Imbalanced light conditions, low contrast, blur, overexposure, small and clustered targets, scalability and target size
June 24, 2025 at 1:43 PM
caragallagher.bsky.social
Excited to share our new paper on how empirical research can better support mechanistic models—through realistic, interdisciplinary data and by embracing complex, individual-level mechanisms. Born from a @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social symposium!
doi.org/10.1111/2041...
@methodsinecoevol.bsky.social
Graphical abstract illustrating four recommendations for ecological modeling with aquatic animals. Be interdisciplinary and across levels: Includes icons for population biology (a bar chart of age structure) and behavioral ecology (a pie chart showing habitat use), plus a zoomed-in illustration of individual porpoises within a group. Use mechanistic modeling instead of statistics as a conceptual framework: A curved line plot shows respiration increasing with temperature, with data points color-coded by temperature and a shaded area indicating stressful conditions. Emphasize realism over precision: Shows a fish in a naturalistic habitat with plants and conspecifics, contrasted with a lone fish in a bare tank. Include stressful conditions: Reiterated through both the curved plot and a separate graph with three treatments, where respiration increases across treatments and with temperature, with the highest temperature range shaded in red.
June 23, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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jsarmentocabral.bsky.social
Postdoc call in Mechanistic Biodiversity Modelling (up to 6 ya) at my lab @unibonn.bsky.social. We focus on modelling terrestrial plant communities, island biogeography, range dynamics, eco-evolutionary feedbacks, diversity gradients, tropical forests, vascular epiphytes. Pls rt! shorturl.at/CL1ny
Postdoc in Mechanistic Biodiversity Modelling with temporary civil servant status (“Akademische*r Rätin*Rat)
100%, A 13, Reference number: 2025/49
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May 29, 2025 at 8:09 AM
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ecoforecast.bsky.social
✏️The African EFI Chapter has officially launched! The group will host a short course in Cape Town late 21-25th July. Applications close 9 June.

Find details and the link to the application form at: ecoforecast.africa/events/curre...

Please share with African colleagues and collaborators!
ecoforecast.africa
June 2, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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graphicssci.bsky.social
Tomorrow is the last day to apply! 🏃‍♀️
graphicssci.bsky.social GraphicsSci.bsky.social @graphicssci.bsky.social · May 19
Science Graphic Design is hiring! 🚨

We’re looking for an experienced science graphic designer/illustrator to join us for a 3-month contract over the summer and help us through a busy and exciting season.

Apply now at www.sciencegraphicdesign.com/opportunities

🇬🇧 UK only!
Science graphic design is looking for an experienced graphic designer / illustrator to work with us this summer. Apply by the end of May at www dot science graphic design dot com slash opportunities
May 30, 2025 at 7:06 AM
caragallagher.bsky.social
Excited to share our new paper led by Leonna Szangolies!
We used a mechanistic, individual-based model grounded in animal energetics to explore how drought and habitat fragmentation interact to shape species coexistence 💻🐁🐀🐿️
globalchangebio.bsky.social Global Change Biology @globalchangebio.bsky.social · May 26
Intermediate Habitat Fragmentation Buffers Droughts: How Individual Energy Dynamics Mediate Mammal Community Response to Stressors

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May 30, 2025 at 7:11 AM
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britishecologicalsociety.org
Well done, Leonna Szangolies, for winning the 2024 Elton Prize in @animalecology.bsky.social!🏆 

Leonna’s research models how habitat fragmentation affects coexistence among species of different body sizes. 🐁 

https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1365-2656.14134
April 17, 2025 at 9:45 AM
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jcsvenning.bsky.social
🚨Postdoc opportunity @econovoau.bsky.social 🌍
Help forecast how rising ecological novelty reshapes #biodiversity & #vegetation 🌿 Work at the interface of species distribution models & dynamic global vegetation models 🌐🍃♨️- based in Aarhus, Denmark shorturl.at/t45JT #ecology #ecologyjob #macroecology
2-yr postdoc on Forecasting Biosphere-Scale Effects of Ecological Novelty Using Species Distribution and Vegetation Models - Vacancy at Aarhus University
Vacancy at Department of Biology - Ecoinformatics and Biodiversity, Aarhus University
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April 24, 2025 at 6:16 AM
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noamross.net
🚨Report your NSF grant terminations! 🚨

We are starting to collect information on NSF grant terminations to create a shared resource as we have for NIH. The more information we collect, the more we can organize, advocate, and fight back! Please share widely!

