Diego Ellis Soto
@diegoellissoto.bsky.social
Biodiversity |Technology | Socio-Ecological Systems | Movement Ecology | Environmental Data Science | Conservation | Nature Music | diegoellissoto.org 🇺🇾 🧉
University of California Berkeley, Department of Environmental Science, Management & Policy
University of California Berkeley, Department of Environmental Science, Management & Policy
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Thrilled to share our new article in @pnas.org highlighting global gaps in where we study animal movement—and outlining the next generation of smart bio-loggers.
👉 Read the full study in PNAS: lnkd.in/exP8NCeZ
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👉 Read the full study in PNAS: lnkd.in/exP8NCeZ
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ARTISTS!
I need your help!
In collab. w/the Society for Integrative & Comparative Biology, I'm organizing a group of artists to come to our Jan. meeting! We're looking for artists to create based on what they learn at the conference. $1000 stipend.
Application is V short! forms.gle/ah1i8KwNJinZ...
I need your help!
In collab. w/the Society for Integrative & Comparative Biology, I'm organizing a group of artists to come to our Jan. meeting! We're looking for artists to create based on what they learn at the conference. $1000 stipend.
Application is V short! forms.gle/ah1i8KwNJinZ...
November 22, 2025 at 3:51 PM
ARTISTS!
I need your help!
In collab. w/the Society for Integrative & Comparative Biology, I'm organizing a group of artists to come to our Jan. meeting! We're looking for artists to create based on what they learn at the conference. $1000 stipend.
Application is V short! forms.gle/ah1i8KwNJinZ...
I need your help!
In collab. w/the Society for Integrative & Comparative Biology, I'm organizing a group of artists to come to our Jan. meeting! We're looking for artists to create based on what they learn at the conference. $1000 stipend.
Application is V short! forms.gle/ah1i8KwNJinZ...
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Wow, this is amazing. Listen live to whale songs!🐋🔊
Important alert for people who like working while a light white noise is playing in the background, there is a family of whales singing next to the Moss Landing Marine Lab hydrophone right now and you should listen! radio.garden/visit/moss-l...
Listen to live Moss Landing CA radio on Radio Garden
Listen to live Moss Landing CA radio on Radio Garden
radio.garden
October 12, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Wow, this is amazing. Listen live to whale songs!🐋🔊
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🥳64 more days until the start of #Animove at #LaSelva Organization of Tropical Studies in #CostaRica. 22 participants, 6 tutors,2077 plant species,125 mammal species,470 bird species,48 amphibian species,87 reptile species,45 fresh water fish species and 10000 insects, arachnids and other.🐒🦇🦜🐊🦂
September 26, 2025 at 1:02 PM
🥳64 more days until the start of #Animove at #LaSelva Organization of Tropical Studies in #CostaRica. 22 participants, 6 tutors,2077 plant species,125 mammal species,470 bird species,48 amphibian species,87 reptile species,45 fresh water fish species and 10000 insects, arachnids and other.🐒🦇🦜🐊🦂
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🚨Now out in @pnas.org! Our group provides a framework to mathematically link environmental niches from individual to population and species scales. Our approach enables more accurate forecasting of biodiversity change across organismal levels. 🧪 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
September 2, 2025 at 3:25 PM
🚨Now out in @pnas.org! Our group provides a framework to mathematically link environmental niches from individual to population and species scales. Our approach enables more accurate forecasting of biodiversity change across organismal levels. 🧪 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Reposted by Diego Ellis Soto
Muy feliz porque nuestro artículo sobre "un caso de ciencia comunitaria en América Latina desde una perspectiva crítica" fue finalmente publicado 💚 Fueron meses de trabajo, otros de reflexión y algunos más de proceso editorial. Pero finalmente ve la luz. Yo, ¡feliz! revistas.ufpr.br/made/article...
NaturalistaUY no Uruguai: um caso de ciência comunitária na América Latina a partir de uma perspectiva crítica
| Desenvolvimento e Meio Ambiente
revistas.ufpr.br
September 2, 2025 at 6:42 AM
Muy feliz porque nuestro artículo sobre "un caso de ciencia comunitaria en América Latina desde una perspectiva crítica" fue finalmente publicado 💚 Fueron meses de trabajo, otros de reflexión y algunos más de proceso editorial. Pero finalmente ve la luz. Yo, ¡feliz! revistas.ufpr.br/made/article...
