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celestemare.bsky.social
Celesté Maré
@celestemare.bsky.social
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Postdoc @huntercollege.bsky.social interested in #ecology, #megafauna, 🦏 #conservation and #grasses 🌾, especially in #Africa. Loves being in nature #trailrunning #birding #hiking. Proudly South African 🇿🇦

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Celesté Maré @celestemare.bsky.social · 19d
Amazing blog by @sonakshis.bsky.social about what Interdisciplinary Conservation looks like. Her words eloquently captures what the 2025 ICN workshop felt like. I am thrilled to be working with Sonakshi as we develop our outputs from this collaboration!

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Celesté Maré @celestemare.bsky.social · 19d
All pictures were taken by @timkuiper.bsky.social

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Celesté Maré @celestemare.bsky.social · 19d
Extremely proud to have been part of the 2025 ICN workshop held in George, SA! This collaboration between NMU and @ox.ac.uk brought young conservationists together to discuss important topics in #conservation. Visit @iccs.bsky.social for updates and blog posts from participants. I am inspired! ❤️

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Interdisciplinary Centre for Conservation Science @iccs.bsky.social · 22d
Great blog to start the week: reflections from @sonakshis.bsky.social on the 2025 Interdisciplinary Conservation Network.

"The highlight of ICN for me was the people. Their presence reminded me of what interdisciplinarity truly looks like and what it takes to build it."

iccs.org.uk/what-interdi...
What Interdisciplinarity Feels Like in Practice - ICCS
By Sonakshi Srivastava, a participant in the Interdisciplinary Conservation Network 2025.   I am not going to lie: as a social scientist, I am still a little scared of natural scientists. It is hard t...
iccs.org.uk

Reposted by Jens‐Christian Svenning, Celesté Maré

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Alejandro Ordonez @anordonez1.bsky.social · Sep 2
Thrilled to chair @celestemare.bsky.social's PhD defense today! 🎓 We're diving into the fascinating role of fire and grazing in shaping carbon dynamics in African savannas. Part of the work @econovoau.bsky.social 🔥🦓🌿 #PhDDefense #Ecology #AfricanSavannas

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Celesté Maré @celestemare.bsky.social · May 29
Are you an early career researcher (ECR) passionate about #Conservation? See below for an amazing opportunity to work with fellow motivated ECRs to explore and develop important themes around Biodiversity conservation! Deadline is 12 June 2025. www.linkedin.com/posts/celest...
#conservation | Celesté Maré
Are you an early career researcher (ECR) passionate about #Conservation? See below for an amazing opportunity to work with fellow motivated ECRs to explore and develop important themes around Conserva...
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Celesté Maré @celestemare.bsky.social · Jan 13
This is so cool; 14 000 - 34 000 year old termite mounds!
World’s oldest termite mounds discovered in South Africa – and they’ve been storing precious carbon for thousands of years theconversation.com/worlds-oldes...
World’s oldest termite mounds discovered in South Africa – and they’ve been storing precious carbon for thousands of years
There is growing evidence that termites have a substantial, but still poorly understood, role in the carbon cycle.
theconversation.com

Reposted by Peter Stoett, Celesté Maré

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IPBES @ipbes.net · Jan 10
Call for Fellows! 🚨

@ipbes.bsky.social is seeking #EarlyCareer experts to join the Biodiversity #SpatialPlanningAssessment. Contribute to crucial work on conservation, restoration, land/sea use planning & connectivity! 🌍

🗓 Apply by 24 Jan 2025

🔗 More info: www.ipbes.net/spatial-plan...
An aerial image shows a landscape divided between lush green forest on the right and patchy agricultural land on the left. The road between the two areas runs vertically through the image. The text reads: "Call for Fellows: IPBES Spatial Planning Assessment. Deadline: 24 January 2025." The IPBES logo appears in the upper-right corner.

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Andrew Abraham @andrewabraham.bsky.social · Jan 8
Nice coverage of our recent paper on using animal death as a rational approach to improve zoo population management: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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Celesté Maré @celestemare.bsky.social · Jan 7
Check out our recent paper for an interesting discussion about the management of zoo animals.