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NSF Grant Termination Information Collection Form Please use this form to submit information identifying specific NSF grants that have been cancelled for any reason after January 20, 2025. We are tracking these grants to increase transparency, organize affected PIs, and facilitate responses, including via litigation. Please share the form as widely as possible with your networks. We are actively building a pipeline to organize these terminations and will soon have a tracker akin to our NIH grant tracker at https://airtable.com/appjhyo9NTvJLocRy/shrNto1NNp9eJlgpA WE WILL NOT DISCLOSE THE IDENTITY OF ANYONE WHO USES THIS FORM TO PROVIDE INFORMATION. We will keep your identity confidential. These resources are maintained by Noam Ross of rOpenSci and Scott Delaney of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, with input and support from additional volunteers. For any questions, please contact Scott Delaney on Signal (sdelaney.84). THANK YOU FOR YOUR ASSISTANCE!
April 19, 2025 at 12:11 AM
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igb-berlin.de
📢 We invite applications for a 2-year postdoctoral position in modeling of eco-evolutionary community dynamics: karriere-igb.softgarden.io/job/54679292...
#ScienceJobs in #Berlin #PostdocPosition
Postdoctoral position in modeling of eco-evolutionary community dynamics (m/f/x) at Leibniz-Institut für Gewässerökologie und Binnenfischerei
We're looking for: Postdoctoral position in modeling of eco-evolutionary community dynamics (m/f/x) (Full or Part Time) • Müggelseedamm, 12587 Berlin, Deutschland
karriere-igb.softgarden.io
March 21, 2025 at 8:22 AM
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cassiespeakman.bsky.social
Latest work from the DISCAR synthesis group. This was a really fun and interesting effort to lead with a great group of collaborators! I hope you enjoy it as much as I do!

www.authorea.com/users/898395...
Understanding and predicting population response to anthropogenic disturbance: Current approaches and novel opportunities
Effective conservation of biodiversity depends on the successful management of wildlife populations and their habitats. Successful management, in turn, depends on our ability to understand and accurat...
www.authorea.com
March 4, 2025 at 3:18 PM
caragallagher.bsky.social
Steve Railsback & Volker Grimm, the dynamic duo of agent-based ecological modeling, are offering another short course in Chicago this year! I can’t recommend these courses highly enough—spread the word to anyone who might be interested! Details here: www.railsback-grimm-abm-book.com/shortcourse/
Gif showing output of the InSTREAM v7 agent-based trout model developed by Railsback & Harvey
February 28, 2025 at 8:57 AM
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beestfloris.bsky.social
New study out!! 25 years of harbour porpoise tracking data shows a decline in overlap between habitat suitability and the location of MPAs across the North Sea–Baltic Sea transition zone. Relevant info for the design of future MPAs under the EU Biodiversity Strategy 2030!

shorturl.at/scIGB
Shifts in habitat suitability for harbour porpoises leads to reduced importance of marine protected areas
Marine ecosystems across the globe are under pressure requiring evaluations of whether marine protected areas (MPAs) remain effective in safeguarding …
www.sciencedirect.com
February 6, 2025 at 7:44 AM
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jacobnabe.bsky.social
Exciting news! Our reports on the impact of offshore wind farms on wildlife in Denmark, including marine mammals, are now available: dce.au.dk/fileadmin/dc.... Great initiative by the Danish Energy Agency commissioning this important work 🧪🦭🐋 #dkgreen #AarhusUni
February 8, 2025 at 10:35 AM
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vlboult.bsky.social
Excited by the idea of using #AI for #biodiversity #conservation? Interested in developing practical tools to mitigate human-wildlife conflict? Check out this #funded #PhD with me and @roboyd91. Deadline 27th Jan, get in touch with any Qs!
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Leveraging Artificial Intelligence for Real-Time Early-Warnings of Human-Wildlife Conflict at University of Reading on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - Leveraging Artificial Intelligence for Real-Time Early-Warnings of Human-Wildlife Conflict at University of Reading, listed on FindAPhD.com
www.findaphd.com
December 27, 2024 at 10:49 AM
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jcsvenning.bsky.social
Check our two open PhD positions in #ecology at @econovoau.bsky.social www.linkedin.com/posts/svenni... (note - as always in #Denmark - these positions come w/ full academic salaries) 🐎🍃🌎🌤️ #megafauna #vegetation #wildhorse #modelling
Jens-Christian Svenning on LinkedIn: #modeling #wildhorses #wilderness #herbivores #ecosystems #ecology…
📢 Exciting PhD Opportunities in Ecology & Biodiversity! 🌍 Are you passionate about understanding and shaping the future of ecosystems? At Center for…
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January 2, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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nphuffeldt.bsky.social
Here’s a few more biology/science related starter packs if you would like to add them

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November 29, 2024 at 10:06 AM
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jangeerthiddink.bsky.social
Join the seminar @sosbangor.bsky.social by Marianna Chimienti on “How can image-based bio-logging contribute to conservation?”
Friday 29 November at noon: teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-joi...
November 25, 2024 at 6:29 PM