Monitoring wildlife mortality 24/7 worldwide using participatory science
Paper 👉: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
The Web Application 👉:
huggingface.co/spaces/diego...
#Biodiversity #iNaturalist #WildlifeMortality #DigitalOneHealth #ConservationTech #EcologicalForecasting
1/ A thread:
Paper 👉: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
The Web Application 👉:
huggingface.co/spaces/diego...
#Biodiversity #iNaturalist #WildlifeMortality #DigitalOneHealth #ConservationTech #EcologicalForecasting
1/ A thread:
Global monitoring of wildlife mortality through participatory science in near-real time
Detection of wildlife mortality events is critical for timely conservation and natural resource management. We present an open-source, web-based decision support tool that queries, aggregates and summ...
www.biorxiv.org
August 19, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Monitoring wildlife mortality 24/7 worldwide using participatory science
Paper 👉: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
The Web Application 👉:
huggingface.co/spaces/diego...
#Biodiversity #iNaturalist #WildlifeMortality #DigitalOneHealth #ConservationTech #EcologicalForecasting
1/ A thread:
Paper 👉: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
The Web Application 👉:
huggingface.co/spaces/diego...
#Biodiversity #iNaturalist #WildlifeMortality #DigitalOneHealth #ConservationTech #EcologicalForecasting
1/ A thread:
Urban ecology meets urban agriculture and EJ !
Stay tuned for exciting updates in this space ... we are currently cooking up new curriculums integrating open source technologies.
From bird biodiversity, to vegetation surveys and more ...
Stay tuned for exciting updates in this space ... we are currently cooking up new curriculums integrating open source technologies.
From bird biodiversity, to vegetation surveys and more ...
Had a successful session on #urbanAgriculture & #urbanBiodiversity 🏙️🌱🌿🦤 @ #ESA2025
We presented a framework to survey urban #biodiversity in university campus #greenSpaces
Designed as #undergradResearch & multisite #ecological research
💰 Support #NSF #RCN
🌍🌐🧪
We presented a framework to survey urban #biodiversity in university campus #greenSpaces
Designed as #undergradResearch & multisite #ecological research
💰 Support #NSF #RCN
🌍🌐🧪
August 17, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Urban ecology meets urban agriculture and EJ !
Stay tuned for exciting updates in this space ... we are currently cooking up new curriculums integrating open source technologies.
From bird biodiversity, to vegetation surveys and more ...
Stay tuned for exciting updates in this space ... we are currently cooking up new curriculums integrating open source technologies.
From bird biodiversity, to vegetation surveys and more ...
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Herculean effort by @kaitlyngaynor.bsky.social and our incredible NPS colleagues to explore variation in wildlife responses to recreation across our National Parks. Come for the COVID-19 lockdown data, stay for the typologies of animal responses to human activity.
Large variation in wildlife responses to COVID-19 shutdowns in US National Parks. We also include some conceptual graphics on how to think about sensitive vs. habituated animals some of which benefit from being around people and others do not. doi.org/10.1098/rspb...
The influence of human presence and footprint on animal space use in US national parks | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
Given the importance of protected areas for biodiversity, the growth of visitation
to many areas has raised concerns about the effects of humans on wildlife. In 2020,
the COVID-19 pandemic led to temp...
doi.org
August 1, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Herculean effort by @kaitlyngaynor.bsky.social and our incredible NPS colleagues to explore variation in wildlife responses to recreation across our National Parks. Come for the COVID-19 lockdown data, stay for the typologies of animal responses to human activity.
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From bio-logging to conservation 🔽
New paper by an @animaltracking.bsky.social dream team
@diegoellissoto.bsky.social @anflack.bsky.social @arispeshkin.bsky.social Timm Wild, Hannah Williams, @teagueo.bsky.social
@cbehav.bsky.social @uni-konstanz.de
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
New paper by an @animaltracking.bsky.social dream team
@diegoellissoto.bsky.social @anflack.bsky.social @arispeshkin.bsky.social Timm Wild, Hannah Williams, @teagueo.bsky.social
@cbehav.bsky.social @uni-konstanz.de
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
From biologging to conservation: Tracking individual performance in changing environments | PNAS
Under an accelerating biodiversity crisis, increased urbanization, habitat fragmentation,
and climate change require new approaches to assess conse...