Reposted by Celesté Maré

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Andrew Abraham @andrewabraham.bsky.social · Jan 7
@pnas.org @econovoau.bsky.social @aarhusuni.bsky.social

Image credit: Frank Rønsholt;

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Matt Betts @mattbetts42.bsky.social · Jan 6
Exciting opportunity this spring/summer for bird and microclimate-oriented field biologists at the HJ Andrews LTER, Oregon, USA. If you have western bird ID skills and like rugged fieldwork, please apply! jobs.oregonstate.edu/postings/163...

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Celesté Maré @celestemare.bsky.social · Dec 15
Another good example of why we need African solutions by African scientists..
Better data sets won’t solve the problem — we need AI for Africa to be developed in Africa
Language models developed by big technology companies consistently underperform in African languages. It’s time to focus on local solutions.
www.nature.com

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Celesté Maré @celestemare.bsky.social · Dec 13
An incredible opportunity to work with some amazing people in beautiful landscapes - while focusing on a interesting and relevant topic! Excited to see what comes from this!
econovoau.bsky.social ECONOVO - DNRF Center of Excellence @econovoau.bsky.social · Dec 12
🐴 PhD Opportunity: Wild Horses & Fire Dynamics 🔥

@econovoau.bsky.social invites applications for an exciting PhD project exploring the ecological impacts of wild horses on fire dynamics and ecosystem functionality in sagebrush ecosystems.

More information here: phd.nat.au.dk/for-applican....
Impact of Wild Horses on Fire Dynamics and Ecosystem Functionality in a Novel Ecosystem
phd.nat.au.dk

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Andrew Abraham @andrewabraham.bsky.social · Dec 12
Great PhD opportunity with @jcsvenning.bsky.social - some photos from around the field site to tempt ya in!

Reposted by Jonathan von Oppen, Jonas Trepel, Celesté Maré

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ECONOVO - DNRF Center of Excellence @econovoau.bsky.social · Dec 12
🐴 PhD Opportunity: Wild Horses & Fire Dynamics 🔥

@econovoau.bsky.social invites applications for an exciting PhD project exploring the ecological impacts of wild horses on fire dynamics and ecosystem functionality in sagebrush ecosystems.

More information here: phd.nat.au.dk/for-applican....
Impact of Wild Horses on Fire Dynamics and Ecosystem Functionality in a Novel Ecosystem
phd.nat.au.dk

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Kate Parr @funkyant.bsky.social · Dec 11
Today! 5.45pm before posters & drinks! #BES2024

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Celesté Maré @celestemare.bsky.social · Dec 4
Such a privilege to have spent this last week with a passionate group of experts at the first author meeting for the #IPBES #MonitoringAssessment in Montréal! Proud to be an #IPBESfellow for this report.

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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · Nov 20
I can't find African Scientists and researchers easily on here. As the second largest continent with 1.3 billion inhabitants our perspectives matter. I'm creating a starterpack to find folks, follow them and amplify them. If you are an African Scientist let me know below so I can add you. Thanks.

Reposted by Peter Stoett, Jan Henning Sommer, Celesté Maré

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CABES @cabes.bsky.social · Nov 20
📢EVENT: Webinar on #IPBES Call for Experts for its #SpatialPlanning #Assessment - a unique opportunity for #African marine & #spatialplanning experts to contribute to global #biodiversitygoals

🗓️27 Nov. 2024
🕚11:00 - 13:00 GMT
To register➡️ t.ly/dk0hO

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Reece Thornley 🐘🦏 @rtconservation.bsky.social · Nov 15
Hello?! I am a Conservation Ecologist that is interested in protected areas, global change biology and nature recovery 🐘🌵🏞️ (also history, old school campervans and dogs!! 🏰🚍🐶) Trying to find my people again. Please follow!!

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Carlos P Carmona @cpcarmona.bsky.social · Oct 26
Check out Eleonora Beccari’s latest work in Nature Comms
We explored how adding root size traits shapes the big picture of plant strategies. Spoiler: aboveground & belowground sizes form a single allometric spectrum independent of leaf and root economics.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Aboveground and belowground sizes are aligned in the unified spectrum of plant form and function - Nature Communications
Plants show diverse strategies for growth, reproduction, and survival, shaped by key aboveground and root traits. This study finds that adding root size traits does not change the global structure of ...
www.nature.com