www.pnas.org
July 30, 2025 at 6:26 AM
From bio-logging to conservation 🔽
New paper by an @animaltracking.bsky.social dream team
@diegoellissoto.bsky.social @anflack.bsky.social @arispeshkin.bsky.social Timm Wild, Hannah Williams, @teagueo.bsky.social
@cbehav.bsky.social @uni-konstanz.de
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
New paper by an @animaltracking.bsky.social dream team
@diegoellissoto.bsky.social @anflack.bsky.social @arispeshkin.bsky.social Timm Wild, Hannah Williams, @teagueo.bsky.social
@cbehav.bsky.social @uni-konstanz.de
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Thrilled to share our new article in @pnas.org highlighting global gaps in where we study animal movement—and outlining the next generation of smart bio-loggers.
👉 Read the full study in PNAS: lnkd.in/exP8NCeZ
1/
👉 Read the full study in PNAS: lnkd.in/exP8NCeZ
1/
July 30, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Thrilled to share our new article in @pnas.org highlighting global gaps in where we study animal movement—and outlining the next generation of smart bio-loggers.
👉 Read the full study in PNAS: lnkd.in/exP8NCeZ
1/
👉 Read the full study in PNAS: lnkd.in/exP8NCeZ
1/
Reposted by Diego Ellis Soto
I (Peter) have been a big fan of @bennjordan.bsky.social's work for ages, so it was great getting such praise for AudioMoth in his latest video.
A fascinating dive into bird vocalisation with some great advice for taking your first steps into listening to the birds around you.
A fascinating dive into bird vocalisation with some great advice for taking your first steps into listening to the birds around you.
New doc releases today!
- Ultrasonic recording of a starling that can record and playback virtually any sound
- Analyzing incredible slowed-down bird songs
- Showing you how to do this (and way more) on the cheap
youtu.be/hCQCP-5g5bo
- Ultrasonic recording of a starling that can record and playback virtually any sound
- Analyzing incredible slowed-down bird songs
- Showing you how to do this (and way more) on the cheap
youtu.be/hCQCP-5g5bo
I Saved a PNG Image To A Bird
YouTube video by Benn Jordan
youtu.be
July 28, 2025 at 10:56 AM
I (Peter) have been a big fan of @bennjordan.bsky.social's work for ages, so it was great getting such praise for AudioMoth in his latest video.
A fascinating dive into bird vocalisation with some great advice for taking your first steps into listening to the birds around you.
A fascinating dive into bird vocalisation with some great advice for taking your first steps into listening to the birds around you.
Reposted by Diego Ellis Soto
Tidyverse team is doing some phenomenal work empowering RAG-based workflows in #rstats, github.com/tidyverse/ra...
GitHub - tidyverse/ragnar
Contribute to tidyverse/ragnar development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
July 10, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Tidyverse team is doing some phenomenal work empowering RAG-based workflows in #rstats, github.com/tidyverse/ra...
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🚀 GeoAI Tutorial 21: Training a Segmentation Model for Water Detection from Satellite Imagery — with Just One Line of Code 🛰️
While previous tutorials focused on geospatial raster formats like GeoTIFF, this one adds support for non-georeferenced images such as JPG and PNG!
While previous tutorials focused on geospatial raster formats like GeoTIFF, this one adds support for non-georeferenced images such as JPG and PNG!
July 8, 2025 at 3:56 PM
🚀 GeoAI Tutorial 21: Training a Segmentation Model for Water Detection from Satellite Imagery — with Just One Line of Code 🛰️
While previous tutorials focused on geospatial raster formats like GeoTIFF, this one adds support for non-georeferenced images such as JPG and PNG!
While previous tutorials focused on geospatial raster formats like GeoTIFF, this one adds support for non-georeferenced images such as JPG and PNG!
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rspatialdata: a collection of data sources and tutorials on downloading and visualizing spatial data with #rstats 💻🗺️📊
👉 rspatialdata.github.io
👉 rspatialdata.github.io
December 8, 2024 at 6:08 PM
rspatialdata: a collection of data sources and tutorials on downloading and visualizing spatial data with #rstats 💻🗺️📊
👉 rspatialdata.github.io
👉 rspatialdata.github.io
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🌿Apply now! 🌿🌴🦜
We’re thrilled to announce that applications for Animove are NOW OPEN 🥳
Learning new methods in animal movement analysis and connecting with nature in one of the most biodiverse places on Earth. We can't wait to see your application come through. See you in Costa Rica! 🇨🇷 #LaSelva
We’re thrilled to announce that applications for Animove are NOW OPEN 🥳
Learning new methods in animal movement analysis and connecting with nature in one of the most biodiverse places on Earth. We can't wait to see your application come through. See you in Costa Rica! 🇨🇷 #LaSelva
April 2, 2025 at 2:09 PM
🌿Apply now! 🌿🌴🦜
We’re thrilled to announce that applications for Animove are NOW OPEN 🥳
Learning new methods in animal movement analysis and connecting with nature in one of the most biodiverse places on Earth. We can't wait to see your application come through. See you in Costa Rica! 🇨🇷 #LaSelva
We’re thrilled to announce that applications for Animove are NOW OPEN 🥳
Learning new methods in animal movement analysis and connecting with nature in one of the most biodiverse places on Earth. We can't wait to see your application come through. See you in Costa Rica! 🇨🇷 #LaSelva
Reposted by Diego Ellis Soto
Want to do #remotesensing analysis using #rspatial and derive classifications, vegetation indices, spectral unmixing, fractional cover, preprocessing .... ? check out #RStoolbox #rstats - anything missing? Let us know! @caipide.bsky.social @schwalb-willmann.de
remote-sensing.org/exploring-th...
remote-sensing.org/exploring-th...
Exploring the Power of Satellite Remote Sensing with the RStoolbox R Package
Satellite remote sensing has become an indispensable tool for monitoring the Earth's surface, offering a unique perspective on environmental changes across spac
remote-sensing.org
February 8, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Want to do #remotesensing analysis using #rspatial and derive classifications, vegetation indices, spectral unmixing, fractional cover, preprocessing .... ? check out #RStoolbox #rstats - anything missing? Let us know! @caipide.bsky.social @schwalb-willmann.de
remote-sensing.org/exploring-th...
remote-sensing.org/exploring-th...
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🌿Are you an interdisciplinary expert on #biodiversity & nature's contributions to people?
Here's your opportunity to be an author on the new @ipbes.net #GlobalAssessment2!🌍
🎯Academics, Indigenous knowledge-holders, practitioners etc.🧪
Apply by 28 March: www.ipbes.net/second-globa...
Here's your opportunity to be an author on the new @ipbes.net #GlobalAssessment2!🌍
🎯Academics, Indigenous knowledge-holders, practitioners etc.🧪
Apply by 28 March: www.ipbes.net/second-globa...
February 7, 2025 at 9:36 AM
🌿Are you an interdisciplinary expert on #biodiversity & nature's contributions to people?
Here's your opportunity to be an author on the new @ipbes.net #GlobalAssessment2!🌍
🎯Academics, Indigenous knowledge-holders, practitioners etc.🧪
Apply by 28 March: www.ipbes.net/second-globa...
Here's your opportunity to be an author on the new @ipbes.net #GlobalAssessment2!🌍
🎯Academics, Indigenous knowledge-holders, practitioners etc.🧪
Apply by 28 March: www.ipbes.net/second-globa...
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We are hiring! We look for a person with programming skills in R and/or Python. Application deadline is March 14th 2025. All details here: www.ab.mpg.de/654153/job_f...
Technical Assistant (m/f/d) | Moveapps
Help maintain and improve existing apps, create new apps, help maintaining the user manual up to date, support other developers if they encounter issues when developing their apps
www.ab.mpg.de
February 3, 2025 at 11:42 AM
We are hiring! We look for a person with programming skills in R and/or Python. Application deadline is March 14th 2025. All details here: www.ab.mpg.de/654153/job_f...
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Various animals have achieved fame as 'endlings’ - the last individuals of their species.
Can their tragic stories help to protect other threatened species?
To unpack this, we talk to @alexanderlees.bsky.social & @joannalilley.bsky.social on #NatureInsight.
bit.ly/3Ow0Wef
Can their tragic stories help to protect other threatened species?
To unpack this, we talk to @alexanderlees.bsky.social & @joannalilley.bsky.social on #NatureInsight.
bit.ly/3Ow0Wef
January 30, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Various animals have achieved fame as 'endlings’ - the last individuals of their species.
Can their tragic stories help to protect other threatened species?
To unpack this, we talk to @alexanderlees.bsky.social & @joannalilley.bsky.social on #NatureInsight.
bit.ly/3Ow0Wef
Can their tragic stories help to protect other threatened species?
To unpack this, we talk to @alexanderlees.bsky.social & @joannalilley.bsky.social on #NatureInsight.
bit.ly/3Ow0Wef
Reposted by Diego Ellis Soto
'Endlings’ are the last individuals of their species.
In the final episode of Season 4, @alexanderlees.bsky.social & @joannalilley.bsky.social talk about processing the loss of endlings (& the importance of conserving what's left) through science & art.
Listen: Nature Insight: bit.ly/3Ow0Wef 🧪🌍
In the final episode of Season 4, @alexanderlees.bsky.social & @joannalilley.bsky.social talk about processing the loss of endlings (& the importance of conserving what's left) through science & art.
Listen: Nature Insight: bit.ly/3Ow0Wef 🧪🌍
January 29, 2025 at 12:52 PM
'Endlings’ are the last individuals of their species.
In the final episode of Season 4, @alexanderlees.bsky.social & @joannalilley.bsky.social talk about processing the loss of endlings (& the importance of conserving what's left) through science & art.
Listen: Nature Insight: bit.ly/3Ow0Wef 🧪🌍
In the final episode of Season 4, @alexanderlees.bsky.social & @joannalilley.bsky.social talk about processing the loss of endlings (& the importance of conserving what's left) through science & art.
Listen: Nature Insight: bit.ly/3Ow0Wef 🧪🌍
Reposted by Diego Ellis Soto
Unsurprisingly I am very much in agreement with this article. I've put a lot of effort in recently to prevent the undermining of field-based teaching, including pointing out the invisible subsidy that field-based teaching (& research) provide other teaching & research
www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...
www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...
Extinction of experience among ecologists
Fieldwork-based research and education in ecology are under multiple threats and are
progressively declining. We call for greater attention to this ongoing loss of direct
field experience within the e...
www.cell.com
January 13, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Unsurprisingly I am very much in agreement with this article. I've put a lot of effort in recently to prevent the undermining of field-based teaching, including pointing out the invisible subsidy that field-based teaching (& research) provide other teaching & research
www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...
www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...
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📖Published📖
In our new Application article, Papadopoulou et al. present the swaRmverse package, an R package for the comparative analysis of collective motion 🌎 🧪 Find out more here👇
https://buff.ly/3CSAEQW
In our new Application article, Papadopoulou et al. present the swaRmverse package, an R package for the comparative analysis of collective motion 🌎 🧪 Find out more here👇
https://buff.ly/3CSAEQW
December 8, 2024 at 10:00 AM
📖Published📖
In our new Application article, Papadopoulou et al. present the swaRmverse package, an R package for the comparative analysis of collective motion 🌎 🧪 Find out more here👇
https://buff.ly/3CSAEQW
In our new Application article, Papadopoulou et al. present the swaRmverse package, an R package for the comparative analysis of collective motion 🌎 🧪 Find out more here👇
https://buff.ly/3CSAEQW
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Happy New Year!
I updated my webpage of envirionment-related scholarships, grants, & awards: www.aerinjacob.ca/funding--awa...
It includes:
* science
* action & policy
* communication
* travel awards
* international tho' emphasis on N Am, Africa, & women
Please share.
#ConservationFunding
I updated my webpage of envirionment-related scholarships, grants, & awards: www.aerinjacob.ca/funding--awa...
It includes:
* science
* action & policy
* communication
* travel awards
* international tho' emphasis on N Am, Africa, & women
Please share.
#ConservationFunding
Funding & awards
A list of conservation-related scholarships, fellowships, funding, and awards.
www.aerinjacob.ca
January 3, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Happy New Year!
I updated my webpage of envirionment-related scholarships, grants, & awards: www.aerinjacob.ca/funding--awa...
It includes:
* science
* action & policy
* communication
* travel awards
* international tho' emphasis on N Am, Africa, & women
Please share.
#ConservationFunding
I updated my webpage of envirionment-related scholarships, grants, & awards: www.aerinjacob.ca/funding--awa...
It includes:
* science
* action & policy
* communication
* travel awards
* international tho' emphasis on N Am, Africa, & women
Please share.
#ConservationFunding
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🚨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
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
November 19, 2024 at 6:05 PM
🚨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
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